The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-16
NEWS OF WEEK

Three earthquake shocks were
felt in Summerville, South Carolina,
during the night of the 9TH, and a
slight tremor was felt in Charleston
at 5 O'Clock on the morning of the
8th. In Charleston there is a steady
growth of business. the receipts of
cotton this week were 20, 757 bales,
against &c, ZIG bales in the correspond
ing week last year, and all cotton
presses are working on full time. A
sharp shock of earthquake was felt on
the 7th at San Diego, California.
Austin F. Pike, United States
Senator from New Hampshire, on the
7th, dropped dead on his farm, near
Franklin Falls, in that State. He was
born in New Hampshire in 1919, and
was admitted to the bar in 1915. In
1873, having previously served in the
New Hampshire Senate and House OF
Representatives, he was elected to Con-
gress and served one term. In August,
1883, he was elected to the United
States Senate.
"A construction train on the Mis-
souri-Pacifc railroad was ditched by
the spreading of the rails near Hills
boro, Texas, on Thursday night the
9th and sevaral men were injured n
fatally.
Three men, one OF them the owner
of the bank, were severely burned by
an explosion of gas in Davidson's coal
bank, neal Beaver Falls, Penna. on the
9th.
There are reports from st. Mary
and Calvert counties, in Maryland,
that a fatal disease has appeared among
the hogs, and they are dying in large
numbers. 1t is not known if it is chol-
era, but many farmers have lost nearly
their entire stock.
"A fire in Punxsutawney, Penna..
on the 9th destroyed thirty-five build
ipgs in the business portion OF the
town. among them the st. Elmo Hotel
block, the Washington House and the
First National Bank. The total loss is
estimated at $165, 0C0; insurance, $780,
600. While men were loading the British
steamer Lancaster with cotton for Liy-
erpool at Savannah, on the 9th, flames
suddenly burst from the hold, and the
men were forced to leave their tools
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The steamer had 5400 bales of cotton
aboard, and the entire fire department
OF the city and a tug were engaged for
several hours pumping water Into her.
The Spanish steamer San Juan, from
New Orleans for Liverpool, with a
cargo of cotton and slaves, put in at
Key West on the 9th with her after
compartment on fire. Water was let
into the compartment. but the fire IN
creased.
Owing to the displacement OF a
switch, a freight train on the New
London and Northern Railroad ran
int a siding and collided with a
building at Thamesville. Connecticut,
on tile 9th. Charles Edwards, the
fireman, Of New London, was killed,
and William Flanagan, the engineer,
severely injured.
There were three slight earthquake
shocks in Charleston, between the
hours of 1 and $50 O'Clock on the
morning of the 9th. The first shock
was also felt at other points in South
Carolina, ard at Augusta, Georgia.
The schooner Seth Stockbridge,
which sailed from Gloucester, Massa-
chusetts, on June LIST for Greenland, to
engage in the hallibut fishery, has not
been heard of, and is given up for lost.
She had a crew of 10 men, mostly
ISwedes.
LAFAYETTE Dove, a farmer OF Ridge
township, near Shelbyville, Illinois,
died on the Sd instant, as was supposed,
of milk Sickness" On the Sth his
wife died with similar symptoms, and
their two children and a young lady
visitor are sick. 1t is now believed the
cause of the sickness was poison from a
copper valve in the kitchen pump.
While Rev. Father Miskiewitz,
Pastor of a Polish church at the south
Side, Pittsburg, was turning around
to address his congregation at the
close Of mass ID the morning of The
10th, a bullet was fired at him
through a side window of The church.
The missile passed within a few inches
of the priest and flattened itself
against the opposite wall. The priest
seemed quite cool and waved his flock
to their seats, but more than a hundred
of them had rushed outside. No trace
was seen, however, of the would-be
assas in. 1t is supposed the attempt
grew out of trouble which has existed
between different factions in the church
for some time. Burke Fairchild, an
aged farmer of Mineral Point, Wiscon-
sin, shot and fatally wounded his wife
and himself on the 10th. Matthias j..
Henkel, a young man of Lancaster,
Penna., was arrested on the 10th, on
the CHARGE of committing a murderous
assault on Michael German, in a fight
the night before. Germans skull was
fractured with a brick and he is in a
critical condition.
Near Carlisle, Kentucky, on the
6th, a party OF men went to the house
of John TAYLOR and broke open the
doors. Taylor fired into the party.
wounding VIM. Workman. The crowd
fired back and MORALLY wounded lay
lor. The Ku KluxeIs are said to have
been led by Sparks. a divorced son'ln-
law with whom Taylor had Quarrelled
about the possession of his grandchild.
The flight of Nathan NJ. Neeld,
and consequent failure of j. Q. Fergu-
son Il Co., of Chicago. continues the
principal sensation in business circles
there, The amount out of which
Neeld defrauded the different banks is
still stated at $500. 600, but it is not be-
IIieved that he took much money with
HIM IN his flight The President of the
Corn Exchange Bank, of New YORK,
one of the concerns which suffered
through Neeld's operations, is In
Chicago looking into the methods OF
the fraud. ut makes a difference IN
the chance OF prosecution and recovery
whether the receipts were fraudulent
from the start, or whether the receipts
were all right in the beginning, but
the goods removed later"
An accommodation train on the
Baltimore and Ohio railroad was run
into by a freight train nine miles from
Washington on the 18th, Both engines
were wrecked anu two train hands and
three passengers were severely injured.
! The roof of the repair shop of the
North Chicago Rolling Mill, at CHI