The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-18

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after. Duncan surrendered, and Mrs
Fleming, the divorced wife OF the de
ceased. about whom the men quarreled
was held as an accessory. The body o.
George Campbell, aged twenty-foul
years, was found on the 14th at the
bottom of a well on the farm of Charlie:
Chiddister, near Battle Creek, Michi'
gan. Campbell disappeared a year age
and was reported to have gone west
Frank House, who then worked fol
MI. Chiddlster, claimed to have boughl
a team and other effects from Camp
bell. The neighbors, who had suspected
something was wrong, dug up the well
with the result stated.
Will Sherman, aged IS years,
stabbed and instantly killed Lincoln
Heaton on the 14th in front Of the post
office at BrineGeld, Illinois. Sherman
was arrested. Both were butchers, and
the trouble was of long standing.
An east bound Atlantic and Pa.
cifc Railroad train. due at Albuquer.
que, New Mexico, at half-p past ]
O'Clock on the morning of the 18th,
reached that city ten hours late. The
delay vas caused by a wreck on the
desert in California. All the cars were
damaged, and most Of the passengers
were more or less severed y injured.
BY the fall of 4 scaffold in ALE.
gheny City, Pa, on the 18th, Joseph
Stewart was killed and Joseph Gala.
han fatally injured.
"A system of wholesale letter-box
robbery, extending over q period OF
two years, involving the theft of thous.
ands Of letters, including enclosures
Of drafts, checks and post-ofice orders
aggregating upwards Of $l00, 600. has
been discovered by the Chicago police.
Frederick Won Oberkampf and Thomas
j. Mack are In custody. In Ober-
kampf's rooms were found two trunk
filled with letters which had beeL
opened, bearing no postmark, and
from each of which the stamp had
been removed.
"A severe wind storm passed over
Harrls0nburg, Virginia, on the even.
ing Of the 18th, greatly damaging
barns, houses, timber orchards and
fences, and destroying whole fields Of
COius LILO udlldSc IN hOChllSudL
county is estimated at $4,000.
The President issued an order Cd
the 18th placing Major General SchO-
deld in command of the army, with
headquarters at Washington. General
Schoiield will also continue in COM
mand of the division of the Atlantic.
AT a meeting of the Executive
Committee and the Auxiliary Sanitary
Association at Jacksonville, Florida,
on the 14th it was determined to great
ly increase the number of labOrers en-.
gagged In sanitary work. DR.. j. M.
Farlie was placed in charge Of the
BELIEF Committee at the Board OF
Trade rooms, with full power to act,
The Chairman was requested to tele-
graph to Florida a. representatives al
Washington to urge the immediate
passage of the bill of relief appropriating
SOC. 900 now pending, and to make it
available at once for tile suppression OF
the disease and for the relief of the
destitute. 1t is not desired to request
outside aid, but those citizens who have
left Jacksonville will be asked to con-
tribute their share. At Pollock on the
afternoon Of the 14th DIR. Neal Mitchell
reported that there was only one new
case, that OF s. +. Simmons, a fireman,
who has been removed to Sand Hills.
For the "a hours ending at 6 O'Clock
on the evening of the 14th the official
bulletin was: New case, 1; suspected
deaths, none; under treatment. 81;
cases to date, &c; total deaths, 4. This
is considered a good days report.
Henry r. Simmons, of PhIladel-
phia, charged with having embezzled
Sll2S from the Manhattan Market,
where he was employed as a bookkeep-
Or, pleaded guilty in New York on the
18th, and was sent to Sing Sing for two
years,
Rev. &. J. Cooper, GO years old,
until recently Pastor of the Methodist
Church at Newark, Illinois, set fire to
his house at Aurora, Illinois, on the
morning of the 10th with the intention
Of cremating his wife and daughter.
The women escaped in their night
clothes, but the building was burned to
the ground. Cooper, who was insane,
was found a few hours afterwards in a
barn, hanging by his neck from a beam.
He had committed suicide. Paris
green was sprInkled on his beard ana
clothes, and he had probably swallowed
a quantity OF the poison. Joseph
PilOn, hotel keeper at COteau Landing,
Quebec, was shot dead on the evening
of the l4th by an unknown travelling
agent, who escaped. The agent ano
Pllon's SOL were Quarrelling, and when
the elder Pilon interfered the agent fired
several shots at him. G. c. Givens shot
and killed Webb Stewart. at Centreville.
aear Terre Haute. on the even
ing of the 18th. Owens claims thai
shot In ~self-defence, and that Stew
art had threatened to kill him. Tht
trouble started about a year ago, when
Owens wrote a note to saloon keepers
them not to furnish liquor to
Stewart. who was q tenant on Given's
farm. James Stott and jeff Wilson
nave been murdered by outlaws near
Arizona. The killing grew
out Of the recent var in Tonic Basin
between sheep and cattle raiders.
Warrants were Issued and arrests
made by unauthorized persons, and the
prisoners were taken ACROSS the noun
tains into YayapaI county, where they
met by a prearra 2ged mob OF
outlaws and hanged. Smith Sloan,
an escaped convict. met Wesley
w aultlaw on the street at South Pitts.
burg, Tennessee, on the evening OF
The 18th. The two quarreiled and
Sloan shot Waultlaw and the latter's
l4-year-old boy. Both the wounded
people will probably die. Sloan es-
AT South Norwalk, Conn.,. Chief
IF Police John Lockwood dubbed Pat
rick Cahill on the evening of the 14th,
hen tied him by the heels to the rear
If . wagon and dragged him to the
ock-up, half a mile away, with bis
head humping OH the paving stones.
He put him in the lookup, and then
vet a bulldog upon him. There has
1een almost a riot over the affair.
has been suspended from the
police force.
Pearl Wilson shot and killed Jas.