The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-24

of the banks accounts showing a total
shortage Of Sos 1000. The other part
ner is IN Kansas. p. W. Chase, Sher-
In and Tax collector Of Concordia
Parish, Louisinia, is reported to be
short in his accounts" as collector
about $4,000. His bondsmen are con
sldered good.
Henry Bicknell, aged II years,
shot and killed his sister Matte, aged
IL, in Bangor Maine, on the 18th.
ale picked up a gun, and, not know.
ing That it was loaded, playfully point
ed it at his sister," etc. He bias become
insane from the shock.
"A house at Cloves Ranch, near
Pena., Texas, was struck by lightning
on the 14th, and four sleeping women
were killed.
Heavy rains fell during the 18th
and 10Th, FOYER two.thirds Of Kan
sas. Wind storms also ragged at seve-
raj places. AT Lakln twenty houses
we're demolished and ten or twelve
persons severely injured. At Nlcker,
son eighteen houses were blown down.
A winl storm in Kearney county,
Nebraska, on the 10th, blew down a
church, and killed a woman, Near
Mlnden, a farmer, his son, and his
daughter were killed by lightning.
1t is reported from Tombstone,
Arizona, that Prefect Oposura, Of
Sonora, Mexico, and four companions
were killed by Apaches last week while
on their way to examine mining pro-
perty neal that place. They had an
escort OF fifteen. The others escaped.
1t is said that eighty Indians were
seen in the fight.
M. B. Buskirk, a dry goods mer-
chant Of Clinton, Missouri, is reported
to have fed, taking with him all of his
available assets, amounting to about
$4,000, and leaving behind him debts
amounting to $4,000. Thomas White,
John Kelly and Louis 2. Saup were
arrested in Dayton, Ohio, on the 10th
on the charge of altering stolen United
States bonds.
AT Norridgewock, Main, two years
ago, Daniel DAVIS, who is a blacksmith
and minister, in obtaining for his octo-
genarian mothera pension, as the widow
of an 1872 soldier, made affidavit that
she had never married again. 1t was
discovered on the 10th that she had re-
married twice, and that n of the mar
riages had been solemnized by her son.
Davis was arrested on the 10Th but
escaped from custody.
Near Qu'Appelle, l n the North
west Territory, on the 18th, the Prince
Albert mail coach was stopped by a
man armed with a double barrelled
gun. After binding the driver and the
passengers he proceeded to open the
nail.bags until he found a registered
package said to have contained $50, 900,
| which he took and then decamped. 1t
is said he was accompanied by a gang
of six men from Montana. Lewis Dick,
farmer of Waikiki, New York, was re-
Gently paid $1,000, and kept the money
in his house. On the 10Th robbers en-
tered, drugged Dick and his wife and
two children, secured the money, set
FIRE to the house and fed. Fortunately,
the neighbors saw the flames and sue
ceeded in extjnguishlng them. The in
mates of the house were speedily re-
stored 10 consciousness, with the ex-
ception of Mrs. Dick, who is in a pre-
carious condition.
Six men are in Jail at Wyandotte,
Kansas, charged with having wrecked
a Missouri Pacific freight train, near
that place. on the mornining of April
10Th, during the strike. BY the wreck
two train men were killed. The al
legged wreckers are members of the
Executive Board of the Local Lodge
of the knights of Labor, and Hamilton,
the man who is represented as the ring
leader in the crime, is Chairman Of the
Board. The prisoners are: George
II. Hamilton, recently a special po-
liceman; Robert Geers, Nike Leary,
Fred. Newport, a car repalrer, G. j.
Lloyd, also a car repalrer, and William
J VosSen, employe of an ice firm. BY
secretly getting INTO the confidence of
the knights of Labor, Thomas Fur
long, a detective of the Gould railroad
system, has succeeded in getting the
confession OF Lloyd, and 1t is upon this
the arrests were made.
Michael Viergiven jumped off the
Vincent Place bridge, in Rochester,
New York, on the 10Th. He fell a
distance of 100 feet, and struck the
water with his back, but, as no bones
are broken, he is expected to re
cover. Henry G.. Shaffer, % years of
age, shot himself dead III Evansville,
Indiana, on the 10Th. lie left a note
to his employers saying ''he was short
Sl75 in his accounts, which his wife
would settle,
during a thunder storm on the
18Th, four Indians were killed and ten
injured by lightning on Red Lake Res
ervation in Minnesota. 1t is also re-
ported that a settler and his wife. on
Tnitf river, were killed III the same
way.