The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

"A sleeping car on the Milwaukee
and st. Paul Railroad was run into by
a freight train at Norwood Junction,
Minnesota on the 9TH and overturned,
Several persons were injured.
There was a repetition of the earth
quake shocks in Charleston, Savannah,
Augusta and Columbia on the 4th,
which renewed the panic in those
places. During the 9Th, there was a
cessation of the tremors, and religious
services were held in the public squares
in Charleston, Last night, 1.-THE 5th,0
however, another shock was felt. it
was fortunately a slight one and lasted
only two seconds. Much apprehension
is felt in Charleston lest the coming
September storms complete the work of
ruin by dwelling the shaky buildings
left standing by the earthquake. There
were several slight earthquake tTemors
in Savannah on the 9th, and people cOn.
tinue to camp out i'll the squares. Au-
gusta also felt a slight shock on the 9Th,
accompanied by a rumbling noise. Pro-
fessors Mendenhall and MCGEE returned
to Charleston on the 9th from an eX-
plorin9 emp to Ten Mile Hills, Sum.
merville and Lincoln. They felt nine
distinct shocks while at SummeTvllle,
and say people are leaving that section
of the country. a large number Of
geysers were found, all full of water.
Some of them are ten feet in dame
ter, but nothing has been found long
enough TO probe their depth" Later
dispatches from Macon and Savannah
report sharp shocks about IL O'Clock
on the night of the 5th. a settling
in the tower of the First Methodist
Episcopal Church in Scranton, Penna.,
was discovered on the 4th. This is
attributed to the earthquake.
"A telegram from Long Branch
says the analysis made by Professor
Newton, the chemist of the New Jer-
sey State Board of Health, shows on
cluslvely that the wholesale poisoning
OF guests in several hotels here and at
Asbury Park and Ocean Grove was
caused by adulterated milk. Warrants
we're issued for several milkmen, who
will be prosecuted by the State officials.
Maggie and Annie Hoag, young
women OF Manchester, New Hamp-
shire, while on their way to Providence
to visit friends, accompanied by their
brother Richard, ate strawberry-fla-
vored cream at Boston, on August 9th,
On their way to Providence they were
seized with cramps, from which one
expired the day Of their arrival, and
the other the day following. The
brother, who ate chocolate cream, Is in
good health.
,-Pleuro-pneumonia has appeared
among the cattle in the northwestern
part of Berks county, Penna and some
of the affected animals have died. The
State Veterinarian has ordered several
of the worst cases TO be killed and the
rest of the sick to be ~Quarantined.
The eastern end of the Northern
Pacific tunnel in course of construction
through the Cascade Mountains has
caved In and nihe white men are buried
under the stones and earth, with
little chance of being recovered alive.
-Aurelio di Angelo was shot dead
by Antonio Mori in the Italian quar-
ter at Rochester, New York, on the
9TH. Jealousy was the cause, a glrl
whom both loved having shown her
preference for Angelo by giving him
her picture. Mrs. Pauline Mlttel-
stadt, proprietress of a private lying
in hospital in Milwaukee, has been
arrested on the charge of numbering
infants. 1t is alleged by the police
that she carried on "a regular bus
mess Of putting babes to death at so
much per head" The finding of a
dead infant with a darning needle
thrust through It's heart led to the
woman's arrest. She is said to have
confessed the murder of the child, and
that she was promised $500 by its
mother for putting it Il of the way.
During the Canstatter festival in Read
ing on Monday night, the 9th, Morris
II. Sanders met and quarreled with his
divorced wife. Finally he drew a re-
voIver, wounded her in the head and
then committed suicide. She IS ex-
pected to GOV
Simon Dolph, a farmer, of Mans
field, Ohio, was set upon a week ago by
some of his neighbors, strung up until
he was insensible and then tarred and
feathered and ordered to leave the
town within ten days, on penaty of
death. On the 9th he began suit Tor
$40, COO damages against twelve per-
sons, including two women, for the
outrage. The neighbors charged Dolph
with ''talking scandalously about all
the women in the neighborhoOd," but
he denies this. Several of his perse-
cutors have fled from the county.
"A mob of one hundred persons
drove in wagons to the county jail at
Lake City, Michigan, on the 9th, for
the purpose of lyncning Craft and Mrs.
Brass, in prison for the murder of the
l~atter's husband. The would-be lynch
ers were EARNED with revolvers, rifles,
battering rams and ropes" but the
Sheriff persuaded them to desist."
A lighted lantern was taken int , a
well in course of excavation near War
saw, Illinois, on the 9th, and an explo-
sion of natural gas followed. Henry
Miller was killed; John Hope probably
fatally injured, and two others were
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