The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-18
NEWS OF WEEK

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Point Pleasant, W. Va, from the
southern point of jackson county, that
during the earthquake on the 3lst ult.,
a great rock, known as the "Bald
Rock" was loosened by the shock and
tumbled down. In it's course it crashed
through the barn and struck the house
where Cummings family were sleeping,
knocking the building off the founda-
ton and making it a complete wreck.
| Cummings and his wife were unlnjured,
but their son, aged IA, who was sleep
ing with Edward jerks, the hired man,
had his skull crushed. jerks was
slightly injured. Two mules in the
barn were instantly killed.
s.. S. Snodgrass, a farmer of Lam
caster, Penna., recently brought sc
Durham bulls from Chicago. and sold a
number of them to his ~neighbors. Four
have since died at Snodgrass' farm
from splenic apoplexy, and others are
very sick, while several deaths have oc-
CURED among the stock sold in the
neighborhocd. The disease is pro-
nolnced contagious, and the cattle
have been Guaranteed.
While playing with a revolver at
London, Ontario, on the 18th, George
Lewis, aged 10 years, accidentally
shot and killed George Bruce, aged
8. e. Hooper Phillips, ex-Mayor OF
Nashville, was accidentally shot dead
by a. companion while drunk at Min
Mile Lake, Dakota. on the 10th.
"A Canadian Pacific freight train
ran into a large boulder, ear Port
Portage, Manitoba, on the 10th. An
engine and four cars were wrecked
and two train hands killed. A collision
occurred on the 18th on the Burlington
and Northern Railroad at Potosi, Hi
nois. Two engines and several cars
were wrecked. Train Dispatcher
Hyde, of La Crosse, and several passen-
gers were injured. BY the misplace
ment of a switch on the New York and
New England Railroad, on the llth,
a train of three cars was thrown down
an embankment at Jewett City. Six
teen passengers were injured, none
dangerously.
"A fire at Freehold, New Jersey, on
the 18th, destroyed eight stores, Tay-
lor's Hotel and several outbulldings,
causing a loss estimated at $780,
600. Heidelbach's furniture factory in
Danville, Virginia, was burned on the
10th. Loss, S25, 600. G. w. Middlaugh, of
Toledo, Ohio, persisted in the factory.
The clothing mandatory and furnish
ing house of G. LaZard Il Co, i'll New
Orleans, was burned on the 18th. Loss,
SIS 5000. A fire in st. Johns, New
fo~undland, on the 10th, destroyed ten
tenement houses, making 80 persons
homeless.
The race between the Galatea ard
the Mayhower, On the 1lth, over the
ocean course, was won by the May
flower; so the America challenge cup
remains, after the seventh struggle for
its possession, on our side of the At
lantic. The Galatea was beaten about
two miles distance, and 29 minutes 9
seconds time.
During a corn cutting at Summer
vile, Missouri, on the 9th a free fight
took place, in which three men, named
Martin, Orchard and McCoskell, were
fatally wounded, and Il smith, named
Raider, received a dangerous wound.
Near S%culleyville, in the Indian Terri.
tory, on the 10th, Lewis Burrows, a
half breed, quarrelled with William
Morgan, white, about 20 cents. Finally
Burrows ''raised a sharp axe and struck
Morgan on the left shoulder with such
force that the blade cut into ms body
md split his heart OPEN" Morgan died
instantly. The body Of a woman, about
20 years of age, was found in a trunk
taken from a Wheeling and Lake Erie
train at Toledo, Ohio, or the 10th. A
-. o;,frv tIa "A "A of Il NJ lVIlgnn
Who held the check for the trunk at
Bellevue, was arrested.
Near st. Johns. Newfoundland,
recently, a berry.picking party of fo"r
women and a girl lost their way in the
woods during an evening storm. After
staying out all night they Travelled on
next day, not knowing IN what direc-
ton. Soon one of the women, Mrs.
Rose. became tired out and lay down.
Her companions, after remaining with
her awhile. went on. Then another
woman, Mrs. Clark, also lay down,
exhausted from fatigue, hunger and
exposure. The rest of the party re
NAMED with her until she expired.
They then made their way out 10 West
ern Bay, where they arrived the follow
ing afternoon. Search was made later
for Mrs. Rose, who was found dead.
"A heavy southwest gale, accom-
panied by rain and thunder, visited
| Coney Island on the evening of the 18th.
Awninge, signs, ETC., were blown away.
rhe glass pavilion, Friordy's pavilion,
Bad.r's, Perry's and other hotels were
damaged slightly. The new archway
and frame of the depot at the boulevard
terminus of the Sea Beach Railroad ex-
tension were leveled to the ground. A
severe storm passed over Westchester,
New York, on the 18th, destroying
trtts and buildings. At Williams
bridge a house in process of coEstruc-
ton was blown down, and a barn was
struck by lightning and burned. Fences
Mtre blown down, telegraph poles were
frustrated and several houses were
wrecked
Much damage was done in the
upper part of New York city on the
18th. Sings and awnings were torn
down and houses unroofed. The gale
was felt more generally in Manhattan
Vile. where several buildings were I'M
rooted ard one house entirely de-
molislled. No persons were injured.
Several Western Union and fire alarm
poles were torn down and thrown across
the streets. Lightning struck a num-
Der of houses, and at Manhattahville
several trees were levelled. Ia some
instances the electric currents came out
of the telephones several feet and were
accompanied with cracking sounds.
The practical termination OF the
morocco workers. strike IN Whining
ton, Delaware, began on the 18th. Inc
old employees of two OF the factories
went back to work by permission OF
the Executive Board of the knights OF
Labor, and it is believed the strike will
be ''formally declared off" in a day OF
two. The strike was begun last March
-Drexel Il Co., Treasurers for the
Charleston Relief Fund on the l5th'
acknowledged additional contributions
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