The Penn's Grove record., 1899-07-21

Eight deaths of lockjaw have occurred
in st. Louis, Mo-, as the result of wound!
received on Independence Day. This 1!
the list: james A. Alexander, aged six
teen; August Burton, aged seventeen
Adolph Hunt, aged thirty-nine; Henriette
Weidemann, aged twenty-seven; Robert S
Touryllle. aged fifteen: Charles A. Ander
son, aged Dineteen; Henry Wife, agec
thirteen; Ollie Dohn, aged sixteen.
Fire destroyed the Grace Hotel, a four
story brick structure in Milwaukee, Wis
About twenty-five iremen were injured, oil
whom five were fatally hurt. The recuni
AIRY loss is small. Among the injured are
Chief James Foley, Captain P. J. Llnehan
Captain John Wolf, Assistant and Chiei
Clancy.
Ralph schelly, eight years old, died ii
his home, at Montpelier, Ind, as the re-
suit of a vicious attack on him by four Of
his playmates. Two OF them held Ralph
Schelly while the others kicked him and
pounded him on the neck, bead and back
with stones. Lockjaw followed, then
death.
A. Van Booming, State Grand Master oil
the Knights and Ladies' Of Honor, ICED
forty-slx years, committed suicide by throw
ing himself from the steamer Bald Eagle,
three miles above the Copper Creek dam,
near Peoria. Ill. Domestic trouble is sup
posed to have CAUSED the act.
Alvah W. Ketcham, who left the position
Of private secretary to Philip D. Armour tc
embark on his own account In business,
faced Judge Baker in Chicago a few days
ago charged with being II principa in a
800, 600 diamond swIndle. His lawyer says
the case has shattered bis reason.
Two sailors, who went to the rescue OF a
sinking fishing sloop In the harbor OF
RockIand, Me-, found the dead body of a
man aboard. Letters in his clothes re-
Naa1aI that hfo ~ a ~ q u a ~ A Haruav Inf
North B~ucksport. A poeketbook, contain
ing twenty-five cents, was found in Har-
vey's pocket.
After a separation OF siIty-six years,
Nathan Branch, a negro aud the oldest man
10 Evanston, ILL.,. met his brother, Lee, OF
Macon, Ga. The last sight they had OF each
other was in an auctioneer's room in Ches
terield County, Va, when they were Of
fered for sale. They recently learned OF
each others locetion by accident.
Manager Griscom, OF the American Line
in New York City, discussed the probable
future OF the steamship Paris. He said
that that matter would have to be deter,
mined by a board Of survey, and would de,
pend on whether the ship was, in marine
insurance terms, a constructive total loss
: orS total loss.
A boat capsized at Lubec, Me-, during a
Yacht race, and Hollis c. Ntckerson and
Eben G.. Small were drowned.
Train robbers stopped a passenger train
OF the Colorado and Southe n Railway
near Folsom, n. NJ, and broke the sides OF
the express car with dynamite. Officers OF
the Wells-Fargo Express Company say that
nothing was secured by the robbers, who
escaped on horses which were tethered
near BY.
Harry E. Park, Of Sinking Valley, Penn,
scorched thirty miles on his new bicycle a
lew days ago. He stopped at a farm
house and drank a large quantity OF ice
water. He fell lead as he was about to
mount his wheel. The boys father had
presented hin with a new wheel the day
before.
A pistol duel in which both principals
were killed occurred at Crawford, Miss.
The dead men are Shields irwin and f. A.
TarIeton. Tarleton's house was entered
on December "a last, and he accused Irwin
of being the thief. At the trial the jury
returned a verdict OF not guilty. At the
FIRST meeting between Irwin and Tarleton
since the trial the shooting took place.
Mrs. Chauncey Talbot, twenty-eight
years old, the wife OF a ~well-known bust
ness man OF Putnam, Conn, drowned her.
self and her two-year-old boy in the
ouinebauc River. Two months aao an in
FAINT child died, aud since then the young
mother had grieved greatly.