The Penn's Grove record., 1888-12-01
NUMBER Is.

ts go ce 49, "
Hampshire, five inches of snow fell on
the 2Gth. Show varying In depth
from two to five inches also fell at
Brattleboro. Vermcnt; Nashua and
Keene, New Hampshire, and Salem,
gale ragged ct Boston during the evening
of the oath and 18th. Snow fell during
the 25th and changed to rain ct night.
The storm ragged all day in Westchester
coun9y, blocking up the roads in many
places with snow drifts. Four and a
half inches Of SNOW fell IN Providence.
Rhode Island. on the 25th. The now
turned to rain at night and a high
wind prevailed.
by al explosion of dynamite at
Thompson's Mills. near Schuylervllle,
New York, on the Oath, three men
were Killed and three injured. John
Hennessy, aged 55 years, wa killed
and Jacob Fletcher fatally injured, by
a fall of coal at the Ceptralia coal
mines, at Ashland, Penna., on the
oath.
An engine and fifteen freight card
on the Name Central Railroad were Oh
the morning Of the Goth thrown from
the track near the lower end of Lake
Mnranacook, and precipitated into the
lake. High water had undermined
the track, which was also covered with
several inches of ice. The engine and
cars were wrecked. The engineer,
fireman and brakeman, though badly
scalded, were able to swim ashore. \
wagon containing Stewart Christie AMI
his mother-in-law, Mrs. John Kenyon,
was struck by a train, at Elgin Illinois,
on the 25th. Christie was killed and
Mrs. Kenyon was dangerously hurt.
Two passenger trains on the Chicago,
& n.cccs Island end Pacific Railroad COL
lided neal Hustled. Colorado. on the
26th. Two persons were Killed and
several injured. The 1S-year-old
daughter of William Turner, of
Amelia, Ohio, was shot and killed, OH
the oath, by her brother, Aaron, aged
Is years. Reports differ as to whether
| the act was accidental or Intentional.
George Gilbert and Glenn Blod-
gett, aged 16 and IA years, respectively,
broke through the ice while skating at
Charles City, Iowa, on the 25th, and
we're drowned. Henry and Charles
Kohlman, aged respectively ten and
twelve years, were drowned OH the
| Goth by breaking through the ice at
Csceola, Wisconsin.
The Easton Free Press reports
that the repeal of the High License
law In New Jersey will be opposed lii
| the Legislature by Messrs. Trimmer,
| of HunterdOn county. and Naugh-
right, of Morris, both Democrats.
| Their opposition, combined with that
| Of those previously announced, will. 1t
is believed, defeat the move.
Two new cases of yellow fever.
but no deaths, were reported on IL
26th in Jacksonville. Total cases to
| date, 467I; deaths, 400. There was a
| heavy frost at Jacksonville on the night
of the 25th, and ice formed In several
places around the city. Three new
cases Of yellow fever and one death
were reported on the 26th al Games.
vile. Ice an eigth of an inch thick
formed there on the night OF the 25th.
"A boiler in Ralston's saw mill, at
C%entreville. Penna., exploded on the
Goth, killing George Kelly. Jesse Hall
and Leslie Cross. Lewis Ralston was
badly scalded. While a man named
IIaggerty was unloading n~itro-glycer-
inc from a wagon containing 1000
pounds of it, at Pleasantville, Penna.,
on the Goth, the compound exploded,
annihilating Haggerty and his two
horses. The only traces left of them
we're bits of the animals lodged in
n%eighboring trees, and a piece of the
wagon dropped half a mile distant.
The side of a neighboring house was
blown IN, and Mrs. Gutschaw was dan.
%gerously injured. The explosion was
heard at Oil City. twenty miles dis
tant. The office building of the cot.
ton mill of A. Rocker, at South Glas-
tonbury, Connecticut, on the morning
of the 9th, was destroyed by an ex-
plosiou of gasoline. The tank was
ignited by a workman who, lantern In
hand, was looking for a leak. Maggie
Cullen, a weaver, % years of age, was
killed by a falling wall.
Policeman A. w. Thayer was
shot and killed in Detroit, Michigan,
on the evening of the 26th. The only
clue to the murderer is a satchel found
neal the scene, containing a complete
set of burglars tools. Jewel Dargen.
ton, proprietor OF a boarding house In
Amesbury, Massachusetts, shot his
wife and then killed himself on the
evening of the goth. The woman may
recover. Dargenton YVES jealous Of his
wife, and occupants of the house say
that when he came home a man jumped
from the side window. William Thorn.
son, who killed Sheriff Gerty at Viau,
Indian Territory, on the evening of
the oath, has been killed while resist
ing arrest. Captain Thomas S. Nc
Dade, formerly Sheriff OF Waller
county, Texas, was killed at his home,
in Hampstead, on the evening of the
26th. There Is no clue to the MUIR
derer.
Rev. DIR. j.. Henry Smythe, of
Philadelphia, has given $4,000 to the
Grant Memorial University, at Ath-
ems. Tennessee, to aid in educating ten
Young men for the Southern ministry.
"A keg of powder exploded In George
Farmers store at Scrufftown, Penna.,
on the evening of the Goth, killing Ber-
lha Farmer, aged 10 years, and fatally
iiinring Farmer. His wife and two
tier children escaped with slight In
iuries. A steam engine connected with
4 thres.ing machine in Poynette, Wis
consiR, exploded on the evening OF the
Goth, killing Jack futile. Charles
York and william Buckley and injur.
ing three others. a boiler In q CHAIR
factory in Cochran, Indiana. exploded
en- the 26th, killing William Benecke.
John Stark and William Matthews, Jr..
md severely injuring Frederick Bruce.
Tie factory was wrecked.
The 25.year old son Of Capt.
Thomas. in Raleigh, North Carolina,
On the 9th. walked into a hardware
store, bought a pistol, had 1t loaded,
and committed suicide by shooting
himself In the head. A man about 81
years of age, who registered at the
Whitehall Hotel, IN Harrisburg. on
The evening of the 26th. as j.. w. Bit
ting, was found dead in his room on
d @ morning of the 9th. suffOcated by