The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-01
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

while hunting lsar Kenosha, Wis.
consin, on the 23j, Henry KING acct
dentally shot three boys, ranging in age
from 8 to II years, o n of Mr.. Lack
Of Chicago. The gun, a breech-loader.
was discharged while bringing the bar.
rel down after inserting the cartridges.
The Oldest boy received the shot in the
face, and the others were wounded IN
the back and arm.
"A despatch from Saratoga, New
York, says that while Rev. J. o. Will
son, of Philadelphia, and his family
were driving from Brant Lake to Lake
George, the horse ran away and Mrs.
Wilson was thrown out and killed.
Mr.. Wilson was badly hurt and the
driver, Clark Bartlett, perhaps fatally
injured. The children escaped,
AT the State Camp of the New
Jersey National Guard, at Sea Grit on
the Oath, Peter Kneip, loader Of gun
No. 3, of the gun detachment Of the
Third Regiment, mistook an order, and
opened the breecb of the gun just as
the piece was discharged. The load
blew out, injurlng Kneip SO badly that
he died in a short time. Another
gunner, named Fuller, was severely
injured.
While track repairers were at work
on the oath, under the Broadway. rail-
road bridge, at O~ineyville, Rhode
Island, their attention was attracted
by a noise in a freight a side-tracked
near by. In the a was found a man
about 30 years old wasted away almost
TO a skeleton. He said he boarded the
train in Chicago even days ago to ride
to the seaboard. The car, a Chicago
and Atlantic one, was drawn in at
Olneyville four days ago. When asked
il he wanted food, he feebly answered:
mo. I've been hungry too long" The
car contained miscellaneous freight and
he expected that it would be promptly
opened when 1t arrived at its destina.
ton.
Henry Schmidt, Jacob Hubruge
and Louis Verne were drowned at Bay
City, Michigan, on the oath, by the
capsizing of their boat. Two IONS of
]. W. Bailie, of McKeesport, Penna.,
aged ten and eleven years, were
drowned on the 23d while bathing near
Pittsburg. Mrs. Daniel Pennington
was thrown from her carriage, which
collided with a stump at Chicago, on
the evening Of the 23d, and she was
instantly killed. Charles Mayor made
an ascension In a hot-air balloon, on
the evening of the 23d, near Kenton,
Illinois. He came down in a forest,
and, grasping the limb of a tree, let go
of the balloon. The limb broke and
Mayor fell rs feet, receiving probably
fatal injuries.
The loss to Washington county,
Penna., by the recent storm as footed
up by the Commissioners, is $150, 600.
Fifty bridges were washed away.
I'm New York, on the morning of
the 26th, while ''acting as a scout" in
a Bowery saloon, ito keep out inform.
ers of excise violation" John Sammon
shot and wounded fatally j. j. Clancy,
who had been admitted to the place a
few minutes before. The latter was
taken to the hospital and Sammon was
arrested. Joseph Chumley vas killed
by his father-in-law, Quincy Harbor,
near South Collinsville. Alabama, on
the evening Of the 25th, "while the
two men were trying to settle an old
feud." Thomas Kelly was stabbed
eight times by Thomas Sweeney during
a quarrel about a woman In n of the
streets of Lowell, Massachusetts, on
the evening of the 25th. 1t is
thought Kelly will die. Sweeny claims
to have acted in self. defence.
An examination of the accounts of
NJ. NJ. Small, deceased, bookkeeper of
H. Groby & Co.'s bank, at Miamis-
burg, Ohio. shows that he embezz.ed
Sl2, 000. His populations extended
over a period Of ten years.
"A train struck a carriage at
Stevenson, Alabama, on the Goth. con-
tanning j. F, Moulton, wife and child.
Moulton was killed, the child fatally
injured, and Mrs. MouIton slightly in
jured. Moultou attempted to drive
across the track when the horse baked.
The Northwest limited passenger train
going west ran off the track near
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, on the 26th, de-
molisbf lg the locomotive and severely
injur' Engineer George Arnold and
FL John Hosock. The passen-
p eaped unhurt.
3. Forest fires are burning on all sides
Ishpeming, Michigan. The 6res
extend on both sides of the railroad
for many miles. Many buildings have
been burned and the farmers have lost
everything. 1t Is thought that there
will be a heavy loss of life as the
smoke is so heavy that people in the
country lose their way and the fire sur
rounds them.
Joseph Elliott shot ard killed
Harry Spear, at Fort Worth, Texas,
recently. They quarreled over the sale
Of a lot of cattle. Two bystanders
were shot but not fatally. DIR. A. G.
Paddock, a leading citizen and retired
dentist, while temporarily insane, shot
his son in Ridgefeld, Connecticut, on
the 25th, and then took his own life.
Frank Carson and Adle Pierce, resi-
dents of Brandywine village. Delaware.
quarreled on the evening Of the 25th,
and Pierce struck Carson a blow with
bis fist, which caused him to fall dead.
Both men had been drinking. Thomas
Jeffries shot and killed Jacob Pollock,
az OulbulOWhs 1ChLlus1 VII WV OsOhAh
of the 25th. Pollock assaulted Jeffries
because the latter slapped a boy in the
face. They were both intoxicated.
-Four beams on the fifth floor of a
new building in West Eighty-third
street, New York, gave way on the
25th on account of being overloaded
with material, and four men were
precipitated to the lower floor, two OF
whom fell to the cellar. A man named
Flynn was killed, and the three others
named Durgin, Mcclure and Quinn.
were severely injured. John Durgin
died on the Goth. The bodies Of three
boys, supposed to be the remains oil
Frederick Stosterman, 10 years old
Frederick Boegel, Is years old, and
William Keller, 10 years old, oil
Brooklyn, were washed ashore at Can
arsie Beach on the evening of the
25th. The boys left home on the 22d
for a fishing excursion TO Canarsie, and
have not returned. A train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad ran down three
tramps nea Jersey City, New Jersey,
on the 25th. One man (coloredl was
killed, mi fatally and the other seri-
onuIu ip,nral The hoIIar aF n tbraah-