The Penn's Grove record., 1886-07-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK

Captain LawUon surprised a band
of hostile Indians on the Yaqul river,
in Sonora, a few days ago, and captured
10 horses and several hundred pounds
of dried beef. The Indians fled in all
directions.
AT Lancaster, Penna.. on the 23d,
James Henry, alias Charley Wise, alias
Henry Lindon, was arrested charged
with having stolen a horse IN Carroll
county. Maryland, last April, and with
having burned the barn in order to con-
ceal the crime. The prisoner is 6o
years of age, and was released from the
Lancaster County Prison in August Of
last year, after having served fourteen
years Of a twenty-year term for an
offence similar to that for which he is
now under arrest.
Benjamin Aston, a leading planter
of Georgetown county, South Carolina,
writes to the Georgetown Enquirer a
doleful account of affairs there, the
result of the flood. He says: "Men
have been to him asking for work, and
saying they had eaten the last food in
their houses. Thousands are in the
same condition where he is and else
where in the county. The disastrous
result of last years cropping caused
many to begin the year in debt, aud
they are stopped from what they might
otherwise do. He thinks the people
re on the brink Of famine, and sug-
gests the converting of the Legislature
for relief"
AT Butte, Montana, on the 23d j.
w. Moore shot and killed Joseph Hen
derson and then killed himself. They
had trouble about money.
Lincoln SproIe and Calvin James,
the latter colored were hanged or the
23d at Fort Smith, Arkansas, for MUIR
ders committed in the Indian Terri
tory.
"A party of tour sts from Boston on
the oath, visited the famous snow arch
in Tuckerman's Ravine, on the side
of Mount Washington, New Hamp-
shire. After lunchiDg, a young lady
named Pierce and Sewell Faunce, aged
Is years, ventured to explore the arch,
when it suddenly fell with a crash car
! rying down both. Miss Pierce vas
rescued alive, though dangerously in
jured, but Faunce was buried deep IN
the drift. The leader of the party
sought help, and a number Of hotel
employees and signal service men from
the top of the mountain dug out
Faunce's lifeless body. John Kane and
| George Gould, carpenters, were dam
| gerously injured at Bridgeport, Con-
necticut, ON the oath, by the fall of a
derrick. Two bricklayers. named
Cruise and Decker, were fatally injured
by the fall of a scaffold, at Dayton,
Ohio, on the 23d.
The latest advlces from Sonora say
that ''the Mexican army officers are
thoroughly diSheartened and disguised
| with the YaquI war. The YaquIs num-
| Der about 5000 well-armed men and
have defeated the Government troops
badly. About 200 Yaquis have been
captured and shot. The orders were
given to shoot all Yaquis found. This
order was met by a counter. order by
Cajeme to kill all Mexicans. The re-
suit is that many more Mexicans have
been killed than Yaouis."
The New Haven Saw Mill Com.
pany's mill in New Haven, Connectl-
cut, was burned on the oath. Loss.
$50 600; insurance, S27, 900. Several
firemen were injured, two severely. A
jewelry factory in Attleborough. Mas,
sachusetts, occupied by several parties
was damaged by fire on the oath to the
extent of nearly $35, 000.
1t is reported from Hutchinson,
Minnesota, that several sudden deaths
having occurred there, an investigation
was made which showed that the vic
Tins had been eating picked beef con-
tanning poison. The butcher protested
he had never sold poisoned meat, and
to prove the assertion gave some to his
| two children. who quickly died.
-Tnere was a fight at Hazard,
| Kentucky, several days ago, between
the French and Eversole factions.
1.-THE Eversole party were outnumber-
| ed and taken by surprise, and retreated
after a revolver fight of several minutes
resulting In the killing of II of the
| French party and the wounding of
three others. In a subsequent engage
| ment French and Eversole. are said to
have both been killed.
A telegram from Atlanta, Georgia,
| reports the performance on the oath by
a professor" Leon. from Ohio, of the
most ~foolhardy feat of rope walking yet
| recorded. HE crossed the Grand
| Chasm at Tallulah Falls, on an inch
and a half rope, fifteen hundred feet
long and suspended from cliff to cliff,
al a height of twelve hundred feet
above the rapids" Four thousand
people witnessed the feat.
Hugh Gavigan, Postmaster at
| Columbus, Kansas, has been convicted
| of conspiracy to blow up the County
| Court House and thus destroy the
| record of certain land frauds. Several
| other conspirators await trial.
"A severe storm prevailed on the
| goth, throughout Western Pennsylvania,
| doing damage estimated at S350, 900.
| Houses were Hooded and struck by
lightning, crops destroyed, and trees
| and fences washed away. Almost every
| railroad entering Pittsburg suffered
from land slides and washouts. But
| the fury of the elements was probably
| the greatest along the Pittsburg and
| Western road. Whole fields of wheat
and corn have been destroyed and at
| one point, near Evans City, a strip of
| woodland, seventy-five yards wide by
three-quarters of a mile long, was
levelled by a tornado. AT Pine Creek,
| along Butchers Run, and In the Sc
wickley Valley the water flooded the
houses and many families were forced
TO leave their houses and seek places OF
safety. In the country districts a num-
Der of persons we're injured and two
killed by lightning.
Two herders and their horses were
killed by lightning near Andrew sta.
ton. Nebraska on the 25th.
The drought in Colorado and Wis
consiu has been ended by coPious
rains. In Colorado all the crops are
hourishing. In Wisconsin the relief
will come too late In some sections,
though 1t will save the crops in many.
A telegram from Chicago says ''the
continued lack of rain IN many portions
of the country is awakening serious
alarm. The effects are already begin
ming to be felt, and $he facts do
not warrant very great eilcouragement.
1t is exactly the time % year when the
great staple of the Wa IS in its crit
zeal period. The cord IS Just now
tassellng and ripeni"