The Penn's Grove record., 1899-11-17

Domestic.
1t Is feared that the Government stores
OF winter clothing consigned to the two
companies of military Mt Fort Gibbon
(Weare on the Yukon) will not reach the
troops this winter, in which case the men
will suffer severely. 1t Is believed the goods
reached st. Michael too late to be sent up
the river.
1t Is learned at San Francisco. CAL, that
during the typhoon encountered. by the
transport Slam, on the way to Manila, $50
horses were killed by being stampsied, and
that their dead bodies could not be thrown
overheard for four days.
Aionzo j. whiteman and three OF the
gang Of Ave men said to be the cleverest
tank swindlers In the country. are Under
arrest In New York City, Will, the other
member OF the quintet has beer, caught in
Pittsburg.
The Municipal Assembly OF G4eater New
York met in joint session aud adopted the
budget for 1890, $50, IT'S. 972.4s, the amount
to be raised by taxation being $50. 900, 900
Four zinc-lined trunks. such as are used
by travelling men to carry samples, each
containing Il dead body, were taken from
the baggage room at Union Station at st.
Louis, NO., and Frank Thompson,a brother
OF E. d. Thompson, city undertakes Of
Memphis, Tenn, Is under arrest.
Tammany Hall In New York City pledged
80, 900 to complete the fund needed to
save the home OF Charles Stewart Parnell
In Ireland from foreclosure sale.
W. +. Bell, Assistant Postmaster at
Exemor. Va, was arrested by Inspector
Maxwell for issuing bogus money orders
to the amount OF S1400 to defray his per-
sonal expenses. Former Postmaster j.. A.
Smith was placed In charge OF the office.
Morr,or otraul,r pl,aaJ in tba bands
Of the Rev. s. Shar rett, ninety-one years
old aud an inmate of the Monroe County
(Tenn.) Poor Asylum, changed his religious
views. Sharrett and five female patients
Of the institution escaped, leaving q note
that they would walk to Utan.
A fall of coal at the Eddy Greek Mine
0%lyphant, Penn, crushed three miners.
One OF them, Stanislaus Woslopki, was
taken out dead, aud the others, John Null
ligan and Michael Woslopki were badly in
Iured.
The transport Indiana with a Tennessee
regiment arrived at San Francisco, CAL,
from Manila after an uneventful voyage.
The regiment, as 1t comes home, consists
Of fourteen officers and 610 men.
Clarence Burrell, son OF Banker JIG. Bur
rell, was Instantly killed by an explosion OF
dynamite which wrecked the bank building
at Urbana, Iowa. There Is no known cause
ZOE tue tNElDSlOu. Out the duluOTltltS arc
working on the theory that 1t was done by
lncendiHries.
The Michigan Central passenger train
running from Toledo to Detroit, was
wrecked between Alexis and Vienna, Mich.
The rails, which had been loosened by
wreckers, spread under the weight OF the
train, piunging 1t into the ditch. Three
persons were fatally injured. Fifteen or
twenty other passengers were bruised, and
-npna ~ than Ind aIiUht xvntrndo
Sam Brock, an aged farmer living near
Owenton, KY mistook his son for n burg
lar and stabbed him, infioting a wound
from which he died. Brock has disap-
peared.
Mr.. Sarah @. King, sixty years old, was
murdered in a lonely farmhouse seven
miles from Stamford, Conn. Charles Bert
ram Gross, seventeen years old, the hired
man on the farm, Is under arrest as the
murderer.
Articles OF incorporation for the Tele-
phone, Telegraph and Cable Company of
America, with u capital of $50, 900, 900, were
flied at Trenton, N. J.. The new concern is
controlled by the Whitney syndicate and
will fight the Bell company.
Foreign.
At the opening OF the italian Parliament
King Humbert urged an early considera-
tion OF the budget.
Admiral Courrejoles cables from Kwang-
Ohow-Wang hat two of his officers at
Montao ave been murdered by Chinese.
The French Admiral then seized the Project
OF the province of HaInan and his gun
boat.
The announcement Is formally made in
London that no foreign government dis
patches, either in secret code or cipher can
be transmittel via the Cape except mes
sages between Portugal and the Governor
General of Lorenzo Marques.
General Sir Charles Warren has been APP
pointed Chief OF the Fifth Infantry d.
vision ordered to Cape Colony. He has
seen considerable service In South Africa.
The new Government OF President Jime-
neg and Vlce-President Vasquez, OF San
Domingo, was inaugurated.
Steamers from the Mediterranean are
held In quarantine at Trieste owing TO the
prevalence OF the plague.
There is dIsquleting news in regard to
the Khalifa's movements In the Soudan.
Thu Sirdar has left Cairo.
Germany decided not to float a new loan
Tor Russia.
The French Senate declared itself com-
petent to try the conspiracy cases.
The Spanish fleet is about to be concen-
trated at Cadiz.
A violent shock OF earthquake was felt at
Leghorn. Italy, causing a great panic
among the population.
The storm which swept over Jamaica is
said to have destroyed u hundred thousand
banana trees.
The Turkish and French Consulates at
Odessa, Russia, have been Informed that
King Menelik OF Abyssinia will arrive in
May next and will pay a visit to the Gear
while on his way to the Paris Exhibition.
BY the foundering OF the Belgian steamer
Belgiqus, OF the Alderney coast, eighteen
people were drowned.
The Gear and the Kaiser reached a full
understanding on many important points
a. a meeting ia Potsdam, Germany.
Herr Leyds,r aE9thsss OF Dr.. Eeyds, and
hims elf an agent OF the Transvaal Govern
ment, died of apoplexy at Brussels, Bel
GUM, while on a visit to his brother.
A gunnery instructor named Eckmann
was arrested at Spandau, Prussia, on a
charge of having distracted the plans OF a
gun under construction.
The German Consul at Kingston, JANA
ella, received an intimation that, owing to
war conditions, the German corvettes
Stein, Steseh and Charlotte, now In West
Iudian waters, have been ordered to pro-
coed home Immediately. The incident has
caused considerable speculation.
The first OF the long list OF British tran
sports arrived at Cape Town, South Africa,
and proceeded without delay to Durham,
with the object OF relieving Labyrinth