The Penn's Grove record., 1886-05-15
NEWS OF THE WEEk.

AT InwoOd st ttion, near Plymouth,
Indiana, on the 9th, a wagon driven by
John Wymer, a young farmer, and con-
tanning his wife and two little daCgh-
ters, was struck by a train while cross
ing the railroad. Wymer and Il of
the children were killed, Mrs. Wymer
and the other child were mortally in
jured. Wymer had been cautioned
about the danger of crossing.
The Nova Scotia Assembly on
the Sth discussed q resolution favoring
separation from Canada. The reso-
luton was finally carried by a vote of
10 to 6.
Frank Benoit's farm house near
jackson, Minnesota, was burned on the
It'll, and his three children, aged from
one to five years, persisted IN the flames.
The boiler in Dana's saw mill, near
Richmond, Missouri, exploded OH the
9Th, killing the proprietor and NOR
tally iuiuring two other men.
"A fire at Honolulu, on April 6th
destroyed eight squares of buildings,
covering sixty acres of the Chinese
quarter. About 5000 persons were
made homeless. The loss is estimated
at $1,000, coo, the insurance at $3.50
700. Two lives were lost,
1t is believed that the great fire in
Hull; Ontario, on the 9th was the work
of an mcendlary. at appears that
Alderman L~aindrey, ON the roof Of
whose bakery the flames were first dis
| covered, made not a few enemies in the
discharge of his Aldermanic and other
duties, and it is alleged that some one
of these did the mischief"
"A tornado passed through Wayne
county, Indiana. on the evening of the
9th, leiTelling houses and everything
else in its path, and destroying many
thousands of dollars worth of stock.
! Two men and a woman are reported 10
have been killed. a house i'll Burllng-
ton, Iowa, was struck by lightning on
the afternoon of the 9th, and II man
was killed, another being severity in
jured. A violent thunder storm d d
damage estimated at $4,000 in OSca-
~lOosa, Iowa, on the 9th.
Two breaks have occurred in the
levee at BayvIlle. Louisiana, doing
great damage in and around the town.
ALL the railroads in Chicago re-
sumed operations on the 10th, the strike
OF the freight handlers having collapsed.
Work was resumed on the 10th in all
the principal sash, door and blind fac
tories in Chicago on the basis of eight
hours work and nine hours pay. Work
was also resumed in al, the north and
south side lumber mills on the cid
basis of ten hours work for ten hours
Epay. The great lumber yards, planning
mills and box factories in the west
division of the city, however, remain
closed. These combined interests en-
ploy 5000 men and boys.
"A fire IN Gainesville, Florida,
on the 10th, destroyed all the buildings
on the south side of the square, causing
a loss of $50, 900. David Little's cigar
factory, at ~Strasberg, near Lancaster,
Penna., was destroyed on the 10th
by an incendiary fire.
fen children in Brookville, Penna.,
were poisoned on the 9th by eating
snake-root, in mistake for sweet myrTh,
and it is feared one of them will die.
Prank Slipp, l~etter-carrier. was ar
rested in Buffalo on the 10th, on the
charge of robblng the mails, and held
in S.. 1000 bail.
Mrs. j. Stramann attempted to kill
her daughter in West Denver, Colorado,
on the 10th. and then killed herself.
She is believed to have been insane.
DR.. Frederick n. Palmer, a well-known
homeopathic physician of Boston, aged
70 years, while on the way to Portland
on the 10th, jumped from the steamer
- H. 18Th h1a ENatV xraar old
grandson in his arms. The bodies were
not recovered.
Robert Wright was shot dead in
Elizabeth, Colorado, on the 10th, by a
woman from Denver, whom he had be-
trayed.
John Baum, alias John Hugg, ar
rested for the murjerOus assault upon
George Co E, Jr., at Englewood, New
Jersey, has made a confession. Coe is
now expected to recover.
1t has now been a~scertained that of
the Polish and Bohemian rioters who
drank supposed whisky when they
sacked the drug store in Chicago on the
9Th, eight have died and four others
are in a dying condition. There are
probably others who will not be heard
of. 1t appears that the principal drug
swallowed by them was wine OF colchi-
cum, which resembles sherry, and has
a strong smell of alcohol. 1t is an al
most certainly fatal poison when taken
in quantities larger than a t~taSponfu'.
"A tornado at Leavenworth, Kan
sas. on the 1ltb, damaged three large
buildings, one OF them a school house.
No one was injured in the school house,
but a man was dangerously injured in
another building. Eight barns were
demolished and two bridges washed
away a short distance from the city.
Charles j. Bguschke, furniture
manufactured in-Chicago, on the 18th
attempted 10 arrest a striker who was
one of a group surrounding men who
had returned TO work in his factory.
Bruschke, as well as a number of
his men, had been sworn in as special
policemen. A scuflle followed, in
which Buuschke was knocked down.
Struggling to his knees, he fired at four
men who lai assaulted him, seriously
wounding TWO Of them, named Adler
and Wagse'ler. The latter is not
expected TO recover.
An engine on the Albany ana SuS-
quehanna Railroad exploded at Che
nerus, New York, on the 11th, killing
James Gleason, the engineer, and
iDiuring the fireman.
The stables and Out-houses on the
farm of Elizabeth Eshleman, in Eden,
township, Lancaster county, Penna, ,
were fired by lightning on the 9th, with
six head Of stock. Loss, $4,000.
Rabbi Isidore Kulish died on the
18th in Newark, New Jersey, aged 20
years. lie W S author Of many works
of Hebrew literature. Josiah w. Pres
ton, a well-known member of the