The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-19
NEWS OF THE WEEP

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The Tunnel Colliery, at Ashland,
Penna., after a three months Suspen-
sion, caused by the caving il Of the
fan-way, resumed operations On the
10th. with 300 men and boys.
The Secretary of State has received
information that there is unusual
activity among Mormon missionaries
throughout Switzerland. In 1885 there
were in Switzerland % elders, l 6priests,
"a teachers, IL servants and oil men,
bers, and 95 converts were baptized
and % emigrated TO Utah. Scarcely
any Roman Catholics are numbered
among the converts, nearly all of whom
are Protestants. sit IS stated by the
press that in the cases of the depart.
ures of the newly converted saints for
Utah, all possible means are resorted
to conceal their destination, and thus
to avoid their detention by the local
authorities"
Telegraph operators at Sandy Hook
and the Quarantine Station in New
York bay, report that they felt quite a
severe shock of earthquake at mid
liBhus vi ZIG 1ltus 4Io DduuJ 1AOOh
Lighthouse was shaken, and its win
dows were ratified.
"A fire in Litchfeld, Connecticut,
on the 18th, destroyed the Court
House, the Mansion House, the En-
guirer office, Cooley's Hotel, and
twelve stores, causing a loss of $780,
COG. Firstbrook Brothers, box fac
tory, in Toronto, was burned on the
18th. Loss 100000.
William Ross, a young farmer, of
Dane Station, neal Madison, Wiscon.
sin, has just got into trouble by being
san interested reader of sensational
literature" Several nights ago she
entered the station equipped with
sombrero, mask and spur. and CON-
PEELED the agent to deliver up the con-
tents of his money drawer" The agent
recognized Ross voice and had him ar
rested.
Several vessels were wrecked in
the harbor of Valparaiso, Chill. during
a ''norther" on the 18th and thirteen
lives were lost. Henry Killian and
James Ward, young men, were drown
ed at Muscatine, Iowa, on the 18th by
the upsetting of a skiff. William Hut
Crimson, aged 35 years, captain of the
canal boat Isaac D~ougherty, lying at
the foot of Pacific street, Brooklyn,
and his wife Matilda, were discovered
on board the boat on the
18th by a policeman. 1t appears that
Hutchinson went into the forward part
of the boats hold for a rope, when he
was overcome by gas escaping from the
bilge. His wife came in answer to his
cries and she was also overcome by the
gas An ambulance was summoned,
but both were dead when it arrived.
"A wind storm at CrookSton, Min
nesota, on the 11th, blew down the
Germania Hotel and wrecked the
Catholic church. The front of the
House was also blown out.
In the Germania Hotel eight persons
were injured. A tornado in the vi
cinity of Valley City, Dakota, on the
18th, demolished a large windmill and
other damage. No loss of life is
reported.
The earthquake shock reported at
Sandy Hook and Quarantine Island
on the 18th was felt at several other
places along the New Jersey coast.
At Asbury Park the shock lasted two
minutes and was accompanied by a
rumbllng noise. Houses were shaken
and pictures on the wall swung to
and fro.
While a new frame barn was being
raised in Union Township, Adams
county, Penna., on Saturday, it cell
injuring Andrew Sell, Henry
HarIlZ and J. Lohr. Sell and Harris
have since died. and Lohr's recovery is
doubtful
Mrs. Andrew Doran, her seven
year-old son, and Miss Laura Keefer, |
all of New York, were drowned on the
18th by the capsizlng of a sail boat on
the Hackensack river.
"A four.story boarding house at
Ninth and Olive streets, st. Louis, COL
lapsed on the 18th, from the effect of |
an excavation for a cellar in an adioin-
ing lot. Several persons were in the
house when it fell, but all escaped
"A man named Summerkalb, aged
55 years. and his wife, aged rs years.
persisted on the 18th, in a tenement in
Allen street, New York, through the
explosion of a coal oil lamp. The man
was suffocated, the woman burned to
death.
Islanders have appeared among the
horses In Newark, New Jersey, and
several affected animals have been
killed within a week. The disease is
said to have been brought from the
Third avenue a stables In New York
and to have probably gone to
other places in New Jersey.
"A severe wind storm prevailed
IN Texas on the 18th and morning
the 14th, the gale having a velocity
at Galveston of sixty niles per hour.
The storm washed away parts of the
two bridges which span Galveston Bay,
and swept off all the telegraph lines
into Galveston, thus cutting
off communication with that city.
"A heavy rain storm with high wind
prevailed on the 14th along the New
Jersey coast. At six o'clock in the
evening two schoonars-the Republic,
loaded with cord wood, for New York,
and the Clayton Frame, from Millville
for New York, with charcoal-went
ashore at Seabright, broadside on.
They were driven high on the beach.
Their captains and crews were taken
off by the life-saving men. Great dam
age was done on the l4th on Long
Island by a heavy thunder storm.
were levelled, trees splintered
and o%utbuildings damaged.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. p. Hendee were
killed by a train while driving across
,he railroad, near Leroy, Genesee
county, New York, on the 18th. An.
drew s. Perry and Leroy Plaisted,
boys, were killed by the caving In of a
sandbank near Chardon, Ohio, on the
18th. Robert Robinson, aged 1G years,
lied Of nydrophobia at Wadesboro,
CarolIno on tine 18th ttHa mos