The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

1 $50 -
Andrew Allen, DIR. Craik and A. Dawes
of Montreal; Senator C~ochrane, of
Compton, and S. J, Hill, Of st. Paul.
The cost of the herds foot up $500, 900.
An accident occurred on the Mar
row Guage Railroad near Brattleboro,
Vermont, on the 18th. A bridge over
the West river, sixty feet above the
water, broke under the weight of
a mixed train, and the cars went down
with the structure. Two men were
killed a even injured.
George Smelling, Treasurer of the
Lowell B~leachery, in Boston, was ar
bezzling $4,000 of the company's
funds. He was placed under $780, 0O
bonds.
Graham successfully navigated
the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls
on the 10Th with his head protruding
from the barrel. James Scott, a fish
erman, of Lewiston, attempted to
swim the whirlpool rapids in a cork
suit, His dead body was picked up at
Lewiston one hour later.
Louis Hilbert was stabbed and
killed by William Watkins, in the
Aurora Distillery, at Aurora, Indiana,
on the 10Th. Watkins was arrested,
but shortly afterward was taken from
Jail and hanged to the shafting in the
distillery. Watkins had demanded
time from Hilbert, which the latter re-
fused. Robert Harmon, colored, beat
his wife to death on the 10th, at their
home neal Prosperity, South Carolina.
The Acting Comptroller of the
Currency on the 10Th authorized the
First National Bank of Worthington,
Minnesota, to begin business with a
capital of $4,000.
The Acting Secretary of the Treas
ury, on the 10Th, issued a call for S15,-
600, 900 of the three per cent. loan of
1882. 1t VIII mature October 1st
VIM. II. League, Is years old. was
at the house of relatives in Baltimore
on the 10Th, and while playing said he
was tired of life. He walked into a
shed and shot himself III the head. The
wound is thought to be mortal.
"A verdict of guilty of murder, with
the penalty of death, was rendered
against all the Anarchist prisoners III
Chicago on the Goth, except Neebe.
who was given fifteen years. imprison-
ment.
William p. White, a vel. known
insurance man of Baltimore, was ar
rested on the goth on the charge of
having embezzled $500 belonging to
the Western Assurance Company, Of
Toronto, Canada. A civil writ vas also
served on him for the recovery of the
money. William E. lowering, a young
man, collection clerk for Wilson, Col
ston & Co., bankers of ,BaftIme:s., was
arrested on the goth OH the charge of
failing to account for $500 collected.
lowering has been prominently con-
nected with a leading church.
The Chicago police on the Goth,
found two bombs on the tracks of the
Lake Shore Company at the stock yards.
They were about as large and nearly as
round as a base ball.
"A despatch from Nogales, An
IONA, says: News has been received of
the destruction of the town of Sarie,
in Sonora, by foods, on the 18th and
18th. The place had a population of
TOO. Not a house was left standing.
No estimate of the damage or loss of
life is given. Mrs. Beach, her little
son, and another lady, went to the
river at Dallas, Texas, on the 1eth to
battle. When they reached the river
they found a man sitting on the bank,
and allowed the boy to go in bathing,
but did not go Ill themselves. The
boy got beyond his depth, when The
mother plunged in to rescue him. Her
struggles were Intellectual. and the man
on the bank went to the rescue of
mother and son. He was also caught
by the current and carried down, all
three being drowned before assistance
could reach them. While running to a
fire in Wilmington, Delaware, on the
10Th, John II. Dickinson was seized
with a hemorrhage and died in five
minutes.
"A tom has been raging at Gal.
weston since the 10th. On the Goth all
communications by telegraph and rail
had been cut off. The water, as in 1885,
extends twelve miles inland, also cut
ting off communication with Virginia
Point. On the Goth a telegram was
received at New Orleans saying. The
city has been flooded all day. About
two feet of water is nov on the Strand
going toward the beach. The water
gets deeper and deeper. AT tie beach
It is over fifteen feet deep. Houses are
floating through the streets near the
beach," AT last accounts the water
was subsidIng. Six persons are reported
to have been drowned. kilograms
from Sabine Pass. Texas, say that town
is covered with water TO the depth of
two feet.
-Four MASKED men entered the
house of Farmer William Manning, in
Shenango Township, Pa, on the 10Th,
and at the point of a revolver compelled
him to surrender $1,000, which he had
collected the day before.
"A despatch from Elmira, New
York, says: Ebert z. Cook, who was
president of the Cook Il Hackett bank,
of Havana, New York, and who some
time age embezzled all the available
funds of the bank, went to BuenOs
Ayres, where he was joined by his wife
and four daughters. A young man
named Gluck, from Indianapolis, an
Inmate of the family, on July 18th,
shot and killed Mr.. Cook, and also his
daughter, Thankful. Gluck then beat
Mrs. Cook on the head with the butt
of the pistol until she was insensible,
and then committed suicide by taking
chloroform. 1t is supposed he was in
sane.
Isaac and solomon ID. Frank, deal
ers in cattle, at West Point, Mont
gomery county, Pa, have failed, with
liabilities, so far as known, about Sl3,-
600; assets, about $4,000. The members
of the firm have been missing since the
18th.
The assignment of $. r. Payson,
which was filed IN Boston on the 10th,
shows the assets to be over 81, 200, 900,
as against liabilities of S350,000. The
assignment covers all of Payson's real
and personal property.
The business failures occurring
during the past seven days number for
the United States 161 and for Canada
i0S N, a fatal af 1SR nc Qnmnarad NTH