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

six days supply on hand, not calcu'
lating what would be required in cast
OF fire. The Mayor has asked that the
Delaware and Raritan Canal be filled
up to provide against fire. Al
Chickies. Pennsylvania, on the 26th
ult., the Susquehanna was "a feet
above low water mark. People were
taken from their houses In boats fin
the afternoon. At Columbia the Ice
had banked up against the body Of the
bridge on the Wrightsville side. and
was as high as the bridge. The Co
lumbia and Port Deposit Railroad was
covered with water, and travel was
suspended as far south as Peach Bot
tom. At Port Deposit a channel
formed through the mass of Ice at the
mouth Of the river and fears of trouble
were ended. The heavy rain on the
evening of the 2Hth uit. drowned out
several collierieS at Mount Carmel,
Penna., entailing) heavy loss.
"A collision occurred on the after
noon Of the 24tho on the Pottsville
and Mahanoy Railf1ad at New Boston
between a Pennsylvi lia passenger train
going north and a 1 'gh Valley pas
senger train goingr Both engines
were badly damagS Sh0 onward
cars were thrown otrack. Ar
engineer and q ND Of passengers
we're injured, but hbne fatally.
As freight e1 CINE on the Chicago
and Eastern Illinois Railway was com.
ing down a deep Incline with 20 loaded
cars at Grape Cheek, Illinois, on the
23d, the pressure became so great tina,
the train went down at terrific speed.
A passenger train was standing on the
track directly In lthe way of the run.
away train. A 5witchman quickly
turned the switch and the freight train
was derailed and piled up, causing q
loss of $4,000. Engineer Bogart
jumped off and was dangerously hurt.
A train on the brooklyn, Bath Beach
and West End Railroad coming from
Coney Island ram into q train on the
New York and Sea Beach Railroad, al
Bath Beach Junction, on the Oath. The
passengers were badly shaken up, hui
were unlnIured.
Work was resumed DC tue beading
collieries on the 24th. Many indivual
cOllierles are also preparing to resume
upon an agreement with their men to
gay the same rate of wages as may be
established by the Reading Company.
1t ID thought this sudden and extern.
sive revival Of activity is likely to be
followed by an early reaction, owing to
the Cutting of the market. and it is re-
ported that already a number of collier
les are preparing for temporary suspen-
slon , for lack Of orders. Furnaces
at Lebanon. Cornwall and Columbia,
which had gone out Of blast because Of
the scarcity of coal, have resumed op-
erations.
"A violent Saln and wind storm
swept across Vilkesbarre, Penna. on
the morning o13the 25th ult. a num-
Der Of buildings were 9Esoof<d, trees
blown down and telegraph wires DIS
arranged. Great damage was done in
the country districts, and several ac-
cidenta to persons were reported. A
tornado which passed over Wander
berg and adjoining counties in Indiana
ON the afternoon Of the Gath ult., dam
aged dwellings, houses, stables and
fences. There was also a heavy loss of
live stock.
On the afternoon OF the 26th ult.,
as Constable Kelly and his deputy,
Jacob Helbert, with a posse Of 10.
armed with a writ of habeas corpus.
broke In the door Of John Chesrown's
house, neal Mohicanville. Ohio, to get
possession of C~hesrown's aged and
lmbecile father, they were met by
Elias Chesrown, who shot Kelly and
Helbert dead. The posse fed panic
stricken. Elias subsequently surren-
dered himself at the Jail in Ashland,
ten miles distant. A deputy sheriff
named Coz was attacked at Ell Cerero
ranch, Texas, a few days ago, by five
bandits. He killed four Of them and
badly wounded the other. Franklin
Stump, serving an l1-year term fol
passing counterfeit money. assaulted a
guard IN the Ohio fe~nitentiary, on the
morning of the 25tn ulI., and was shot
dead. Oscar Fifer, white, shot and
killed Matthew WhItesides, cOlored, In
Athens, Tennessee, on the 25th ult.
They had renewed an old quarrel In
Walker county, Georgia. on the even.
ing of the oath ult., jeff" McGrodaD
and Taylor Kemp got into a quarrel
over a woman, when the former shot
the latter through the heart. Gustav
Winkler, a young man, shot and killed
bis wife and then committed suicide Ill
Milwaukee, on the 25th ult. 1t is sup
posed be was frenzied by domestic
troubles.
Two trains on the Union Pacific
Railroad were wrecked by a collision
real Cotton. Nebraska, on the 25th
ult., and the wreck caught fire. Two
Pullman cars, the express, baggage and
one emigrant car were consumed. An
engineer named Powell was killed. and
a number OF the passengers we're in
jured. but none dangerously.
Mrs. Matte Wright, Of Clayton.
Delaware, who with her mother was
asphyxiated by illuminating gas at the
house OF a friend in Wilmington, with
whom they stopped on the evening Of
the 2lst ult., died bn the afternoon Of
the 25th ult. She Remained in an I'M
conscious condition for nearly ninety
hours. Her mother is improving.
An accumulation Of gas In the
conduits Of the Bell Telephone Com.
pany, in Buffalo, New York, caused a
series of explosions on the 25th ult.
Five manholes blew out simultaneously.
Frederick Zatt and William Wood,
workmen, were terribly burned.
The steamer Umt'" at New York.
on the 9th ult., from Liverpool, was
struck by a heavy wave at n O'Clock
on the evening of the 26th when $50
miles east of Sandy Hook. The vessel
was half buried and several steerage
pas engers were injured. John Hug
gin, an Englishmaee, aged 30years, was
thrown across the ldeck and his head
struck an iron bolt. Ills skull is
thought to be fractured and he will
probably die. Bridget Dalton, a young
Irish girl, had one eye torn from Its
socket by her being thrown against a
railing. Her face was also badly cut.
Patrick Kerwin, sailor, had his right
leg fractured, and several others were
bruised. Only one cabin passenger
was injured and he not severely.
"A 12-year-old boy. while coasting
at New Glasgow, Nova Scotia. on the
26th ult., went under q railroad train
and was killed,