The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-25
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Robert Holmes and Jennie Lowry,
living near Oswego, New York, hired
q sail boat to 60 to q picnic several
miles from the barbor on the 10th.
They have not yet been heard from.
The boat has been found on the beach,
and it is feared they have been drowned.
Edward Call and Sadie Fahey were
drowned in the Allegheny river at
Pittsburg, on the evening OF the 18th.
Call. who was drunk. jumped into the
water and upset q skif In which the
girl was sitting. Two boys. named
Hoehl and Carey, aged about 10 years,
we're drowned In the Ohio River at
Rochester. Penna., on the 18th, while
bathing.
Jacob and William Mathew, broth
ers, were killed on the 10th, near Bel
laire, Ohio, by a premature explosion Of
powder in a quarry. John Holmes, OF
Cleves. Ohio. became drunk at Q party
on the evening Of the 18th. Returning
home he grew weary and laid down on
the Ohio and Mississippi Railroad track.
at North Bend, and was run over and
killed by a freight train. On the same
track and In the same locality, a few
hours later, Mrs. Mary Ladd, 65 years
old, was struck and killed by the st.
Louis limited express. As Professor
Bartholomew was about ascending In a
balloon at Lagrange, Mississippi, on
the evening OF the 18th, the pole %
feet high fell into the crowd, killing
two boys, Charles Graftmiller and Gil.
bert Appleman. Isaac Spreckter, a
merchant of Kansas City. Mo-, was
aroused by his wife on the morning of
the 10th and told there were burg
lars In the store. a moment later
a shadow crossed the door and
Spreckter fired, fatally wounding
his wife. Rats caused the noise in the
store. by the explosion of . small re-
tort filled with molten metal, which by
mistake was plunged Into q barrel Of
water at the Chicago and Aurora
Smelling Works, at Chicago, on the
Goth, Ruse Er0zlau was instantly
killed. q. U. Lee left Breckenridge,
Colorado, on August 10th, for Silver
Plume, over Argentine Pass. Reaching
the top Of the range about dark he lost
the road, and in crossing q broken
bridge was precIpitated to the bottom
Of the gully, rs feet. His arm and
both legs were broken. In this con-
dition Mr.. Lee remained on the mount
ain six days without food or drink and
exposed to severe storms. On the sixth
day a traveller found him, conscious,
but unable to speak. MI. Leo was
placed in a carriage, but before he
reached q village in which medical aid
could DO secured he died.
The epidemic In Iowa and Lafay.
cite counties, Wisconsin, is spreading,
the physicians being unable to cope
with it, The disease ts malignant
dysentery, followed by cerebral troubles
causing death. At Darlington up to
the evening of the 10th, there had been
81 cases, and many of the sick were not
expected to live. 1t is thought there
is some local cause for the disease.
An unknown man was shot and
killed on the stairs leading to the
building on the north side OF the en-
trance to the Brooklyn bridge. in New
York, on the afternoon Of the Goth.
Thore was nothing on his person to
identify him. Many persons were pass
ing at the time and yet the unknown
murderer, with a revolver in his hand,
edged through the crowd, dropped the
revolver about 80 feet away and es-
capped. Subsequently the police ar.
rested Bernard Manning, on suspicion.
BY q premature blast at Troll
Brothers, Clement Works, near Wheel
ing. West Virginia, On the Goth, Jacob
Mathew had his his head blown of and
his brother William was dangerously
Injured.
While Samuel Williams, with his
wife and 6-year-old child, was return.
ing from q field to his house near Au-
rora, Arkansas, on the 10th, a large
oak tree fell upon them. Williams and
his child were killed and the woman
wa dangerously injured. In getting
down from . load Of hay near Zanes-
willie, Ohio, on the Goth, q farmer
slipped and fell on a fo~ur-pronged fork
and three Of the prongs entered his
breast. He died soon after. Peter
McArdle, an employe Of the Georgia
Chemical Works. at Augusta. fell into
a dust bin on the 21st. and was smoth.
cred.
Major Howes and family, Of Phila-
delphia, with Indian guides, forming a
party or ten PERSONS In three canoes,
while passing up the Tobyque river. SO
miles from Andover. New Brunswick,
on the 10th were fired on by unknown
persons, and Mrs. Howes was Instantly
killed. Major Howes claims to own
certain salmon fishing Hounds on the