The Penn's Grove record., 1888-11-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Two ladies IRON Pennsylvania,
visiting their brother, A. Mckinley,
near West Liberty, Iowa, were killed
y a railroad train at a railroad cross.
ing on the evening of the 26th ult, and
a boy who was driving them was also
Killed. The disaster vas due to the
boy persisting in driving across the
track when the engine was almost upon
them. A train on the Chesapeake and
OHIO Railroad was thrown from the
tracl, lea Charleston, West Virginia,
on the morning of the 9th ult, by a
misplaced switch. The engine, tender,
baggage car, two coaches and a sleeper
were thrown over an embankment and
destroyed by fire, which broke out in
the baggage car. Fireman John
Elkins and Conductor W. A. Neither.
land were burned to death. Mrs. Ben
lamin BloSser bled to death near Car
isle, Penna., on the evening of the
10Th ult, in consequence Of the burst
ng of an artery near one of her ankles,
rom some unknown cause. Harry
%Sirickler, living at Boiling Springs,
near Carlisle, Penna., on the 9th ult,
forced a red hot iron through a six
pound bomb shell which had been found
on the Gettysburg battlefield. 1t ex-
ploded, and it is thought fatally injured
the old man. ~
Policeman James Brennan was IA
tally shot by an eX-convict named Hen.
ry Coulton in New York, early on the
morning Of the 18th ult. Coulton was
running away after having knocked
DOWN II man who had refused to pay
for drinks. and the policeman attempt
ed to arrest him. The ex-convict
ired four shots at the policeman,
lodging two bullets in the head and
one in the abdomen. Brennan was
taken to the hospital, where he died in
two hours. His murderer was caught.
The policeman had been IS years on
the force, and leaves a wife and six
children. During a quarrel in the
yards Of the Atchison Railroad in Fort
Worth, Texas, IN the evening of the
18th ult., Jamea Brady procured a
hatchet with which he killed an engi.
neer named Patrick Corcoran and
fatally wounded a fireman named L. q.
Gregg.
The dead body of John A. Sutton,
keeper OF the East Beacon Light House
At Sandy Hook, was on the morning OF
The 2Sth nit. found lying satthe foot OF
The, spiral stairway in the beacon. He
had been for several months suffering
from an organic disease, was about 55
years of age, and had been keeper of
he beacon about twelve years. He
leaves a wife. ii
Israel Levy was arrested in New
York on the 9th ult. in a suit by Rob-
srt Kell, of Bradford, England. for the
recovery Of S20,3S9. Levy transacted
business as the Excelsior CLOAK Manu-
featuring Company, and IS charged by
kell with having disposed of his prop
srty with intent to defraud creditors.
Levy gave bail IN 5000.
IAN express train on the Northern
Pacific Railroad was wrecked at Crow
Wing river, Minnesota, on the evening
Of the 9th, by running Into an open
switch neal the end of a bridge. The
engine broke loose and the tender, mail
car and two baggage cars went overthe
embankment into the river. The en-,
CINE, with the engineer and fireman,
crossed the bridge on the ties, but left
them at the west end and tumbled over
and half buried itself in the embank.
ment, killing the fireman, Alexander
Brown, and severely injuring En-
gineer Swart. Clinton Mayne, a menu
Der of Company X, Third Regiment,
VINO was riding on the front end of the
mail Car, was so badly injured that he
will probably die. In the mail car
were railway clerks Q. NJ. Brown, j.
A. Slattery and U. r. Stevenson, and
all escaped with bruises and a wetting
in the river. The passengers were
shaken up, but not injured. None of
the other cars entirely left he track.
Miss Mamie Gordon, who was to
have been married on the oath ult., in
Powhatan county, Virginia, commit
ted suicide by throwing herself into the
Appomattox river on that day. There
were more developments in the Bohe-
mian poisoning case in Minneapolis,
Minnesota, on the morning of the 26th
ult. Mrs. Martin. the bride, who was
absent from the poisoned feast, took a
dose of arsenic with suicidal intent.
Antidotes were administered without
result. One of the theories Is thattho
boy Smicks was the agent of a Tilted
lover of Mrs. Martin, and that he had
put the poison in the flour.
Michael Rezzoli. an italian, known
as ''Red Nose Mike,n was arrested in