The Penn's Grove record., 1897-02-26
Domestic.

Domestic.
The German-Ameriean Bank OF Tona-
wanda, N. Y. shut Its doors because OF a
run md a State examiner was placed In
charge.
The food at Pittsburg, Penn, is subsidiug,
and 1t Is believed that the worst Is over at
Cincinnati, Ohio, and Louisville, Ky.
Two children OF Mrs. Allen. OF Washington
Park, Brooklyn. were left alone in the fiat
while their mother went to call on a sick
friend. The younger child, aged three, set
fire to her clothes and was burned to death.
Her sister was fatally burned. The furni-
ture ignited and was destroyed.
AT. Tallahassee, Fla, N. Nicholson, con-
man, OF Madison, Fla, In 1895 and sentenced
to be hanged March II, committed suicide
by laudanum poisoning.
By the biggest ice deal known on the Pen.
obscot River, In Maine, for years, the Con-
solidated Ice Company, OF New York, has
acquired tho house and harvesting plant of
the American Ice Company.
The Canadian Pacific Railway Company
has placed with the Carnegie Company, at
Homestead. Penn, an order for 65.O00 tons
OF steel rails.
The Peoples Party, In convention Mt Chi
cago, nominated Carter H. Harrison, son of
C~hicago's murdered Mayor, for the same OF.
flee, which Is to be filcd next April. Mr..
Harrison Is the leading candidate Of the free
silver Democrats for Mayor also.
The engine and express. mail AMI baggage
cars OF Train No.. / on the Chesape ike aod
Ohio Railroad werc thrown from the rails ut
Glen Station, KY, by running into q washout
caused by the extremely heavy ra,ns. No
damage was done to the sleeping cars. Mr..
Stout, the ~roadmaster, was killed.
daanatoh Fron Dnris n ,haE n,
Steinitz. the famous chess player. is dead ut
Moscow, Russia. About two weeks ago 1t
was announced that DIR. Steiniiz was suffer-
Ing from a mental disorder and hal ben
placed in the Morocof Private Hospital, at
Moscow. William Steinitz was born at
Prague, Bohemia, on May IA, 1886.
The family of Jacob Ciciez, Of Cleveland
Ohio. was almost completely wiped out OF
existence by fire. Eight persons were
burned. Jacob and Mury CicIez, husband
and wife, were fatally burned, AL their
four children, who are all under six years
old, received injuries. Albert Jerno md
Joseph Jergs, boarders, were also ba !lY
burned.
The Southern Pacific Railroal will pay
$4,000 to the State OF Kentucky for its
charter.
Ferdinand May was arrested In New York
City charged with defrnuding o bnnk in
Il pktuSoDuEks 0NlulhHgt VI oNCl f@OvfVtVt w
falsely representing that no had sold and
consigned to this country q large amount OF
whalebone, on which the bank cashel bills
of exchange. He was sent TO Ludlow Street
Jail in default OF el00, 900 bail.
R. G. Dun Il Co.. of New York City, in
their last weekly trade statement, gave u
decidedly encouraging reyi,w Of business
conditions.
AtPrnirieDu Chien, Wis, ex-county Judge
a.,l - ATx,-. II D.II-r1 = ro -. t.f1I a,,a;la
by shooting himself. The suicide was duo
probably to mental alteration.
Deer In the Green Mountains OF Vermont,
were never more plentiful or In better con-
dition since their importation into the
State ten years ago than during the present
winter. The falls of enc have been COM
paratiyely light. andin consequence the deer
have been wandering through the forests as
during other seasons OF the year.
The recent increase In incendiary fires in
New York City has aroused tho fire Off .ials
into making a protest concerning the blanket
policies which arc Issued by fire insurance
companies without any preliminary survey
OF the property to be insured.
A resolution was introduced in the Senate
ut Albany, N. Y, calling for an investigation
Of the conduct OF department stores.
The substitution OF electricity for steam rs
n motive power for tho Brooklyn Bridge cars
will, it is stated, save Slo, 900 u year.
Captain Romeyn. OF the Fifth Artillery,
stationed at Fort Mcpherson, felled Lien
tenant O'Brion to the ground with a blow on
The jaw. This took place In the course OF
dress parade.
Al New Bloomfield. Penn, DR.. T. L. john
ston, who a few weeks ago was convicted Of
murder In the second degree for the killing
Of DR.. George s. Henry at Duneannon. was
sentenced to twenty years imprisonment in
the Eastern Penitentiary.
An unknown Italian woman was murdered
at Norwalk, Conn, and after the assassin
had inflicted sixteen terrible woun is he
placed the body on n railroad track, but 1t
was discovered, and the police are searching
for the murderer.
TAT New Brunswick, N. J., Elwood Thomp-
son, twenty-nine years OF agc. shot and IN.
stantly killed himself in his home On Bald.
win street. He ewes I wife and five chill
dren. His suicide Is ATTRIBUTED TO worry
over the disgrace brought upon him by his
mother, who recently was convicted OF keep
ing a disorderly house. y
The accounts OF retiring State Treasurer
Joseph Bartly and State Auditor Eugene
Moore, of Nebraska. show n shortage OF more
than half u million dollars
Three burglars held up John Welsh and
his wife in their road house near Menlo Park,
N. j.
Catherine selio, OF Aldene, N. Y, sacrificed
her life In saving the lives OF her brothers
and sisters when a lamp exploded.
At Iron River, Mich, the residence OF
Thomas Brosnowsky was burned AMI two
children persisted in the fire.
General John O.. Robinson. a veteran OF
the Civil War, died In his home In Elmira,
N. Y.
Floods In the Ohio River and its tribu.
taries caused great damage to property.
Foreign Notes-
Tho American, Scott, was released from
confinement incomunicado in n Cubau jail
Mt the demand of United States ~Consui-
General Lee.
A savage attack was mado on William
Waldorf Aston by John Burns in the British
House OF Commons.
President Kruger has asked that the
High Court Of the South African Republic be
placed under the Volksraad, through fear Of
the plots Of Cecil Rhodes.
James Fry, who murdered ]. P. Shaw in q
bush fifteen miles from Emsdale, Canada, as
the result OF a quarrel. has committed sui
eide by shooting. Fry had given out that he
would never be captured alive, and had bar
ricaded himself in the house.
The Powers ordered Greece to evacuate
Crete within twenty-four hours. King
George replied that he would do SO IL The
autonomy Of the island was guaranteed by
Europe.
France and Brazil have signed q protocol
referring their dispute regarding territorial
boundaries 10 arbitration, the President Of
the Swiss Confederation to be the referee.
A war OF determination in Crste was re
ported from Canea, both sides Strengthening
prisoners. and Christians firing upon a flag
Of truce borne by foreign consuls who sought
a conference with the chie's.
The bombardment OF the insurgents al
Canea, Crete, by The fleets OF the Power
caused intense excitement aud indignation
In Athens; the question was debated In the
House OF Commons and the Reichstagl
stocks, except Americans, wers uniavorably
affected.