The Penn's Grove record., 1886-05-01

Fish House, on the 25th. The body o
Ulysses G. Thompson, 10 years of age
was found in the Delaware, at Chest
nut Street wharf. Philadelphia, on thu
oath. He was drowned in November
last.
The existence of a gang of tramps
and horse thieYes Is reported in Grant
county, Wisconsin. "Horses, cattle,
sheep and hogs have been stolen fl
great number, and in but few instances
recovered. The band of outlaws are
believed TO have headquarters in a hut
at a secluded spot ON the Wisconsin
river, and ale creating great terror by
compelling women and children to yield
to their demands and helping them
selves TO property, A posse of men
armed with muSkets and headed by
officers are on their track"
"A freight train on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad was thrown from the
track while rounding a bluff nea Wy
andotte, Kansas, on the 26th. Ben
jamin Horton, fireman, and George
Carlysle, brakeman, were killed, and
]. II. Fowler, engineer, who jumped
from the train, was severely injured.
The disaster was caused by some viii
lains pulling spikes out of the ties and
taking fish plates off the rails. Just be-
fore the disaster the engineer saw sew
eral men standing in a group, ''appar-
emily watching for something to hap
pen." After the disaster ''three men
were seen going rapidly up the track
after the accident, and, refusing to
halt, were fired upon by the Waterman
and deputies, but without effect, and
the fugitlves made for the woods and
escaped" Mr.. Hoxie has offered a re-
ward of $2500 for the arrest of the
wreckers.
"A tornado neal KiIlear, Texas, on
the 25th, demolished two dwellings, in
juring several persons and killing a
baby. IIallstones as large as hens
eggs fell during the storm. A deItruc-
tive storm Of wind, rain and hail swept
over Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the
same evening. Buildings were unroofed
and stables and shops blown down,
but no lives are reported lost.
"A telegram from Asbury Park,
New Jersey, says the Coroner does not
consider 1t necessary to hold an inquest
iu the case of the child killed by
its insane mother, Mrs. Smith, near
Port Monmouth, ON the 23d. The
other children are slowly improving.
The mother, who took poison, is still
living, but her recovery is considered
impossible.
A tolaorapo FROM, Gnoumac Iav;no
to the San Francisco Call reports that
"Geronimo's band attacked ranches
lea Imuris, completely destroying all
the buildings at Casita, a small way
station, near Imuris, on tue Sonora
railroad, killing fifteen persons, all
Mexlcans. A company OF soldiers
were sent after them. Two soldiers
were killed. The Indians were moving
in the direction of Naeori, in the Sierra
Madre Mountains"
Andrew Jackson, "A years of age,
committed spiGide by jumping from a
sixth. story window in New York on
the 26th. He had been sick and de-
spondent.
George Z. Graham, ''evangelistn
and wife murderer, was forcibly taken
from the jail at Springfield, Missouri,
on the 9th, and lynched by an armed
mob. Two men, who stole a team of
horses from a widow recently, were
caught and lynched by Vigilants in
Carroll county, Arkansas.
Three men got on an Illinois Cen
trail passenger train at Cairo on the
25th, and robbed several of the passen-
gers. Two of the fellows were caught
and identified. 1t is reported that one
of the passengers was shot. The Ore
gon House, a frame structure, in Butte,
Montana, was destroyed on the 25th,
by an i%ncendiary fire. A fo%ur-year-old
boy was burned to death, and several
boarders were severely injured. Nine
hundred dollars were stolen from a
trunk by the supposed incendiary.
Mrs. James Monroe Smith, who
murderously assaulted her children and
took poison Lear Port Monmouth,
New Jersey, on the 23d, died on the
morning Of the 9th. The children
are still living, and may recover, ex-
cept Rufus, the son, whose death is
momentarily expected.
"A man about 80 years of age,
the name of John Young, was
found on the Goth in Wells Valley,
near McCounellsburg, Penna., many
cled and wounded" He refused to
answer any questions, and was lodged
the Fulton county Jail.
County Treasurer Holllngsworth,
at Vincennes. Indiana, has been COM
to Jail in default of bail for
embezzlement. He Is ''short" about
ss0, 200.
The leyee at Austin, Mississippi,
City miles south of Memphis, broke on
The 9th. This, it is said, will cause
the inundation of portions of several
counties in Mississippi. Breaks are
reported in the levees in other places
near Sunhower Landing and FrIar's
Heavy freshets are reported in
The rivers in Arkansas.
David II. ,,Leedom, Assessor of New
ton Township, Bucks county, renna.,
died ON the Goth. At the same time
his brother in-law, Il. G. Kelly, Asses
sor of the borough ''was taken violent
ly insane from worrying over the duties
of his office in connection with the new
tax law"
"A telegram from Salem, Dakota,
heavy rain all day on the 25th,
followed by snow on the 26th. The
is nearly three inches on a level.
At Bijou Basin, Colorado, on the
23d, while Mrs. NJ. V. Sides was dress
ing her babe, she asked Edward
Mackay,'a friend who was visiting her,
for the loan of a pccketknife. He IN
buckled his cartridge belt to get at his
when his revolver dropped
TO the floor and went off, and the bullet
passed through the woman's heart,
her Instantly.