The Penn's Grove record., 1897-04-16

L. W. bDtNuilE, IItSlu6ht " tbO
Globe Savings Biuk IN Chicago, confessed
that he hypothetical the bonds of the
Illinois University. He was ruined by his
pretty typewriter.
Charles W. Dayton has resigned the Office
Of Postmaster OF New York City.
Health Board statistics submitted to
Mayor Strong show that New York City is in
al excellent condition, the death rate being
lower than it has been for years.
John Steel and James Charles. OF Allie
ghapy City, Penn, were a~sphyxiated In the
pressure house of the Allegheny Heating
Company. Escaping gas caused their death.
The Long Mead Iron Company and the
Conshohocken Tube Company, OF Consho-
hocken. Penn, have gone Into the hands OF
receivers. The liabilities will amount to
about $780, 900. The assets will not be over
$780, 00.
The nomination by Representative Shat
tue, of Ohio. OF D. J. Bundy, a colored boy
of Cincinnati. to a cadetship at Annapolis,
has aroused some protests. Mr.. Shattuc de-
clnres he will stand by his nominee.
Several thousand razor.back hogs i'm
ported into Iowa from Texas during the
past year, have died from what was sup
posed to be hog cholera. A post norton ex-
animation of some OF them discloses that
instead of cholera. q worm killed the hogs.
It Is claimed that the disease Is incurable,
but it Is not positively known that 1t is con-
tagious.
Five or six weeks ago q mad dog ran
through the neighborhood about Gordon,
Ga. The dog bit three children. and they
have died within Il few days of h~ydrophobia.
They are Joseph ~Bloodworth, the seven
year-old son OF a man who lives at Ivey; o
ten-year-old boy named Jack Gooden, Of
Stevens's Pottery. and a ten .year-old daugh-
ter OF Widow Sarah Evanson OF the same
place. All three were bitten on the SAINT
day.
The State Senate at Albany, 80 to 10,
repassed the Greater New York charter over
Mayor Strong's veto.
Mr.. Laimbeer's bill for establishing n re-
formatory or farm colony in New York for
Migrants and drunkards was defeated In he
Assembly at Albany.
TIL United States battleship Oregon
grounded in Puget Sound while trying to
enter her dock. Ii Is not believed that she Is
seriously injured.
Joseph Adams, convicted OF forgery and
sentenced to Sing Sing, N. Y, confesses that
he swindlcd the Columbia Bank, of New
York City, of $3.50 by n worthless check.
Aionzo j. Whiteman was recently tried and
acquitted of this crime by proving an alibi.
James Evers, OF Brooklyn, sixteen years
old. who was run over Monday by q bicycle
ridden by James Should, died Tuesday.
Should is under $4,000 bail.
Lottie Frances Bates, aged seventeen,
shot herself through the heart at her home,
Mt Lovelps Corners. Mass. All the evidence
indicated suicide. She was the eldest daugh-
ter of Henry I. Bates, who Is now serving
time at Plymouth for an assault.
On the morning OF March % Portsmouth,
Va. was swept by four fires, destroying
$50 GOO worth of property. including the
Catholic church. On the trial of Frank Linn
and Edward Delman forburglary Inns wife
testified hat IT. January Dolman, Linn and
Ellis Jobson met at her house, planned SOW.
eral robberies and concocted a conspiracy to
burn a large part Of the city to cover their
deeds.
Deputy State Game Protector William
Harris was at Cayuga Lake. N. Y, engaged
In taking a net out Of the water, when he
was shot at from the shore. Seven shots In
all were fred at him by parties concealed in
the bushes near Pickerei Cove. Harris re.
turned the IRE with his revolver and then
made his escape without injury.
The House OF Refuge on Randall's Island,
New York City, has been condemned by the
Board OF Health as unfit for the reception Of
inmates.
Governor Bloxham issued a call for a Ma
tional Fisheries Congress. to assemble ID
Tampa. Fla i, on January lg, 1898. The Ma.
NtOhh' s'httJ SphiAAAiEstOLA ~ n u BEOlA-
inent part In the proceedings. The Govern.
ors OF the various States md the Fishery
Commissioners are requested to appoint dele
gates.
Thomas Dinner. OF Maquato, Iowa, was
robbed by bighwaymen on the Douglas
street bridge Pcross the Missouri at Omaha,
Neb. He was thrown over the railing. He
was found on the edge of the river bank
and died a few hours later without regain
ing consciousness Tn body fell s venty
feet. He was q well-known man In Iowa.
Admiral Jorg Mont, former President Of
tho Republic of Chile, paid a visit to Yves
Point Military Academy. He was met Al
the depot by Colonel ). NJ. Mills, Com.
mandant of Cadets, and Adjutant Wilder.
AT 80 q review OF the corps Of cadets wa
given in his honor, after which he returned
to New York, apparently delighted with his
visit.
A shooting ARRAY occurred at Jordan, Ky.
in which Edward Frazier was killed and hi.
brother John badly Wounded by Or. White
The trouble grew out of an Insulting note
written to a Miss Faunt, housekeeper fer DR.
White, who has an invalid wife.