The Penn's Grove record., 1896-11-20
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. South. East, West.

Ex-Chief Justice w. E. Miller, of
lows, died in Des Moines, aged rs
years.
By the explosion of a saw mill boiler
in Perry county, Kentucky, Jack Fran
els and Roderick Baker were killed and
nine others we're injured three seri-
ously.
The Rev. Alexis Bork, a young
Methodist minister of Chicago, was
killed by a wild animal in the Fiathead
Mountains, in Montana, a few days
ago.
The British bark Zenita was blown
ashore during a heavy gale near Gray's
Harbor. Washington. Her crew were
rescued.
In the Supreme Court in Troy, N.
Y, ex-County Treasurer George H
Morrison pleaded guilty to two indict.
ments for misappropriating county
funds, and wac sentenced to ten years
and five months in Clinton prison.
At Whiteplains, New York, John
Rodgers, shot and killed William
Smith, a fellow servant, and was then
shot and killed himself, by the dis
charge OF his own gun, while he was
trying to kill Henry Weiss. 1t 10 sup
posed that Rodgers became suddenly
insane.
The body Of joseph Komorowski,
who had been missing from Chicago
since October 8, was found nea the
drainage canal. Leo Troso was arrested
on the suspicion that he had murdered
Komorowski.
The King of Sweden and Norway,
Oscar ii, has been chosen by treaty
between the United States and Great
Britain as the fifth or final arbitrator
of the Venezuelan boundary question,
The other arbitrator, four in number.
are to be designated, two by the Lord
Chief Justice of England, and two by
the Chief Justice of the United States.
Postmaster General Wilson has sub
mitted to the Secretary of the Treasury
his estimates for the Post-otice De-
partment for the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1898. The total is $97, 515,
al, an increase over the estimates Of
1897 Of 81, 90S, SAG.
Comptroller Bowler, of the Treasury
Department, in his annual report,
states that the unfinished business of
The First and Second Comptroiler's
Office has been practically disposed of.
A very few accounts still remain
on hand awaiting the decisions Of
courts 3
The second floor of a building Oh
Vescy street, occupied by the Great
Atlantic and Pacific Tea Company,
collapsed, causing a panic among the
employees in the upper floors. Fortu-
.nately, no one was injured.
Fourteen buildings in Traverse City,
Mich, we're destroyed by fire. Edward
Newbury, a hotel porter, wasburned to
death. The losses will amount TO
S55,00o.
A rock slide near Paradise Station,
Montana, caused the wreck of a North
ern Pacific train, in which George
Fairchild, engineer, wa killed.
The first death in a Kansas blizzard
this season is reported from Goodland,
F. ON the Colorado border, where the
body of j. N Moran was found in a
snow drift.
A Toronto despatch says that the
propeller Acadia, owned by Mackay. Of
Hamilton, and carrying about 20 600
bushels OF wheat, left Fort William,
Ontario, for Montreal. Nothing has
since been heard Of her. Grave fears
for her safety are entertained. 4
Policeman George w. Purvis was
fatally injured by falling under the
wheels Of a trolley car in Brooklyn
which he was attempting to board.
Richard Donovan, a cook in a Chi
eago restaurant, was stabbed and killed
by Albert De Costa, another cook in
the kitchen where they were employed.
De Costa's hands were almost severed
in the struggle for the possession of the
knife with which he alleges Donovan
attacked him.
The body OF an unknown young
/ woman was found buried in q field
near ct. Joseph, Missouri. 1t had been
cut in two At the waist and placed in
separate graves.
Striking miners and a party of Aus
trians quarrelled in a saloon In Lead
vile, Col. One man was killed and
four badly cut, one Of them fatally.
The Austrians are union men, but were
mistaken by the strikers for non-union
men.
James Fagin, the man who threw a
lighted cigar in Secretary Carlisle's face
at Covinpton, KY, was yesterday fined
$40 and costs.
Burglars broke into Hundred Marks
store in Elha, N. Y. An electric
alarm was set off, and in the conflict
which ensued between the burglars
. and the neighbors, q OF the fiouser
aas killed and the other serormly
wounded. 5
The Missouri river at Sioux City,
lows, froze from bank to bank.
A Knoxville despatch says that a
heavy blizzard has been raging in Up
per East Tennessee. There are four.
: teen inches Of snow on Boane Moun-
tain.
By an explosion of dynamite at Nj
agara Falls, two men were killed in
GLIDING Hokken Hammer, civil engi-
neer, formerly Of Pottstown, Pa.
A fire in Syracuse, New York, de-
stroyed the Eureka Plaster Company's
works and Michael r. Hayes salt
watts. Patrick Donneily, who was
asleep in one Of the buildings, was
burned to death. The loss is estimated
at $4,000.
A despatch from Ensenada, Lower
Californis, states that the Mexican
steamer Mazatlan has been wrecked on
the Roca Rcina ledge of rocks.
The Lunenburg schooner Kezia, with
. cargo OF coal, bound from Cape Bre-
ton for Halifax, caught FIRE off Cape
Canso, and was besched at Charlotte
Inland. The crew were saved. but the