The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-17

the liquid into Jones' face. After watch
ing the sufferIngs Of his victimfo: some
time, Duvall went to the edge CT the
cliff, where there is a descent of three
hundred feet, and shooting himself in
the head, fell to the bottom. He was
picked up ~senseless, and cannot survive.
Should Jones recover he will be totally
blind. About a year ago Duyalps wife
procured a divorce and married Jones
the same day. All three are under 30
years of age.
a colored camp meeting at Hook
Town, Kentucky. broke up on the 18th,
in "a general row." in which one man
was killed, and three others were NOR
tally wounded. Mrs. George Harris
has been arrested in Rushville, Illinois,
for killing her husband on the 1lth by
striking him IN the temple with an iron
harrow. She is believed TO be insane.
"A destructive thunder storm passed
over Dixon, Illinois. on the 18th. Great
damage was done to crops of all kinds,
fruit being entirely ruined. Telephone
and telegraph wires were levelled and
buildings blown down throughout the
county. The storm on the 9th, neal
KankAkee. Illinois, did great damage
over a path several miles in width. The
chief agent of destruction was hail,
which cut off corn, oats and timothy
close to the ground. Hundreds Of win
dows were smashed, houses were IN
rooted and stock killed. n man was
killed by lightning and a woman seri-
ously injured.
Mrs. Mudgett's clearinghouse in
Chicago was burned just before daylight
on the 18Th. 1t is supposed the flames
were started by the over-turniDg Of a
~coal-oil lamp in the hall by rats. To
escape death from the flames the fol-
lowing persons jumped from a second
story window and were injured: Mr.. G..
C. Roberts, Parepa Roberts, Pauline
Roberts aud Mrs. H.. A. Gilbert, The
l~atter's injuries are dangerous T. r..
Morris livery stable, in Chicago, was
burned on the 18th. Peter Smith and
bis wife, Peters cousin, Charles Smith,
and James Flannery, employees of Nor
ris, and lodging over the stable, had to
jump out of the second-story window.
Charles Smith had his back broken.
He was taken to the hospital, where it
was said he could not recover. Peter
Smith had his leg broken and was seri.
ously injured Internally. Mrs. Smith
and Flannery also have broken limbs.
Eleven horses were burned to death.
Colonel William II. Glider. who
intended to leave New York on the
18th for a trip to the North Pole
did not start because he was detained
on a charge preferred by a Miss Dolly
Adams, of stealing a $1,000 bond, which
she alleges that she gave him in 1888.
and which he never returned. Glider
said he left the bond with Body,
Mcclellan & Co., on Broadway. Soon
after the Colonel sailed for China.
Before sailing he had borrowed money
from Body, Mcclellan & Co. He pre-
sumed that the bond would remain in
their custody, but, while away, the firm
sold If. He admitted that he never
made restitution for the bond, but
claimed that he had been unable to see
the plaintiff since May. 1885. Glider
was held in $500 bail and locked up in
default.
Justin Matthew's, aged II years.
Albert Matthews, aged 10, and Rufus
Allen, aged IS, were drowned in High
land Lake, Name, on the 18th, by the
upsetting of an overballasted sail boat.
The boiler of the National Flour
ing Mills in Parsons, Kansas, burst on
the 18th, killing two men. A portable
engine on a farm at Alton junction,
Illinois, exploded on the 18th, injuring
five men, three of them mortally.
Thirty horses IN the neighborhood
of L.illey, Illinois. are suffering from a
disease resembling CHAMBERS.
"A cloud of gr~asshoppers settled on
a wheat field near SanborD, Dakota, on
the 18th, land in a very short time
cleared fifty acres of every vestige of
greenness.o
Samuel L. Brown killed himself in
a barn near indianapolis ON the 18th,
because the family of his sweetheart
opposed his marrying her.
The convicts employed at the Dade
coal mines, nea Chattanooga, about
200 in number, have revolted and en-
trenched themselves in a building, re-
fusing to surrender. They are sur
rounded by guards with the intention
of starving them out. Troops are held
in readiness. at Atlanta, to be sent to
the scene if necessary.
Augustus o. Brewster, a we'll
known criminal lawyer and politician
OF Boston, formerly District Attorney,
was arranged in that city on the 18th
on a charge of forgery. He was held
in $1,000 bail.