The Penn's Grove record., 1888-11-10

uSSSPtduiO u tiD otShb VI tup 4SDlu.
Done at the City of Washington, on
the LIST day of November, 1888, aud in
the year of Independence of the United
States, n hundred and thirteenth.
SEAL In witness whereof, l have
%bereunto signed my name and caused
the seal of the United States to be af.
Fixed. GROVER CLEVELAND.
BY the President,
L. +. BAYARD, Secretary of State.
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NEWS OF H WEEK.
-Dollie Phillips, aged 20 years, was
shot and killed by a man named Gal.
loway, while watching a parade in
Terre Haute, Indiana, on the evening
Of the Both ult. The man escaped,
notwithstanding the fact that the
street was crowded with people. The
cause of the shooting is unknown. j.
A. McAfee and Thomas SIaven en-
aged in a fight in the .latter's saloon,
in Indianapolis, Indiana, IN the even
ing of the 30th ult., and both were
fatally wounded. Frank Briester was
beaten and robbed by unknown ruff
fans, in Chicago. on the evening of the
Both ult., and died on the morning of
the 31st ult. of his injuries. Four
white travellers who were attacked by
a band Of negroes in Mercer county,
West Virginia, on the 2Sth ult., when
two were shot and robbed of 5000. The
other two men made their way to
Bramwell and gave an alarm. Fifty
men went in pursuit, but up to last
accounts the outlaws had not been cap
tured. The body Of John Groshart, a
weil.known ranchman in Carbon
county. Wyoming Territory, has been
found in an isolated spot, with a bullet
in his brain. The murderer is un-
known.
While Michael Quinn was making
a water connection in New Haven,
Connecticut, on the first, the banks
caved in, and he wal smOtbered. John
Thompson, aged about go years, sup
posed to have been a Philadelphia.
was killed by a train while walking on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad track, near
Mauch Chunk, on the LIST.
The weather crop bulletin, issued
on the LIST by the Signal Office at
w dSuliStOns odfss 1ue Wtdtuct las
been generally favorable for farm
work in the winter wheat States, and
the rainfall for the month has doubt
less affected the winter wheat crop
favorabIy. Tie rain IN the southern
portion of the Gulf States has improved
the condition of crops in that section,
although the reports indicate that gen
orally the weather for the season has
not been favorable for the cotton CROP
The air brake of an engine, at
Tackled to a pile-driver on the Rio
Grande Railroad, gave out as the de-
scent OF the steep grade from Pocha
Pass, near Salina, Colorado, was be-
gun on the Both ult. The engine shot
down the mountain at a terrific speed,
and, upon reaching a curve, left the
track and tumbled down a thirty foot
embankment. Fireman Ludlow and
Conductor Vinson were killed, and
Engineer Whitelock and Brakeman
Allen severely injured. A freight
train on the Northern Pacific Railroad
ran into the rear of another, near
Townsend, Montana, on the Both nit.
The trainmen saved themselves by
jumping, but n passenger was killed
and three injured.
Jacob ~Loewenstein, a well-known
detective in Chicago, was fatally shot
by his wife on the morning of the I'd,
during a quarrel. A telegram from
Charleston. West Virginia, says that
Thomas SayeTs. one OF the negro
highwaymen who robbed and murd-
cred Two peddlers In Mercer county on
the 28th ult., was caught and lynched
on the evening of the 3lst ult. Fred
erick Auschlag. now in jail in Los
death for the murder of Mr.. and Mrs.
Hitchcock, at Garden Grove, some
months ago, has made a confession OF
the murder of Julius Feugh, In Sep
TENDER, 1887. Auschlag claims he was
inspired to kill Peugh by George
Stenger and n Border, to obtain
Feugh's money, Stenger has been ar
rested in San Francisco. Borders
whereabouts are unknown.
There were rs new cases and 3
deaths from yellow fever in Jackson
vile on tbs u. Total cases to date,
4240; total deaths, 1858. Four new
cases of the fever are reported at Live
Oak. There are eight cases of the
fever at New Decatur, Alabama. One
new case was reported in Decatur on
the I'd.
"A boiler attached to a steam
threshiDg machine on the farm OF
Jonas ID. Spayd, IN Lower Heidelberg
township, Berks county, Pa, exploded
on the morning of the I'd, killing six
persons and badly injuring four others.
The Coroner's jury found that the
boiler was defective, and, at the time
Of the explosion, was not in the hands
of an experienced man.
In Cincinnati, on the LIST, the
Bodmann Tobacco Warehouse Com
pany, upon balancing bank accounts,
found a forged check for $1,000 in each
of three banks. Each check was en-
dorsed by Charles Tinker, collector
for the warehouse. who received the
money. Tinker was only 10 years ola,
and left the warehouse about the last
OF September to get higher wages as
assistant to a bookmaker at the races.
His employers think he was the dupe
of experienced criminals. The boy is
missing. Walter Hall, %sub-agent tor
the Yarmouth Steamship Company at
Boston, disappeared en- the morning OF
the lat and his accounts show a deficit
of $1,000.
While a number of miners were
riding on a hand car neal Hopewell,
Penna., on the morning Of the 81, they
were thrown from the car by a runaway
team. Samuel Hastings was killed,
and seven others were injured, Martin
Maher, it is feared. fatally. In turning
a curve on the Louisville and Nashville
Railroad. near Louisville. Kentucky.
on the LIST, an engine jumped the track
and rollel down an embankment 30
feet high, landing bottom up. The
postal car landed on top Of the engine.
The other cars remained Oh the track.
Three train hands were slightly hurt.
Not a passenger was injured.
-A passenger engine on the Lehigh
Valley Railroad ran into a coal train
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