The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-03
NEWS OF THE EEK

tory and hardware store of Reynolds
Brothers. with several stables II out.
buildings. The loss is estimated at
$685. 900, insurance $4,000. The IRE
wa started by the falling of a hot
soldering iron into a a OF rosln.
During the fire a man named Rogers
was dangerously. if not fatally, Injured
by falling from thu roof of a neighbor.
ing house. The fur hat works OF
Ferry & Napier, at Matteawan. New
York were burned IN tie 10Th. Loss
$4,000. The store house of the glass
works at Newark. Ohio, was struck by
lightning on the 25th and destfryed.
Loss $40, 900; insurance $4,000.
Reports from all parts of Manitoba
and the Northwest assure abundant
crops and a harvest two weeks earlier
than usual.
Reason Stamper and Mrs. Hattie
Dinkins were married at Ashland, Ken
lucky, on the Goth. While they were
receiving the congratulations OF their
friends a woman named Frances Pnes
rushed IN and attempted to shoot the
groom, but he disarmed her. She said
he had promised to marry her, and also
charged him with the murder OF a man
named Black two years ago. AT a
wedding in Paterson, New Jersey,
on the Goth, the festivities were dis
turbed by Walter Hodgson and others
prying open with clothes poles the WIN
dows Of the house in which they were
held. John Earle and others attempted
to stop the disturbance, when a fight
occurred, during which Hodgson struck
Earle on the head with a board and
Earle died of conclusion OF the BRAIN.
Hodason has been arrested.
w. S. McColium, a dentist, about
| 40 years of age, committed suicide at
his boarding house at Niagara Falls, on
the 26th. He had been twice burned
out within a short time. He leavesa wife
and little daughter. George A. Screens
a drummer for a dry goods house
in Cleveland, Ohio, shot himself dead
in a house of Ill repute in Pittsburg, on
the 26th. He was about 80 years of
age. ''Remorse for his treatment of
| his wife and his inability to perform GER
tain promises made to an inmate OF the
house is thought TO have been the aus
of the deed"
AT Eagle Bend, Mississippi, on the
Goth, Lee Brown, colored, shot and
killed Alfred and Henry Morgan, white,
and Cornelius Jackson, colored. Brown
| was porter in a store. and the white
men ''refused to let him close it up"
Alexander Miller, an old farmer,
and his wife were killed by a railroad
train striking their wagon at a railroad
crossing near Lafayette, Indiana, on
the Goth.
"A thunder storm. accompanied by
hail, did damage to the amount of
nearly $25, 000, in the Catawissa Val
ley, Penna., on the 26th.
john Napier, aged 70 years, col
ored janitor of the Lincoln school
building, in Harrisburg, committed
suicide on the 29th by jumping into the
canal. In New Orleans on Sunday,
Joseph Villio, aged 65 years, cut his
wlfe's throat with a razor, and then cut
his own throat and slashed n of his
arms. 1t is believed he will recover.
He was released from an insane asylum
two weeks ago. John A. Leddele. a
wholesale clothler of Montreal, COM
mitted suicide on the 9th, ult., by
cutting his throat, Domestic trouble
is supposed to have been the cause.
Professor C. W. Merriman. princi.
pal of the High School at Beloit, Wis
oonsin, was shot and perhaps mortally
wounded by burglars on the 9th ult.
"A duel was fought on the 2Sth
ult., by two brothers named Adam and
Alphonse Reed, near Opelousas, Lousi.
ana, Adam was dangerously, if not
fatally, wounded.
"A violent thunder storm passed
over Halifax, Nova Scotia, on the 9th
ult, Several houses were struck by
lightning and the topmast of a vessel
was broken off by the electric fluid,
"The lightning struck a fire hydrant or
CORVALLIS street, passed into the
ground, and badly tore up the street
for q length of two blocks, throwing
large rocks to the surface. In al
another street the lightning struck
a gutter, throwing cobble stones al
over the roadway"
Six cow which had been suffering
from pleuro-ppeumonia on a farm neal
Turkey Hill, Lancaster county, Penna.
were killed on the 26th ult. by an order
of the State authorities.
The chinch bugs are destroying
the corn in parts of Fayette county
Illinois.
AT Reading, Penna., on the 28tl
ult., Rev. ID. b. Albright, az aged
minister, formerly superintendent Of
the Bethany Orphans Home at VIC
melsdorf, convicted of cruelty and bru-
tally beating Harry Kramer. an orphan
inmate, was sentenced to pay a fine o
$50 and all the costs,
On the 9th ult three men brok,
into the house of Mrs. Dennis O'Don
nell, on the mountain three miles nortl
of Hazelton, Penna.. and taking out {
safe, rolled it to the foot of the noun
tain, where they blew it open and tool
therefrom $500 in cash and numerou
yaIuables. A number of the neighbor
searched the mountains, but could fin(
no trace of the burglars.
James Turner and wife, Teturnin,
home near Winchester, OHIO, on tn
2Sth ult.. were thrown from theil
wagon by the horse taking fright at
drove Of hogs. Turner was fatally III
iured and his wife was killed.
Mrs. IL. G.. Farmer, her six,yeaI
|, old daughter, William Brayton aud tw
r children of G. w. Glrsch, were browne
: near Bristol, Rhode Island, IN the 27t
ult., by the capsizing of a sail boat.
"A fire in Nichols & Huntley's five
3 story warehouse at the foot of Yves
r Twelfth street, New York, on the 3Stl
ult., caused damage to the the exten
of about $1,000.
!, Jack" Keef, a local sport" wa
, fatally shot by Morgan Anderson in
! disreputable house in Wooster, Ohio, o
the the 28th ult.
: jefferson Riggle, a special Office
3 at the Union Depot, in Fort Wortt
: Texas, became violently maniacial 0
I the 2Sth ult. "He took charge of on
, room, aud kept everybody about til
depot terrorized. When a Missoui