The Penn's Grove record., 1886-05-22


taken from the jail and lynched by a
mob. James Jemison and Charles
Jones, colored BARRIERS, quarrelled IN
Chicago on the 18th and Jones nearly
severed tensions head from his body
with a razor. Victor COlquitt, 80
years OF age, was found on the street
in Jersey City on the 18th, with his
skull featured, and he died while being
taken to the hospital. 1t was reported
that he had quarTelled with two canal
boatmen, and that ore Of them had
knocked him down.
"A nan named Glenn, Just arrived
In Ell Paso, Texas, from Sonora, Mex
leo, gives an account of the atrocities
of Geronimo and his Apaches in So
nora and Southern Arizona: 1.-The In
dams seem encouraged, and are more
bloodthirsty than for several months,
and Mexicans and then families, as
well as the Americans, are indiserim-
inately butchered when found. Three
surveyors who recently went into the
mountains have disappeared, and no
traces of them can be found. There
is no doubt they were ~butchered.
Northern Sonora is terribly excited
over the report that a body of Next
cans, numbering fifty men, have been
surrounded in tbs mountains and are
in danger Of being massacred."
"A number of men gathered at a
house at the Cliff Mine, near Pittsburg,
on the 18th, ''to spend the evening""
and one of them, Frederick Howcroft,
got into a fight with Weston Butler,
colored. Butler drew u knife and
slashed HoWcroft, who called for help.
The others wished to stop the fight,
but Butler, sIashing right and left with
the knife at all who got within his
reach, succeeded in escaping. Five
men were cut, two of them. Howcroft
and Joseph Yates, perhaps fatally.
While two sections of a train carry
ing Forepaugh's circus was going up a
grade on the Syracuse and Binghamton
railroad on the l4th the first section
broke in two and dashed into the other
throwing it into a ditch. Several men
were severely injured.
BY an explosion of hot metal in the
converting department of the Bessemer
Steel Works at JohDstown. Penna., on
the 18th five men and a boy were severe
ly injured. ALI are expected to ecover.
-Chesley Perkins, aged Al years, was
found dead in bed with his throat cut,
at Pittsburg, New Hamsphire, on the
18th. One year ago his father died,
leaving him $40, 900.
Patrick Reddington, city marshal
of Shannon, Illinois, was killed by
Charles Lashell, on the 14th. Red
was trying to arrest Lashell,
who was drunk, when the latter cut
him in the neck with a razor.
The Cincinnati Art Museum, built
through the munlficence of the late
Charles w. West, who gave Sl50,000
upon the condition that the citl zens
should give a like SUM and who after
wards gave $780, 900 to endow tie
museum. was thrown open to the public
on the 18th. The ceremonies included
brief addresses by Mr.. NJ. E. ingalls,,
President of the Art Museum Associa-
ton; A. L. Goshorn, director, and
Amor Smith, Jr., Mayor, and vocal and
instrumental music. The building is of
limestone, is flre-proof, well lighted
ard entirely isolated except that a
building for the Art School of
kindred purpose stands neal it. The
situation is one of the highest points in
Eden Park. There il already a very
valuable collection of art treasures in
the new building.
Mrs. James Collins was on the
18th found murdered in her bed in
Hoboken, New Jersey. Her husband
has been arrested for the crime. The
wife of Theodore Charland, of Lewis,
Quebec, was found murdered in her
house on the 10Th. Her husband,
who was the only person in the house
at the time, has been arrested. A
telegram from Danville, Virginia, re-
ports a desperate fight at Martins
vile on the 18th between between
Colonel P. d. Spencer and the Terry
brothers. j. X. Terry was killed, and
Spencer, Tarleton Brown, Hugh Dyer,
Robert Gregory and two negroes were
fearfully, if not fatally wounded.
Colonel Bart. Jenkins, Sergeant
alarms of the Kentucky Senate, quar-
relied on the 18th with his son William
at a botel dinner table in Frankfort.
The father threw a glass at the son,
and the latter fred a revolver at the
but neither "a hurt.
The latest reports Of the tornado at
Ohio on the 18th show that
three persons were killed and seven in-
iured. Three of the latter were not ex-
to recover
The President has signed the bill
granting the Kensington and Tacony
railroad the right of way through the
Arsenal grounds at Philadelphia.
An unknown, well.dressed man,
lnder forty years of age, who said he
was from Camden. New Jersey, and
lad family troubles, committed suicide
the 18th by jumping from a bridge
1t Pittsburg.
AT Joliet, Illinois, on the 18th. AL
bert Miller. &c years Of age, and Mrs.
a widow of As, were found dead
Miller's room, each with a bullet
hole IN the head. Mrs. Black had lived
with Miller some time. She was twice
married, and both her husbands died
suddenly.
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