The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-25
NEWS OF H WEEK.

InIUuSu Tie ice.
In Bald Knob, Missouri, on the
evening of the 10th, Thomas Walt
ham, suddenly returning home, found
James Blakeny with his wife. Blakeny
tried to get out, and shot Waltham
three times and one of Waltham's
children once. The injured husband
shot and killed Bakery, and then fell
mortally wounded. The child may re-
cover. James Taylor, 10 years old,
was placed in jail in Covington, Ken
lucky, on the evening of the 10Th, with
his mother, charged with the murder
of the boys father at Independence, on
the 18th. 1t appears that Lansing
Taylor, the dead man, and his wife
were fighting in the presence of James
and two elder ons. The roman says
she called on her son for assistance,
but James was the only one TO respond.
He seized a gun and struck his father
with it. The gun was discharged and
Lansing Taylor was killed. The boy
says be did not know the gun was
loaded. Deputy Sheriff William
Thompson was shot and killed at Bos.
ton, Colorado, on the 10th, by Jack"
White, "a horse thief" whom he was
tiyIuG w aiItSt.
The special Treasury agent sent to
WATERFOWL to investigate the opium
smuggling cases is said to have secured
evidence that the snugglers have con-
federates In New York. 1t is also said
that zone or more Government officials
on the Pacific coast" are involved. A
despatch from Chicago says that Will
liam b. Tasc0tt has been identified as
one of the burglars who killed Amos j.
Smell, the millionaire, on February Sth.
Tascott Is still at large. The posse on
tine trail of the Cisco, Texas. bank rob-
hers overlook them ear Putnam on
the 10th, and rode in sight of them for
four or five miles. but could not crowd
them, as the robbers all had Wirches-
tiers and the arms Of the posse consisted
Of pistols and shot guns. 1t was re
ported late OIL the evening OF the 18th
that the robbers had been surrounded
at Battle Creek, between Putnam and
Cottonwood, by about $50 men. James
Parker, Edward Best and William
Andrews, charged with robbing the
Post-otice in Salisbury, Maryland,
were on the 18th, committed by the
United States Commissioner in Balti-
timore in default of 5000 bail each.
AN explosion of natural gas
wrecked the house of Joseph Franklin,
on the outskirts of Meadyille, Penna.,
on the morning of the 18th. Mrs,
Franklin was severely Injured. Some
weeks ago Mr.. Franklin disconnected
the gas pipe, and had the meter re-
moved, but for some reason the pipe
| mo Ynf ,IttunaI ayiI fIa uua aupapaJ
into the cellar. On the 18th, Mrs.
franklin went into the cellar with a
lighted lamp, when the explosion &C.
CURED.
"A boiler on a plantation at Bas-
trop, Louisiana, exploded on the 18th,
killing four men and injuring -four
others so badly that they are not TX
pected to ecover.
Joseph L. Fitzpatrick, a New
York politician, shot himself in a
Bowery saloon on the evening of the
10th, and died on the 18th.
The Sheriff of Boone county,
Arkansas, and a posse of four men,
while attempting to arrest G. W.
Middleton, at Chadwick, Missouri, on
the 18th, were fired upon by the latter,
and Charles Richardson, one Of the
Sheriff's men, was killed and another
seriously wounded, Middleton making
his escape. Middleton is a member OF
the Tamney county BALD KnObbers,"
and was tried and convicted of mu1d-
ering a young man.. He was sentenced
to Is years. imprisonment, but broke
jail. At Beaver City, In mo Mans
Land" on the 10th inst, Eugene
BTusher was shot and killed by John
| Clark. The latter claimed that the
shooting was accidental and was fined
for carelessness and discharged. Mean
time George Brusher, a brother of the
| dead man, went to Beaver City to in.
| vestigate the matter. He and CLARK
apparently became chums," but on
the evening of the 18th Brusher shot
and killed CLARK and fled to Kansas.
John Arenth shot and killed George
Garrett, neal Marion, Illinois, on the
18th, because two schoOlbOys. relatives
of theirs, had quarrelled. William
| Martin, proprietor of the Planters
| House, in Anaconda, Montana, shot
and killed Patrick Reardon on the
18th, during a dispute about the pay
ment of a small bill.
"A Galveston and Kansas City
train, north-bound, was attacked by a
mob, soon after leaving Fort Worth,
on the evening of the 18th. Stones
were thrown through the windows and
several passengers wounded, ID. A.
Baker, of New York, dangerously. Ii
was believed that the assailauts in
tended to stop and rob the train.
Il. f. Lindsay. a clerk in the U. S.
Land Once in Denver, Colorado, COM
mitted suicide on the evening of the
| 18th, On tile 18th, it was discovered
that his accounts were 5000 short.
Hugh Mckittrick, 20 years of age,
| committed suicide In Pittsburgh on
the evening of the 18th, by jumping
from a bridge into the river. He ar
rived in Pittsburg from Cincinnati on
! the 18th, and was at once employed In
a tannery.
During an attempt to arrest an
illegal dredger in Chesapeake Bay, near
| Annapolis, OH the 18th, the State
| oyster police schooner Folly was at
tackled by three vessels and quite q
fusilade followed. After the fray it
was discovered that Captain w. f.
WhitehOuse, of the schooner Albert
Nichols, of Baltimore, had been killed.
"A south bound passenger tram on
the philadelphia, Wilmington and Bal
timore Railroad, ON the 18th. struck
the side of a freight car. The side of
the first passenger coach was dam
aged and three persons i~njured-two
train hands and Claiburn Watkins. of
Richmond, Virginia. Mr.. Watkins
was dangerously injured about the
head.
"A party of coasters on a big sled
coilided with a farmers sleigh in