The Penn's Grove record., 1896-11-13
NEWS THROUGHOUT
The COUNTRY.
North, South. East, West.

President Cleveland is at work On
his annual message to Congress.
Secretary Howard, of the spinners
Union will soon begin the work of or
eanizing the textile workers in the
South for the Federation of Labor.
Mrs. Ingram, a society woman, of
Boston, Mass, while asleep in her
room 1T the Hotel M~etropole, New
York city, was robbed Of iewelry and
bills valued at $500.
NJ. l.. Novera a merchant and in
eurance agent, whose name was recent
" mentioned in connection with he
Union Bank scandal at New Orleans,
La, killed himself. 4
A com pauy of North Carolina troops
has been ordered to Oxford, y. c., to
prevent q threatened riot.
Thomas Boyd was stabbed and Chas.
Mills has a fractured skull as the result
of a fight between the two at Hanna,
Ind.
The will of General Joseph T. Tor.
renee, filed in Chicago, H., showed an
estate of but $3.50, 700. He was sup
posed to have 81, 600, 900.
Portsmouth, N. f., and Marb!ehead,
Mass, the only places in this country
where Guy Fawkes' night is celebrated,
had the usual merriment, They began
it in 1923. e-
DR.. w. L. TalIman, a prominent
Chicago tIll.) physician. and writer
over the name Teresa Dean" is sup
posed to have eloped with Mrs. Orville
Cannon, of Danville, Ill. He is mar
ried.
Eugene H. Parker, of Troy, Ny,
has been arrested at Boston, Mass,
for forgery and passing forged checks.
To avenge the honor of his young
wife. Arthur Roberts, OF Bedford
County, Fla, shot and killed his
brother.
A. B. Powers, who became insane
end disappeared while conducting a
Cuban relief bureau in Chicago, ILL.,,
has regained his mind at greensboro,
Ky.
The large four story works of the
Boston Bridge Co, Cambridgeport.
Massachusetts, were totally burned
causing a loss of 800, 900.
Dowrie & RoDson's dry goods store
in indianapolis was destroyed by fire
loss 100000.
According to an Indianapolis de
epatcl j. I. Lines, d brakeman on
lhe Big Four, found three tramps on his
train and trieI to put them off. They
threw him off instead. His clothing
caught III the coupling aud he WAS
dragged from Oakland to Brightwood,
a distance of five miles. Que OF his
hips was dislocated and he was other
wise injured.
Andrew Jackson, a negro coavict in
the Maryland Penitentiary, was shot
and almost instantly killed by John Ii.
Wollering, a deputy warden of the in-
stitution. jackson had attacked the
warden with Il hammer and shoe
knife. /
Napoleon Sarony, the w%ell-known
New York photographer, was found
dead in bed at his home in that city.
He was rs years old.
Tho entire business portion OF the
town of Spencer, West Virginia, was
wiped out by fire, including the bank,
two hotels, and thirty-nine business
places. Only two stores are left in the
town. Inc loss is estimated at $780,
900. This same territory wa burned
out in 1888.
The unknown vessel which collided
with the steamship City of Puebla off
Otter PoIut, in the straits of Fuca, on
the night OF October "a, proves to have
Teen the American bark Canada,
which arrived at San Francisco, sixteen
days from Uuion City. In the collision
the Canada lost one anchor, her mar
tingale was carried away and the jib-
bonn was SO badly damaged that she
could carry no head sail.
]. Hermann & Co.'S jeweIry store,
on the tenth door of tho Masonic
Temple, in Chicago. was entered by
Two armed robbers and robbed of $4,000
worth OF diamonds, u gold watch and
800 in money.
Alfred L. Hartridge, u ~well-known
broker OF Savannah, Georgia, is under
arrest IN that city, charged with for
gerry by raising Southwestern Railroad
stock scrip. The amount involved 10
between $50, 900 and $50, 1000.
Edwin 7. Bennett, for many years
connected with the Bay City tMichi.
gam Tribune, was arrested in Chicago
charged with embez1ling SIS 900 from
that concern.
A mob at Richmond, Missouri, sur
rounded the Jail with the intention of
~lynching Lon Lackey and JesseWlnner
charged with the murder of Mrs. Win
ner and two children, October 20. The
jail was guarded, however, and the
crowd finally dispersed.
Hugo NJ. Fielder, an assistant book
keeper of the City Controllers Office.
in Chicago, blew out his brains in the
City Hall Building, Financial trou-
blss are said to have been the cause,
The battleship Texas was sunk in the
mud alongside n of the docks at the
Brooklyn Navy Yard. The accident
was caused by the breaking OF the
main injection valve. The water
rushed In so rapidly that both engine
rooms filed and the warship sank 10 q
few minutes. The chief damage will
be that done b. the mud and sea water
to the machinery. The vessel was