The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-21
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The loss is estimated at from $4,000
to $4,000.
An attempt was made to wreck a
train on the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad, near Lenape station, on the
18th, by placing two heavy logs across
the track at a curve on a high embanK-
ment. A freight train running very
slow ran into the obstruction, and tie
engine was thrown from the track
"A courier arrived at Fort Hua-
chuca, Arizona, on the 10Th, with de-
spatches from Lieutenant Richards,
dated B%aqueehi, Mexico, in which he
said Indians amlushed and killed John
O'Brlen, John Thompson and B.
Hatcher, and wounded two men named
Floyd and Mclean.
DIR. William Cruice, of PhIladel-
phia, was taken with a ht while bathing
at Spring Lake on the 18th and was
drowned in water less than three feet
deep. Vivian NJ. Shaw, of MOrTistown,
New Jersey, was drowned at the same
place. lie was attacked with cramps.
Tobroff Peterson, and two women,
Christina Tenders and Christina Han
sen. all Swedes, were drowned in lSari-
tan bay, on the 10th. They were out
rowing and the boat capsized.
Colonel Cecu valentine, of
Hackettstown, New Jersey, died at the
Toronto General Hospital on the 10Th.
He went to Toronto with the Knights
of Pythias, and to several persons said
he was commissioned by the United
States Government to visit Canada and
investigate the fishery dispute. The
cause of death issaid to be the bursting
of a blood vessel.
"A wind storm, accompanied by
torrents of rain aud a brilliant display
Of electricity, visited Chicago on the
10th. A large brick building in course
of erection and a new frame house
were blown down. Anumber OF CHM
neys were destroyed.
"A heavy wind and rain storm Wis.,
ted the vicinity of Aberdeen, Dakota,
on sthe 10th, and swept over a fifty
mile radius, doing more damage than
Iany previous storm. AT Newark -four
persons were killed and n fatally in
iured. Among the victims were the
wife and child of John Cakes, and
Mrs. Waite. The names OF the other
persons were not ascertained. Mrs.
Felix Broussard, of New Iberia,
Louisiana, threw herself under a train
on the 10th, and was killed. She was
a widow and 80 years old. Size had
been a sufferer for a number of years
from neuralgia, and was also a SOM
%nambulist, 1t is supposed that she
was in a somnambulic state at the
time of the occurrence. The storm in
Marion County, West Virginia, on the
10th, was very severe. Dankard Mill
Run rose suddenly and the entire family
of lJohn SoudeTly, consisting of his
wife ana four children, were drowned.
The dead body of Miss Lou Nab
bltt. who was abducted a week ago
from her home, near Young America,
Indiana, by Amos Green, has been
found neal Lafayette. The girls head
was beaten in, as though with a club.
Green is still at large. Mr.. Davis, Sta
ton Agent of the Ohio and Mississippi
Railroad at Huron Station, Ohio, was
murdered by a tramp On the 18th. Mr..
Davis was ~endeavoring to put the
tramp out of the station when he re-
ceived d fatal stab. The tramp was
caught, taken to a neighbOrlng tree
and hanged by citizens. During an
alteration in Chicago on the 10th,
Frank Packard hit DR.. +. L. Trow.
bridge with his fist, and knocked him
down. lie died in a few minutes, 1t is
supposed from heart disease, superin-
duced by Packard's blow.
Several attempts were made by
miscTeants in Chicago on the 18th to
wreck trans on the Rock Island and
Lake Shore Railroads. Detectives are
at work and several arrests have been
made. The police of South Chicago
found a bomb on the track of the Lake
Shore road near the depot III the alter
noon. 1t was of gas pipe, Is inchts
long, both ends being plugged with
wood. 1t was taken to the lake shore
and exploded.
Benjamin Johnson and W. c. Fin
ley were killed by DR.. Lister, near Cay
uga, Mississippi, on the l4tb. They
/ had attacked the doctor, and Finley
cut him in the arm and breast with a
knire. DR.. Lister was tried on the
10th, and discharged on the ground
that he had acted in self.defence.
"A despatch from Duluth says tie
steamboat Queen of the Lake, the only
boat on Lake VermiliOn, has been
burned and is Il total loss. She was
used as a pleasure boat, and was nearly
new. She was valued at $4,000.
-Unfavolable reports are being re-
ceiyed from every part of Eastern
Texas respecting cotton, which, owing
either to rains or extreme hot weather,
is shedding its forms rapidly. If this
continues long it will destroy the top
crop, which will reduce the yield at
least oneethird.
The business portion Of Tulare,
CalIforHia, was destroyed by fire on the
10th. Loss, $3.50, 000, insurance liG 1t.
The fire was of i~ncendiary origin.
The steamboat Sylvan Dell ran INTO
a row boat containing four men on the
18th, on the East River. Thos. Nun
tha, aged 30, jumped overheard and
was drowned. The others chung to the
wreck and were picked up.