The Penn's Grove record., 1899-01-06

The Governor and other State officers Oh
Wyoming for the COPING four years were
inaugurated on Mohday at Cheyenne
Governor De Forest Hlchards succeeuS w.
A. Richards. All Of Ahe outgoing ana IN
coming officials are B Ipttolicans.
BENJAMIN W.. CumAin Jr., elected as
the Democratic candidate for District At
torney OF Schuylklll 1County, declined TO
take the oath OF oticGft Pottsvil!e, Penn',
on Monday. The O. Art Immediately ap.
pointed Guy Z. Farc1Ihar to act as Dis
trict Attorney for the Term.
The Assabet Manufacturing Company, OF
Roston Mass. has assigned for the benefit
of its creditors. The tot. liabilities are
said to be a triie over 81, 600 900. The
failure was due to hard tines and the tight-
ness of the money mafkst'
snirit thermometers registered forty de-
grees below zero In INeene, N. H., a lew
DAYS ago and fortv-tAo degrees below at
West Keene. The day Is said to have been
the coolest in q quarter OF u century
Private Starr Dare, company |, First IN
fantrv. whose homo II In San Francisco,
died at the hospital att Hu~ntsYiie., Ala, a
few DAYS ago from o. gunshot wound re-
ce{yed Christmas night. Mack Lightfoot,
Dare's murderer, hasl been commltteu 10
Jail without bond.
Torrey E. Wardner, tditor OF the Boston
Traveller. who was cotimitted to Dedham
(Mass.) jail for thirty li9ys ior contempt OF
court Nv .Judpe Sheridan, was released a
few days ago, having furged himselt oithe
contempt.
Charles A. Brewer, ex~-postmaster OF
pauIdinp. Ohio. shot and killed his wife
after which he placed the revolver to his
own head and flew out his brains. Domes-
tic incompatibility was the cause of the
shooting.
Michael Fernando. tknown as "The Big
Greek, who was arrested for beating in
sensible and robbing a Greek sailor in New
York City, was Identified as soteros de ga
rantos. a feroctous brigand, for whose cap
ture, dead or alive, the Greek Government
has offered $1,000.
Miss Mercedes Garcia, d-ughter of the
late Calixto Garcia, the Cuban leader, died
a few days ago at Townsville, Ca, OF con-
sumption.
The title of the Northern Pacific Railroad
to nearly nine million acres OF land In the
State of Washington Is invalid, according
to u majority report OF the state Leglsia-
tive Investigating Committee. The Legis-
lature will be urged to restore this tract to
the public domain.
Herman Kiseo, twelve years old, and Ar
thur Leedham nine years old. were both
drowned while skating onthin Ice at Harris
POND at Woonsocket, RI.
Mrs. Isabelle, her daughter, Mrs. ossie
Malone, and Mrs. Malone's infant child
were burned to death In their home, near
Hnlsborough, Texas, The fire was caused
by the use OF kerosene to light a fire.
The gunboats Alvarado and sandoval,
captured from Spain in the late war, have
completed coaling at Norfolk. Va, and
sailed for Portsmouth, n. H.
The steamer City Of osceola sank in
twelve feet OF water near her landing at
Cairo, Ill. The steamer was valued at
$40, 900.
Ira Sexton was hanged at Princeton,
Mo-, a few days ago, for the killing OF
Nathan Stark, a young farmer, on October
%, 1897, while trying 20 rob him.
Thomas j. Grnbhs, forty, and Harry
Roberts, seventy, fought a duel with pocket
knives at MooretownJ Cal. Grubbs literally
hacked his aged opponent to death. He
was himself terribly wounded about the
face and neck. Gruhbs was arrested on a
charge of murder.
A breach of promise suit was instituted
at Reading. Penn, in, which the plaintiff is
Miss Elizabeth McVeigh, twenty-one years
old. a poor girl, AND the defendant George
F.. Hageman, forty years old, a leading
member of the bar, She wants $4,000
damages.