The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-31

The heavy rain storm which pre-.
vailed in Kansas City, Missouri, on
the oath and 25th caused a land slide
on the bluff facing the Union Depot.
For 1900 feet the entire bluff appears
to have been pushed forward by some
irresistible agency, hundreds of tons of
rock and earth sliding down the steep
hillside. Along the face Of the bluff.
about half way from the base to the
top, Is a ledge about 80 feet In width,
on which are a number of shantles
occupied by families of colored people.
This ledge is now scanned with i'm
mense assures, which extend its whole
length, and houses are tilted in every
direction. The residents were CON-
PEELED to flee for their lives. As this
big body of rock and earth now over.
hangs the tracks in the Union Pacific
yards, the whole face Of the bluff may
at any moment be precipitated down
Bluff street, and cover all the tracks
leading East and North from the CITY,
efectually stopping railway traffic in
those directions, also blocking Bluff
street, which is the main road from the
Union Depot to the main portion of
the city.
For the first time since the "BlIz-
Gar," March 18th, a passenger train
vas on the 26th. run from Millertown
10 Duchess junction, New York, the
4ntire length of the Newburgh. Dutch
ess and Connecticut Railroad. Part OF
The road vas blocked by the storm for
two weeks. A telegram from ST. lgnace,
Michigan, says the first passenger train
rom Marquette since the 2lst, arrived
IN the evening of the 25th. On the
morning of the 26th, another blizzard
prevailed and no trains were sent out.
The train which left st. Ignace on the
evening of the 25th, is fast in the snow
near Allenville, and there are prospects
of a mother blockade of several days.
Word has been received in Kansas
City. Missouri, of the destruction OF
the little town of Minnesota, Kansas,
on tile evening of the oath, bv a tor
nado. 1t struck the town from the
southwest and left only three houses
standing. Two churches, five stores
and Is dwellings were torn to pieces,
and the flying timbers killed three pei
SONS and manned II others. The vie
Tins are: Mrs. j. z. Williams, with her
infant, killed; George S. Hardesty,
<illed; James Williams. both legs bro
ken and severely bruised. will probably
lie; Charles Gordon, injured in the
back. supposed to be fatally. The
others injured have only minor hurts.
There was a storm of unusual seve-
rity throughout Nebraska, on the 26th
The fruit trees and young timber were
Ill heavily loaded with ice and sleet
Winter grains are thought to be in.
lured. and the outlook for fruit in the
state is poor. A severe sleet storm
prevailed on the 25th in Northern ILL.,
uols and Iowa, covering everything
with ice. At Chicago the storm
changed on the morning of the 26th to
d heavy rain. Great damage to the
wheat and fruit crops is feared. A
wind and hail storm swept owe Bolivar
county, Mississippi, on the evening of
the 25th, doing much damage to the
planting interests. Trees were up
rooted and many fences destroyed.
In Houston, Texas, on the Goth,
Sheriff Ellis was notified that five child
en- had been poisoned at the house of
Mrs. John SeSsum. Doctors were sum
noned and soon had four of them on;
If danger. Mrs. Sessum said she hac
not been living with her husband for a
year; that on the morning of the Goth
he came to the house, and, going to the
aitchen, dropped something into the
coffee, which the children subsequently
frank. Sessum and his wife were both
arrested.
The posse in pursuit of the murder
ais of Superintendent Gribble, Of the
Vulture mine, and his two companions
in ArlZo2a, are reported to have over
AIKEN one of the robbers, killed him,
and recovered one of the bars of bullion
and Gribble's iewelrv.
During IA light at Eagle Point,
Texas, on the evening of the 26th,
Davis Green, colored. shot and badly
wounded Arthur Mellow a prominent
white man. Other parties then drew
revolvers and shot Green dead. Dur.
lng the fusilade Dennis Winslow, a re.
spectacle colored man, was accidentally
shot and killed.
The house occupied by Thoma>
Bull, storekeeper and postmaster IN
0rilla, Ontario, was burned on the
venlng of the Goth. His three child
rep, aged l., 3 and o, perished In the
lanes. The house of Mrs. Peter Der.
inc, in Bathurst, New Brunswick,
was burned on the morning of the 25tl
Turing the absence of the mother, and
We girls, aged IL and II, were burned
20 death. Harry WortheD and Lewis
Morrill,, aged respectively Z and i
years, were drowned on the 9th b,
breaking through the ice on the Mer.
rimac river, at Salisbury Point. Mas
mill. at Cookeville, Tennessee, burst
on the 9th, killing three men and in
turing several others. George Schwartz,
of Cincinnati, was struck and killed
by a train on the Union Pacific Rail
road, in Omaha, Nebraska, on the
18th. Some persons said he threw
nmself on the track. Hiram Van
Fossen, aged 81 years, was run ove1
md killed on the 9th on the Penn.
~sylvania Schuylkill Valley Railroad, at
Manayunk. Michael Di Nammi hau
Goth his hands blown off on the 9th
by a premature explosion of a blast in
4 quarry at General Wayne, Penna.
The United States Treasurer has
adopted a new seal for use on U. S.
Iotes and certificates. 1t is similar in
lesign to the large n used ON the old
500 note, with the addition of a small
ACE border, with many points, in geo.
metric lathe work. 1t ia light pink in
color, circular in form and nearly two
inches In diameter. Heretofore a sepa-
rate seal was used on notes and gold
and silver certificates, vary ing in size
aud design, according to the character
and denomination of the note. Here
after the new seal will be used exelu-
sively on all paper issued. The change
in the size and design is said to be in
the nature of an additional safeguard
against counterfeiting.
An explosion occurred at Stick
ney's powder factory, near Ashford,
New York, on the 9th. Two work
men were blown to atoms. AT the spot
urbaro tho milIS Qtnni tbara 10 nnw n