The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-17
OF THE WEE K

The wife of Asa Turpen, a farmer,
Of Gibson county, Indiana, on the Sth,
killed her infant and her seyen-year-0ld
daughter, and then committed suicide.
Before doing the deed she sent away
two children Of her husband by a
former wife.
"A telegram from Pittsburg says the
use of natural gas in the manufactures
of that city has done away with the
consumption Of 1884, $50 bushels of coal
a day. "In $50 working days, which
is considered a year by manufacturers,
the whole amount of coal displaced
would run up to At 100000 bushels.
Calculating 100 bushels to be an average
days output for a coal minor, it would
take 1900 coal miners to dig this coal,
but altogether the use of natural gas has
thrown about 5000 men out of work in
this region. 1t required the use OF 633
railroad cars to transport the coal.
Each of these, 80 feet in length, would
make a string more than three miles
long"
Six boilers at No. 3 colliery of the
Delaware and Hudson Coal Company,
at Plymouth, Penna., exploded on the
Sth. The boiler house was blown to
atoms and many buildings in the neigh
borhood were damaged. Edward
Scott, the fireman, was fatally scalded,
and Michael Gilligan, the engineer,
was seriously injured.
Typhoid fever is raging in the vii
lage Of Waterford, Racine county, Wis
consln. Fifty persons are sick of the
disease and four have died.
AT Plymouth, Massachusetts, on
the 9th, IN the Foley VS.. Nash-Rams-
dali case asking $4,000 DANCES fol-
causing the death of Mrs. Foley by an
error IN putting up a prescription, the
jury brought in a verdict awarding $500
damages to the plaintiff.
Ram set in on the 9th at Milwau-
kee, and is reported in other parts OF
Wisconsin, giving hope to a termlna-
tion of the great drought, AL the for
est fires in the northern part of the
State are extinguished. No rain las
fallen IN many parts of Wisconsin since
May 10th.
In Chicago, on the 8th, Mrs. mel.
lie" Z. Davis dressed herself in white,
lay down upon her bed, and shot her
self through the head with a revolver
She had a husband living in Boston
but had engaged herself to marry a
young man of Chicago. without the
previous formality of a divorce. 1t is
supposed that reflection upon the posi-
BILE consequences Of a blgamous mar
riage caused her to commit suicide.
Robert Ryan, aged 45 years, was
knocked down and killed by a street car
in Baltimore on the 10Th.
The Lindell Mills Of the Colorado
Milling and Elevator Company, at Fort
Collins, Colorado, were burned on the
10th. Loss $50 1000, insurance $25,0 900.
A fire at Tonawanda, New York, on the
10th, destroyed Strobel's eonfectiou-
ery, Vedder's harness shop, Dletrich's
saloon and restaurant, the Atlantic and
Pacific Tea Company's store. Sophia
Kettleman's saloon. Rlsin's paint and
paper store, and Hardleben's saloon and
barber shop. Total loss about $21 600,
insurance $1,000. The fire was started
by an explosion Of fireworks in Strobel's
confectionery. Flock s. Chapman's
planning mill and lumber yard and l.. &.
Conrad's carriage works and stables, in
Marysyille, Ohio, were burned on the
10th. Loss S27 .0C0. insurance $1,000.
"A storm having almost the violence
of q tornado visited Bloomington, ILL
nois, on the 9th. 1t lasted half an
hour, during which nearly one inch of
rain fell, and there was an appalling
electrical display. The wind blew from
the north. Trees were uprooted in all
directions. A storm at Clinton, Iowa,
on the 9th, damaged the National Bank
block and many other buildings, and
did great damage to the crops.
"A mad dog which had bitten Hugo
Lorey, a nine-year-old boy, and cleared
out a saloon was shot by two police
men IN Chicago ON the 9th. The boy
will probably be sent to New York to
receive the Pasteur treatment.
Near New London, Missouri, on the
Sth, A. w. Farmer and his SON Will
liam engaged in a drunken row with
pistolsn and fired about twenty shots at
each other. The father was shot six
times, the son three times, and the
latter is believed to be mortally
wounded. The fathers wounds are
dangerous. George w. 6hatterdon, a
prominent farmer, was shot dead by
his wife neal Grand Rapids, Michigan,
on the 9th. Proceedings for a divorce
. had been recently begun. Martin
/ O'Hare murdered his wife in Portland,
Maine, early on the 10th, and left her
nude body on the floor. lie was ar
rested.
The President has refused to rar-
don James Milton, a pension attorney,
who was convicted of receiving $500
from a pensioner for procuring his pen
sion, when the law allows only $40 for
such service. The President Las lar-
dOned r. Porter Lee. ex.President OF
the First National la k of Buffalo
serving a term III the penitentiary for
embeZZlement.
-R. W. Morrow, sheriff and tax col
lector for Howard and adjacent conn
ties, IN Texas, has disappeared, leaving
behind a wife and a deficiency in his
accounts of about $500. His Dondsmen
are good for the amount. Morrow was
under $1,000 bonds for killing Eugene
Coats near Station Station.
William irving, about as years of
age, committed suicide at Bridgeport,
Connecticut, ON the 10th by throwing
himself in front Of n train.
In New York, about half.past one
O'Clock on the 18th, a ''fair-faced'
man. about 30 years OF age, stopped in
front of a tenement on East Forty
seventh street and shot himself through
the forehead. lie was taken to the
hospital, where he died. Soon after
eight O'Clock a man about 55 years old,
without a hat, sat down on a low wall
at Twelfth avenue and One Hundred
and Third street, aud shot himself
through the mouth, dying instantly.
Neither suicide was identified. The
cause of self.destruction in both cases
seemed to be ''deStitution and general
Indebtedness" Adrian Crucy and
his wife, each about 50 years of age,
committed suicide by shooting them.
selves in the head, at their residence in
Lexington avenue, New York, ON the
18th. Crucy was a petroleum mer-
chant. Peter Van Pelt, So years o.