The Penn's Grove record., 1896-04-03
NEWS THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY.
North. East. West. South.

has been sentenced to. be hanged July
% fof>ths murder Of his wife.
The town Of Lapointe, Wis, can
pay is debts and wants TO have ito
local government wiped out of exist
ence.
A Newfoundland dog prevented an
eagle from carrying away the baby of
William Sloane, in Knott County, KY.
The Kings County Elevated Railroad
Company. in Brooklyn, N. Y, must
pay its tax arrearages or forfeit its
franchise.
Alderman 0'Connor, of Chicago,
ILL.,. was placed under arrest in the
Council chamber for having assaulted
Saloonkeeper McMnllen.
Rufus Beavers, a farmer, zeal Bir-
mingham, Ala, who recently testified
against moonshiners, WAS called to his
door and fatally shot.
Three boys, sons of William Smith,
F. A. Shi1et and Charles Mclain, re-
spectively, of Athens, Tex, were killed
BY a train at Brownsboro. Tex.
The body OF a man, found
in a cheap lodging house in st. LOUIS,
Mo-, is believed to be that OF Thomas
Reynolds. who recently disappeared.
Congressman Little, of Arkansas,
was hanged in efigy at Fort Gibson for
e~ndeavoring to have the United States
Court House removed from that
place. 8
The mystery surrounding the death
of Anna ]. McGrath remains unsolved.
Samuel p. Langdon, with whom she
resided, is still in custody, but the de-
tectives appear to have little evidence
to convict him with the girls death.
DR.. Henry Lehman has as yet dis
covered no traces of poison in the
viscera.
The famous violinist, Remenyi, is
seriously ill in Davenport, Ia.
six women compose the jury in a d.
yorce case on trial at Brookings, s. D.
Saloonkeeper Mathew Weidenbach,
of Detroit, Mich, committed suicide by
shooting.
Rev. w. II. Brown, of Madison,
Conn.,, has been acquitted of a charge
Of heresy.
The Ohio Senate has passed a bill to
substitute electrocution for hanging in
capital cases.
The Daily Argonaut, of Lexington,
KY, has contracted for the1news service
of the United Press.
Justice Pryor, of the New YorkSu-
preme Court, has decided that the
Raines Excise law is constitutional.
/ At Pine Bluff, Ark, a feud Between
neighbors resulted in the fatal shooting
| of Joshua Leaman and his son.
By the collapse of a brick hotel
building at Decatur, ILL.,, v persons
were severely injured and a child killed.
Hiram H. Morrison, Of Boston,
Mass, under arrest for wife murder,
confesses that he choked his victim TO
death.
The California expedition which re-
Gently sailed for Alaska represents an
Eastern syndicate who will make a
thorough search for gold.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany's tugboat Winnie, at New York,
was sunk in the East River IN collision
with a railroad transport.
William NJ. Shipp and Bookkeeper
G. w. Stone, of the Deposit Bank, Of
| Midway, KY, who were recently dis
missed, are short In their accounts
10000.
Albert N. Hall, alias E. J. West, a
New York reporter, ended his life with
| morphine in o Cincinnati (O.) hotel.
A $40, 600 life insurance policy was
found among his effects. J
Mics Mamie Cabanne, a society belle,
of st. Louis, Mo-, has entered a con-
vent.
Mayor Broatch, of Omaha, Neb., is
| opposed to blue laws and has vetoed
| the "curfew" ordinance.
The Josiah Simpkins Comedy Com
pany made q narrow escape from
drowning by the ~wrecking of ar ice
| yacht neal 81 Ignaee, Mich.
Litigation between John D. kocke-
Teller and Rev. d. c. Potter, at New
| York, led to a Sheriff's sale Of Taber-
nacle Baptist Church effects.
Mrs. Huidah Queen-D Davis, other
| wise Huldah Smell, has set up q claim
in the estate of Millionaire Davis, OF
Butte, Mont, on the ground that she
ia the legal widow.
Michael Lydon, IL years old. OF
Dobb's Ferry, N. Y, is accused OF
having stolen several thousand dollars
from the United States mail pouches
which he was employed to carry,
Barkeeper Alexander Fischer, OF
New York, while celebrating his we'd
ding, was arrested for having threat
ened 10 shoot Nellie Fischer, who
claimed to be his common law wife. B
John Rech, the supposed husband
of the young woman whose body was
found buried in the woods at Estel-
VILE, near Mays Landing, N. j., was
captured at the old Buck Hotel, a
short distance across the Philadelphia
line in Montgomery county, Pa, and
pending the arrival Of requisitlon pa
pers for his removal to Atlantic
county, N. j., is locked up in the cell
at the City Hall, on the charge OF
murder.
ALVIN Stone, aged SO years, and his
wife, aged 90, were murdered; their
two daughters Hattie, aged 20, and
Emma, aged 27-snd A. F. Stilson.
the family man servant, wers fatally
injured at their home near TalImadge,
Ohio. The crime was committed BY
an unknown man, who broke into the
house armed with a crow-bar or other
blunt instrument. Only one OF the
occupants Of the house. Flora Stone,
aged 16, escaped injury.
Arthur Wilson, awell-known colored
man OF Springfield, Ohio, was shot and
killed by his wife, the only witness to