The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-21

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Captain Ruscn, of the schooner
Four Brothers, of Racine, was knocked
overheard by a boom and drowned while
the vessel was entering Manitowoc,
Wisconsin,, on the 18th.
Governor Beaver OH the 18th ap-
pointed George c. Fahy Recorder Of
Lancaster City, Pa. This officer is ap.
pointed under a special act, and he
serves for ten years.
"A despatch from Alma, Wiscon-
sin, says the Mississippi river there is
so high that twenty families have been
driven from their homes. The Uin-
niska boom has gone out, and 1900, 900
feet of logs have been carried away.
The damage to property is estimated at
$4,000. Logs to the value of 500, 600
have been swept away. A man, named
Deland, was drowned while trying to
save his stock. The levee one mile
south of Grand Lake, Arkansas, gave
way on the 10th, and the water ran
through the gap with terrific force.
A revasse IS also near Eunice. Arkan
sas.
"A heavy snow storm, with wind
from the south, set In on the 18th in
Northern Michigan. The nOw was
two inches on a level at East Tawas,
and still falling in the afternoon.
-Ephraim George Squier, the we'll
known explorer died in Brooklyn, New
York, on the 18th, in the 9th year of
of his age. Samuel G. Barnard, q law
yer in New York, fell in City Hall
Park. on the afternoon of the 18th,
and died so0n after being admitted to n
hospital. Cerebral hemorrhage was
the cause.
Thomas NJ. Kennedy. a wealthy
cattle dealer of Brownsville, Texas,
was Oh the Nth killed by Sheriff Jose
Maria ESposza. "A wealthy Mexican,
near Ferry Landing, Texas. The
cause was jealousy. The Mexican was
Kennedy. William O'Hearn and
Charles Green, bartenders in Ashland,
Wisconsin, got into a dispute with
two unknown men on the 10th, and
pistols were drawn by both sides,
O'Hearn was fatally wounded and
Green's leg was broken. The I'M
known men escaped. A ranchman
named Joseph Mailer, shot and killed
Tony" Thompson and wounded John
Manning, neighboring ranchman at
Glenwood Springs, Colorado, on the
morning of the 18TH. There had been
trouble over a question of water
right. w. II. IIawIey, "a leading drug.
gist, of Danbury, Connecticut, shot
and fatally wounded his bro~ther-ln-law,
Virgil Barnum, on the 18th. The
shooting was the result of Il family
quarrel. The families of Samuel
Watts and James Smothers,
near New Franklin, Missouri,
quarrelled recently about their stock.
On the 18th, while Smothers was re-
pairing a fence broken by his neigh
boris cattle, the wife of Watts stole up
behind him and killed him by discharg.
ing the contents of a shotgun into his
body. F. G.. Perry. one of the new
Burlington engineers, was set upon by
a crowd in Aurora, Illinois. on the
levening of the 10th. He drew his re
yoiyer and wounded Christian Hester
one of the strikers. Perry was arrested.
Daniel Brasset, the Chicago and Alton
Waterman who was shot in Chicago,
April 3. by tramps who were stealing a
ride, died on the 18th. G.. E. kreigh,
Brasset's companion. was killed. There
is no clue TO the murderers.
William f. Gritliths, one OF the
officers of the Central National Bank,
in New York, committed suicide on
the 18Th, by shooting himself. lie had
been i'll lately, and became very d tspon-
" nrA hAlInxfa1 70 IA.
straight. He was about so years old
Mrs. Mahala EIlingwood, Al years of
age, shot and mortally wounded her,
self in the head, in New York, on the
morning of the 18Th. She had been
ldespondent since her husbands death,
six months ago..
The loss to the manufacturing in
i~terests of Winona, Wisconsin. by the
floods Is estimated at Sl00, 900. The
Minnesota Boom Company lose logs
valued at $4,000. The river is four
c,iles wide at that place. at Trempea-
ilesu. Wisconsin, on the 18th, while five
indians were ~endeavoring to drag a Ca
noe across a raft of logs, the logs parted
and all were drowned. An engine and
six cars ran into 8 washout at Dodge,
Wisconsin. on the 18th, and were pre-
emit ated into thirty feet of water. No
lives we're lost. AT Fremont, Wiscon-
ain on the Wolf river. ten million feet
of logs were released by tue collapse OF
, bnom. The los were carried into
Lake Poggan and a be recovered but
at A expense. a gale on Lake Pc
din. Minnesota, ON tile 18th, piled the
ice mn high on the west shore. AT
Kjnq.Cooley the Milwaukee, track was
lowered with ice piled from ten to TWEEN
ty feet high. 1t had to be taken away
/, on fiat cars.
A report was received in Charles.
tss,. West Virginia on the evening o.
lSri: t.lat a man i'll Calhoun county,
who ives away selling cattle, on re-
turning t,9me late on the evening of the
18th in coap amy with Il peddler. dis.
covered 4 light in the window, ami
when he lookaG in saw his wife and his
three children ly5ng dead on the floor.
He also saw four pien in the room The
peddler drew his revolver and was told
to make a noise at the back of the house.
The men inside rushed out aud three OF
| them were killed outright, the fourth
being badly wounded. 1t Is inposal'
'bla, al pgesent to verify the story but
he slan VINO brought it is considered
r, hiable.
The separator OF 4 creamery, in
Ha ,le ton, Kansas, exploded on the
18th. severely injuring three men and
boy Il the room.
Henry Basch. who was drunk, shot
and fatally wounded his wife, at their
home IN "a eveland, Ohio, on the 18th,
| hecause sh,a refused to go TO II saloon
for beer, AT Henley, Idaho. on the
nth. Mis-. j. l.. Smith, ''driven tt
desperation by her husbands drunken
cruelty, pla essi her little mes eehint
her. seized a shot gun, faced Smith.
begged him 80 desist from threatened
fuTtt,er PEI, N&Eaons, and when he
with an oath aa his lips, leaped at her
shot him DEAF.
An elderly widos named l'aine
and her daughter. aged As years, at
,empted to pat out a BRUSH fire at theil
farm. near Gloucester, Rhode Island