The Penn's Grove record., 1886-08-28


chusetts, stopped payment and manu-
facture on the goth. The trouble was
caused by losses by the floods last
spring and the suspension of the Bridge.
water Iron Company. The last certif-
cate of the condition of the company
was as follows: Assets-Real Estate,
$40, 900; machinery, 10000; cash and
debts receivable, $4S, 205; stock, mater
ial, etc., S121, 967; profit and loss,
$42. 170. Total, 1912 ,342. Liabilities
Capital stock, $3.50, 600; debts, $780,
342. Total, S312.342.
-Advices received from Galveston,
Victoria, Corpus Christi, Seguin,
Luling, Hampstead and other points in
Texas, give details of the damage done
by the great storm on the Doth. AT Gal
weston ten lives were lost, and the dam
age to property is estimated at S500,00 0
There was loss of life at the other points
also and heavy damage to property.
Houses were removed from their foun.
dations, large trees were uprooted and
fences and outbuildings were swept
away. Several boats were capsized,
and one large vessel was beached at
Harbor Island. The sooner J. w.
Perry foundered, and Captain Whit.
more and the colored cook were
drowned. The schooner Livonia Per
kins was also capsized and three per
sons were drowned.
j. S. Vandoren, cashier of the
Sonora County Bank. in Petaluma,
| California, was arrested on the 21st for
embezzling S37, 900 of the banks funds.
He has been in the bank for eighteen
years, and the de~falcation extends
over that period. Vandoren denies the
enlightenment, and says his books will
balance.
Frank Deman, a laborer, murdered
his wife and shot himself at their home
IN Chicago on the 21st. Drew johnson,
a farmer, living near Glen Allen, Mis-
souri,, while laboring under temporary
arrangement on the 20, shot his wife
through the head and then put a bal
into his own brain. DR.. c. G. Beers,
OF Boston, was arrested on the 21st OF
the charge of numbering, in coniunc-
ton with Mrs. Sarah Jane Robinson,
the latter's daughter, Lizzie A. Robin.
son, by administering poison to her.
The mother is now in Jail on the charge
of poisoning her son w J.. Robinson.
DR.. L. S. Biting, a young physi'
clan in Baltimore, committed suicide
on the Dist, by shooting himself through
the head. Henry Wolfe, 20 years of
old, and an old lady named Starchmen,
aged 60 years, who had been keeping
hOpco for Wotfo in a littIa buf in Cadal
Rapids, Iowa, committed suicide, prob
ably on the 18th, as their bodies wert
considerably decomposed when found
on the Goth.
"A carriage containing four girk
! was struck by an express train neaI
Hillsboro Bridge, New Hampshire, OF
the Dist. Jessie Colby was instantly
killed. Blanche F. Colby fatally ant
Nellie Flanders and Norah Coly Sc
verely injured. Andrew Sutton anG
A. Diehl, aged rs and rs respectively
were found dead on the Pennsylvania
Railroad, near Lilly Station, on the
21st. Both were terribly mangled.
Two trains on the metropolitan
Branch of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad collided where the roat
crosses M street, in Washington, Tor
the 21st. Seven persons were injured,
but there was no loss of life
On the 21st a phaeton, containing
a colored driver and the three childreE
of Charles We'll, a prominent mer'
chant, fell thirty feet off a rotten
bridge III Little Rock, Arkansas. One
child was killed and the two Others
seriously injured. The driver was IA
tally hurt.
p. It. Eversman was found on the
21st murdered in his store, twelve
miles from Salisbury, Maryland. He
was known TO have "A considerable
amount of money, all of which was sto'
len. A large party has gone in search
of John Robinson, colored. james
Baird, proprietor of a disreputable
house in Scranton, Penna., had his
skull fractured during a drunken row,
on the 21st, and died on the 22d. Sew
eral arrests have been made.
William j. kendal, of Boston, on
the 22d swan successfully in a cork
vest the whirlpool rapids of the Niagara
river. The trial was to settle Il wager
of ten thousand dollars, made by Bos-
ton parties, he to receive one thousand
dollars of the stakes. There were but
few spectators.
The ferry boat New Brunswick, OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry line,
colllded with the piles at New York
with such force on the Dist that in the
recoil an Adams express wagon was
thrown into the water, Patrick Nc
Nulty, a deck hand, in irving to stop
the wagon, was dragged over and
drowned. The horses were drowned,
but the wagon and baggage were re-
covered. Another horse belonging to
the railroad was also thrown INTO the
water and drowned.
"A small row boat was upset on
Lake Minnetonka, Minnesota, during
a storm on the 21st. Robert I, Hubert
w. b. Jackson, Jr., and his hired man
were drowned.
"A cablegram received in Boston on
the 22d, from DIR. Kruger. at kiel, an
nounces the discovery of Winnecke's
comet from the observatory at Cape
Town, Africa. The following is the
discovery position: August 20, 2h. Am.
los, Greenwich mean time; right as
cension, 10 hours, 10 min., 2l.5 sec.
declinatlon south, l deg, s mln., II
sec. The comet has a circular nebpl-
osity, one minute in diameter, with
some central condensation and no tail.
1t is about as bright al a tenth magni-
tude star.
The deficit in the accounts of
Colonel Bolten. late superintendent OF
second class matter in the pOst-otlice IN
Chicago, continues TO increase, and now
amounts to between $4,000 and Sl6,-
900 in all.
j. b. Murphy, Master Workman
of District Assembly No "a, Knights
of Labor, in Chicago, dropped dead at
his home on the 22d. He recently sus-
pended two entire assemblies OF
Knights, owing to their Communistic
membership. Isaac f. Mack died in
Chicago ON the 23d, aged so years. lie
was principal OF the first free school in
Cincinnati, and founded the free
schools at Rochester, New York, of
which he was superintendent for eleven
years. Amos Adams Lawrence, died