The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-28

young lady living with the family.
While his stepsOn, Spanlding, was try
ing to revive Miss O'Nelll, who had
tainted from fright, the drunken man
fired with fatal effect on him, and
afterwards fired two Intellectual shots
at another member Of the family before
he was overpowered.
Two Ears of a train on tue Salem
branch of the Delaware and Hudson
Railroad tnmbied down an embank-
ment while rounding a curve neal Bax-
~terville, New York, 0n the afternoon
OF the 23d. A number of persons were
injured. two David Owens, a telegraph
lineman, and Charles Frost, conductor
fatally. Three others are danger
ously injured, and may cot recover.
John Bertinstrow, superintendent,
John Eisenherg. foreman, and Jacob
Spielman and John After, workmen in
Carl Seitz's hat factory. in Newark,
New Jersey, were arrested on the I'D,
for defrauding Seitz ont of large sums
of money by means Of fraudulent a
rolls. Bertinstrow and Eiseuberg
pleaded not guilty, and the other two
pleaded guilty.
Three shocks Of earthquake &C.
CURED In the vicinity OF NewbuTyport,
Massachusetts, about midnight on the
22d. Houses four miles from town
were violently shaken.
john 5. Thomas, a miner at the
Empire ColleIy, IN Wiikesbarre,
Penna., Was fatally burned on tie I'D
by an explosion of gas.
Willie J. Hoack, aged IL years,
while coasting on an embankment OF
the COdorus creek, in York, Tenua., on
the I'D, ran INTO an air hole in the
creek and was drowned.
The report that Findley ID. Brown,
Board OF Trade operator IN Chicago,
VAS thrown out or fell from a third.
story window, on the evening of the
list was incorrect. lie descended a
fire escape and dropped from "a height
of twelve or fifteen feet on a pile of
stones and planks, breaking his ankle.
SO much suffering and death has
been reported among teachers and
pupils Ill Nebraska in the late storm,
that prominent people and papers have
advocated public contributions TO he
rolc teachers, and to aid those who
have been crippled through losing
limbs by freezing. To secure accu-
rate data. the State Superintendent On
the Gath issued a circular calling on ali
County Superintendent to 70: ward at
once names Of teachers AMI pupils in
their locality who persisted i'll the
storms, those who have since died from
effects of exposure, and the names OF
teachers who performed heroic actions
in saving and attempting to save the
lives of their pupils.
"A telegram from Neche, Dakota,
says the mercury went down to IL
below and the wind reached ii velocity
of 40 miles an hour there on the even
ing of the 23d. 1t was still blowing
on the oath, and trains were ten hours
late. The storm reached Braineri on
the morning of the oath. Snow WAS
falling and the wind was blowing "a
gale. The heaviest snow storm of the
season began at Halifax, Nova Scotia
on the evening of the 23d, and ION.
tinued all of the oath. The roads are
almost impossible.
1t is reported from Sun River,
Montana, that ''Nosey Smith" was
hanged by vigllantes. 1t is said be
went to Northwest Territory, two years
ago, to escape hanging for shamefully
abusing his two daughters, and going
back to gain possession of them vas
caught and hanged. While Mrs.
Lester, betwts en- 40 and so years OF age,
was on her way home from a neigh.
boris house, in New London, a village
near Rome, New York. on the evening
of the Cad, Eugene Guest threw her
down and cut her throat. 1t is alleged
that Guest and Mrs. Lester were init.
mate, and that he became jealous of
aer. A telegram from Belgrade. Mon
tana, says a German laborer, who was
i'll. vas placed by a farmer in a room
without fire and wllfully neglected.
After an unusually cold night, the |
was found frozen 10 death. HIS |
body was then removed to the wood |
shed. where 1t was partially devoured
by hogs. 1t is asserted by neighbors
that the farmer allowed the man to
freeze to avoid paying him a large sum
due as wages.
IA explosion occurred on the
morning of the Gath, in shaft No. 8 OF
The Wellington colliery at Victoria,
British Columbia. The hosting geal |
was displaced and ropes were used to |
hoist up the men, of whom there were |
200 in the mine. By l O'Clock 20 men
had been hauled up, and 1t is believed. |
As there was no fire in the mine. that |
all were safe except perhaps a few in
the immediate vicinity OF the explo- |
sion.
OF the nine bodies taken from the
ruins Of Barnaby's boarding house, in
Minnesota, three are still
The verdict of the Coro- |
jury censures Baruaby for not
providing better protection against fire
catching from the stove In the bar
room.
in the accident on the Delaware
and Hudson Railroad at Baskerville,
near Salem, New York, on the 23d, is
persons were injured. Only one, David
1. Owen, Of Eagle Bridge, Wal dan
yerously hurt, and he may cove. The |
cause of the accident is not known.
The Browns Valley branch Of the
Railroad, which has been
blockadei since December 29th, was
opened to Wheeler, on the oath, and
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