The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-31
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

N Il NS VI LIE w ZEN.
In Waterloo, Nebraska, on the
oath, W. Allysworth, of Council
Bluffs, Iowa, entered Todd's Hotel,
and pointed a revolver at George Hill.
After asking what his life was
WORTH" Allysworth iN,d at and fatally
wounded Hill. He then went into the
street and began firing promiscuously at
| the passers-by, until he in turn was shot
and fatally wounded by Town Marshal
Campbell. 1t is supposed that Allys-
worth was insane.
Minnie Liebknechner, a German
mother, administered poison to her
three children at her home in New
York on the oath. OF the three two
died, Anthony, aged 8, and Charles,
aged Z. The third boy, A years old.
named Christopher, was removed to the
hospital, and it IS thought will recover.
The mother was arrested. The bodies
of the two dead children were viewed
by thousands on the 25th, at the under
takers rooms, before being inferred in
the Lutheran Cemetery. William Nc
Clune, aged 65, residing at Timber
Ridge, Rockbridge county, Virginia,
killed his wife OH the 23d, and then
committed suicide. James Merna, a
farmer near Frankfort, Kentucky, was
shot by his son on the morning of the
Path, Merna and his wife had lived In
happily for some time. and young
Merna assets that he drew a pistol Oil
his wife and son before he was shot.
John Matthews, bald Knobber," was
convicted of murder at OZart, Missouri
on the oath. He is the third of the
gang convicted of the murder of Edens
and Green.
Patrick McHale, a respectable
citizen of Kingston, Penna., employed
by the Kingston Coal Company for IL
years as a miner, died on the 23d. Ii
is alleged that Anthony O'Boyle, Jr.,
and Bryan McIIuRh met McHale OIL
the evening Of the Goth and beat him
In a frightful manner, and that from
the time of the assault until his death
he vas unable to speak. The Coroner
viewed the body on the 23d aud declar-
ed it was a clear case of murder.
The body of Mrs. Henry UPTON,
missing from her home at Redding
Connecticut, since the blizzard of the
18th, has not yet been fund. The
body of Martin Lynch has Deen found
In a snow-bank 10 his dooryard at New
town. Mrs. Orville Lyon, Of Bethel.
and Henry Waring, of Beaver Brook,
who were frozen in the great storm
ale reported in a critical condition.
Tile body of Rosa Goebel, rs years
old, was found in the cellar of e.
Wlllet street, New York, on the 25th
She lived alone. During her lifetime
she was fond of cats and chickens and
kept a number of each In her room.
Every sick cat she found on the
streets she took home. When found
on the 25th portions of the body had
been eaten away by her pets, who had
been locked in the room with theiI
dead mistress for about a week.
"A telegram from Ottawa says the
iumbermen in Ontario are uneasy in
regard to the log supply. An enor
nous number of logs has been cut, but
it is feared there will not be sufficient
water in the tributaries 10 float them
down to the Ottawa river. A great
deal of snow has disappeared, but thus
far the Ice remains firm and the break
up may witness the rivers with low
water. Over 400 900 900 feet of logs
river at Washburn, Dakota, broke On
the the oath and the river rose rapidly.
Preparations were made at Bismarck in
anticipation of a flood. The greatest
danger is threatened at Sibley Island,
where disastrous gOrges have always
formed in the past. snow was falling
in Dakota on The 24tb.
The immense new furnace of the
Centre Iron Company, at Bellefonte,
Penna., was started on the Oath. II
has a capacity Of 100 tons of pig iron
per day. 1t is said the population OF
Bellefunte has increased from 1000 to
5000 within the last year. (which Is
entirely due to the great boom In the
iron ore interests of Centre county,
A severe storm or wind and snow
ragged on the 25th, Throughout North
ern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Dakota.
The wind blew at the rate Uf 80 miles
an hour, and from three to five inches
Of snow fell. The temperature being
comparatively mild, the nov wa
heavy and packed. Out in the country
the fall was deeper and railroad travel
was interrupted. In st. Paul street
car travel was abandoned.
"A gas explosion occurred at Flow
cry Fields Colliery. near Wilkesbarre.
on the evening of the 23d. Several
miners were injured, one of them,
named James George, fatally. George
Lord, one OF the victims of the explo-
sion at the gas works in Pottsvllle,
Pa, on the Sth inst. died on tie oath
He leaves a widow and five children.
Thomas Picton. the other victim, Wa
in a dying condition.
John Curtis, a fisherman in Bidde
ford. Maine, committed suicide on thu
the 10Th by hanging himself. He had
domestic trouble and his wife separat,
ed from him. E. L. Whitman, a com
merciaI traveller for a st. Louis firm.
committed suicide IN Salt Lake City,
on the evening of the 25th, by tax
ing an injection Of morphine. He
left a letter saying ''his life was hope
less"
The Governor of New Jersey on
the 26th granted a respite for fOui
weeks to George Durham convicted or
murder at Woodbury..
"A telegram from Mackinaw City,
Michigan, reports an ''easterly biz
zard," with the snow badly drifting,
and a probability that trains will be de-
layed. From present indications the
Straits of Mackiuaw will not be open
before the first of May. 1.-THE smooth
Ice is from two to three feet thick. and
the piled ice, which covers nearly the
whole strait, IS from 8 to 20 feet high"
"A heavy rainstorm prevailed In
the vicinity OF Chattanooga, Tennes.
SEE, on the evening of the 2Sth. On
the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
a bridge was carried away, near Steven
son, Alabama. A trestle on the Nash
vile, Chattanooga and st. Louis Rail.
road was washed away, and the road
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