The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-29

blONCu IIOIl ulD Hcdu WhlCu Dfu ptOi
there since the Haymarket riot on MAJ
4, 1856. The bullet, which had beef
flattened into a shape resembling
horse shoe, was completely covered
with bony growth.
When the night express on thu
Fort Wayne road reached Alliance
ONO, on the morning of the oath
William SymDs, the baggage mastei
was found dead in the express car
The cause Of the suicide is unknown
Francis Trainor, a lunatic, 80 years o.
age. committed suicide in the city jai
at Baltimore, on the oath by throwing
himself from the fourth tier to the
floor IS feet below. Avery Gardner
aged IS years, committed suicide il
Richville, New York, on the 23i by
hanging himself.
George Croker, a son of the re
Gently deceased California millionaire
Charles Croker, was severely injured
in Chicago, on the 25th, while riding
in a cab. Tine horse stumbled and fel
and Mr.. Crocker plunged through tht
glass doors in front and fell into thu
street. A two-story dwelling in James
town, New York, occupied by Thomas
Loucks and family, was demolished by
an explosion of natural gas on the even
ing of the 25th. Loucks was badly
burned. The others escaped with Sigh
injuries. a despatch from Baltimore
says the body Of r. G.. Petty, a travel
ing salesman, has been found in Jones
Falls. 1t is thought that while looking
over the bridge he was taken with yer
tigo. \ telegram from Eagle Pass
Texas, says the Sabinas river is very
high, and that a German teamster
while attempting to cross the stream
on the 23d was drowned, and his Wagon
and team of mules were swept away
While two half-breeds were trying t,
break a colt to saddle near Pembina
Dakota, on the 25th, the colt reared III
striking one man with his fore feet
killing him instantly, and throwing thu
other and dragging him about a mile
When found the man was dead.
Marshal Woolwine attempted tt
arrest William Lyons, in Jellioco, Ten
~nessee, on the oath, Lyons pulled a re-
volver and fired at Woolwlne. The
shot was returned and both men wer,
fatally wounded. L. A. Defunial
was struck by a stray shot and severely
injured. Monroe Wilkinson, a notori
GUS negro, entered a colored church il
S%cottsvllle, Kentucky. during service
on the 22d, and, fl%ourishing a revolver
broke up the congregation. Barr,
Merrlman, an old and highly respected
colored man, was shot and killed whilt
demonstrating with Wilkinson. TIL
murderer was arrested, and the negrOe!
made three unsuccessful efforts Il
lynch him, Peter Cider vas shot ant
killed by William Stevens at P%etersville
Kentucky, on the evening of the 24th
They quarrelled about a woman. Charles
Lowe, an aged and wealthy farmer
near Undertook, Indiana, was fount
on the evening of the 23d with hi:
skull crushed and in a dying condition
He was still conscious Sna made al
ante norton s~tateaneuu, which has no
set been made public. 1t is thought h,
gave tie name of his murderer. LoZers
Amandor and Graciana Cantu had
duel with pistols at San Felipe de Sab
mas, a mining town on the Sablna'
river, on a branch of the Mexican In
ternational Railroad, on the 23d. ant
both were killed. SIX of the eight
Italians who murdered the foreman
C. L. Hubbard, at Hawthorne, Wis
consin, on the 2lst, have been arrested
They were armed with daggars, razor!
and pistols.
The first frost of the season was OBJ
served at Rome, Georgia, on the morn
ing of the 25th. There was frost OF
the night Of the oath in many parts o
Alabama and within twenty miles o
Montgomery. The temperature a
Montgomery was "a. q
John Hayden, the confidential
clerk of Kinney Brothers, tobacco
manufacturers IL New York, has beef
arrested on the charge of systematlcall!
robbing his employers. Two forged
Ichecks-one for S675, the other for /,
small amount-were found on him
He said he intended TO cash these ant
leave for Canada.
In Allegheny City, Penna., on tn
25th, John X. Lemon, 65 years of age
was robbed of $4,000 10y two bunct
men. They took the money from hin
by force and escaped. ,'i. iT
"A gang of thieves in San Franclsc,
watch letter carriers drop letters int
the box of large business houses. thel
walk up, and with a glass cutter tax
he glass ont of the frame and seize th
etters. Within a few weeks abou
$1,000 has been drawn from local bank
N forged checks stolen in this way.
An engine on the southwest brancl
of the Pennsylvania Railroad struck
COW, between Fairchanee and Union
town, on the evening of the 18th
while moving at the rate OF 80 mile
an hour. The engine was overturne'
and Leander Miller wa killed. Englnee
Thompson, Brakeman Rush and Con
ductor Dinges were badly injured. Tw
freight trains on the West Shore Raft
road collided zeal West Point on tn
2jth. Both tracks were blocked, blu
no loss Of life occurred.
The yellow fever report for Jack
sonyille on the 25th showed l43 ne,
cases and four deaths. Twelve cases G
the fever have been reported In Fer
nandida, which Is officially declared ID
fected. Four new cases and death
are reported IN Decatur, Alabama. On
hundred and forty eases Of a mapignan
type Of typhoid fever are reported il
Kingston, Ontario.
During a balloon exhibition at OF
tawa, Canada, on the 26th. Thoma
Winsley, a young butcher, was kilie'
!; by falling from the balloon at a heigh
of over 1000 feet. he was n of th
volunteers to hold down the balloon
and, when the order to let go wa
given, he held on to the rope and wa
, carried up, the aeronaut beng unabl
to help him. g
"A northeast rain storm of area
violence, with thunder and lightning
! began early on the morning of the 26t
at Gloucester and other points alon
the Massachusetts, coast. Tue win,
soon increased to hurricane force, an
} the storm extended along the coast Q
Maine. The schooner Eibridg
Souther, from Philadelphia for Bos
, ton, went ashore on Rainsford Island
T in Boston Bay, but aoated In the after
noon and was lowed to the wharves
Two s~chooners, n a three-mastel
-. a,hara az Tnnu Raanh p paa