The Penn's Grove record., 1886-01-16
NEWS OFTlE WEEK

Wilmington and Northern Railwa,
train and two shifting engines of thu
Philadelphia and Baltimore road. Thl
passenger train was backing into tn
station when it a into the engine
which bad been sent out to clear tn
tracks. The baggagefcar was telescop
ed by the collision and took fire from
the engine, while escaping steam added
to the horror of the situation. Thre,
men were killed.
All the departments of the EdgaI
Thomson Steel Works, at Braddock
Penna., were closed on the 9th, throw
ing 5000 meH out of work, The troubl,
was caused by the action of the meI
employed in the converting department
refusing to handle metal made by fur
mace men who had taken the place Of
the old workmen. The converters mum
bered about 200 men.
Additional reports of the great
storm and the cold which accom-.
panied and followed it, show that the
diam eter of the cyclone was shout
twelve hundred miles, and that the
maximum wind velocity recorded wa
about seventy miles per hour. Travel
was interrupted on nearly all the rail.
roads, west and east, and many serious
marine disasters are reported along the
Middle Atlantic and New England
coast. Exceptionally low tempera.
lures were reported in the South, ice
several inches thick being formed al
Galveston, The lowest temperatures
ever known in the Southern sugar belt
were recorded, the thermometers fall.
ing to zero, or nea it. in some 'ocali'
ties in Texas ana louisiana Inc
minimum temperature reported was
of course, IN tie NOrthWest-62 below
zero in Manitoba.
Near Kinsman, Ohio, on the 7th,
three masked burglars broke into the
| ouse of James Dathers, a wealthy Jar
| mer. bound Dathers, assaulted his vile
| and two daughters, and robbed the
| house OF several hundred doiiaFs j.
money and ieWeiry. The ruiB&ns e..
! capped in a wagon towards the Pennsy
yania line.
The bodies OF tw0~eLees nanes
Kris and Forbes, accused of part7
ton with two others in robbery and
murder, were found hanging from a
bridge in SuntOwer county, Mississippi,
on the 18th inst. The others are still at
large.
Persons arriving IN Fargo, Dakota,
from the Northwest Territory, report
that the Indian tribes are arranging fol
an outbreak in the spring to avenge the
death Of Riel. They are buying large
quantities of ammunition from traders
/ ON fhp IFnffpl Stnf,u uIln 4F tIn I,,o
Sir AdO'phe Caron, the Dominion
Minister of Militia, being questioned on
the subject, IN Montreal, on the 9th.
discredIted the reports of coming
trouble, but added that "everythine
was ready to equip any force of the
militia"
The Senate on the 18th in Executive
session confirmed Benjamin f. Jones
tn be Collector of Customs at New
Orleans; also the following to be
Civil Service Commissions Aired p.
EdgertOn. Of Indiana; w. L Tren-
holm, of South Carolina; and Dormap
B. Eaton, of New York. 1t is said
that when Mr.. Eaton's nomination
came up Senator Logan objected that
"he was a 'Mugwump,' and that the
spirit of the Civil Service law required
that one Of the Commissioners be a
Republican" Senators Evarts, Hoar
and Il ar two others vouched for his
Republicanism. There are said to bave
been IA votes against him, one-half of
which were Republicans
The Democratic caucus of the Ohio
Legislature ON the 18th complimented
Allen G.. Thurman with the nominal
ton for U. S. Senator.
Comptroller Cannon has returned
to Washington and resumed his official
duties.
The temperature is slowly moder-
ating in the extreme Northwest, the
marking at Helena Montana, on the
18th having been 10 above zero.
Governor Foraker, Of Ohio, waf
installed on the HI at Columbus.
There was a brillian. parade of civic
and military organizations. Governor
Hoadley, in delivering the commission
10 his successor, gave expression OF his
personal good will towards the new
Governor.
Conductor George Black, injured
in the railroad collision at Wilmington,
on the 9th, died on the 18th. 1t il
hoped the others injured will recover
The annual meeting Of the stock
holders of the Philadelphia and Read
ing Railroad Company was held in AS.
ISOLATION Hall on the 18th. Mr.. Gowep
was elected President and |. V. vii.
hanson, John Wanamaker, A. j. An
telo, Peter G. Hollis, Mark W. Wat
son. David Hostetter, Managers.
The Senate on the 18th, confirmed
about one hundred nominations, in
Guiding Assistant Chiefs of Depart.
ments and Bureaus in Washington, and
he following postmasters for New
Jersey; Harriet + Cadmus, South
Amboy; w. X. Vansciver, Beverly;
Jacob G. Van Ripper, Rutherford; Chas.
Rittenhouse, Hackettstown; John Fot
hergill, Perth Amboy; Augustus w
Irons, Toms River; Thomas G. Bunnell.
Newton; George w Evans, Ocean
Grove; Fred. b. BardOn, Madison;
William II. Bennett, Long Branch.
Conrad +. Jordan, of New Jersey, was
confirmed as Treasurer of the United
States, and @. A. Dougherty, of Penn
sylvania. as Secretary of Legation at
Rome.
The Supreme Court of New Mexico
on the 11th decided to recognize Col.
William Breeder as Attorney General
of that Territory. Two months ago
Governor Ross attempted to remove
Breeder, whose time had not expired,
and appoint II. b. Mclaughlin.
The Ohio House of Representatives
on the 18th, adopted a report u~nseating
the nine Democratic members from
Hamilton county and their nine Re
publican competitors were sworn in.
Subsequently each branch Of the Legis-
lature voted for United States Senator.
In the Senate A. G.. Thurman received
20 votes and John Sherman II. In the
House, Sherman received 81 votes and
Thurman Al.
The Legislature Of Utah met in
biennial session on the 9th and organ
izad All tho mambpra of both hrappb-