The Penn's Grove record., 1897-03-26
Domestic.

Sixteen apprentice boys deserted AZ Ban
Diego, Cal, from the United States gunboat
Adams in two days. The officers say that
different tactics in training the boys must be
pursued, or wholesale desertion In every
port will result. An officer went ashore In a
launch with a crew Of e'even apprentices.
When he returned TO the launch all the boys
were missing, and he had to hire q boatmau
to take him back to the ship.
Three ships grounded during a fog, the
Saginaw and the Emily F.. johnson on the
New Jersey coast, and the Wandrlan Fear
Jones's Inlet: no lives were lost and the
damage was slight.
William r. Grace, his wife, aud son, have
set aside 5000 900 for the establishment In
New York City OF n manual training school
for women and young girls.
Because of tho Supreme Courts Trans
Missouri decision, several Western railroads
Withdrew from traffic associations.
A severe storm struck Chicago, accompan-
led by snow and high wind. and soon as
sumed the proportions of q blizzard. Rail-
road and street car traffic was seriously
interfered with. Reports indicated the
storm general throughout the northern part
Of Illinois and portions OF Wisconsin, Iowa
and Minnesota.
Tit Mississippi River at Memphis, Tenn,
is falling, and the flood prospect Is more en-
couraglng.
In Cleveland, Ohio, a man has confessed
10 starting forty fires in Detroit, Mich.
The New York Court OF Appeals denied
the motion for a r~eargument In the cele-
brated Fayerweather will case, This allows
10 stand the courts decision OF several
weeks ago distributing the IS, 0C0, 900 residue
otihe estate to the twenty colleges named
originally In the tenth clause OF the will.
An explosion of gas occurred in the VIII
liam Penn shaft near Shenandoah, Penn. 1t
was caused by a fall in an old working which
forced q large volume OF gas into the gang
way where workmen were using naked lamps.
Joseph Sergeant. Philip Haggerty and Will
liam Layenburg were fatally ingared.
Some unknown vandal, believed to have
been an expert stone cutter. Clipped q guam
tity OF granite from one OF the pillow blocks
beneath General Grants sarcophagus at New
York City.
Mrs. Honorah Hennessey, OF Providence,
Il. l., was burned to death 10 a closet, and
her husband is under arrest charged with
the crime.
A female convict confined at the Peachtree
Creek Camp, near Atlanta, Ga, attempted
10 escape by swimming the creek. She was
followed by n bloodhound and was finally
forced, through exhaustion, to seek the
shore, where she was recaptured.
Several Western railroads rave Withdrawn
from existing freight and passenger combln-
ations MS a result of the United States Su-
preme Courts decision In the Trans Missouri
Association case.
The Farmers h Merchants Bank, OF Paris,
Texas, suspended. The future was caused
by the suspension OF Mattin, Wise q Fitz-
hugh, cotton buyers.
More than twenty peoplewero killed and
ut least 200 injured by thu late tornado In
Georgia and Alabama. +.
There was a heavy earthquake shock OF
Malone, N. Y, starting will a sudden boom
like an explosion ami revefberating with a
grinding motion for axeril seconds 1t
seemed to travel from southeast to north.
west. The shock caused considerable alarm
for a moment, but there wasno damage.
William johnson was hanged at Hamburg.
Ark, for the killing of Henry Hobson last
June. His neck was not broken and he died
in awful agony.
Fonr staatsburg On. W choolboys tied
two companions to q tree In the woods and
started a brush fra around than. The chill
dren suffered seriously from fright and
smoke. A forest fire resulted.
Two men diei in Pa i~laselphin of blows
over the heart a1minist erd In boxing con-
tests.
General ]. s. Fullerton, u St. Louis, Mo-.
was killed AMI several persons hurt In q
| railroad accident In Mar yland.
Scott Jackson, of Gr.encastle, Ind, and
| Alonzo Walllng, OF Oxftrd. Ohio, the dental
students, we're hanged II Newport, Ky., for
the murder of Pearl Brya,>
The Mississippi River from. Cairo, H., TO
Friar's Point, Miss, rose highr than ever be-
fore known. Several levees bpke, and 10000
persons are homeless. Fivethiusand refugees
are in Memphis and Dyersbuts.
A locomotive blow up In Chicago. instant
ly killing tho engineer, Alexander Franks,
and Edward D. Smith, the Truman.
Mrs. Mary sklfinston die 1t her home In
woonsocket. R. l.. at the ageot 103 years.
She was born In Ireland in 1875 and had
been a resident OF Woonsockst forty years.
Her mind was clear up to tn, morning Of
her death when she droppei dead while
walking about the house.
Between fifteen AMI twenty miles OF the
Mississippi River levee yielded TO the high
waters and thousands OF acres II land south
Of Osceola, Ark, were submerged,