The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-30


bisthroat. lie twill probably die from
his wounds il he is not lyEched."
James Haynes, colored, who murdered
Nav Jackson, colOred. in Bo}iver coun-
ty, Mississippi recently was taken from
the Jail on the 23d by a colored mob
and lynched. After a ~''friendly wrest-
ling matchn near Williamsburg, Ken
lucky, on the oath William Broughton
shot and killed John Wlstenhuut, and
wounded Wistenhunt's brother.
VIII Joel Bailey, of Evansville,
Berks county, PenDa., was returning
home from church, on the oath, his
horse ran away. Bailey fell out and
his feet caught in the harness. He was
dragged several miles, and when extTl-
Gated he was dead. He was the father
of thirteen children. In Cleveland,
Ohio, on the 25th, Rosa, the BY ear-old
daughter of Henry Doembrack, a saloon
keeper, climbed over the fence of her
fathers back yard INTO the yard. Of an
other saloon keeper named Kerns. The
latter kept a bear chalred in the rear Of
his lot. The child. venturing too near
the animal, was seized by it, killed, and
partially devoured before the horror
was discovered. kerns was arrested.
One hundred men, employed by
the Commissioners Of Berks county,
Penna.. have been fighting the fire in
the Blue Mountains since the 23d, work.
ing day and night. On the afternoon of
the 25th they succeeded IN putting out
the flames, after 5000 acres of timber
land had been burned over. The charred
remains of many catte were found in
the burned section. Owing to the
drought, no rain having fallen for
eighty-five days, water could not be
obtained to quench the flames, and
entertainments of earth had to be thrown
up around the burning timber to pre-
vent the flames from spreading.
"A fire in Versailles, Missouri, on
the l24th, destroyed a livery stable with
fifteen horses, the P~ost-of1ice, Masonic
Hall, City Hotel, and several stores
and other buildings. Loss, $4,000;
insurance, $4,000. The Geneva Ma
chine Company's Works at Geneva,
OHIO, were burned on the oath. Loss,
S25, 600. Trlplett Il Welden's distil-
lery, neal Owensboro, Kentucky, was
burned on the 18th. Loss, $4,000.
Daniel Ellis, a hotel keeper at
Ringtown, Penna., on the Goth shot
and dangerously wounded his wife.
Both are reticent, he denying the
shooting and his wife refusing to say
whether it was accidental or not. He
had been drinking for several days.
Two school boys, named Alexander
Hoard and John Paxton, ''lOved' a
school girl named Inez Hollis, in New
Frankfort, Indiana. On the 18th,
while the boys were standing together
in a store, the girl passed and Hoard
threw a kiss to her. This so Cnragtd
Paxton that be struck his rival on the
head with a stick, fraeturlng his skull,
and then stamped on his face. PAX
ton seemed to have become mad, and
foamed at the mouth. Before he could
be secured he rushed to the woods,
waving his hands and s~hriekIng. The
young lady remains by the bedside Of
her dying loyer.n Cheese Hensley. a
wealthy stock man of Fort Worth, was
shot and mortally wounded by a BAR
| keeper, named Kaufman, in Dallas,
| Texas. on the 18th. Kaufman fired in
self defence. Near Akron, Ohio, on
the 25th, two plausible looking
strangers" called at the home of Bayn-
hardt Stillwell, aged go, a wealthy
farmer. Under p~retense OF wanting to
look at part of his farm, they got him
out into the woods, and there, with le-
v%olgers. forced him to give up $1,000,
which he had a short time before drawn
from the bank to make a purchase. He
was roughly handled, and when he got
home could give only an ineoherent ac-
count of the affair.
james Jourdan and Thomas Cool,
riding on a ~"Speeder'' on the West
Branch Railroad, near Bradford, Pa,
on the 25th, were run down by IA
freight train and killed. Early on the
morning of the Goth, during a thick
fog, two coal trains collided on the
Newark Bay bridge OF the Central
Railroad of New Jersey. SeEssrsI
were knocked into the pay and Il To-
connective was badly damaged. The
bridge is undergoing repairs, and there
is only a single track at the scene of the
accident. No person was injured.
An Adams Express "a on the st.
Louis ana q FRANCISCO fdlFOau was
robbed on the Goth between st. Louis
ard Pacific, Missouri, by q man who,
giving the name of James Cummings,
presented TO the messenger a false let
ter OF introduction. The robber gagged
and bound the messenger, rifed the
car or $4,000, and left the train at
MerrimaC.
The trunk containing jewelly
samples valued at $l2, 600, belonging to
the agent of a Cincinnati iewelry firm,
which was checked for, Kansas City
from Wakena, Missouri, on the 23d has
not arrived and cannot be found.
-Lafferty, the colored wife MUIR
derer, was taken from Leayeuworth TO
Wyondotte on the 26th, to guard
against mob violence. He died soon
after being admitted to the prison from
the effects of his attempt upon his own
life, having cat his throat on Sunday.
The Glen Rock Manufacturing
CO., Of York, Penna., made an assign
ment on tine 26th. Liabilities, SO, TO;
assets, $67.474,