The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-25

up about a mile to the eastward Of
Lovell's Island. As the Oracle ap-
preached she righted and sunk In fif-
teen feet of water. Two men in a boat
who had seen her capslze, said that she
seemed to be full of passengers. No
bodies could be found. The yacht sank
before the name on her stern could be
read. She was twenty feet long, pain
ted white, and carried mainsall aud lib,
but no colors. Her canvas was new
and had apparently been recently bent.
Her masts above the crosstrees show
above water.
"A large brick building in East
Atchison. Kansas, formerly occupied
by a packing house, but which hsa been
unoccupied for several years, was A.ruck
by lightning on the 10Th and destroyed.
Loss, $4,000.
According to a telegram from
Charleston ''d~etOnations and tremors"
continue at Summerville, but they are
growing less forclble ana frequent, and
he people are getting used to them,
nd hopeful that they will soo cease.
"A passenger train which arrived at
Denver, Colorado, on the 18th, from
Salt Lake, had a narrow escape from a
| fearful disaster. The train, consisting
of 10 cars, drawn by two engines, was
going through the Black Canyon at a
speed Of 20 miles per hour, when sew
eral of the cars ran off the track. For.
tuDately the train was stopped in time
to prevent it from being hurled into the
depths below. Several cars were badly
damaged. There we're about n hun.
dred passengers in peril.
Two freight trains, one of them
loaded with cattle, collided on the Mis-
souri, Pacific Railroad, near Clayton,
Missouri, on the 18th. Both engines
and several cars were smashed and
fourteen cattle were killed. The dam
age is estimated at $4,000. A special
live stock train of twenty cars, from
Montana for Chicago, ran off the track
near Black River Falls, Wisconsin, OF
the 10Th, owing to the breaking of a
hange. The locomotive and nine cars
were wrecked. Twenty cattle were
killed and about as many more
wounded.
Several blocks OF buildings in
Council Grove, Kansas, were destroyed
by fire on the 10Th. The loss IS esti-
mated at SITS, 900.
The annual session of the Sover-
eign Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
opened on the goth in Boston. The
reports of the Grand Officers were pre-.
sented. They show a total memUeT-
ship of 81. 80. The figures OF various
Odd Fellows beneficial associations
show receipts for the past year of
81, $50 ,905; paid to families of deceased
members, $873,363.
Alden, a small mining town about
nine miles from WilkeSbarre, was WIS.,
tied by a terrible storm of wind and
rain on the 10th. Several houses were
swept away, a drug store. a hotel and
a public school were wrecked, and
| nearly every other building III the
place was damaged. Several persons
were injured, but none fatally.
"A severe storm ragged at Charlotte
town, Prince Edwards Island, on the
10Th and 2lst. Many fishing vessels
were driven ashore, but it is not known
that any lives were lost.
The dwelling and trimming store
of Mrs. Kate Jones, in Wilmington,
Delaware, was burned on the 2lst, and
Mrs. Jones, the only occupant, persisted
in the flames. She was about so years
of age. A colored servant girl was
fatally burned in Washington on the
21st while lighting a fire with coal oil.
jerome Brow, of the banking
firm of Lee and Brown, - Saranac.
Michigan, has disappeared, and his
partner, A. c. Lee, says that his name,
which appears on $1,000 worth of the
firms paper, is a forgery. The firms
| liabilities are about $50, 900, and there
are no assets, all the property having
been disposed of.
Samuel Reber, of Reading, Penna.,
an engineer on the Schuylkili and
Susquehanna Railroad, was fatally in
jured on the Goth by being thrown
from an engine.
Bowman Paxton, a prominent
business man of Maiden, Missouri, a
week ago quarreled with and killed a
neighbor named McGuilvey. To avoid
~lynchers Paxton was lodged in Jail In
the adjacent town of Kenneth. On
the 10Th the Sheriff, with a posse, left
Kennett with the prisoner for Maiden,
where the trial was TO take place.
About five miles from Maiden a masked
mob of one hundred men compelled the
officers to give up Paxton, and lynched
HIM by hanging him from a tree. 1t
was believed Ivy the people generally
that 'Paxton's wealth and social stand
ing, the array of legal talent, and other
indications, induced the belief that he
would defeat the aim of the law"
Severe earthquake shocks were
again felt on the 2lst in Charleston,
Summerville and Columbia, South
Carolina, and Augusta and Savannah.
Georgia. In Charleston many persons
ran out of their houses and remained
in the streets. "DetonatlOns or eXp(o-
sions'' were heard at Charleston and
Summeryille, and ''Subterranean thun-
der" lasting several hours, at Column
bia. AT Savannah hundreds of people
were awakened from sleep. A colored
man was injured in Charleston by a
falling wall.