The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-18
NUMBER 7.

before he (Lawton) arrived" Gero-
nimo and the other prisoners spent
the Sabbath in their tents playing
cards."
"A woman named ~Gardenheim, 20
years of age, was found dead i'll her
house at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the
morning of the 18th, with two bullet
holes in her head. THE Adams boys"
ner daughter-in-laws' brothers have
been arrested on suspicion.
"A man registering as John Hamil-
ton, eff Altoona, Penna., poured car
bon oil over the furniture In one of b
rooms of the William Penn Hotel, in
PittsbuTg, on the 18th, and then
set fire to it. after which he quickly
left the house. The porter discovered
and extinguished the fire without
alarming the guests. Hamilton was
arrested subsequently while lettering
in the vicinity of the hotel, but refused
to give any reason for the act.
"A cave.in, covering a large space,
occurred on the 18th in the Mar
vine colliery If the Delaware and Hud.
son Canal Company at Scranton,
Penna. One man, named Shafer Is
reported killed, and seven others are
entombed in the nine. The missing
men are John Garden, John Young,
Patrick McNulty, Carmac Mcguire,
Patrick Cavanaugh, Patrick Murphy
and Patrick Harrison. Five men were
injured.
An epidemic of dysenteric sick
ness, ending, in the cases of children,
in spinal meningitis and death, pre-
walls in the village or Avona, Iowa
county, Wisconsin. The public schools
have been closed and all public gather
ings abandoned.
The signal man at Nantucket re-
ports that a large, unknown thee
masted schooner is sunk i'll the vicinity
of Sandy Point, sails hanging loose and
overheard. No particulars a be
learned. Four hundred bags of flour
were found near Tuckanuck Beach,
marked T. c. n. Y. G.
-Ex-Judge P. White was shot dead
by some unknown assassin in Clay
County, Kentucky, on the 18th. In
August last he was elected Superin-
tendent of Common Schools. For
two weeks two merchants named YER
sell and French, living at Hazard,
Perry County, Tennessee, have been at
feud. Each had "a large following,
armed with Winchester rifles" On
the 18Th a fight took place between
the gangs, and L man was killed and
three were wounded on the French
side. A moonshiner named Chenault
was shot dead by a young man named
Mickey, at Etna, Tennessee, on the
18th. The only ~pTOyocation for the deed
was a taunt by Cheuault that Mickey
and his friends "were too poor to buy
any more whisky.n Mrs. Buckmire,
an aged woman, was robbed and muir
dered in Geneva, Illinois, on the 18th.
Her body was found ina chicken house,
where it is supposed to have been car
ried by the robbers, who set fire to her
dwelling after ransacking it. At
Westernport, Maryland, on the 14th,
Edward White, a well-knOwn citizen,
was shot dead on the street by a luna
tic named David Johnson. In the
evening a mob attacked the build ng
where johnson was conirel and
lynched him ON a bridge above the Po-
tomac river. After hanging him they
threw the body into the stream.
Matthew Hotheffer, a keeper at
the Geological Garden in Cincinnati,
was fatally clawed by a grizzly bear
on the 18Th, while he was sweeping in
front of a den. lie died in a few
hours after.
"A fire in Freelaud, near Halle
ton, Penna., on the 14th, destroyed and
damaged several business houses, caus-
ing a loss estimated at $4,000. A
fireman named We sner was killed by
falling from one of the buildings. The
Dubois Opera block, in Elgin, Illinois,
was burned on the 14th. Loss about
S100, 600. The assurances repQGted are
about $50, 900.
The First National Bank of Doug
lass, Wyoming Territory. has been
ordered to begin business With a capi-
tai of $4,000.
Henry A. Dix. City Clerk of
Quincy, Illinois, was arrested on the
18th on the charge of emhezzling the
clty's funds. alt is believed the amount
stolen is about $4,000. Dix was elected
last spring for the sixth consecutive
time,
DIR. Charles w. Paine committed
snicide in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on
the 18th. 1t is supposed he was
desrondent at having been disinherlted
by bis father, who recently died in
New York. Mrs. James Il. rrotter, Il
confirmed invalid, committed suicide
by cutting her throat in Huntsville,
Alabama, on the 18th.
A Niagara Falls excursion train
on the Michel Plate ilroad was run
into by a freight train in a cut near
Silver Greek, New York, on the 14,h,
and the smoking and baggage cars were
~telescoped. About IS persons were
killed AMI 10 injured, several danger
ously. if not fatally.
"A freight train was thrown from
the track neal West Quincy, Illinois,
by a misplaced switch, on the 18th.
] John. Mccarthy, engineer, was killed;
Michael Keefe, fireman, was so badly
scalded that he died in an hour, and
Lee Riggett. brakeman, was also fatally
scalded,