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

NEWS OF HI WEEh

NEWS OF THE EEh
The spinning mill of j, Meadow.
croft 81 Sons, Emerald and Sergeant
streets, Philadelphia, was burned on
the 23d. The machinery in the build
ing was valued at S25, 900, and most OF
1t will prove a loss. The damage to the
building is estimated at $1,000. In an
adjoining building stock was da mayed
TO the extent OF $1,000. The total in
surance is SIC, 600. The barn of Geo.
Lafferty, on Island road. was burned
ON the 23d. together with 26 cows and
7 horses. Loss, $4,000; no insurance.
William E. Nesson, aged 90 years,
attempted to kill his wife, aged 40, IN
New Orleans, Oh the I'D. He fired at
her and the bullet passed through her
wrist. His thirteen-year-old son rushed
in and caught his fathers arm, but a
second shot took off n of the boys
fingers and pierced his mothers breast,
making a probably fatal wound. Her
husband then placed the muzzle of his
revolver in his mouth and blew out
his brains. Jealousy was the cause.
He was three times married, and
leaves ten children, the youngest only
six months old.
John B~rockingtOn on the Odd was
crushed to death between two cars in
the penna. r.. r. Company in the yard
at Camden, Nj. An unknown man was
found dead on the 23d, on the railroad
track on Washington avenue, near
Twenty-second street, Philadelphia. A
savings bank book in the name Of John
MCCLELLAN, found near by, is supposed to
have belonged to the dead man.
Robert Fowler, convicted of the
murder of Miss Ida Burnett, was
hanged on the 23d at Morganield,
Kentucky. James Wassen and Joseph
jackson were hanged on the 23d at
Fort Smith, Arkansas, for murders
committed in the Indian Territory.
William Whitley. Associate Judge
of the Supreme Court, died OIL the 23d,
in Wilmington, Delaware, aged CT
years. lie served two terms in Con-
gress Just before the war, was a dele
gate to the Democratic National Con-
vention of 1860 and 1876, and Was
Mayor of Wilmington from 1875 to
1878. Father A. J. Ryan, the ''poet.
priest of the South" died in Louisville
on the 22d. He was 46 years of age.
Hugh Bailey, aged 10 years, has
been arrested at Kalamazoo, Michigan,
for attempting to wreck a train on the
| Michigan Central Railroad on the 14th
inst. He wrote a confession of his
crime. saying that she was led to the
act to redress the wrong his father had
- orn1 F.1na Ahn Ntahtuan lNnnirnI
through a refusal to pay for the burning
of sixty rods Of fence.o
"A special train on the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad on the 23d, col
lided with a freight train near Troy,
New York demolishing sever cars and
damaging several others. An engineer
named Bradshaw was dangerously if
not fatally injured. The passengers
and other railway employees were
severely shaken up.
In December last Horace Dubois
was struck by a freight train on the
Buffalo. New York and Philadelphia
Railroad, and injured so badly in the
head that he became a lunatic. Henry
Dubois, committee, brought SUIT
against the railroad company, 10 Buff
falo, for damages. and the jury on the
oath awarded him $40, 000.
A frame building erected on posts
at Alton, neal Bradford, Penna., and
used as sleeping quarters for laborers,
toppled over early on the oath and
caught fire from a lantern. Six men
we're burned to death and three others
badly injured.
Mrs. Sterling and her daughter
Emma were fatally burned in Chicago
on the Oath, by an explosion of coal oil,
while the elder was filling a Lighted
lamp. A servant girl named Whalen
also suffered from the inhalation of gas
and smoke. After several hours in.
tense suffering all died.
On the oath, a small boy dropped a
lighted cigar stump down the shaft of
the Rush Run Coal Company's mine,
fifteen miles north Of Wheeling, West
Virginia. The mine had been idle for
several weeks and vas full of fire damp.
In an instant there was a terrible tx.
plosion, flames shot out of the pit and
all the buildings around the mouth of
the shaft were destroyed, together with
several hundred feet of trestle work and
a quantity of coal.
George Grover and James Harri-
gan were drowned at Torbay, Nova ]
Scotia, on the 23d by the upsetting Of a
boat. |
Alfred II. Hahn, ex-County Audi
tor, who recently pleaded guilty to
seven indictments for forgery and lar
ceny, was sentenced in Easton, Penna.,
on the oath, to pay 500 fine and the
costs of the prosecution and to serve
four years in Jail.
The ~convicts in the penitentlary at
st. Vincent de Paul, Quebec. having !
by some means obtained possession of
some rifles and revolvers belonging to
the guards, reyOlted on the Oath. The
warden demanded their surrender, when
the prisoners opened fire on HIM and the
guards, and a desperate fight ensued.
which lasted eme time. The warden
received a bullet in the jaw, another
pierced his wrist, while a third entered
the abdomen. His wounds are very
serious, but hopes are entertained OF
his recovery. Chartrand, a guard, was
wounded in the leg, while several
others received wounds more or less
serious. A prisoner named C%orriveau
was shot dead, and five other prisoners
were wounded. None of the prisoners
escaped.
The mutilated bodies of a colored
man and a colored woman were dis
covered by two boys on the 23d in a
hogshead, which had been left in a
field near GAINESVILLE, Tennessee, by
the receding waters of the Cumber-
land river.
Near Port Monmouth, New Jer-
sey, early on the 23d, the wife of j.
Monroe Smith, being insane, killed her