The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

AT Augusta Centre, near Utica,
New Yoik, on the morning OF the
10th, Norton Metcalf, aged IS years,
walked home from church with the
wife of Virgil jackson. When the
couple reached Jackson's house the
husband came out and q quarrel en-
sued, in which Metcalfe was shot dead
by the jealous husband. Jackson gave
himself up and said ne did the shoot
ing in self-defence.
james Benson, a prominent stock
dealer, was shot and probably fatally
injured on the evening of the 9th, in
Little Rock, Arkansas, by Henry
Somers, q negro, who was doOrtender
at a colored dance. Benson went to
the dance to see a man on business,
and was denied admittance. On trying
to force his way in he was shot. Smith
Murphy shot and killed Patrick Tyner.
at Tarrytown, New York, on the 2Sth.
They were both colOred men, and en-
ployed on the new a~queduct. The
Court of Appeals in Galveston, Texas,
on the 2Stb, affirmed tie verdict of the
lower Court in the Thumm murder
case. Thumm was Sheriff of Medina
county, and was convicted Of the MUIR
der of j. w. Hildebrandt, a young
attorney of San Antonio, and sentenced
to 25 years. Imprisonment.
-Pleuro-pneumonia has appeared
among the cattle stabbed in Hudson
county, New Jersey. Eight cows,
owned by Jacob Platz, W killed OH
the 2Sth by order of DR.. William
Dimond, Chief Inspector of the Bureau
of Animal Industry Of the United
States Department Of Agriculture. He
has also ordered % COWS out of a herd
of 1888 owned by Henry Friesberg to
be killed. The milk from Friesberg's
dairy was sent to New York city until
DR.. Dimond interfered.
Charles Crescelius, a young scoun-
drel who about q year ago deserted his
wife and four children and ran away
with a girl named Laswell, was taken
from a house near Boston, Ind, on the
evening of the 2Sth, by the ''White
Caps" and given fifty lashes on the
bare back. The lashes were laid on
savagely. and the screaming wretch
was directed to 60 heme to his wife
and children and take care of them,
the White Cap spokesman informing
him that any attempt to leave the
neighborhood would be frustrated and
visited with a greater punishment still.
He promised to do as ordered, and was
let go.
The harbor at Newport, Rhode
Island, is frozen over. The ther nom.
eter there registered 6 degrees below
zero on the morning Of the Goth.
The Norwegian bark FraTino,
from Pensacola for Montevideo, with d
cargo of timber, went ashore at Tortu-
gas Keys on the 18th.
"A sudden food at Mouhnette. neaI
Cornwall, Ontario, swept away a card
Ing mill and aportion of a grist mill.
undermining the rest OF the building.
1t is now thought that ninety lives
were lost In the Wellington CELERY ex-
plosioD, which occurred at Victoria,
British Columbia. on the 24th. The
bodies of twenty-nine miners were taken
out on the evening of the oath, and
about seventy more are still in the
mine. About three-fourths of those
still In the mine are Chinamei
All possible means are being
used t. recover the bodies, the great
est obstacle being tue after damp.
"A despatch from Pottsvile says
work was resumed OIL the 25th at
BrOoks'de, Suffolk, Locust Spring and
Keystone colleries of the. Reading
Company, and at the William Penn, ali
individual operation. The latter is
working full handed, the ,thers with
a partial force The Enterprise collier,
at Shamokin was also started. 1t ~
SAID tnat-the reply Of the MINERS COM
mittee to President COrbin,S manifesto
Is constructed by many of tue miners a.
releasing them from obligations to sup
port the railroads. strike aud many
will gladly return to work.
"A telegram from Brentwood
Texas, says City Marshal Butler and
wife were kept up nearly all of the
night of the oath, by u sick child.
About 3 A. NJ. both fell asleep with
the baby lying between them. When
they awoke the baby vas gone. A
search discovered it dead in a cistein.
No servants were employed and the
only theory held is that one of the par
ents drowned the child In a ht OF sOn-
nambulism. Whoever did the terrible
act carried the child through the house
opened and closed two doors, and, af-
ter putting it in the cistern, replaced
the cistern v and set. the water
bucket on top of it. The parents are
frantic.
Edward Reeves, arrested In John
on county, Texas. a few days ago, on
IKE charge Of having been connected
with the robbery OF a Southern Pacific
train at Flatonia. last fall, was brought
to San Antonio on the Both ult. He
confessed his guilt.
An express tram on the Bee Line
dashed into MIncie, Indiana, on the
morning of the Both ult. and crashed
INTO a freight engine standing near
the depot. The alr-brakes of the ex-
press were unmanageable, and the
train could not be checked. Both en-
gines, two palace cars. several coaches
and freight cars were burned by the
fire which broke out. A freight ell.
gineer was severely hurt. The pas
sengers ana other train hands escaped
injury. A freight tram on the Lake
Shore and Michigan Southern Rail
road went through a bridge near Pine
Station, Indiana, early on the morn
ing OF the 3Oth ult- A brakeman
named Cooler was killed. While other
train hands were searching for his body
with a lantern d quantity of naphtha
which had leaked from a $500 gallon
tank was ignited aud the cars were
burned. Two freight trains ON the
Reading Railroad cOllided near Mohrs-
vile, Berks county, on the. morning OF
the Both nit. All engine aud Is cars
were smashed, and two employees we're
injured.
Colonel t. J. Williams, a promi-
nent lawyer of Palestine, Texas, was
shot and killed on the 18th ult., by
George ID. Hunter, son of a widow
whom Williams had insulted. AT
Center Sidney, a town adjoining Au
gusta, Name, Edward Wentworth, 40
years old, was fatally shot. He has
a family of thirteen children, all of
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