The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14

morning Of the 11th. Edward Bower,
bis wife and three children were awak-
.ened by the noise in the halls. Bower
lost his wife, and. springing from bed,
he seized his two boys, aged 8 and :,
and dropped them from the window.
Fortunately fremen below caught them
safely. Bower, his wife and their baby
we're then taken down a ladder.
The body OF Mrs. W. Kinney,
about 55 years Of age, IA found on a
vacant lot in Newark, New Jersey, on
the 18th. She left a note in which she
said; 81 am a woman, and have had
such a terrible life with my husband 1
can't stand him any longer. ! mean to
do away with my life. Please tell my
husband to think of the hour when he
drove me to this" The husband will
be arrested.
Six inches of SNOW fell at Bellows
Falls, Vermont. On the evening of the
9th, seriously damaging telegraph and
telephone lines. Trees and shrubbery
also suffered. A furious rain, hail and
wind storm passed over Pine Bluff, Ar
kansas, on the evening of the 9th. A
two.story frame building and a church
toppled over, the roof of one of the pub
lie schools was carried away, and many
trees were %uprooted. 1t is reported by
the Dayton Journal that the barley IN
many counties in Ohio and the adjacent
territory of Indiana has been utterly
ruined by the severity Of the winter.
Farm after farm of twenty to one
hundred acres are being plowed up.
The injury to clover IS unprecedented
One-thlrd of winter wheat has been
killed around the head waters of the
Wabash. Maumee and Miami rivers,
but the damage is not 80 great further
down the valleys"
Mrs. NJ. Austin Jones dropped
dead of heart disease while singing at
a reception to her friends in the Hotel
Vendome. Boston, on the evening OF
the 9th. She was said to be be q mem.
Der of the royal family of Russia, where
her husband, a man of wealth and
leisure, met and married her. She was
about IS years old, and was noted for
her musical talents.
"A. L. Brecker, a wealthy saw and
flour mill owner in Crandall, Indiana,
was killed on the 18th, by being caught
In the shafting Of his mill. He was
trying to adjust a belt. A wall of Has
lagos building in Pittsburg, in the
Diamond, which was recently destroyed
by fire, fell with a crash on the after
noon Of the 18th, crushing in Eichlary's
restaurant adjoining. Bridget Walsh,
20 years old. who was at work in the
kitchen, was killed. A sixteen-foot
~embankment of earth in the rear of an
unfinished building in East Seventy
fourth street, New York, caved in on
the afternoon of the 18th, and smoth-
cred John Comfy, a plumber, and Pat
rick Cannon, a laborer. Frederick q.
Ackiey, a prominent contractor who
disappeared three months ago, was
found floating in the East River at
New York on the evening of the 11th.
John Davidson was arrested in
Chicago, on the 18th, for turning the
cock next the engine tender on "A Bur
lingtoR train, thus cutting the engine
air reservoir off from the train. Fortu-
uately the conductor answered the en-
gineer's whistle for brakes, and pulled
the automatic valve, which is placed in
one end of the car, releasing the air in
the cylll der and train service pipe, thus
applying the breaks gel which the EN-
glneer had no control. Had any other
than the automatic air system been in
use, and bad there ben any obstruc-
ton on the rails, a great loss Of life and
property would have resulted.
The store of Thible " Helwagon,,
at Moslem. Berks county, Penna., was
robbed of $1,000 worth of goods several
weeks age. On the 18th. Morris kei-
ser, a prominent churchman, and SUI
perintendent of a Sunday school at
Moslem, was arrested, charged with
being the leader Of a gang Of thieves,
who have been operating in the county.
A store box, filled with the stolen goods,
was found buritd in keiser's garden.