The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-01
PENIS GROVE. n. J. SATURDAY. SEPTEMBER l. 1885,

Of the Giant Powder Company, near
West Berkeley, California. on the
oath. Two white men and three China
men were killed.
"A despatch from Marquette. Mich
igan, says forest fires are raging all
along the railway lines of the peninsula.
At Mumford 25 buildings have been
burned. At Carney the Menasha
Wooden Ware Company lost 500 cords
Of slaves, a barn and 40 tons of hay.
Brown & Co. lost $29, 600 worth Of bark
and cedar posts. 1t Is feared that In
the back districts there will be loss OF
life.
Policeman William Tillman, while
on duty in New York early on the
morning Of the 9th, was detected by
Roundsman Bingham In the act of
rObbing a plumbers store. When
caught he had taken a lot of lead pipe
ard brass goods, and vas throwing
them over the yard fence. Tillman is
a prominent member of Reno Post,
G. A. Il. At Will!amstown, New
York, on the evening Of the 26th, three
farmers surprised q burglar while
wrecking a safe. He dashed through
a window and was shot and danger
ously wounded In the side. He refuses
TO disclose his identity. William F.
Clark, alias Colt, who has been arrested
In New York for forgery, has, it has
been discovered, been operating quite
extensively. His forgerles will aggre-
gate about $4,000, and his victims
were large business firms. A man call
ing himself Z. 3. Burns, and represent
ing himself to be an agent for Savage
& Green, of South Omaha, Nebraska,
bought l3S steers from Cunningham &
Haas, OF ST. Paul. on the 9th. He
gave them a draft on Savage u Green
for 1914 in payment. After selling
the steers he disappeared. The draft
was worthless, and Savage q Green
have no such agent.
"A freight train of forty-two cars
on the Pennsylvania Railroad became
disconnected heal STAFFORD Station on
the morning Of the 9th, and as the
two sections came together some OF the
cars were derailed and set or fire.
Eighteen airs we're destroyed, and the
track was damaged 80 that traffic wa
stopped for some hours. Two tramps.
who were stealing a ride, were severely
injured. A stock train ran into a herd
Of cattle real Fort Buford, Dakota, on
the Goth. Seventeen cars OF stock
were ditched, killing thirty-ive head.
| Two train hands we're injured. As a
picnic party were crossing a trestle on
the Chicago and Northwestern Rail-
way, near GAINESVILLE, Wisconsin, on
the evening of this Goth. q freight
train came along and knocked
Miss Maggie Punzle to the
rocks, 80 feet below. She was
killed. The others escaped by crawling
out on the end of the ties. While a
dat car was being raised to the track
Of the Michigan Central Railroad, at
East Saginaw, Michigan, on the 26th,
| the derrick used for that purpose fell
over into a crowd of sightseers. Two
brothers named Collier were killed and
| several persons were badly injured.
Thomas Lewis, "a lsWitclman. in Lou
isville, Kentucky, had his foot caught
in a frog on the evening of the 26th,
and before he could be released it was
struck and killed by a locomotive.
Charles A. Doran, a clerk in a hard
ware store in Detroit, Michigan, was
on the 9th struck on the head by a box
| of hinges which fell down the hatch
| way, and fatally injured. Robert and
Ralph Mulvane, brothers, were fatally
Injured by the fall of a plasterers' scat.
fold at Canton Ohio. IN the 9th.
N, B. Lutes, q lawyer in THIN,
| Ohio, purchased q fine dog as a play
mate for his children. On the eth, he
was out walking with his little girl and
| the dog was taken along. Suddenly
the animal began to froth at the mouth
and attacked Mr.. Lutes, who took the
| child In his arms, and, with q heavy
| cane. succeeded, after a hard fight, in
| Striving the dog away. The dog was
| finally killed at the water works before
he had bitten any person.
During a storm in New Bruins
| wick. New Jersey, on the afternoon of
| the 9th. the flagstaff and cupola of the
! New Jersey Rubber Works was struck
| by lightning. The cupola was set OF
FIRE. but the flames were soon extin-
| guisbed. There were 300 persons, a
| majority Of them women, in the rooms,
| and many of them were stunned and
| many became panic. stricken. Great
excitement prevailed.
AS Michael r. DAILY was about to
| open his butcher shop in Boston on the
9th. he was fatally stabbed by an I'M
known colored man. Joel D~redzynski,
a Polish lumber shower in Chicago, was
| fatally shot on the Goth by an I'LL
known man who made his escape. In
| Columbus, Indiana. on the evening of
| the Goth, Frank and Elam Hall, broth.
| ers. ~ouarrelled about politics with
Jacob Reany, a man fof 65 years of
age, A fight ensued, In which Reany
| used an axed. Franks skull was frac-
| tured and he died so0n after. while
| Elan. who also sustained fatal injuries,
died on the 9th.
"A motor and a on the South
| Side Electric Railway. In Pittsburg,
| ran away on the morning Of the 2Sth
nit, at the bottom Of the hill 1t
jumped the track and crashed into a
| telegraph pole. The seven passengers
were injured; Mrs. Rachel Heron, 1t
is feared, fatally. The engineer lost
| control Of the brake. Two trains, q
| freight and passenger. collided on the
| DAYTON and Michigan Railroad, neal
Lima, Ohio, ON the 2Sth ult. Several
passengers were slightly injured. A
| 0agman sent to var the passenger
train failed to perform his duty. He
disappeared after the collision. An
extra freight train on the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Railroad col
Iided with a construction train at Rock
f..ooI, Ioua nm the afternoon of the
| 27tb nit. Ten cars and al engine were
wrecked, G. A. Rose, ~roadmaster,
and Patrick Healy aud Patrick Griffin,
gecticn men, were killed. Two other
men were injured
The steamship Bratsbud. with
coal, from Sydney for Montreal. struck
a rock at Cape Ghetto, in the Gulf of
St. Lawrence, on the 25th ult., and
was run aground at Ste. Felicite. On
the evening Of the 26th ult. a terrible
storm arose and on the 9th uIt. the
captain left the vessel taking with