The Penn's Grove record., 1886-09-11
NUMBER 6.

There has been no rain in Jones
and StonewalI counties, Texas. o.
fourteen months, and most of the set
tiers have left. Those who remain,
about four hundred families, are in a
state of extreme restitution. 1t Is be-
lieved that throughout the drought
affected section perhaps, 1000 families
are destitute.
E. 2. Hammond, a professor in
CORVALLIS, Oregon, "fOretells terrific
cyclones, earthquakes and tornadoes
for September &c, p and 28." He also
makes the safer prediction that ''cy-
clonic disturbances may be expected
September IA and 15."
During a shooting ARRAY at a local
option election. at DaleyYille, Texas,
on the 9th, three men were killed, one
Of them the Sheriff, and six others
were wounded, two dangerously. At
Liberty, Virginia, or the 9th, two
young men named Wilson and Fizer,
quarrclled about a Colored woman In a
house of evil repute. Wilson shot and
fatally wounded Fizer, and he is sup
posed to nave killed the woman also,
as her body was afterwards found near
the house with a bullet wound in the
head. John Schmidt, a saloon keeper,
of Newark, New Jersey, on the 7tb,
Shot and killed. his wife and then at
tempted suicide, but failed. Jealousy
was the cause. Henry Smith, aged 10
years, on the 9Th, killed an old farmer
named Peek with a club, near West
Union, Iowa. lie also fatally wounded
Mrs. Peek and severely wounded a
man named Leonard, and attempted to
burn the house. The only reason given
is that there had been a quarrel about
pay for work done. John II. Oliver,
aged 63 years, shot and fatally wounded
his wife Mary, in Buffalo, on the 7th.
They had not lived together for more
than a year, and she had refused to re-
turn to him.
There was a very slight earthquake
shock at Charlestown on the 9TH, but
its weakness confirmed the belief that
"the subterranean disturbances are
working themselves out" The feeling
of hOpefulness among the people is in
creasing, and the arrival of Mayor
Courtney on the 9TH ''puts everybody
in better spirits" He at once went to
work to systematic and arrange the
relief measures. lone of the first steps
was to constitute as the relief commit
tee the Joint committee of the Cham
Der of Commerce, Merchants Ex-
change aLd Cotton Exchange appointed
by the City Council. The several ex-
changes are represented on the com
mittee, and Mayor Courtney will be
chairman" Slight earthquake pulsa-
lions were felt all day on the 7th in
Savannah, and at 4.40 z. NJ. a sharp
shock sent people rushing into the
streets. No damage was done, how
were felt on the 7th in Augusta, n at
11,30 A. NJ, the other at 4.30 p. NJ.
4 severe shock of earthquake, preceded
by a noise ''like an explosion of dyna-
mite, " wa felt at La on the 7th in
Evansville, Indiana.
"A cable dispatch received in Bos-
ton reports that a terrible hail storm,
accompanied by high wind, recently
prevailed III Paris and its envlrons. 1t
was most severe in the suburbs, where
it destoyed trees, fruit and vegetables.
Large trees were torn to shreds by the
hail. The loss to glass and to gardens
is estimated at 81, 600 900. The Bots
de V|lncennes has the appearance of a
forest riddled by shot. a telegram
from Havana, received on the 7th, says
several springs have recently appeared
near the village of CeibadelaGua, near
Havana, the water from which has
formed a large lake, threatening the
village with inundatlOn. Several plan
tations and factories are already subs
merged, and the water, which is now
three feet deep, is slowly invading the
village. a large number of the inhabi-
tants have left the town. The civil
| Governor of Havana and the munich
pal architect have gone to the scene.
! "A train going from Farnham to
Longueuil in Quebec, on the 9th,
being too heavy to control, ran on Il
switch and showed five cars which
were already there out to and across
the main line, and through a wooden
house occupied by two families, into
a f|ve-foot ditch ON the other side OF
the house. OF the five inmates OF the
house a four-year.old boy was killed
and an old woman fatally Injured,
AT Rochester, New York, on the
9th, a driver on a canal boat attempted
to push tho bridge from the boat to the
towpath, but could not hold it. The
hook which fastens the bridge to the
boat caught him in the throat. tear
ing it open and throwing him into the
water. The bridge fell on him break
ing his neck"
"A safe in J. G. Harrison's com
mission store IN Newark, New Jersey,
was robbed on the 9th, of over $40, Coz.
The stolen property consisted of two
city loan bonds, Nos. 44O and AL, of
$40, 600 each, due Sept. 20, 1886, and
drawn to the order of the Second Pres
byterian Church, of which Mr.. Harrl-
son is treasurer; several bank books be-
longing to the same society, and a note
for $500. Payment on the securities
has been stopped.
Lee Riey, aged IS years, died on
the 7th, in Williamsport, Penna,, from
the effects OF a wound received by the
accidental discharge Of his gun while
hunting on the 4th.