The Penn's Grove record., 1897-11-12

Charles Roberts, President Of the Soutf,
Chester Manufacturing Company, and
Charles A. Weed, President Of the Tide
water steel Works, wore killed by n train
on the Philadelphia, Wilmington and Balti-
more Railroad near Lamokfn, Penn. Mr..
Roberts was sixty years old; Mr.. Weed
siXty-nye. Mr., Roberts death was lnstan-
t%aneOus.
Indignant citizens Of philadelphia have
Rsked the courts to prevent the lease of the
city's gas plant by restraining the Mayor
from signing the ordinance authorizing
the lease.
The feuA between the Eppersons and
Witliamses in Hancock County, Tennessee.
growing out of the killing Of William Ed
person. has broken out again. In a fight a
cousin of Williams shot Charley Epperson
and seriously wounded him. Both factions
are armiDg for Il desperate encounter, and
serious trouble is feared.
Three thousand sheep belonging to John
Donaldson and twenty head of cattle have
been burned to death in Crosby County,
Texas, by a prairie fire. which is sweeping
over the ranges of tbe Panhandle country.
The damage done to ranches is enormous.
Father Henry J. Mcpnke was found
dead il the basement of st. Faults Roman
Catholic Academy, in Philadelphia.
Wounds on his heal and face lead to the
belicf that he was murdered.
The Appellate Division OF the New York
State supreme Court, while sustaining
Judge Chester In vacattGg the order to the
Coal Trust Presidents. failed to pass upon
the constttutionaIity , the Antitrust law.
At Cynthinna, Ky, Leon Taylor, a farmer
aged thirty wears, committed suicide by
hanging. Tailor was engaged 10 he mar
ried to Miss Mary Burns on October %, but
fed. Miss Burns. finding that she had
been deserted, got II rope and banged her
self from a window and was dead when
found.
Spotted Hawk who has been on trial at
Mitaf City, Montana, for the killing Of
John Hoover, the Barriuger sheep herder
was convicted Of murder in the first de
gree. II was the death Of Hoover that
causel the recent Indian outbreak in
Montana.
The National Sound Money Leagne issued
an address from New York City declaring
neutrality-suspicious. bimetallism.
William Cauldwell, former state senator.
was arrested an. placed under $4,000 bail
in New York City, Ghs2sTsed with misappro-
prtating funds belonging fo~Lhr estate OF
Jason Rogers.
Inspection of tally sheets shows that
Perez n. Stewart, Citizens Union candi-
date for AssemhlymGn, and Howard p.
Okio, candidate OF the same party for
Alderman in the Nineteenth Assembly Dis
trict, New York city, have been elected,
instead of the Tammnny candidates, shown
US VI'tof7 IN the ponce returns
Charles Sehlogel, q grocer in New York
City, sixty years old il is alleged, murdered
his wife and then tried to end his own life
byeutting his wrists. His son tells Of the
tragedy
Adc-perate battle vas fought between n
United states Deputy Marshal's posse and
Milton lllckmah'S band OF desperadoes at
Mndd LGty' w. Nh Ihe nand was sur
lriSei W4lIe IN church Milton Iickman
s n5nJ "NN INC DeI"'S Ai'rSn"' p"u'y
"Du'''r",
me thiIadelPhia common Council voted
10 lease the ciiys gas WORKS.
Fhe ting I. II, Wise towed the schooner
SILVER tien's 10 the Bahamas, ana narrowly
escaped Ia'hihriaE near HAIteras, me