The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-10
NEWS OF I'll EEK.

"A pouch of registered mail was
stolen from n Of the mail wagons in
Cincinnati, on the evening Of the Goth
ult. The empty pouch was found in
the Ohio river. near Riverside. W.
l.. Fensler, driver of the mail wagon
just behind the one robbed, has been
arrested. A telegram from Lancaster.
Penna., says that Solomon Sellers,
George Metzger, Abram MetZger and
Charles Wolfe were arrested on the
evening of the list, charged with COM
uniting the masked burglary at the
house of Abram Iiarnish. a farmer,
near Rohrerstown, on the evening of
the 2Gth ult. Sellers lives In Lancas-
ter and the others near narnish's
farm.
An attempt was made on the after
noon of the I'd, at San Francisco to
murder James Mem. Shafter, ex-Judge
of the Superior Court. Just as Shafter
was leaving the court room he was shot
at twice by Carl l.. LANCE, but without
effect. Lange is a brother-in-law OF
Skaters son, and "a divorce suit has
for some time been pending between
the younger Silafter and his wife. AT
Baracoa, about 80 miles from Havana,
a mother killed her four children. Two
she murdered with a Ratchet, and two
she held i'll a tub of water until they
We're drowned. She said the devil
tempted her to the crime.
The Treasurer of the United
States, in a letter to the House on the
ID, says that the aggregate loss on all
the issues of Government notes by de-
struction, up to January 81, 1888.
would seem TO be not less than IS. 700
600, and that 81, 400. 900 of this sum
may be regarded as having been de.
stiOyed and out of circulation prior to
May 81, 1873. The percentage of de-
struction of notes, the Treasurer says.
will undoubtedly be greater in notes of
small denominations than in those Of
large denominations.
Thomas Williamson, an aged
farmer in MARBLE township, Delaware,
county, Penna,, committed suicide Oh
the evening of the LIST. He was i'll In
health.
Three miners we're killed at Gold
smiths mines, at VAUDEVILLE, Mon
tana, on the I'd. The cable holding
the bucket broke while they were de.
scending the shaft. John O'Nei,l and
Charles Vincent, woIkmen employed
at D. II. McAlpine's residence in Nor.
1istown, New Jersey, who were as
phxiated on the morning of the LIST by
coal gas escaping from a stove in theil
room, died on the evening of the Sd
without regaining consciousness.
"A snow pIow on the Manitoba
Railroad started to clear the track al
Pelican Rapids, Minnesota, on the %.
John Smith, engineer; Peter Orth, fire.
m ID, and Michael DeyIney, road-maf-
ter, were on the engine. While buckIng
saow they opened the furnace door to
fire up, but the stack had become So
hlled with snow that the flames burst
out of the door and set the cab on fire.
All jumped out. Orth and Smith were
fatally hurt, while Deviney was slightly
injured.
"A despatch from Harrisburg says
a deficit has been discovered in the
Dauphin county treasury of $40, 900,
charged against John s. Longenecker,
Treasurer three years ago, and E. j.
Jones, whose term recently expired.
Longenecker's lnde b.edness with inter-
est was S24, 600 and Jones's $40, 900.
~Longenecker has made good his short
age and that of Jones is secured by
bonds
Mrs. L. ". Legge, injured by the
Mount Vernon, Illinois, cyclone, died
on the morning of the 81. John p.
Jordan, a boy, was shot dead in Balti.
more on the Sd. by George L. Horn,
another boy. They were playing with
a pistol which they did not know was
loaded. Emma Lange, 16 years old,
committed suicide at her home in
Chicago, on the I'd, by taking poison.
On the evening of the 1st, she stayed
out late with Objectionable company
and her father whipped her.
In New York, on the evening of the
Sd a party of thirty young men and
women started in an omnibus for
Kings Bridge, to have a dance and
supper at a hotel. When near Kings
Bridge the omnibus rolled down an
embankment 20 feet high. All of the
party received bruises, but none of
them were killed. Two of the young
women, Minnie O'Neiland Annie May,
were taken to the N~inety-ninth Street
Hospital, suffering from conclusion of
the back. The others were able to go
home. a west-bound fast freight tram
on the Erie Railroad, which left Jersey
City On the evening of the Sd, ran into
an open switch at the S~usquehanna and
Western Railroad crossing. The train
was drawn by two engines. One of
them was wrecked and tbs other badly
damaged, while twelve box ears were
smashed. No person was injured.
A small building, used for mixing
illuminate, at the works of the Union
Metallic Cartridge Company, In Bridge
ton, Connecticut, was blown to atoms
on the 9th, and Henry Becker, the
only occupant, was killed. The cause
of the explosion is not known.
Two freight trains OH the Clncin-
natl. New Orleans and Texas Pacific
railroad collided at Pine Knot, Ken
lucky, on the evening of the 4til. Fire
man John Adams was killed, Solomon
Perkins, a tramp, was fatally, and four
train hands, severely, injured.
w. S. Thomas, a Philadelphia
coal dealer. was arrested in Boston. on
the 9TH, on a dispatch from Inspector
Byrnes, OF New York. Thomas
is charged with passing worthless
checks in payment OF board bills al
hotels in New York city. On the
evening of the Att at New Buffalo, a
few miles west of Fargo, Dakota, Pull
man Conductor Towne was attacked in
the drawing room of his car by two
masked men. who sand-bagged him
and robbed him of 500. They then
dragged him to the platform OF she car
aid lett him for dead. He was found
shortly after the train bad started by a
MESSENGER.