The Penn's Grove record., 1896-08-14
lEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North, South, East, West.

S' ~" bdthC bf
turned over to the Government an
aggregate of 50, 425, 900 in gold.
Lawrence Cummings, of Seattle
Wash, who murdered his wife ami
tried to kill his daughter, On June Il
last. committed suicide in prison.
The estate of the late Eugene Field,
of Chicago, ILL.,, comprises some roy
allies from publications, books and
furniture and a small amount of
money.
The charges against DR.. Beynon, of
New York city, of having shot Norman
Mckenzie, at New Castle, N. B., has
been dismissed on the ground OF self
defense.
The vii at and oat crops in West
Virginia are reported to have been
''almost wholly destroyed by the in
cessant rains"
Mcintyre & Wilson'S dry goods store
at Oskaloosa. Iowa, was destoyed by
fire, causing a loss Of $4,000.
The confession" made by Hille-
brand, the Maryland convict, who
committed suicide IN Baltimore re-
Gently, is discredited by the authori-
ties of that city and of Altoona. 1t is
claimed that when the Altoona murder,
of which HilIebrand claimed to be
guilty, was committed Hlllebrand and
his pal were in Jail in P%ittsburg. The
story is regarded as a scheme to liber-
ate Wilson, one of the men under sen
tence of death for the Altoona crime.3
A. S. Fielding, Canadian Minister Of
Finance, was elected by acclamationto
the Dominion House of Commons.
The two bandit brothers, named
Christian, who escaped from Jail at
Oklahoma City a year ago, have been
captured,
Stonna Ronvenitz tried TO murder
his wife and then killed himself at
Hartford, Conn. jealousy was the
cause.
Professor G. W. Winchell, of Park
College, Psrkville, Mo-, who started on
a vacation recently, has mysteriously
disappeared.
Miss Caroline W. Bruce, of New
York city, has contributed $1,000 to
purchase scientific apparatus at Lick
Observatory.
A cut of % cents a day in the wages
of 400 boys in the Chicago Shipbuild-
ing Company has led to a strike in
volving $500 workmeu.
DIR. Lawrence C. Cortelyou, While
temporarily insane, leaped from a
window of his residence, in Brooklyn,
N. Y, aud was killed.
OUTLAW "Bill" Doolin, who escaped
from jail at Guthrie, o. T., was pur-
sued by a posse, two OF whom he killed
and again made his escape. A
Emanuel Fox, OF Marysville, o.,
fell 60 feet from a scsffold and was
killed.
Chancellor Conn, of jackson, Miss,
has ruled that poll tax is not colletiblce
by SEIZURE.
Jacob Jackson, who represents tn
%full-bIoods, has been elected chief o
the Choctaw nation.
Murderer Anthony Alcorn has been
resplted for 80 days by Governor Brad
ley, of Kentucky.
Henry Colt, son of Rev. Colt, of
North Hadley, Mass, al accidentally
shot by the discharge of his gun.
j. c. Tucker, a stockman of Kansas
City, Mo-, was found with his throat
cut in the Lindell Hotel, st. Louis,
Mo.
Walter Durham, a porter, was caught
in the machinery of an elevator in New
York, and was crushed to death. 8
Thirty three deaths were reported in
Philadelphia as a result of the excessive
heat.
The heat caused the death OF six
persons in Chicago. In st. Louis
there were fifteen deaths.
Miss Marion Burnham, aged IA
years, of Boston, was accidentally
drowned in Lake Champlain, near West
Port, N. Y, while bathing, Miss Mag
gle Moulder, a nurse, who accompanied
the young lady and who went to her
assistance, was also drowned.
Howard Lowe, aged IL years, died of
hydrophobia in Bay City, Mich. He
was bitten by a cat while walking
along the street.
A heavy windstorm struck Milwau-
kee, Wisconsin, doing considerable
damage.
Prairie fires are raging in the
Comanche, Indian country, south
west of Perry, Oklahoma.
Jealousy between the white and
negro laborer on the Kansas City,
Pittsburg and Gulf Railway, near Ho-
ratio, Arkansas, eliminated in serious
rioting last week. Three negroes were
killed, eight wounded and many were
''run out of the county"
Judge Duudy, of the Federal Court
at Omaha, dismissed the Government
cases against the Union Pacific Rail-
road for forfeiture Of land grants.
This was done on an order OF Attorney
General Harmon. !
Ten persons in an express wagon
were run down and severely hurt by a
railway train at a crossing in Chicago,
Ill.
Objection was made at Salt Lake,
Utah, to the burial of Murderer
Thllde's body in a cemetery, and the
remains we're reinterred in a field.
Martin MCGOWAN is dying in a
Brooklyn, N. Y, hospital and John
McCanna, his former friend, is under
arrest for having stabbed HIM during a
quarrel,
The United States Express Com
pany's office. at Lexington. Va, was
robbed of $143 by thieves, who took
the key from Messenger Parkingson's
pocket while he was asleep.
Vinanzi Crossetti and his fiancee,