The Penn's Grove record., 1886-06-26
NEWS OF THE w EEK

In Milwaukee, ON the 18th, the
police arrested w. W. Trainor and 7.
F. Wyatt, alias Writty, notorious
bunco steerers. About $40, 900 in skin
money was found on their persons.
"As no cause colld be made against
them, they were discharged and ordered
to leave the city," their bogus wealth
being confiscated
" inield b. Thompson, who shot
his wife and then himself died in the
New York Hospital on the 18th.
William Peters, over go years of
age, committed suicide in Harrisburg,
on the 18th. He had failed in busi-
ness.
The French brlgantlne Michael
sank on the Newfoundland banks on
the 18th and nine men were dround.
\ dory containing the bodies of two
dead men was found floating fifty
miles off Cape Ballard, Newfoundland,
a few days ago.
"A telegram from Chicago says the
Western Export Association has Teor-
gained under the title of the National
Leasing and Purchasing Company, y
with a capital of $500, 0O0.
The heaviest rain ever known at
Alexandra, Louisiana, began falling
there on the 14th and continued until
the 10th. A large portion of the town
was submerged to a depth of three feet.
Two colored men were drowned in a
swamp. The crops on the lOwlands
around Contoocook, New Hampshire,
was killed on the 10Th by frost.
-Haydock Brothers, carriage fac
tory, in st. Louis, was burned on the
18th. Loss, SIC, 000; insurance, $54,-
900. The North Star Saw. Mill at
Minneapolis, was burned on he 18th.
The loss is estimated at 500, 900; in
surance, $42, 000. A fire at Leaven-
worth, Kansas, on the 18th, destroyed
several stores and a hotel, causing a
loss of $4,000. Three thousand acres
of wheat, 80 miles from Modesto,
California, were destroyed by fire on
tie 18th. The loss is estimated a
$50 ,000.
At Creston, Illinois, on the 19ih,
Jacob Swingley, aged 45 years, cut the
throats of two small children, and then
committed suicide. One of the children,
Maggie. aged 4 years, is dead; the
other, Albert, aged Z, will probably re-
cover. SWingley's wife died last January,
and her death apparently caused him to
become insane.
The body of r. d wis Hutchcroft,
a young attorney from Kentucky, who
disappeared in Chicago on May 31st,
was found on the 18th, in the Lake
near that city. There were marks OF
violence on the body, and all the valu-
ables were missing.
"A passenger train On the Worcester
and Nassau division of the Boston
and Maine Railroad. collided with
a freight train, at East Pepperell,
Massachusetts,, on the 18th Both
engines were wrecked. The engineer
and fireman of the passenger train
jumped off, and the former escaped
with slight bruises, the latter being
severely injured. Three passengers
were injured, two of them dangerously.
BY an explosion of benzine in De-
catur, Indiana, on the Goth, about forty
feet of a hardware store was blown out,
and John Omler, a clerk, was burned
to death.
Terrific storms of wind, rain and
hail are reported to have occurred on
the Goth. at Elgin. Manor and Paige,
on the Houston and Texas Central
Railway, in Texas. Dwellings and
churches were wrecked and damaged,
and it is asserted that hailstones fell
which varied in size from a marble to
a mans head" Strangely enough no
lives are reported lost, and only one
person injured. Some thunder storms
prevailed in Minnesota on the goth.
Buildings at Fergus Falls, GAINESVILLE
and other places were struck by light
ming, and one man was killed, several
others being injured.
Sarah Nichols, a good looking
woman, was arrested in Baltimore on
the 21st, ION a bail-piece" from New
York. She Is charged with having kept
an opium Joint and induced young girls
to visit her den.
"A consultation of physicians was
held, on the 2lst, in the case of Judge
David Davis, sick at his home in
Bloomington, Illinois, and the verdict
was against his recovery. HE is
liable to drop off into a comatose state
and death within a few hours, or may
linger for several days or weeks"
Thomas levin, proprietor of the
SHERMAN House, at Newport, dropped
dead of apoplexy on the goth. DR.. j.
7. Dunkin, Professor of Latin in the
Agricultural and Mechanical College,
at Auburn. Alabama, died on the goth.
5. |. NJ. Major, ex-public printer OF
Kentucky, and a member of the last
Legislature OF that State, died on the
2lst.
The New England Institute Fail
Building in Boston was burned on the
2lst. The building was occupied as
car shop by the Metropolitan HOrse
Railway Company. A number of mel
were in the building when the fire broke
out, and twelve of them are believed t.
have persisted. At last accounts eight
bodies were found in the ruins. The
loss on the property is estimated at
$500, 600. A despatch from Boston
dated at one O'Clock on the 2lst, says
that sixteen persons are missing
On the goth Jesse V~reeland, aged
10 wears. and his brother Charles, aged
10, went bathing in a pond near Sche'
nectady. New York. Charles who
could not swim, went beyond his depth.
He was pushed ashore by Jesse, but
the latter then became helpless anC
was drowned.
james Gleason attempted to stop {
street fight among drunken roughs IL
Newport, Kentucky, Oh the goth wher
one of them named Banner stabbed
Gleason with a pocket knife, causing
death in a few minutes. Banner escaped
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Martin Collins and Frank PolansK,
were killed by lightning while digging
a well at Crete, Nebraska. on the 21st
While Miss Belle Sager and two mel
were crossing a rope suspension bridg
across the Roaring Fork, near Glen
wood Springs. Colorado. on the 2lst, on
of the posts holding the rope gave wa!
and they were thrown INTO the current
Miss Sugar was drowned, the men es
caped. Samuel and Edward Joslin
aged respectively Is and IL years, werl