The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-30
NEWS OF THE WEEK

-The Canada Paper Company's
Works at windsor, Canada, was burn
ed on the 21st. Loss 5000, coo. Three OF
the workmen were badly scorched by
the flames. The contents of Jacobs
lumber yard and the warehouse of the
American Varnish Co, in Chicago were
damaged by fire to the extent of $780,
600 on the 22d. Three employees of the
varnish company were dangerously in
iured. The large barn of Sylvester
Kennedy, in Salisbury township, Lam
caster county, Penna., was burned on
the 22d, with a horse, three cows and
all the seasons crops. Loss, $1,000,
The fire was of i~ncendiary origin.
Calklins Il Cos. planning mill at
Tonawanda, New York, was burned
on the 21st. Eight cars of lumber on
adjacent railway sidlngs were also de-
stroyed. The loss on the mill is $780,
600, The Binkley House, at Sherman,
Texas, was destroyed on the morning
of the 21st, before daylight. by an in
cendiary fire. The flames broke out
simultaneously in the second and third
stories. There were owe three hundred
boarders In the houseall Of whom escaped
alive, but four of them were injured,
and one Of the latter, George Sheppard.
of Chicago. died ina few years. The
loss on the building and furniture is
$40, 600; insurance $4,000.
John S. Kerr and W. 2. Kerr,
brothers, quarrelled at Elk Mountain.
Wyoming, on the 21st. w. z. shot
John in the leg, and John returned the
fire, causing a mortal wound. W. Z.
Kerr had betrayed his brothers wife.
The wives of two Bohemian farmers,
who lived nine miles from Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, were murdered on tie
21st, by a Bohemian, who cut open
their heads with an axe.
1t is estimated at The Treasury De.
partment that the ultimate issue OF the
new one and two dollar certificates may
aggregate $50, 600 900, and of the five
dollar silver certificates $50, 900 DOC.
It Leavenworth, Kansas, on the 22d
Silas Lafferty %quarrelled with his wife,
beat her until she became senseless,
and then poured half a gallon of coal
oil owe her clothing and set it on fire.
A neighbor, who saw the flames
through a window, ran to her rescue
but too late to save her. Lafferty e3-
capped. Near Boonsboro', Missouri,
for some time past, a gang Of colored
roughs have been committing depre-
dations. On the night of the 22d a
mob of citizens went to the house of
William Cooper, leader of the gang,
and fired into it, killing Cooper and
~severealy wounding Stephen Fox.
John and Lot Renen, accused of muir
der, were lynched at Bloutstown, Flor
ida on the 23d. On the 23d, as a pas
senger tram from Coalport for Cresson,
Penna., was on Its way down the grade
half way between the two places, the
engine jumped the track and went over
a steep embankment, turning twice
over in its descent. killing the fireman
and lnjuring the engineer. The pas
senger cars remained on the track. AS
far as can be learned spikes had been
placed in a frog at that point by some
m~iscreants.
"A passenger train on the Detroit,
Grand Haven and Milwaukee Railroad
on the 23d, ran into an open switch at
Royal Oak, about eight miles from
Detroit, and collided with a he willy
loaded freight train. Engineer Angus
tus Odell, of the passenger train, and
his fireman, Thos. Barrett, Jumped off,
after vainly trying to stop the train,
and were badly Injured. Simultaneous
with the collision, which teiescoped the
baggage car and one freight. car, the
,ritn.1or baodo bIam off and fha pSpob-
ing steam added terror to the scene.
Both engines were completely wrecked.
Baggagemen John Hennessy and Tnos.
S. Alexander were buried under the
fragments Of the baggage car, and so
terribly burned that their recovery IS
doubtful. The engineer of the freight
train was severely scalded.
John T. Mullen, clerk of election
in a precinct OF the First Ward IN Cnl-
caeo, ys~was drunk on registration
day, was on the 23d sentenced by Judge
PIendergast to the county jail for fifty
days for contempt of court.
Miss SaTie McGrath, a niece of the
well-known turfman, Price McGrath,
was burned to death in Lexington,
Kentucky, on the oath, by her clothes
ca ching fire from a crate. Her sister,
Belle, IVES severely burned while trying
to put out tie flames.
There has been no earthquake
shock at Char.ston since the night of
the 22d. but a slight shock, preceded
by detonations, was felt at Summer
vile on the morning of the oath, at
ten minutes past II O'Clock. Zone Sc
rious result of the shock at Summer
vile on the 22d is a general rise OF
water in wells. One case at Summer
Vile Depot shows that the water rose
"a feet; the general average was from
6 to S feet. In a special instance the
water rose 10 feet in a well, remained
at that height several hours and then
fell five feet. Observations also show
that the water extended almost inva-
richly from assures or geysers made on
the night of August 31st."
-Hicklin j. Landers, confidential
clerk of two pork-packing firms of
indianapolis and senior member of
another firm, disappeared on the 22d,
and is reported to be a forger and
defaulter for about $4,000. William
HohBgrau, bookkeeper and cashier for
a jewelry firm in Chicago, is missing,
and said to be $4,000 ''short in his
accounts"
The Standard, of Buenos Ayres.
South America, publishes an account
of losses caused to stock owners by a
recent drought in the "upper country
More than 20, 1000, 600 sheep have died
of a lung and throat disease formerly
unknown on the plains, and the loss
is estimated at nearly $50, 10000.
AT West Randolph, Vermont, on
the 25th, Cassius Morse, aged 20 years,
struck T.. NJ. Davis on the head with
an axe, inhicting a wound of wslch he
died soon after. Davis was an attend
ant on young Morse, who had recently
been under treatment in an Insane asy-
Ium. Otto Hillig, a farmer, was shot
and fatally wounded near Lebanon,
Missouri, on the oath, by Charles Mo
lot, the 12-year. old son of a neighbor,
Young Molot was throwing stones at
Hillig's two little daughters, when