The Penn's Grove record., 1896-09-11
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. South, East, West.

North. South, East, West.
BY the burning of a building at Law
renceburg, Kentucky, the Two chill
dren Of John Gray. a tailor, were suf-
located. The mother is in a critica-
condition.
The man building of the State Fee
bleminded Institute in Frankfort,
Kentucky, was destroyed by fire. The
lis inmates escaped unhurt. The loss
is estimated at $75 5000, with $50, 900
Insurance.
The powder mill near East Alton,
ILL.,, exploded, and three men were
killed instantly. Their names are
Henry Regas. Henry Rogers and
Thomas keffer, all employees.
The British steamer Lin ,Iithgow,
from San Francisco, for Leith with a
cargo of barley, is adrilt off Acapulco,
Mexico, with a broken shaft. 8
The banks Of Seattle, Wash, will
.retallate on Canadian banks by taking
Canadian money only at II discount.
An incendiary made the second at
tempt wit in two weeks to burh the
house No. 29S First street, Brook
lyn.
The schooner Colonel Ellsworth was
sunk in u collision with the Emily
Maxwell, near Mackinaw CITY, Mich.
All hands we're saved.
Captain Adolph Frietsh, who crossed
the Atlantic in his cockle-shell Nina,
has started from Milwaukee on o
voyage around the We rid in a small sail
boat.
Militia have been sent to guard the
food supplies for the fire sufferers at
Ontonagon, Mich. The strong have
been taking all, leaving the weak TO
starve. 4
The Wieting Opera House in SYRIA
cuse, New York, was burned causing a
loss of 800, 600.
Twenty-seven buildings on Nebraska
and Water streets, Norfolk, Virginia,
were burned. The loss was $4,000.
A washout on the West Shore Rail-
road, neal West Point, N. Y, wrecked
a freight train.
The kick of a grasshopper blinded
10-year-old Tommy Mc-Candless, of
Marion county, Kan.
Chicago, ILL.,, got a taste of winter
when a northwest wind drove the mer-
curry down TO l6 degrees.
Drunken Michael Murphy, who
broke into John Theurer's house, i'll
New York, and assaulted the family,
was shot to death.
Engineer Quinn, of MeComb City,
was killed in a head-end collision at
Dead Mans Dump, on the Illinois
Central Railroad, nea Jackson, Miss.
Meyer Goldman, an American citi-
zen, formerly of Chicago, ILL.,, will sue
the Russian Government for 500, 600
damages for false arrest while travel
ing in Russian Poland in 1888.
Yore's Opera House and adjoining
building at Benton Harbor, Mich,
we're burned causing the death OF
eleven firemen and injury to a number
of others and entailing a loss of about
$65, 1000 !
The arrest OF Sam Walker, colored,
at Alton, ILL.,, broke up a gang of
counterfeiters.
Tired of life, 67-year-old Herman
Eilenbusch, of New York, nj his
throat and then jumped INTO the Hud-
son.
John Ferthing and Miss Gilbert, of
Buffalo, N. V, were drowned in Nj
agara liver by the sinking of a steam
yacht.
The election in Arkansas was for
judicial and county officers, including
two-thirds of the Legislature, which
will elect a successor to Senator Jones.
He had no opposition within his party
and his reelection is assured. The
Democrats claim the election of Daniel
w. Jones. the candidate for Governor,
by 5000 plurality. This is disputed
by the Republican State Committee.
An unusually vote large IA polled.
After setting a trap for burglars, w.
l.. Brown, a Youngstown, o. jeweler,
tripped on the string and was himself
shot. BE
Bookkeeper Charles w. Taylor, of
the Merchants Manufacturing Com
pany, of st. LOUIS, was caught robbing
the safe.
John Combs, a young farmer of
Delaware, Ky, broke in the door of
Mrs. Anna Mills house and was shot
dead by her.
Mrs. BOYLE, wife OF Townsend Bur
den's chief cook, Is claiming a portion
of the SIC, 900 reward for the recovery
of his stolen diamonds,
In trying to extinguish a fire on a
bridge ear Clinton, Mo, Teo Smith
and Dick Porter we've killed by the
collapse of the structure.
Mrs. Hughes, wife of a prominent
contractor of MarysviIle, Knoxville,
Tenn, while temporarily insane shot
aud fatally injured her daughter, Ber-
tina.
President TaIley, of the Indiana Coal
Operators Association, in an ultima
tum TO the striking miners threatens
TO import laborers if the strike is not
speedily ended.
Superintendent ]. Stanley Brown, of
the North American Commercial Com
rnDIrfS seAia scarcer than ever.