The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-10
NEWS OF THE WEEK

died on the 9Th. John Decker, OF Will
Transport, mail agent, who was also
injured, Is not expected to recover.
AT half past Z o'clock on the morn
Ing of the I'd, a terrific explosion took
place at the Atlantic Giant Powder
Works, situated between McCainsville
and Drakesville, in New Jersey, which
caused a loss of ten lives and the injury
of ten or twelve persons. The explosion
took place in the mixing house, from
some unknown cause. The building
was blown into splinters, and an i'm
mense excavation was made where it
stood. For twenty miles around the
conclusion was distinctly felt, and
in houses five miles from the scene
the glass was shattered. The killed
were: George zimmerman, married;
George Hanbeil, married; j. H.
Smith, single; George King, sin
gle; Henry Lauback, single; Con-
rad Lauback. single; Charles J.. Jack
sou, single; Charles Miburn, married;
s. Theodore Bryan. married; Joseph
Kinner, married. Their bodies were
blown to fragments. The c%ompany's
works are scattered over nearly 400
acres of ground, and there are be.
tween 30 and 40 buildings on the
premises. About 100 men are en-
ployed. In the house which was
blown up the number employed was
about 10. Yesterdays disaster was
the first winch had occurred for ten
years. In the last previous explosion
two men were killed.
In st. Louis, on the 4th, a young
man, named Hennes.ey, son of a grocer,
pursued a crowd of boys who had
stolen barrels from his fathers store to
make o bonfire with, and, l%lOuTishing a
knife, threatened, if he caught them,
''to prevent further depredations for all
time" James a. Wade, aged 10, IN
acquaintance of Hennessey, remonstra-
ted with him, and vas stabbed in the
side. HIS condition is critical. G.. NJ.
Haywood, an ex-striker and Knight of
Labor, but now an informer for the
Furlong Detective Agency, in st.
Louis, was beaten senseless on a
steamer at that city on the 4th. One
man cut HIM even times, and others
seized his revolver and beat him with
it. 1t is believed the attack was
premeditated. Three men named
Hook, O'Brien and Niederweis
have been arrested for the assault.
In Rowan county, Kentucky, on the
9Th, Sheriff Rainey, with a posse, at
tempted to arrest the notorious Craig
Tollver, Cook Humphreys and Howard
Logan, the principals in the trouble
Tolliver submitted quietly, but Logan
and his son William and Humphreys
opened fire on the Sheriff's posse, who
eturned the fire. Sheriff Rainey was
mortally wounded, and his son, Henry,
and a Deputy Sheriff were slightly
wounded. Logan's son was also shot,
but not fatally. Logan and Hum
phreys are reported to be 'ralsing a
mob of followers to kill the whole
Sheriff's posse" The Governor has
been te~legraphed to send troops to the
county at once.
During display Of fireworks at Pea.
body, Massachusetts,, on the 9th, an
old awning on which fifteen or twenty
persons had gathered gave wayand threw
item upon the crowd below. Twenty
men, women and children were injured
fifteen severely. Some or them 1t is
feared, viii not recover. In Baltimore,
on the 9th, a young man named Rotk-
back. shot himself through the brain
while examining a pistol, and died in
stantly. y colored girl was also dam
gerously SHOT in the head.
AT indianapolis, on the 18th, Ed
ward L. Palmer, a young man, was
fatally injured by falling from a freight
train in a Git. Frederick kelch drove
into the river to wash his wagon and
was swept away by the current and
drowned. j. d. Connor stepping out
of the way of a moving train, was
killed by a tram going in the opposite
direction, or the next track.
Fire broke out on the 9Th, in the
base ment of Brackway q Millan's res
taurant, at Chicago, and soon spread
through and destroyed the whole build
ing, "a five-story structure, known as the
Benton Hotel, and fitted up as a cheap
lodging house. About SO persons were
sleeping in the building, two of whom
lost their lives. Another inmate and
four liremen were severely injured. AS
he fires in the restaurant ranges were
al out, the disaster is attributed to
Fourth of July fireworks. The loss on
property is about $50, 00O.
-Eckert & SWANS flour mills OF
Canal street, Chicago, We're damaged by
ire on the 9TH, to the extent of about
$4,000. The fire is attributed to a sky
rocket.
"A tell gram from Atlanta says the
result of the election in Georgia on
the 9th lnsures the nomination of
General Gordon for Governor. The
Democratic Convention will meet in
Atlanta OIL the 2Sth instant.
In Providence, Rhode Island, Oh
the 9th, Agnes Lynn and Kate Herman,
seventeen year-old girls, while sitting
on a vacant lot, were approach d by an
acquaintance named Joseph f. Nolan,
aged 10, who deliberately discharged a
shotgun at them. 10th girls had theiI
faces peppered with bird shot, and
Agnes Lynn will probably lose both
eyes. Nolan vas arrested and said
the shooting was accidental. II
is believed, however, that he was
jealous of of tie girls. The Nea
York and New England Railro doom
pany arranged Il picnic at Highland
Lake Grove, Massachusetts. ON the 5.h
There was a rough crowd present. A
light took place, IN which one officer
was seriously, and perhaps fatally hurt,
and over twenty attendants were
badly beaten or otherwise injured
Charles Ander on and John Rob
ertson, neiGhboring farmers OF
Edgefeld county, South Carolina,
ought with shotguns on the 4th.
Robertson was killed and Anderson
MORALLY wounded. They qGarrelled
about some cattle. A rough named
king, being drunk on the 9th, boarded
a freight train near Pine Knob, Ken
lucky, killed Edward Peltou, the con-
ductor, and escaped. a mar named
Wilson was arrested near TOwnville,
Penna , OH the 6th, on the charge of
having murdered the two Mrs. Ever
harris, at ~Lickingyille, Clarion county.
last winter.
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