The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-09

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spread to nearly every animal within
the distance of a mile, and, before the
animals were caught and quieted. half
a dozen equipages had been demolished
and about twenty persons injured. Dr.
Carlow, the driver of the team which
caused the trouble, is the n whose
injuries ale likely TO prove fatal.
An attempt was made en- the 3D. to
wreck a Missouri Pacific passenger
train at Greenwood, thirty miles east
Of Kansas City. Rails, ties and rub
bish were piled upon the track in a
curve, but a farmer discovered the OBJ
structlon and signalled the train in
time. 1t is supposed robbery was in
tended.
The trades demonstration in Pitts
burg on the All, was the largest and
finest display Of the kind ever seen
there. The parade was twelve miles
long and was three hours in passing a
given point.
Storms and rains of unusual sever
ity, causing much loss of life and dam
age to property, are reported on the
Central American coast.
AT Chimapla, in the State OF Mex
leo, within a few days past, ''tremen-
dous subterranean reports were
heard. The alarmed inhabitants made
an examination of the surrounding
country and sit was discovered that a
high hill in the vicinity had been COM
pletely divided INTO two parts by some
powerful force.
The Treasury Department pub
fishes a statement of the population of
the United States and the net Tevenue
and net expenditures of the government
for the last fiscal year, with the per
capita of revenues and expenditures.
The population is given at IS, 100000
and the net revenue at 1886 ,439, 727 be-
ing a Ier capita of SIC, or .US greater
than the fiscal year of 1885. The expen-
! ditures were $242, 4S3, 13S-a per capita
OF Ais. or "a less than that of the pre-
vlOus year.
Nicholas s. Rowland. confidential
clerk and b%Ookeeper for tie w. w.
Kimball Organ Company, in Chicago,
has been held in S250G bail TO answer
the charge of having Systematically de-
frauded the house by meal of forged
orders for organs, which were sold and
the profits divided with an outside COZ
federate, who is as yet unknown.
AT Ellicott City, Maryland, on the
9Th, Henry A. Leentan, convicted OF
stealing a horse, was sentenced TO four
teen years Imprisonment at hard labor.
After stealing the horse he set fire to
the stable and destroyed seven horses.
For that offence he was tried and con-
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maximum penalty is ten years. i'm
prisonment, and he will be taken to
Baltimore for sentence. The last i'm
prisonment will only begin at the close
of the first.
R. p. Wallace, charged with the
murder of the Logan family of five
persons, was taken from the jail at
S~teeleville, Missouri, on the 4th, by a
mob and lynched. An armed mob
broke into the Jail at ThrocBmorton,
Texas, on the Sd, and took out and
lynched a negro name1 Farrar. Farrar
had confessed that he murdered a
farmer named Urny and assaulted and
murdered Urny's daughter. Daniel
Smith, IS years of age, on the 9TH shot
his father, a farmer of Rapho township,
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old man was cutting a switch to chas-
tise him. The bullet lodged in the
mans head and inflicted a dangerous
wound. The boy fed.
1t is said that nearly half the to-
bacco crop of Virginia was ruined by
the recent frost.
During a fire in a box factory at
St. Louis, on the 4th a fire plug burst
and flooded the entire neighborhood,
and a young man, II years OF age, name
unknown, was drowned in a ditch on
Carroll street. While trying to escape
the food he climbed a lamp post on the
edge of the ditch, but lost his hold, fell
into the water, and was drowned be-
fore assistance could be rendered.
Mrs. William Cunningham and
her two little children were run over
by a switching train at a crossing in
Galesburg. Illinois, on the 4th. Mrs.
| Cunningham was killed and both chill
dren injured, one fatally. 1t is said
the regular llagman had gone to sup
per and left a boy to do his work"
The boiler of a cotton compress at
Raleigh, North Carolina, exploded on
the 4th injuring two men, n fatally.
The Republican State Convention
of New jersey met on the 9th in Tren-
ton. Alexander G. Cattell was chosen
temporary chairman and William Wal
ter Phelps permanent chairman. EX-
Congressman b. F. HOwey, of Warren,
was nominated for Governor on the
first ballot.
The steamer La Mascotte, a pas
senger boat, plying between st. Louis
and Cape GIrardeau, Missouri, burst
her boiler on the 9th and was then
burned. 1t is estimated that from Is
to 22 persons were killed The boat
wasl ess than three months old and was
valued at $4,000.
Eight cattle nave died of a disease
resembling hog cholera near Pekin,
| Illinois. Eleven cattle have died sud
denly near Benton, Montana. of a dis
ease which the local veterinarians can
| not diagnose.