The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-06
building while his family were in it.
All work In the mine has been stopped.


All work In the mine has been stopped.
"A slight snow fell at Harrisonburg,
Virginia, on the Goth ult. The noun
taiEs are covered with it. There was
also a light fall at Pulaski City. Al
Lynchburg there was a heavy frost OF
the evening of the 2Sth uit., and it is
thought a great deal of tobacco has been
ruined. Snow fell at Deer Park, Mary.
land. at noon on the 29th ult.
Adam Lehr, a farmer, near Rock
port, Indiana, went to a neighbours
house on the evening of the 29th ult.,
for assistance in a case Of sickness. He
raped on a window, and a boy inside,
installing him for a burglar, fired a
heavy charge of shot into his face.
He is fatally injured. John u. Car
perton and John Pearce were drowned
In the Ohio river, near Louisville. Ken-
lucky, on the 30th ult., dy the capsiz-
ing of their boat. John Vath and
Charles Blake, young men, were
drowned at Dubuque, Iowa, on the
30th ult., by the upsetting of their
boat.
Snow fell throughout Northern
NoW AialupoLio vi tuO CNolins VI ehc
18th ult. At Woodsville it was half
an inch deep. Snow fell ct Montpelier
and Springfield, in Vermont, OIL the
Both ult., and at Washington the tenn
perature fell to 20 degrees.
The debt statement issued at the
Treasury Department on the list,
showed that the decrease of the public
debt during the month of September
amounted to S12. 247. 026. Total cash
in the Treasury, $685., BIC, 1857,
During the Temporary absence OF
G. I. Williams and his wife from
their home in Parsons, Kansas, on the
evening of the Both ult., a burning
lamp fell into a crib upon a sleeping
baby. Georgia Williams, 8 years old,
who was in the house by herself, Sc
cured a blanket from an adjoining
room, pulled the baby from the blazing
crib and smothered the fire. The girl
and baby were not seriously burned.
The cave-in at Mill Greek slope,
near W~ilkesbarre, continues. The
rumbling of the earth and the swapping
of timbers in the slope can be plainly
heard, and threatens considerable
damage.
-Advices from Panama say during
the trial trip Of a large iron mud-carry.
ing steamer on September 18th the
safety valve blew out and an explosion
followed, causing a loss Of six lives.
"A telegram from Sanltac. Michl-
gan, says a terrible storm ragged there
on the evening of the LIST. On the
morning Of the % the barge st. Clair
was wrecked and four men and one
woman were drowned. The Austria
liza went ashore at Holland, Michigan.
News was received in Duluth that the
schooner Brandon had been lost, that
the schooner Jennie was adrift, and
that the Regina is waterlogged. The
schooner Forester. Of Port Huron, par
ted her lines at Grindstone City, on the
evening Of the LIST, aS-a Kent to pieces.
No lives were lost.
Snow fell for several hours on the
evening of the 1st on the mountains
between White Haven and Wilkes
barre, Pennsylvania. and trains on the
Central Railroad arriving at Wilkes
barre had over half al inch of now on
their tops. A telegram from Ishpe-
ming, Michigan, on the ID says snow
fell for six hours. Reports from a
number of points in the Upper PENN.
sula show that the storm is general.
Ann Seaman, As years of age, being
drunk, In Hoboken, n. j., OF the I'd,
cut her sons head with a bowl, and
attacked her husband with All axe.
Later, while her husband was asleep,
she tried to stab him in the stomach,
but a thick bed quilt saved him. She
was finally arrested. George Bryson
and a woman claiming to be his wife
went to Helena, Montana, several
weeks ago, from Minneapolis. They
quarreled 0ver S2500 the woman had
| n her possession. A short time ago
the woman disappeared and on the
LIST her body was found, with the skull
crushed. BIyson is under arrest.
During September there was a net
increase of S23,477,123 in the c%ircula-
ton and q net decrease of ST., 1913, 7O7
II the money and bullion in the Trea.
sury. The total money and bullion in
the Treasury is S579, $50. 796, and the
total circulation 1884, 340,2S0.
There were ninety. eight new cases
Of yellow fever at jacksonville on the
I'd, but no deaths. The total cases to
date number 1928, and the deaths, 264.
Eighteen cases of yellow fever are now
under treatment at Decatur, Alabama,
and it is thought that at least two will
prove fatal.
In the U. s. Senate on the Sd, MI.
Allison, from the Committee on FL
nance, reported the substitute for the
House Tariff bill, and it was placed on
the calendar and ordered to be printed.
The Benet Circular resolution vas dis
cussed, pending which the Senate ad-
journed.
According to the estimates made
by the Finance Committee, the Senate
Tariff bill provides for a total reduce
ton of about S75, 200, 600, made up APP
proxlmately as follows: Sugar, $27,-
1853, 900; free list. Sc. 900; tobacco
(internal %reyenue), S24. 500 600; alco-
hol, in the arts, $1,000, 600; other re-
auctions, in customs. 81, 1900. 00O.
"A light snow fell at Newburgh,
New York, on the afternoon of the Sd.
There was q heavy fall in the Mohawk
Valley. Snow fell to the depth of six
inches during the evening of the I'd.
at Thedford and Strathr0y, and to the
depth of three inches at Zurich. All
the places are in Western Ontario. At
the time the report was sent snow was
still falling. The southeastern part of
Pickawsy county, Ohio, was visited by
a heavy hailstorm on the evening OF
the I'd. The standing corn was
stripped, and the apple crop, which
promised to be abundant, was almost
wholly destroyed. A telegram from
Bradford, Kentucky, says the tobacco
in that section was badly damaged by
frost on the evening of the Both ult.
William HOllaran, of New York,
and John H. Larkins, of Newark,
were killed by a train a Mon
mouth Junction, New Jersey on the
evening of the I'd. Jerome Bucking-
ham, conductor on a Baltimore and
Ohio train. fell off on the Sd at Hoods
Mills, Maryland, and received injuries
which caused his death, A passenger