The Penn's Grove record., 1899-08-25

Two colored women have sued a Chicago
theatre for an alleged refusal to allow
them to occupy seats they had purchased
for a matinee performance.
Twenty-six skilled American mechanics
sailed Oh the steamer Majestic to work on
n bridge to be erected near Rangoon, in
British India, by an American company.
Mrs. Lucy Williams, who is believed to
have been the oldest woman In Connecti-
cut, died at Uncasville u few nights ago,
aged 1903 years.
John l.. Blair, the founder n public
benefactor of Blairstown, N. j., was ninety
seven years old Tuesday, and the towns
people observed the day fittingly. Most Of
the stores were closed for the day.
The Ramapo Water Company has secured
options on q large part of the Catsklll re-
gion as a watershed. 1t has filed maps in
Greene and Ulster Counties.
Three tramps stealing a ride on a frelgh t
train that left Marshalltown, Iowa, shortly
after midnight, shot and killed Brakeman
J. E. Wilson and Conney Matthews and
threw their bodies under the wheels.
John Landauer, q married man, killed
lfteen-year-old Josephine Engel In a va
eant lot in New York City and committed
suicide.
John Paul, "a farmer of Logansport, Ind.
recently returned from Chicago, where he
took treatment at an alcoholic institute,
drove seven fine hogs to the woods, shot
them with a rifle and cremated the car
cases on a bush heap. He had declined n
good price for the hogs, saying that they
were possessed of the devil and must be
sacrificed.
Some one murdered John Conors, an
OIneyville Or. ~ weaver, thirty-lve years
old, and laid his body twenty feet from q
railroad crossing in Webster, Mass, taking
extraordinary pains to disguise the nature
of the crime. Both the ears had beer
clipped of.
William J. Bryan declared in Omaha,
Neb., that he had never said the money
question should be relegated to the rear,
and that he had never thought OF com.
promise.
Squad Bolin, a negro lodged in jail at
Fulton, KY, on n charge of highway rob.
berry and attempted murder, was taken out
and y nched by a mob of masked white
men.
Suit for 81, 900, 900 damages was brought
against the Westinghouse Air Brake Com
pany by the Now YORK Air Brake Company.
Conspiracy is alleged to have injured the
business of the latter.
Two bridges over the Chicago River at
Chicago have been closed to traffic, seven
Others condemned as dangerous and two
more labeled Every suspicious"
Armstrong Taylor and John Alfred
Brown were hanged Mt Rockville, Md, for
the murder OF aged Louis Kosenstein and
his wife. The motive of the crime was
robbery. The hanging was a horrible
botcb. Taylor declared on~the scaffold
that Brown was innocent.
A syndicate proposes to organize a Ma
ttonal Cotton Mill Trust with a c~apitaliza-
ton Of Sl35, 900, 900. The Hide and Leather
Trust has been organized with a capital of
s36, 900 900.
A pugilist named "Jim' Franey died in
San francisco, after being knocked out by
Frank Mcconnell in the fourteenth round
OF a prize fight.
The Continental Match Factory, at Pas
sale. N. j., recently sold by Edwin Gould
TO the Diamond Match Company, has been
closed, and the 200 hands have been dis
charged.
1t is reported from the West that a pro-
nouneed shortage OF cattle has prevailed
for some time on the ranges. Not a herd
is left In Nevada and Utah. The grass
there is a complete failure this year.
BOYS exploded a ton of dynamite by
building a bonfire near the shed where it
was stored in Harlem, New York City;
windows were broken for blocks around
and a number OF persons injured, one per-
haps fatally.
The State Department Is advised from
Yokohama OF the formation OF an Amert-
can Asiatic Association there, to guard the
interests Of American citizens in japan.