The Penn's Grove record., 1888-07-07
NEWS OF The WEEK.

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Three laborers were prisoners IN =
caisson Of the new bridge being con
structed between Council Bluffs and
Omaha from z O'Clock on the morning
of the 2Sth ult until $50 the same
evening. The work Is done in two
hour shifts, but the men could not get
out, as one of the doors of the air locks
had become clogged With concrete. An
extra door had to be built to cover the
shaft. Two of the neil when rescued
were uninjured, but the third vas par
alzed from head to foot.
Mrs. J. ]. Griffith and Mrs.
Walker, OF Jennertown, Penna.,
started on the 2Sth ult., in a buggy,
to visit relatives in the country. Each
was accompanied by a little daughter.
While descending a steep hill the horse
ran away. The Griffith child was
killed and the two women fatally In
jured. The Walker child escaped I'M
hurt. Christian S~paukins, a young
man employed in a carriage factory al
Lancaster, Penna., met with a strange
and fatal accident on the morning oil
the goth ult. He attempted to jump
into a wagon, when a chisel In n of
his pockets struck the vehicle and was
driven Into his throat. cutting a terrible
cash, from which he cannot recover.
Louisa Gambach and Louisa
Dernier, aged IS and 16, were
drowned on the 2Sth nit. while
trying to ford a swollen creek
near Freedom, Illinois. Miss Maggie
Campbell, aged 10 years, was drowned
by the upsetting of a boat at Hing
ham, Massachusetts, on the afternoon
OF the 28th ult. The boilers at Hogge's
saw mill, lear Vandalia, Illinois, ex-
ploded on the 2Sth ult., killing Samuel
King and Daniel Logue. Wendell
WbltcOmb, while shooting rats III his
barn near Marby. Tennessee, on the
evening of the 2Sth ulI., %accidently
shot his two young daughters who
were looking on. One was killed and
the other fatally wounded. A twelve
months old baby, the daughter Of Will
liam Erchells, of Rockville Centre,
Long Island, died on the morning of
ne Doth ult., from a gun. shot wound
+; the hands of her ten-year-old
brother, who pointed a rifle at her in
fun. He had sn old cartridge in the
rifle which his father had thrown away
worthless.
-Advices from Western Ontario re-
port a spreading of pleuro-pneumonia
among the cattle. The matter has been
brought to the attention of the United
States Government, that every measure
may be taken to prevent the infection
from being carried across the line. The
press censures the Canadian Govern.
ment for its "criminal neglect in not
taking action when the disease was
first reported"
"A lady named Congo, about 70
years old, living on the shore near st.
Adams Bay, Vermont, was left alone
on the evening of the 30th ult. with
her two grandchildren, aged 5 and &
years respectively. She took the chill
dren in a nat bottomed boat, with
nothing but a paddle with which to
control the boat. Quite a gale was
blowing and the boat was driven out
into the bay and capsized, and all
three were drowned.
Charles whitehead shot and killed
Minnie Hill at Aspen junction, Colo
fado, on the Both ult., aud then blew
his own brains out. No cause for the
act Is known. Jefferson carp, a school
teacher, and a young farmer named
Heard quarrelled at Carrollton, Mis-
souri,, on the Both ult., and both began
shooting. Both are reported TO be fla
tally wounded. In st. Louis, on the
Both ult., Philip Hammerschmict shot
and slightly wounded his wife and then
committed suicide. Family trouble
was the cause. Officer Thomas Woods,
of New York, was shot and killed on
the 3Oth nit. by Edward Brouty, whom
he was sent to arrest. On the Curry
plantation, at Natehitoches, Louisiana.
on the Both ult.. a cOlOred man, named
Porter, shot and badly wounded
Martha Surinday and a man named
Carpenter. and then committed suicide.
Porter desired TO marry the woman
and she refused him. lie was beating
her when Carpenter interfered. Rob-
ert Kelly was shot and killed at Nava-
sola, Texas, early on the morning of
the Both ult., by Deputy Sheriff Reed,
while running away to avoid arrest for
robbery.
James Hood, 3years old. fell from
a third story 6re escape in New York
city on the LIST, and was instantly killed.
ClaudIus Danner, A years old. got hold
of a revolver at his home in Harrisburg
on the morning of the Both ult., and,
installing it for a toy pistol, shot him
self dead. Mrs. Timothy Ferrigan. of
Rye, New York, was killed at Macun-
gle, Penna., on the Both ult., in trying
to board a moving train. Mrs. Eva
Harsch, so years old, fell from Il box
on which she was standing while look.
ing through a hole in the loft of a barn
In Williamsport, Penna on the 30tt
ult., and her head was caught in sue.
a way that she was suspended. Wher
found she was dead. Rev. Charles
Wheeler and wife, of Winchendon
Massachusetts, were killed on the al
ternoon of the Both ult. Their carriage
was struck by a locomotive.
Near Brazil, Indiana, on the morn
ing of the LIST, Michael Williams and
Allen Campbell were run over and killed
by an east-bourd Vandal'a express
train. They are supposed to have been
intoxicated, and to have laid down Oh
the track and fallen asleep. William
Parkinson, a 'longshoreman in New
York, took rat poison on the evening
of the Both ult and died on the LIST. De-
spondency and poverty were the causes
winch led tn the deed. Patrick Coffep
a worthless drunkard, shot Miss Agnes
smith, in Jersey City, New Jersey. on
the evening of the LIST, and then shot
himself. Both are fatally wounded.
Coffee, who has a wife and grown.up
children was infatuated with Miss
Smith.
The hrst mans received at Ell
Paso, Texas, from the City of Mexico in
10 days, owing to the Leon floods, ar
r;yad ~ tho 2Otb nlf FL paso hoe