The Penn's Grove record., 1886-04-24
NEWS OF THE WEEP

"A RitdL lCb blIONO III llO 0Ai
Lawrence river caused much damage
to property in Montreal, on the 10th,
flooding the low lying streets and eel.
lars.
-Byth the breaking of a dam at a res
eryoir two and a half miles above the
village of East Lee, Massachusetts on
the goth much property in the VII
lage was destroyed, and a number
of persons were drowned. Eleven
bodies have been found. The loss on
property is estimated at S200,000
AT st. Louis on the 18th, Martin
Irons, A. Coughlin and George Jack
son, for whose arrest bench warrants
were issued the day before, appeared
and gave bail in $500 each. Garry,
Burdett and Chase, acquitted a few
days ago OF the charge of ~obstructing
trains, were indicted for the same Of
fence.
Agent Bigelow, of the Bigelow
Carpet Company, at Clinton, Massa-
chusetts, on the 10th, notified the Sc
lectmen of that town that, in view of
personal violence to workers for the
company, and threats of future vio-
lence, he deemed it his duty to suspend
work for the present IN the company's
mills. BY this action nearly 1000
persons are thrown out of employment.
The cause of the suspension is a
strike Of so dyers.
There have been no new develop.
ments in regard to the murder of
Title Smith, at Hackettstown, New
Jersey. Munich and Haring, the
young men arrested on suspicion, have
been discharged, a more careful eX-
animation of the circumstances attend
ing the case tending to show their in
Innocence.
"A telegram from Centralia, Illinois,
says that IN the 18th, the SGperintend-
ent of the Ohio and Mississippi Rail-
road served notice on all station agents
and foremen that their wages would be
reduced in consequence of business de.
preston resulting from the South
western railway strike. The cut in the
wages Of station agents varies from So
to So per month.
Our Consul General at Rome tele-
graphs to the State Department that
from the Sth to the 10th inst, there
have been 16 deaths from cholera in
BTindisi.
The total number of dead from the
tornado in Minnesota foots up IA, in
ljured, 2l3. Mrs Hogue was killed and
a woman visiting Ter fatally injured
by lightning near New Castle, Penn.
sylvania on the 10th. A storm IS re-
ported in Dakota by which hundreds
of trees were leveled and large numbers
of cattle killed.
Robert Smith, eolored, was hang
ed in Nicholasvilie, Kentucky, on the
18th for the murder of his stepfather,
James Lee, in November last. Ca
milo Gonzales, convicted of the muir
der of a ranchman in 1884, was hanged
on the 10th IN Bracket, Texas. "He
was laughing when the drop fell"
"A fire at San Luis Oblspo, Cali
%fornia, on the 18th, destroyed the
Andrews Hotel, the post-office and
several other large buildings. Loss
S12O, 900.
Will eight kegs of giant powder
were being unloaded from a train at
Clintonvilles Wisconsin. on the 18th,
they were exploded by the accidental
dropping of M of the kegs. One man
was killed and six were Injured, two
fatally. While experiments were being
made in COMPRISING steel at the iron
works of Singer, Nimiek s. Co., in
Piltsburg, the same day, a mould con
tanning 1000 pounds of molten steel
exploded, scattering the metal IN are
directions. About twelve men well
injured, six of them severely.
John Carpenter, under st ntence of
death in New York for the murder of
his wife, committed suicide on the 10th
in his cell by cutting open his jugular
vein and the arteries In his arms. He
had twice previously attempted suicide.
The wife of Charles Cole, in Covingto on
Kentucky, committed suicide by taking
poison ON the 18th. She had been mar
ried only two months. but 1t is said her
husband treated her cruelty, Henry
Faenzer, aged 45 years, a grocer of
Newark, New Jersey, hanged himself
on the 10Th. He had lost money in his
business.
The French cable broke on the
18th 300 miles from Duxbury, Massa-
chusetts.
"A boy named Thompson was
| drowned by his boat being carried over
the dam at S%helburne, on the 10Th,
| and Hugh Foster was drowned while
trying to rescue him.
The bodies of Mrs. Flynn and an
old woman named Minogue, who had
been, visiting her, were found OF the
10Th, in a quarry pool, three miles from
Lemont, Illinois. The women disap-
peared two weeks ago. 1t is supposed
they fell into the pool while walking
along the edge of the quarry after dark.
The flood at Montreal is described
as the worst which ever visited that
city. The greater part Of the business
district is under water as well as the
whole country along the south shore.
In the lower section of the city the
water rose so rapidly that residents
were forced 10 the upper stories of their
houses, where many are without fire
and fuel, and, as yet, with no lmmedi-
ate prospect of relief In the shape of
provisions. In some streets the water
IS six feet deep. Merchants say the
osses will amount to millions of dol
ars.
Henry Smith, 30 years of age, was
savagely beaten by three roughs In
front of his boarding house in Chicago,
on the 18th. His recovery is doubtful.
He was employed IN Maxwell Brothers
box factory during the recent strike,
and on the 18th he argued with'some of
his fellow-boarders that sit was every
mans right to belong to a union or not,
as 1t pleased him." Hence the assault.
Two of his assailants have been ar
rested. Policeman Curtis. while being
beaten by roughs, shot and mortally
wounded Michael Boland in Chicago,
on the 18th. Two colored women,
named Mary Love and Matte Moore.
quarrelled and fought with dirk knives
at San Angelo, Texas, on tine 18th.
Matte was gashed in four places and
Mary in ten. Finally the latter had
her tongue ''cut out near the root"
and she is not expected to recover.
Jealousy caused the trouble. AT
Anthony, Kansas, on the 10Th, a mob
of forty men surrounded the Sheriff's
house, where two brothers named