The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-03

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will be devoted 10 the purchase Of
building material, household furniture
and other articles necessary to provide
the destitute and needy with shelter.
Miss Clara Barton, President OF the
Red Cross Association, has received
from the Chairman Of the Relief Com
mittee at Mount Vernon this despatch:
1.-THE cyclone at Mount Vernon caused
the death OF %; wounded, 215; over
500 houses destroyed, In which nearly
1000 people lived; 1000 homeless and
h~ouseless; about 500 being daily fed by
charity. The extent of the suffering
cannot be described. II possible,
come and help the sufferers at once"
Miss Barton and Field Agent Hubbell
will go to the scene Of suffering.
-Four masked men broke into the
house of Abram Harnish, u farmer liv-
ing near Rohrerstown, Lancaster
county, Penna., on the morning Of the
26th ult., and. presenting revolvers a!
the heads of Mr.. and Mrs. Harnish,
made them hand over what money was
in the house, $40. burglars entered
the Baum House, in M~iamisburg, Ohio,
on the morning of tile 9th ult., Charles
e. Baum, the proprietor, opened fire
on them and was fatally shot by u OF
the burglars. The safe had been
broken open and $500 taken.
-The.ice in the Susquehanna broke
up at Lock Haven, Pa, on the morn.
ing of the 9th ult. After moving a
little more than an houra gorge formed
on the Pennsylvania Canal Company's
dam and extended to Farrandsville, six
miles up the river. No serious damage
was done. Large gangs Of men are at
work clearing the Columbia and Port
Deposit Railroad track of Ice.
William s. Bracken, a member OF
the New York Produce Exchange, sho,
himself in the head In Greenwood
Cemetery on the 9th ult. 1t is stated
that he cannot recover. William G.
Eddy, q hackman in WATERFOWL, New
York, after shooting three times at his
wife on the morning Of the 9th ult.,
cut his throat with a z and died in
q short time. He had been on a spree
and his wife refused to live with him.
She was not injured. Maggie Gugan,
Is years Of age, was assaulted and
murdered on the morning Of the 9th
ult., In a boot heel factory on State
street. Chicago. Zephaniah Davis, col
ored, aged % years, who was employed
as janitor. is supposed to be the muir.
derer. He has disappeared.
AS the steamer Julia, plying be-
tween south Vallejo and Vallejo Sta
ton, California, was about TO leave her
mOorings on tue morning Of the 9th
ult. with about seventy persons on
board. an explosion occurred. Those
on deck were thrown into the water,
but the majority were below the decks,
as 1t We ovid and foggy. Fire fol-
..Swed the explosion, and after being
burned to the waters edge. the steamer
sank TO the bottom with a great num-
Der of victims buried under the debris
in the cabin. 1t is believed that between
80 and 40 lives were lost. Up to a
late hour on the afternoon of the 9th
ult., twelve bodies had been recovered.
Chief Arthur, of the Brotherhood
Of Locomotive Engineers, has informed
the officials Of the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Railroad and the Chicago
P~ost-office that the Brotherhood men
could not take out mail trains. The
officers Of the Burlington road said on
the 2Sth ult. that applications for po-
sitions as engineers and 6remen we're
coming In constantly from all owe the
country, but as the Company does not
accept anybody except after. rigid ex-
animation to see that they are compe.
tent, the process OF hiring men is slow.
They do not expect the road to be In
running order again for ten days.
About fifty men have SO far been &C.
lected. No effort was made to remove
freight on the 28th ult., and none was
received. The striking engineers hint
that the difficulties will come to an
early termination. They have, 1t sp-
pears, some encouragement from
somewhere, but from whom it comes
or anything further cannot be
learned. The company notified the
strikers that those who did not apply
for positions by noon on the 10Th ult.,
would be considered out Of the COM
pany's service. While none Of the
general officers we're willing to enter
into a literal Interpretation of the 10.
tice, it was generally understood as an
ultimatum on the part vf the company
that it proposes to cut loose from all
recognition of the Brotherhood, and to
deal with the strikers as individuals.
Notices were also posted warning the
strikers to keep away from the depots
and round houses Of the company and
calling attention to the laws relating to
interference with property. At Nc
Cook Nebraska, the strikers dragged a
nor MON man from a locomotive and
r him almost to death. They then
n LED" the engine. The town authori.
ties arrested a number of the leaders
and a telegram was sent to Lincoln
requesting that the State militia be
ordered out.
During Q party at the house Of
William Means, a farmer, near Hills-
boro. Ohio. on the evening of the 23d
ult., two sisters named Stovey, left the
house and dressed up in ahostly
fashion. They wrapped themselves in
sheets, put on false faces made OF
dough and then burst suddenly in upon
the guests. Four girls tainted. two
we're restored without much trouble,
but Dora E. Atkins and Lizzie CLANCY
'swere restored only to pass into a con-
dition of frightful delirium, screaming
and crying constantly. The physicians
hold but slender hopes of the recovery
of their reason"
John X. Fisher, cigar manufac-
turer of Mannheim. committed suicide
in a hotel in Lancaster, Penna., on the
morning of the 2Sth ult. Several week.
ago he was arrested in Philadelphia Oh
the charge of assaulting q woman, and
this is supposed to have caused suicide
Norman Lawshe, s0n of Colonel Peter
Lawshe, a well-known editor, COM
mitted suicide at his fathers residence
in Atlanta, on the morning Of the 2Sth
cit. 1t was ''about q girl"
while . farmer named Miller and
his wife were at church on the even
ing of the 9th uit. thelr house, near
Fair Haven. Minnesota. was burned,
and their three children, aged 10, 10
and Z. persisted in the flames. The
explosion of u lantern caused the Gre.
"A passenger train on the Chicago.
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