The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-07
NEWS OF THE WEEK

of the Bald Eagle and Nittaning val
leys, in the interior of Pennsylvania,
on the Both ult., doing much damage
to the crops. Some of the hailstones
were two inches in diameter. A barn
near Beach Greek was destroyed by
lightning.
"A four-story brick block on South
Eutaw street, Baltimore, occupied for
storage purposes by G. II. Beebe,
wooden ware manufacturer, and also
by W. B. Clotworthy, commission
merchant, and Smith, Hanway Il Co.,
manufacturers of giant powder, was
destroyed by FIRE on the I'd. The total
loss is S55, 900, covered by insurance.
A fire in the National S ock Yards in
East st. Louis on the I'd did damage
estimated at 10000.
! Great damage was done to prop
erty throughout the Wyoming Valley
by a storm on the 1st and I'd. Many
buildings and bridges we're swept away,
and roads were washed out. james
Harris was drowned near Plymouth.
In Baltimore on the I'd, Henry
Martin, aged 10 years, and John Con-
nell, aged 80, were suffocated in a well.
They were at work on the well on the
31st ult., made a bet as to the depth of
the water. They got into the bucket
and went down, when a groan caused
those above to haul the bucket up.
When they reached the surface both
were dead. No test had been made be-
fore they went down as to the foul all
below.
Alexander Connaughton, a young
farmer, visiting Cincinnati, became
drunk OH the LIST, and, being accosted
by a policeman named Haines, ran
away. ualnes pursued, and Connaugh-
ton showing fight the policeman shot
him in tie neck, making a fatal wound
There Is q serious epidemic sof ty'
phoid fever in,Fittsburg In the Twenty
ffth Ward are 12i cases, many of them
of q dangerous type. Five new cases
and three deaths were reported on The
I'd. Five rev cases of fever have beer
developed in West Elizabeth, and two
or three cases are said to be quite critl
cal. Doctors McCrew and Welch wert
reported i'll
According to a telegram from
Charleston, South Carolina, slater re
ports show that only a small part of tht
rice crop in Georgetown county is lost
and the accounts of distress are belieY'
ed to be exaggerations,"
james A. L. Whittier, "a lawyer o.
Boston was on the I'd, arrested on {
charge of embezzling bonds, stocks ant
other securities to the amount OF Sl25,
600, which he held III trust for Mrs
Harriet d. Reed.
A member of the fin of Gilleer y
NAHUM IN Chicago, on entering Ill
store oh the 31st found on the floor
large dynamite bomb. The fuse hao
been lighted but in falling had struck
! on the end and put out the fire. Mr.,
NAHUM says he cannot account for the
attempt to destroy his place. The from,
of the English Baptist Church in st
Clair. Penna., was blown up by dyna
| mite shortly before daylight on the Bis
ult. TIE outrage is believed to be the out
| come of a contest between the Law ant
Order Society and violators of the iNnol
law.
"A market train on the Lebanon
Valley Railroad, Penna., ran into 4;
\ 7ashout near Derry Station, on th'
lat. Engineer Stanton was killed ano
Fireman Rooms fatally injured. a
Horton, Michigan, on the 3lst ult,
Stephen Decker, a farm hand, and TN
two small children Of L. A. Grange
were riding on a dump-board, when thu
horses became frightened. All three
were thrown out and the children wer,
hurt by the fall, while the lines caugh'
DeckeI's foot and he was dragged sotit
distance. Decker and one child are
not expected to survive.
A boiler in the shops of the Iehigi
n al and Navigation Company at Lans
FRA Penna., exploded on the 80
W;i. Lewis WAS killed, and four
teon "a, we're injured, osae. named
oliieis r. fatally Another O
William Kissn.. veis, had both eve
the injured, Reno ',
blown out.
A fire at Gun Lake. neal the say
MicLiean. on the LIST. destroyed witt
mil or Barkee, Cooke & Co., =
sol, 900 feet of lumber and seven ca.
owned by the Flint and Pere Mar
1uette Railroad. The total loss is esti-
mated at $50, 000 the insurance at 500
j. L. Spencer Il Co.'s carriage
nanuiactory, in Oneida, New York.
vas burned on the Sd, with the lumber
ard adjoining. Loss, $50, 900, covered
~ insurance. a fire in Baldwin. Mich
gan, onthe I'd, destroyed the Exchange
iotel, two saloons, the Townsend
louise, Court House and iall and two
torres. Loss, $4,000; insurance, Sl6.-
John Graney, 10 years of age,
lived from IA bath house near Laconia,
Sew Hampshire, on the 3lst ult., and
the sandy bottom, broke his
ack bone. He died On the u.
Thomas Finnegan, David Shana-
an and Noyes S. Thompson were ar
on the 3D., in Chicago, on the
barge OF completely in the robbery of
1900 worth Of stamps from the post
thce at Minneapolis, on the night of
uly Stb, Shanahan IS Supervisor of
ne town of South Chicago. Thompson
and he received several thousand dol