The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-24

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poker; Frederick Schilling stabbed his
wife to death, and Frederick Coralin
hacked a woman's head to pieces with
a Ratchet. Mary Scans was found dead
IN her room in New York on the morn
ing Of the 18th with a bullet through
her heart. Her husband, who said she
had committed suicide, was arrested.
At Waterville, Maine, on the 18th, the
Coroner's jury found a verdict Of muir
der against ID. NJ. Warren, who killed
his wife. He was allowed to see his
children, Cora, aged 8, and Annie, aged
3 years. When the officers were not
looking he drew a revolver and shot
both the children and then killed him
self. Cora is dead and Annie is NOR
tally wounded.
Joseph Sommers, aged about IS
years, shot and killed his step-fatller,
Frank Wickman, IN Chicago, on the
morning of the 18th. William Rau,
proprietor of Bellemead farm, near
Bound Brook, New Jersey, was murd-
cred on the evening of the 18th while
attending to cattle in his barn. His
body was found on the morning of the
18th. with the skull crushed III, and a
bloody club lying by. Rau was 65
years of age. Frederick Summer visit
ed a saloon in Bridgeport Connecticut,
where he had been employed as barten-
der, on the evening of the 10th, and dis
charged five chambers of his revolver
among the occupants of the place.
Patrick Clancy was dangerously and
two others slightly wounded. Robert
Barker, a farm hand, went to the house
of. Richard Mason, an old man over 70,
near Johannesburg, New York, on the
evening of the 18th and beat Mason
and his wife with a club. He then
poured the contents of a lamp over the
couple. set the house on fire and fled.
Mason recovered sufficiently to crawl
from the burning building into a snow
drift, but his wife's body was burned
to a cinder. The blaze attracted the
n%eighbors, and Mason told them the
ed to have been the motive for the
deed.
l. About rs miles of the Long Island
Railroad systematic Port Jefferson
branch-remaiHs blockaded by o.
The Locust Valley branch was opened
on the 18th. The bodies of three men
were found on the beach at Lloyd's
Neck, Long Island, on the 10th, but
there was nothing to identify them.
They are supposed to have been washed
overheard from vessels. Recent Wis
itors to the volcano of P~opocatepetl, in
Mexico. report increased activity in the
crater with clouds Of smoke. Several
volcanoes in Central America also show
renewed activity. A heavy snow
storm prevailed at Lynchburg, Vir-
ginia, on the 18th. Nearly 100 oyster
boats were destroyed in the HOngo
river, Maryland, by the storm of the
18th. The loss is estimated at 800, QUO.
The strike on the Atchison, To-
peka and Santa Fe Road was declared
off on the 18th and trains were moving
with some regularity. l. Conroe,
Chairman of the General Grievance
Committee, has gone to Chicago to ad.
just all misunderstanding.
-Samel Wilson, a lumberman living
In a wild section of country near
Calhoun, Kentucky, procured a poisoned
quarter of hog meat for the purpose OF
! getting rid of wolves which had preyed
| upon his hogs and chickens. He care
lessly left the poisoned meat in his
smoke house, and 1t was prepared for
| dinner by his wife on the 18th. After
eating the meat the family became
| violently sick. During the night three
of the children died, and III the 10th
the father, mother and remaining child
expired.
During a fire in the fats In
E~ighty-ffth street, between Lexington
and Fourth avenues, New York, or
the morning of the 10Th, Mrs. Frances
Westlake jumped from the fifth floor
to the street and was killed. The in.
jured were: Addie Westlake, aged "a
years, severely injured IN the back;
Isaac Westlake, aged 10 years, contu-
sion of right hip; Frederick Westlake,
% years old, severely injured In the
back; Sarah Miner, a servant, % years
| old, both hands severely burned; Mrs.
Tynberg, As years old. suffering from
shock. William QuIrk, assistant fore.
man Of Engine q, wh.ie at work on
the fourth floor of tie burning house,
was forced to jump for his life. He
landed in a net held by his comrades
and escaped with a fractured arm.
Jack" Benllne, Dan" Burde and
Jake" Sibilla were rowing up the st.
| Clair river at Port Huron, Michigan,
on the 18th, when their boat capsized,
and Burde and SiDilla We're drowned.
Benllne was rescued.
%. A. Allison, a broker Of Jersey
City, committed suicide in a hotel in
New York on the 10th by shooting
himself and swallowing laudanum. No
cause is assigned. William Zellers, aged
16, committed suicide by hanging at his
fathers restaurant in Lancaster,
Penna., on the 10Th. The cause is at
tributed to the dislike of the boy to be-
ing kept at work.
-Thejury in the case of John Pawlyik,
on trial at Norristown for the murder
of Frank Gresko, or the afternoon of
the 18th, returned a verdict of not
guilty. Convict Carlin, who escaped
from the ~penitentiary i'll Stillwater,
Minnesota, last fall, and who was re-
Gently captuled in Chicago, and taken
back, now announces himself as the
murderer of Amos j.. Smell, the
Chicago millionaire, presumably with
the notion that he may be pardoned, so
as to stand trial for the murder at
Chicago.
Two freight trains on the Central
Pacific Railroad colllded near Cisco.
California, on the 10Th. Two engines
were attached to each train. and all
four engines and a number of cars were
badly wrecked. Engineer John Pickens
was killed instantly and several others
injured. Four other persons employed
on the trains are missing, and it is
feared are buried in the debris.
John .. Lilly, of Indianapolis,
brother of General William Lilly, of
Mauch Chunk, was killed on the morn
ing Of the 10Th, by a Lehigh and Sus-
q~uehanna Railroad train at Packerton,
Penna. An explosion occurred on the
Ammonia estate in Havana, Cuba, o.
the 10Th, which resulted in the killing
of the engineer and seveial other per-
sons and the injury of a number more.