The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-14

positively that Governor Maceyra has
ordered the Paso del NOrte authorities,
in case Of attack from Texas, to cut
off the prisoners head and deliver 1t to
the Americans" Eight hundred Mex
iean troops are said to have left Lagos
for Paso del Norte on the Sth. 1t Is
asserted that a second demand has been
made, and that the American officials
have been notified to leave Mexico, but
Consul Brigham does not confirm this
rumor. Cutting, it is reported, has
been called before the Court in Paso
del Norte, and Consul Brigham is in
attendance. The war feeling on both
sides OF the border has a disastrous
effect on business,
Ten new cases or typhoid fever
were reported on the 9th in Pittsburg,
and one in West Elizabeth.
-Advices from Yokohama to July
D, received in San Francisco, report
the cholera raging in that place and
Toxic. In Yokohama the type Of the
disease was the worst ever known
there. Between the 18th and Goth ut,
the cases averaged over 100 daily, the
deaths 80. The better classes, native
as well as foreign, were comparatively
exemDt from the disease.
Sheldon & Co.'s elevator, at Eggle-
ston, Minnesota, was burned on the
9TH. The burning debris fell upon the
railway track, and the up-freight train
was thrown from the track after the
engine had passed, and seventeen cars
loaded with merchandise, machinery
and ties were burned. Of nine tramps
who were in a box car, four were
burned to death and three dangerously
injured.
The single scull race between Han
Ian, Ten Eyck, Hosmer and Mckay,
for a purse of $110O-7U0 to first, $500
to second and 500 to third-a mile and
a half with turn, was rOwed off Nan
tasket on the evening of the 9th.
Hanlan won. The time was as fol-
lows: Hanlan 81 minutes, 55 seconds;
Mckay, % minutes, 8 seconds; Ten
Eyck, % minutes, 6 seconds. Hosmer's
time was not taken.
Mrs. Mary johnson was beaten
with a club by two boys, named James
and John Lynn, IN lizard county,
Arkansas, on the 9th, and SO badly in.
iured that her recovery is doubtful.
The assault was an outcome of an old
feud. AT Birdseye, Dubois county,
Indiana, on the LIST instant, two men
named Faultz and Waller were waylald
and shot by Thomas Hobbs and his son
while going home from a picnic. FaultZ
was xii ed and Waller so badly wounded
that he died next day. A mob of citi-
zens hunted down the murderers,
hanged them to a tree and riddled their
bodies with bullets. A feud had ex-
isted for some time between Waller
and Hobbs.
The brewery of thinner, Herman
& Co., near Woodstock, Illinois, vas
burned on the 10th. Loss $40, 900; in
surance $4,000. A block of build
ings in the centre of Sault Ste. Marie,
Michigan, comprising hotels, stores
and dwellings, vas burned on the 9th.
The loss is heavy.
"A meteorologist named Foster
makes the announcement IN the Bur-
lington Hawkeye that zone of the
greatest storm periods of 1886 will be-
gin OA hhS uob lOJn anu COill1iluC iii
the 9th, during which The great
drought will be completely broken by
heavy rains, hail and tornadoes and
heavy gales. A tropical hurricane on
the southeast Atlantic coast between
the 10th and goth. These storms will
be general, and FIowa, Illinois, New
England States, Eastern Canada and
Labrador Will be in the danger path.
Vivid sun spots from the 18th to oath,
brilliant auroras on the Goth and 23d."
"A Cincinnati midnight express,
south bound, and a freight train, north
bound from Louisville, colllded near
sulphur station, on the Louisville and
Nashville road, on the 10th. Frank
Weber was killed, and A. S. Hool.
postal clerk, and j. i, Taylor, a con-
ductor, were fatally injured.
Captain Frank d. Longsford
started from Gloucester, Massachusetts,
on the 9th, to capture Swordish. He
harpooned one, which rose to the sur
face and drove its sword through the
boat, penetrating the abdomen of the
Captain. He will probably die" Reu-
ben Bruow, II years of age, was found
dead upon the railroad track at Cerro
.Gordo, Illinois, on the 9th. a Coro-
ner's jury found that the boy had picked
up a torpedo, such as used by railroad
men when laying new rails, and expIo-
ded it with "a brick. A large piece of
the exploded shell was found embedded
in his heart.
Francis Hupgerford, 70 years of
age, was lodged in the prison at Little
Rock on the 9th for cOunterfeiting.
His wife attempted to shoot the officers
who arrested him.
Frank Thomas, a contractor, was
shot dead by Thomas Null, a planter,
at Holly Grove, Arkansas, on the 9th.
They quaTTelled about some work done
by Thomas for Null, and "the lie was
passed" At Oxford, Mississippi, on
the 8th, ii. NJ. sullivan, Secretary of
the Board of Trustees of the State
University, was shot dead by j.. NJ.
Hovey, Law Professor in the same uni
verslty. THE cause of the difficulty
IS said to be differences that have ex-
listed for some time between the Pro-
fessors and Trustees.n John Bochow
On tHc lOlu SHOI anu hllltu HIS step
daughter, Mrs. IIehneke, and then
committed suicide, near Stanton, Ne
braska. Jealousy was the cause.
John w. Stevenson, Ex-Governor
of Kentucky, died on tie 10th, in
CovlngtoD, aged 70 years. DIR. John
Maclean, ex-President of the College of
New Jersey, died on the 10th at Prince
ton, in his S7th year. Ex-Judge For
syth. of Troy, died suddenly IN New
York City on the 10th. lie was
.GS years of age. Rev. A. a. Whitmore
fell dead IN the pulpit Of the Congrega-
tional Church, at Ante, Iowa, on the
sth. after lie had uttered the words,
at is true we have passed from death
unto life" lie was 60 years of age.