The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-31
engineer. was killed. The fireman was

engineer, was Killed. Inc uIeIldu was
slightly injured.
Sanford Lott, aged II years, was
caught IN the machinery of the Mount
Ida Cotton Mil, at Troy, New York,
on the 26th, and killed, A cold blast
pipe in the Pennsylvania Steel Works,
at SteeltoD, exploded on the Goth, with
a report which was plainly heard In
Harrisburg. Buildings adjacent were
badly damaged. Two men were in
jured by escaping steam.
"A druggist in Cleveland, Ohio, on
the 26th sold a woman arsenic IN mis-
take for sugar Of milk. Last night the
woman was dead, and her three chill.
dren were in a dying condition.
Twenty-Five cases of diphtheria,
eight of them fatal, were reported In
Melrose. Massachusetts. last week.
Thirteen head of cattle infected
with pleuro-pneumonia were killed on
the 26th on a farm in Manor Township,
Lancaster county, Penna. A herd on
an adjoining farm was found to be in
feeted.
john E. and Sidney Mills, brothers
were drowned off Manistigue, Michi-
gan, on TIE oath. They were on a tug
and Sydney fell overheard. His brother
jumped after him. but the sea was too
nigh to rescue them.
Colonel w. II. Bolton. chief of the
division for handling second-class mall
matter in the post-office at Chicago,
was arrested on the Goth, on the charge
of stealing public funds. 1t is esti-
mated that the total shortage" will be
over $4,000. John T. Stewart, weigh
er, was also arrested, and more arrests
are expected. Bolton, who was a sol
der of the Union. with a good record,
was appointed by Postmaster Palmer In
1877. He was held In $4,000 bail, and
Stewart In $1,000.
The Hess oil well at Washington,
Penna.. was struck by lightning on the
26th. The derrick was burned to the
ground and a 600-barreI oil tank was
consumed.
William &. O'Connor, IS years Of
age, was arrested in Chicago on the
Goth for the murder of Mrs. Hannah
Crowley, aged 40. He confessed the
deed. The woman's body was found
buried in a wood shed. at Louisville,
on the 27th, John Kohler shot and killed
John Carter and mOrtally wounded
Peter Hanpt, whom he found in the
with his wife. Pres. Turner and
Brown Ogden quarreled over a game OF
croquet at Needmore, Kentucky, OF the
Goth, and began shooting at each other.
Turner was killed. but Ogden escaped
unhurt after having four shots fired at
him. In Chicago, on the 26th, Mrs.
Kate Carney went to the house of Wal
ter Banyon to see her mother. The
latter was out, and Mrs. Carney spent
the time until evening drinking
beer. "When her husband and her
sister came in the evening she was in
.toxicated, and attempted to hit her
husband with a heavy cup, but missed
him. She then picked up a beer glass
and struck her sister over the head.
The sister took a knife from the cup
board and stabbed Kate in the neck,
inficting a deep wound, which VIII re-
suit fatally"
"A telegram from Reading, Penna.,
says the recent heavy rains have washed
a large amount of refuse into a spring
from which the employees of the Glas-
gov Iron Company, at Pottstown, get
drinking water. In consequence over
forty men are suffering with typhoid
fever, and many of them are in a crlti-
cal condition. The works are 20 de-
pleted that the company is unable TO
man two furnaces.
Texas fever has broken out among
a lot of graded cattle taken to Boze-
man, Montana, from Kansas City.
Twenty-one have already died, and the
rest have been quarantined. Stockmen
fear the disease will spread, as a drove
of 35 600 head of cattle, from which
tins lot caught the fever at Missouri
Valley, Iowa, are now being driven
into the Territories.
The ruin of the hop crop in Central
New York was completed during a
heavy rain on the Goth. A telegram
from Canajoharie says the growers
thought the rain would have a good eff
feet, but, instead, yards which the day
before appeared green and healthy. are
now black and utterly ruined. "Many
growers destroyed their yards a week
ago, and their example will now be
followed generally. Where one week
ago it was thought a quarter Of the
yield would he harvested, now
it Is believed that not a pound will be
picked. The growers are very much
disheartened and their predicament is
only equalled by that of the hop pickers.
Good 1885 hops now bring soto 80 cents
against 6 and 10 cents six weeks ago."
Nathaniel Taylor, aged II years,
was accidentally shot dead by his four
teen-year-old brother Benjamin, while
a dove shooting expedition near
Columbia, South Carolina on the 9th.
An arch erected on Jacques Car
tier Square, Montreal, IN honor of Car
dinal Taschereau, fell on the 9th, kill
ing an old lady and MORALLY wounding
her granddaughter.
"A twO-story brick building in st.
Louis, occupied on the first floor by a
manufacturer of musical instruments,
and on the second by John Gamble and
family, collapsed at half-past 10 O'Clock
on the Goth. The wife and three chill
NIGl VI bdulDiC Ncl6 DdulJ bluloCu.
The building was old, land had been
VIGOROUSLY unsafe for some time"
"A freight train on the Baltimore
and Ohio Railroad broke in two ear
Mount Airy, Baltimore, on the 9th,
and the rear part raa down a steep
grade colliding with another freight
train. The engine of the rear train and
several loaded cars were badly wrecked
and the tracks blockaded,
Charles Engel, alias Warner, alias
George Engel, "a dangerous professional
burglar, whose operations have ex-
tended all over the country, was
arrested in Chicago on the Goth.
Frederick Rentschler, Vice Presi-
dent and manager of the Indianapolis
Manufacturing Company, committed
suicide In San Francisco OH the 2Ith
by shooting himself in the head.
The grain destroyed by the hail
s,CIm in Minnesota, on the oath Is es-