The Penn's Grove record., 1886-10-23


ginia. Not long after ward John j.
Mcintyre was killed by a negro at
night. John d. Robinson, a merchant
of North Danville, wa the chief in
strument in working up the case
against Mottley's supposed murderers,
and a week ago he received an anOny-
nous letter from a negro reminding him
of the death of Motley and Mcintyre,
and warning him to look out for him
self. On the morning of the 18th,
about 4 o'clock, Robinson's store was
burned, and the belief is that it was
fred by an incendiary.
The fire at Salisbury, Maryland,
burned until nine O'Clock on the morn
ing of the 18th. More than 200 build
ings were consumed, half of them
dwellings. The loss is estimated at
5000, 600. The Juvet Il Co. Time
Globe Works, at Canajoharie, New
York, were burned on the 18th. Loss.
S35. 600; insurance, $4,000. a tele-
gram from Salt Lake City reports the
burning of the eastern portion of the
village of Stockton, Utah. Loss, $780,
600. The fire is supposed to have been
started by a woman named Provost,
"who had threatened a few days before
to burn the town unless the saloon
keepers stopped selling liquor to her
husband" Half a block of wooden
stores in Charlotte, Michigan, was
burned on the 18th, Loss, $4,000.
A fire in Goerck street, New York,
on the night of the 18th, destroyed six
factory buildings owned by ex-Alder-
man Kehr, and the live-stOry brick
workshop of Kehr's American Desk
Manufacturing Company. The other
buildings were occupied by Othmann
& Co., table manufacturers, and Stern
berger q Unger, cigar box makers.
Loss 5000, 900.
1t is estimated by prominent grape
growers of Hammondsport, New
York, that 500 tons Of grapes were
frozen on the vines on the shores of
Lake Keuka, on the night of the 10th.
The mercury went down to 20 degrees.
The varieties frozen were principally
Catawba, Concord and Diana.
"A telegram from Biloxi says:
"There have been a number Of cases OF
fever, mostly Of a very mild sort, dur
ing the last seven or eight weeks. and
since the 9th of August there have
been eighteen deaths from all causes,
not more than thirteen of which are at
tributed to fever these chiefly ehildrea).
At present there are not more than
twenty-five cases under treatment, all
reported doing well, and no new cases
since the 10TH" The New Orleans and
AE-ls1- la.14I, o,tI1~,Eta1 Ia pa au4oh-
lished a quarantine against Biloxi.
jacob Sharp, James Richmond,
President of the Broadway Railroad,
and James W. Foshay, ex-Presldent of
the road. were arrested in New York
on the 10Th, on indictments charging
them with bribing the doodle" AID
ermen. Sharp and Foshay were held
each in $50, 600 bail, and Richmond,
who is already under that amount of
bonds. was held in 5000 additional.
John F. Drikemier, for fifteen
years book-keeper for Burdett, Young
& Ingalls,, clothiers, Of Boston, disap-
peared soma days ago, and is supposed
to be in Canada. His accounts are
short" to an amount mot exceeding
$40, 000."
Thomas M. Carnegie, n of the
members of the firm of Carnegie
Brothers & Co, died on the 10Th, in
Pittsburg after a few days. illness. aged
40 years, His brother Andrew, the
famous millionaire, is i'll at Cresson of
pneumonia, and his condition was
such on the 10Th, that it was deemed
inadvisable to inform him Of the death
of Thomas.
General Bacon Montgomery accl-
dentally killed himself while hunting
at Lomula, Mexico, a few days ago.
He was 43 years of age. During the
war he served III the Sixth Missouri
cavalry, first as private and then as
Lieutenant Colonel Commanding.
The dry goods store of Converse,
Collins, Berrill & Co., in Troy, New
York, waa burned on the 10th. The
loss is about 500 900, partly insured.
The greater part of the business seiGr,e
ton of Oakland, Illinois, was destr
by fire Oh Tue 18th. About tWC.oh
business places were consumed, and the
loss Is estimated at $500, 900, which is
insured about |one.third. The Sterling
| Mills at Augusta, Georgia, were burned.
Loss, $4,000. They were owned by
Coates & Co., of Philadelphia, and
manufactured yarns. The loss is cov-
cred by insurance.
A forest fire is raging in the Copley
swamps, five miles west OF Akron.
Ohio. Several hundred acres Of tim
Der, large tracts Of pasture and miles of
fences have been destroyed, and many
dwellings are threatened. The fire was
started by a ''young mar who ignited
the leaves just for fun"
"A heavy snow-storm prevailed en-
the 10Th west Of Ogden, Utah, seriously
interfering with the telegraph lines.
In the case of William G. Hof-
man, who shot his wife a year ago, a
plea of granddaughter was accepted in
the Criminal Court at Newark, New
Jersey, on the 10Th, and Hoffman was
sentenced t. ten years Imprisonment.
John Burke, Jr., and James Kennedy
were on the 10Th indicted and ar
raigned in Baltimore for the murder of
John Curran, on the 10th.