The Penn's Grove record., 1885-04-11
NEWS OF TIL + EEK

-1iAt 9AdlE ElEtLAbAl III AbAbbt AAlbhA
was held on the LIST. The vote was
light and the Republican ticket, headed
by George r. Wetmore for Governor,
was chosen by the usual majority.
Secretary Manning left Washing Z
ton on the I'd, for Albany to attend to
some pressing private business. He
will be gone about ten days, and during
his absence Assistant Secretary Fair
child will act as Secretary of the Treas
ury.
Samuel j. Randall, Congressman
from Pennsylvania, is reported sick in
Washington and confined to his room.
The powder magazine of the Hazard
Powder Company near st. Joseph, Mo-.
was exploded by lightning on the %.
Eight and a half tons of powder went
up, The houses in the neighborhOod
were partially wrecked, but no person
was injured.
An ice gorge in the Allegheny river
at Parker, Penna., broke on the ID,
sweeping away two sections of the iron
bridge. 1t is rumored that several per
sons were on the bridge when it went
down.
An ice jam in the Susquehana river
above Lock Haven has moved, and the
Philadelphia and Erie Railroad track is
flooded for a distance of ten miles.
Trains were stopped on the ID. The ice
above the'dam i'll the S-usquehanna river
at Columbia moved on the ID. A gorge
fifty feet high and several hundred in
length formed on the dam, but the ice
was o o washed away, with little dam
age to the structure. Two hundred feet
of the towpath on the Pennsylvania
Canal have been washed away. All the
planning mills along the river are sub
merged. The ice in the st. Lawrence
river at Montreal has moved and chan
mel opened to st. Helen Island.
Mrs. ID. S.Spring, wife of a farmer
residing near Batavia, New York, on
the I'd set fire to the house after lock-
ing herself and her two children in and
smearing the floor and furniture with
coal OIL. Their charred bodies We're
found by her husband and two hired
men on returning to dinner. Mrs.
Spring, who had an ungovernable tenn
per, committed the deed after having
uarrelled with her husband in the mo
ming. At Charlottesville, Va, on the
I'd. Mary Cooper, cOlored, aged IL
years, confessed the murder of her O.
year-old cousin, Melvine Barrett, whose
body was found ON a farm near Scots
vile, in February. She said MELVIN
ate her egg, and she killed him by
striking him on the head with a
shovel"
The board of Pardons at Harrisburg
on the I'd, decided to recommend a
Communication of the death sentence in
the case of Edwin Botheras, of Luzerne
county who was sentenced to be changed
April It'll. for the murder of William
Nichols at IIazleton.
The improvement in General
Grants condition on the ID, continued
on the Sd. The general was able to
walk about, to sign an important pa
per-" and to receive visitors. Among
those who called upon him We're JOhSl
Jacob Aston and Anthony j.. Drexel.
Mr.. Drexel saw the General. AT mid
night DIR. Shrady said: General G rant s
condition is very good tonight, but it
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patient Will die"
The president on the Sd appointed
John S. McCalm0nt, of Pennsylvania.
TO be Commissioner Of Customs, in
place of johnson, resigned; also, John
r, Garrison, of Virginia, to be Deputy
First Comptroller of the treasury, vice
Tarbell, resigned.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
designated Judge VIM. Batter, District
Attorney J.. X. Valentine and Postmas-
ter Ii. S. Huidekoper, of Philadelphia,
a Commission to appraise the old Post
office property in Philadelphia, with a
Q to It's sale at public auction as au-
thorized by Congress at its last session.
AT u dance III a farm house a
Palestine, Texas, on the I'd. Albert
Nichols and Thomas Lloyd, young
farmers, insulted Zachary Foster, and
then rushed upon HIM with drawn
pistols. Foster quickly sent a bullet
through Nichols heart and with a
second shot desperately wounded
Lloyd. During the melee a stray bull
let MORALLY wounded Sidney Price, a
spectator. Foster escaped.
Charles Chesley, of New Hamp-
shire, Solicitor of Internal Revenue,
has at the request of the Attorney Gen
eral, offered his resignation, to take eff
feet onthe appointment Ofhis successor.
Captain Even Howell, the editor
in-chief of the Atlanta Constitution, has
declined the position Of Consul at Man
chester, England.
The flood at Lock Haven, Penna.,
was subsiding ON the 9TH, though the
great ice gorge at Ferney remained
solid. Work was begun in clearing the
railroad of the ice which in many pla-
ces is piled upon it from five to ten feet
high. People who walked from Remove
to Lock Haven reported that houses
standing between the railroad and the
river were flooded TO the second story.
Representative Randall, of POM
.sylvania, is much better and expects to
be able to go out in a short time.
-Ex-Seeretary Frelinghuysen CON
tinues very low, but no immediate dan
ger Of his death is apprehended.
The improvement in General
Grants condition continues ; he passed
"a comfortable night on the 9TH.
The state of affairs on the lsthmus
continues so unsettled that Secretary
Whitney has decided to send an addi-
tiOnal force to Aspinwall.
The Legislature Of New Jersey
adjourned sine de on the 4th. After
the adjournment a Constitutional Con-
vention bill was placed in the Govern
or's hands. 1t provides for a commits
sion to revise the State Constitution
and suggest amendments TO the Legis-
lature at a special session to be held in
October.
The elevated railroads Of New
York city carried during the first six
months of the present fiscal year ., 562,
067 nor passengers than the same time
last year, and the increase in earnings
was $141, 26s. The total number of
passengers carried from the opening
to the LIST inst. was 526,079 .S04.
During a wind gust in Pittsburg on
the 9Th, a large sign on the roof Of a
book store was blown, together with
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