The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-28


James Cummins, local manager for the
r. G. Dun Commercial Agency in Day
ton. Ohio, who committed suicide Of
the 22d, are $1,000 short. Mrs. Cum.
minis will get 5000 life insurance.
B. +. Boydstor shot and fatally
wounded Miss Lulu Frazier, in Cooper,
Texas, on the afternoon Of the 23d.
and then committed suicide. The cou-
pie were engaged to be married. The
knot was to have been tied on the
evening of the 21st, but the young wo
mar postponed the wedding and the
shooting was the result. In the Dis
trict Court in Maiden, Massachusetts,
on the cath, Mrs. Abby III. Conner
was placed under $1,000 bail to answer
a charge of manslaughter for causing
the death OF her daughter, Mrs. Lottie
A. James, 'the victim of the Christ
ian science affair at Medford on the
10TH" William Train, a thief and
''bunco steerer,' has been arrested III
New York for causing the death of his
pal, Red" Leary, the notorious bank
burglar, by hurting a brick at his
head OIL the evening of the 2lst. He
claims that the affair was accidental.
"A revolving saw in Kent u Co.'S.
wooden a factory, at Cory, Penna.,
burst on the evening of the oath, kill
ing Embert l.. Biship and dangerously
injuring Lynn Perkins. A fire oc-
Cured in IA tenement house in East
Twenty-eighth street, New York. OIL
the evening of the 9th. A woman
supposed TO be Miss Lizzie Cook, was
burned to death. Michael Cook, james
Walter and Catherine Maloney were
injured i'll jumping from the windows,
the first named, it is thought. fatally.
"A despatch from Jacksonville,
Florida, says the reports of yellow fever
at Plant City, twenty miles north OF
Tampa. prove to be exaggerated. The
village has a population OF 300. Since
last October there have been 80 cases
of illness and only II deaths. All the
unaccllmated persons have moved
away and energetic measures are now
being adopted to stamp out the disease.
1t is thought at Dubuque, Iowa,
that the river has reached its height.
The levee is wholly covered by water
up to the sidewalk of the buildings.
The low northwestern portion of the
city is quite inundated, but the worst
is over. The freshet in the Galena
river, at Galena. Illinois, has resulted
in considerable damage thus far, and ii
IS feared greater loss will follow. as the
water is still rising. 1t has flooded the
wood and lumber yard on the west
bank of the river, inundated the freight
depot of the Chicago, Burlington AND
Northern, and is gradually creeping ny
Green street, threatening to surround
the Post Office and Custom Honse, as
it did in 1889.
AT Yonkers, New York, on the
afternoon of the 25.h, while a number
of men were working i'll a sewer
trench, lG feet deep, a water-pipe burst,
causing the sides of the ditch to cave
In and dlling the trench with earth and
water. Six men were buried, two OF
whom were taken out alive. ia.
others-Patrick Kennedy, Reuben
Oscar, NJ. Flynn and Michael Vail
were taken out dead. Michael Kennedy
is missing.
Mile. Deaco. a slack wire peTfor-
mer. gave an open air exhibition In
front of the Opera House in Steuben.
vile, Ohio, on the evening OF the oath
The wire was stretched from the hotel
window to "A tree on the opposite side
of the street, a distance OF 100 feet,
| with a fall of one foot in two. When
In mid air the apparatus gave way, and
the woman fell and was fatally injured.
Her real name is Annie Wilson, OF
Philadelphia.
"A horse Miss Eta Plnney was
driving through the streets of Dublin,
IL suburb of Columbus, ONO, on the
evening of the oath, ran away. The
young woman was thrown out in such
Il way that her hair, which was loose,
caught and wound around the hub, and
she was dragged about 80 yards, when
the shafts broke, releasing the horse.
1t was necessary TO remove the wheel
and take it home with the girl, IS her
hair was matted with the oil aud dirt
so that 1t could not be unwound. MIS-
Pinney was not fatally injured.
In Lynchburg, Virginia, there wa,
heavy frost during the evenings OF tht
| G,u dtlu Atlhs w At al "a to'NN
places. Great anxiety is felt TOR The
fruit.
Joseph Il. Evans made an unsuc'
cessful attempt TO kill his wife, il
Reading, Penna., on the 25th, but sue
ceeded III taking his own life with a re-
volver. Evans was % years old. Tht
couple had been married but "A shOr1
time, and Evans threatened his wifi
because she attended balls against HI.
wishes. William Bullock shot aut
killed his wife in Newark, New, Jersey
on the 25th, and then fatally wounded
himself. Jealousy was the cause. Sam
uel Dew shot and killed Edward ii
Davis, Assistant Marshal of Nelson
vile, OHIO, on the night OF the oath, ant
then committed suicide. DAVIS arrest
ed Dew recently for fast driving.
The Secretary of the Treasury or
The 25th accepted tenders of bonds t.
the amount OF s., 81 900. The pay
ments from the Treasury on account of
the bonds purchased this week agGre
gate about 81 300 1000, The Comp
troller of the Currency has authorized
the Monongahe.a National Bank o.
Pittsburg to begin business with I
capital of S250,O0O.
dennis Meredith, II years of age
was squeezed to death between two
freight cars while playing with otheI
boys in the Wilmington and Northern
Railroad yard at Wilmington, Della
ware on the afternoon of the 25th.