The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-07

Mabel, aged T., the only children oi
John Ralston, were burned to death in
the bath room of the family residence.
The mother had just left them when a
lamp exploded, filling the room with
flames. The mother was badly burned
In trying to rescue the children.
A telegram from Duluth, Mime.
sofa. says that In consequence of the
recent storm all the trains have been
delayed from six to fourteen hours, but
the tracks are now nearly all clear.
The snowfall has been the heaviest for
several years, and will interfere with
log operations in the pineries.
Two masked robbers entered the
resiuence Of Rev. Father Bigham.
Pastor of st. Joseph's Roman Catholic
Church in New Brighton, Penna,,
early an the morning Of the I'd. They
forced Father Bigham and the three
leInale occupants of the house to walk
down stars at the point of a revolver,
compelled Father Bighan to open a
safe and give them the contents,
amounting to Sis. taken in the collec-
lion on the LIST. Several hours later
three men were arrested on suspicion,
and two of them were positively iden-
Gified as The men who committed the
robbery.
"A span Of the new bridge across
the Allegheny iriver at Hers Island,
PiLJs burg, was wrecked on the I'd by
ueayy ice. The structure was of iron,
aud cost $4,000.
Augustus Lauterbacb, a wealthy
tobacco merchant, was killed by being
thrown from his horse i'll New York
GA the 81.
Coroner V~anderver, of Long
Branch. New Jersey, IN the Sd inn
panelled u jury in the a of Robert
Hamilton, who vas robbed and MUIR
dered Oh the evening of the 3lst ult.
Warrants were issued for the arrest
Of iour persons suspected Of being
concerned with the crime, and two
of them were captured. The report
that Mr.. Drexel had offered a reward
Of $1,000 for the arrest of the muir.
derers is contradicted by a Long
Branch special. JOhu johnson, while
vislLlng Marietta, Penna., on the Both
ult., was so badly beaten by three
roughs that his injuries are now pro-
disappeared. A despatch from Rush
City, Minnesota, says Eric Erickson
nas confessed the murder Of his wife
some days ago. He is thought to lie
iemented. HIS son, 10 years old, tes-
titled that his father twisted IA scarf
around the mothers neck and dragged
der into the wOodshed, where she was
found dead. The large family Of small
children stayed alone with their muir
iered mother Ill the shed TO! two days,
with nothing to eat but potatoes. The
murdered woman was again about to
Oecome a mother. During a fight il
DetloIt, Michigan, on the evening OF
the I'd, Joseph Cogeski and Michael
With .xnAs0s.
To set at rest all apprehen i0n o.
greater fatality than has been reported
at the Cincinnati Southern Railroad
accident at Greenwood, Kentucky, OIL
she 3lst ult., the officers of that road
lave prepared "a list of passengers in
the north-bound train, with, a statement
Of what became of each one. Those
killed, or who have died since the acct
lent, were: Miss Green, j. Ii. Avery,
Messenger Powell, baggage Master
Calian. The officials OF tue road say
iurther that If any charred bodies have
Jeen found they were the bodies OF
ramps who might have been stealing a
ride on the trucks, but the crew saw
10 one riding there. The only body
Jurped up was That Of Fireman Can
lee, who Vas OF the engine on the
,outh-oound train. No passengers
we're injured on the south-pound train,
JuJ some of the crew were killed and
ONE were injured.
The real coach of a passenger
rain on the Sauk Centre and Northern
Railroad of Minnesota was thrown
uto a ditch near La Prairie, on the
u, by a broken rail. Two persons
we're injured, one OF them, a young
woman named Mary Neiser, being
dangerously If not fatally burned by
ealing On the stove.
j. H. Alvey, one of the victims Of
he railroad accident on the Southern
iallroad, at Greenwood, Kentucky,
ned at his home, III Covlngton, On the
ne 80. His wife is reported to be in a
;fllical condition.. The other wounded
re SAID To he doing well.
George II. Howells, of Louisville,
kentucky, said on the Sd, that the pig
ron market is 'Dooming;" that fur
races in the South are running full
Jla st, and that there is a ready market
OF ali the product. mot since the
var" SAID he, has there been such
prosperous times IN the South"
The earthquake shock felt in the
Jity of Mexico ON tie I'd was percep-
IDLY felt throughout Southern Mexico,
sud in the city of lgnall was quite Sc
yele. Some damage to property by
.he cracking of walls Is reported, but
40 loss of life.
"A riot between about forty drum
Ken men took place at Alden, about
eight miles from Wilkesbarre, Penna.,
early on the morning of the 81. Tie
majority of the men, it is said, were
Poles, who work in the mines about
Nauticoke. Anthony ohinsky, 80 years
Id, was eft on the roadside IN a dying
condition. Eight others were severely
injured, two, 1t is thought, fatally.
Tne fight resulted from a christening,
which lasted two days.
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