The Penn's Grove record., 1888-07-21
NEWS OF The WEEK.

Three men and three women were
drowned on the 10Th while crossing the
| Arkansas river, near Fort Smith, Ark.
ansas. Their names were John Logan,
Jesse Morris, Thomas Davis, Sallle
Jackson, Mary Pettis and Carrie Davis,
They had been attending a dance and
| were on their way home. When In the
| middle OF the stream the boat upset.
Twenty.one young men from Baltimore
went to North Point on the afternoon
of the 18th. Arriving there, ten OF
| them put out in a row boat to fish. The
boat was capsized, and Joel Lutz, Will
liam Finn and Frank Vera were
drowned.
"A cowboy walked into the bank
| of La Junta, in Hutchinson, Kansas,
on the afternoon Of the l4th, and cover
ing RUFUS Phillips, the cashier, with q
| revolver, ordered him to drop all the
funds of the bank into a bag he placed
! on the counter. The cashier complied,
and the daring robber at once mounted
his horse and escaped. The loss is es.
timated at from SIG, 900 to 1928 900.
Emma Rhoades, aged IA, and
Annie Frysinger, aged II. were struck
by a train while viking on the railroad
track at New Holland, Penna., on the
evening of the 14th. The latter wa:
killed and the former badly injured.
Joseph Supo committed suicide al
Columbia. South Carolina, on the 18th,
by cutting his throat after trying tC
kill his wife with a saw file. He had
been released from an insane asylum q
few weeks before.
by the explosion of a ladle of mol.
| ten iron, at Emaus Pipe Foundry, in
| Allentown, Penna.. on the 14th, Will.
liam Stauffer and Jeremiah Reiss were
fatally wounded. Jacob Wolf, George
Schmoyer, Daniel Acker and Nathan
Barton were severely injured. a nat.
/ ural gas explosion occurred in Wash
ington, Penna., on the morning Of the
18th, A party of wOrkmen were max
ing a connection and the gas was
turned on by mistake just as the men
had made their fire to heat the pipes.
Oliver White, Ernest Boyd, John Mar
shall. James Linely and a man named
Neff were severely burned. A battery
of eight gas tanks, in Ludlow, Ken.
lucky, exploded on the 14th, lnjuring
fifteen men, four of them fatally. The
gas was generated from naphtha for
lighting the railroad shops and for use
in the Mann Boudoir cars. The ia
tally injured are: Frank Collins,
| Michael WEIGH, George Madison and
! David Harrison.
"A despatch from Battle Creek,
| Michigan, says Frederick Gleason,
aged 20; John Williamson, aged Is,
and Louis Burnam. aged 16, were
drowned at Wilkes Lake on the 18th,
while bathing. Gleason got into deel
water and the other two we're drowned
while attempting to save him,
Mr.. Wentworth and wife, of New
| tonville, Massachusetts, went boating
on Lake Sunapee, on the afternoon Of
| the 18th. On the 18th tie boat was
found washed ashore full of water. Or
the 10th a parasol belonging to the
lady was washed ashore.
"A despatch from Clarendon, Texas
says that in consequence of a washOut
on the Fort worth and Denver Rail.
road a passenger train was precipitated
through a bridge on the morning OF the
18th. Engineer Smith and Fireman
| Wilson were killed, and a number Of
passengers were badly shaken up. Al
express train was wrecked near Whine.
mucca, Nevada, on the morning of the
18th, by a broken rail. The fruit, bag
gage and United States Fish Commits
sioners' cars were badly wrecked. Nc
passengers we're hurt.
TIN Chiaann n0Iina IN tho 1-tI
found in a small frame house in thu
vicinity of Ashland avenue and Thirty
third street II dynamite bombs, a re
volver and knife. The owner of the
articles, said to be an Old-time Anarch'
ist, was arrested. 1t is said there wa!
a plot Of long standing, which wa
about to be put into execution, to xii
Judge Gary, Judge Grinnell and In
spector Bonlieid and others prominent
in the persecution OF the Anarchists
BOwles, n of the men under arrest ii
Chicago for completely in the ALLEGED
dynamite plot against the Chicago
Burlington and Quincy Railroad, on tn,
18th showed the officers where a dyns
mite cartridge was hidden in Gales
burg. 1T was Of the Hercules kind, and
had caps at both ends. George Clark
one of the leading Brotherhood engineer
was taken into custody on a Stat,
warrant. lie asserted his innocence
Last week a train on the Burlington
and Missouri Railroad vas derailed a
Gibson, Missouri, by an obstruction
placed on the track. A watchmaI
claims that while the cars were BEN.
placed on the track. he saw IA maj
light a fuse and then disappear. Hast
ening to the spot. the Waterman fount
the fuse was attached to a can which
contained half a pound of powder. TIL,
fuse was extinguished in time to pre-
vent an explosion. The man VIII,
lighted the fuse Is known and will h
arrested.
-Mollie Dealy, u servant girl il
PrairietOwD, Indiana. committed sui
eide with morphine on the evening o
the 18th because a young man to whom
she was engaged to be married faile,
to pay her a visit.
Chief Arthur, Of the Brotherlloo,
OF Locomotive Engineers, said on the
18th. that if it was proven that an.
member of the organization had uset
violent means to gain the ends desired
member would be summarily ex
PEELED from the order. Distric
Attorney Ewing said that there neve
was even a remote possibility of tn
arrest Of Mr.. Arthur in connection
with the plot against the 20" Road
and he wished it stated that there wa
no reason to suppose that the Brother
hood, as IN organization, knew any
thing of the conspiracy or confessed i
in any way. No definite proposition
has yet been made for a settlement o
the strike on the Burlington road, bu
another conference is to be held in
few days.
AN express train and a freigh
train collided on the morning of tn
nth, at Shades Greek, 10 miles soutl
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