The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-13
News THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.


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North. East. West. South.
Mrs. John Rose accidentally upset g
kerosene lamp in the band barracks,
at West Point, N. Y, and was burned
to death.
The shooting of q negro by . white
man, at Elizabeth City, N. c., led to q
riot, which was suppressed by State
militia.
Tobacco manufacturers held q con-
ference at st. Louis (Mo.), to arrange
for putting cigarette plants in Eastern
factories.
LOUIS Pat 'erson, q florist, was killed
at the upper terminus Of the Third
Avenue Elevated Road, New York, by
being run over by a locomotive.
W. H. Welsiger, well-known in the
clothing trade at Richmond, Va,
blew out his brains.
A Maple Leaf passenger train
plunged into a belt line freight at q
crossing in Kansas. City. Kan, and
Engineer William Henderson and w.
F. Bailey, switchman, were injured,
The latter fatally.
Fifty persons have petitioned the
Massachusetts, House against erecting
a statue to General B. F. Butler.
Ex-President Harrison announces
that his marriage will take place
April 6. 8
Swapping horses on the streets is
prohibited by a bill pending in the
Kentucky Legislature.
Thirty children we're Frustrated on
the stage of a theatre at Mount Etna,
Ind, by the fumes Of red fire.
There has been no improvement in
the condition of Governor Greenhalge,
and it Is believed he will not recover.
Because pretty Minnie H. Plat, of
Bridgeport, Con-, refused to marry
Frank Bates, he shot off the top of his
head.
Merritt L. Day, q Boston promoter
of enterprises, has been arrested there
for obtaining $4,000 under false pre-
lenses.
Rev. DIR. Brown, the victim of Miss
Overman's blackmailing scheme at
San Francisco, Cal, is suffering from
nervous p%rostration, and may become
insane. 4
District Attorney Fellows has aban-
doned the prosecution Of Sheriff Tam
sen of New York.
Travel is INSTRUCTED on the Northern
Pacific Railroad by q fire in the Boze-
man tunnel, near Helena.
Mrs. Cunning mas been divorce
from Rev. Josiah II. Cunning and
awarded $50 a month aIimony by the
Supreme court, of Brooklyn, N. Y.
Thirty passengers were. compelled to
remain all night on the ferryboat
George Washington, which was wedged
in the ice while crossing the Hudson
from New York to Fort Lee. 5
Thieves entered the residence Of
General George s. Field, in Buffalo,
New York, and stole jewelry and money
TO the value OF between $4,000 and
5000.
Stephen Powell, a wealthy resident of
Hampstead, Long Island, was murdered
by footpads in front Of his home. The
murderers obtained only $2.06, over
looking 5000 which he carried in an
inside pocket. Three negroes have
been arrested on suspicion.
In the case of the murder of Frank
White, In mistake for his criminal
brother, Clarence White, by opera
alives of the Berry Detective Agency
in Chicago, several months ago.,
the jury rendered q verdict Of
guilty as to all the six defend
ants. William J. Dix, who fired the
fatal shots, was convicted Of murder,
and his punishment fixed at life i'm
prisonment. The other Ave were con-
victed of msnslaughter, and their pun.
ishment left TO the Judge.-Mrs. Lane,
who was convicted on the charge of
granddaughter in the case of Emily
Hall, was sentenced by Judge Chapin
in Detroit. to 10 years' Imprisonment.
Nicholas Cole, aged 40 years, was ar
rested in Paterson, New Jersey, for
attacking Lizzie Van Ripper, aged Is
years, in the street, two blocks from
the spot VIII; re Miss Sullivan was muir
dered.
The dead bodies of Diana Pacheco,
aged Is, and her lover, Edward Hack,
aged 20, were found IN a lodging house
in Oakland, California. Hack had
shot the girl and then killed himself.
The objection Of their parents to their
marriage 10 supposed to have been the
motive.
Edward Davicco, an Italian chemist,
was found dead in his Office, in New
York. He had shot himself, and it is
said poverty prompted the deed.
The steamship Victoria, of the
Northern Pacific Line, arrived at Vic.
toria from Japan aud China. after a
passage of 14a days, during which pre-.
vailed the coolest weather she ever ex-
~perienced crossing the Pacific. During
the voyage the Thermometer registered
10 degrees below zero.
Robert Dixon, OF New York, is the
second person in that city who has be-
come insane through worrying over
the cathode rays.
Miss tombstone Bennett, the actress,
while cleaning a dress with gasoline in
q hotel at Omaha, Neb., was painfully
but not dangerously burned.
At the conclusion OF q divorce trial
in Kansas City, Judge W. ]. Henry,
who had presided, SAID To the defend
ant, to whom the decree wal given,
that II he chad taken a shotgun and
vindicated the honor of his home" he
would stand better before the Court
and in the community.
A Washington despatch says that
the recent dock trial Of the torpedo
boat Ericsson at New london, Conn.,,
insures the acceptance Of that vessel
by the Government.