The Penn's Grove record., 1888-10-20

makes the total amount of the defalca-
ton to date $4,000. Fields, the out
going Treasurer of Waubansee county,
Kansas, was on the 18th, discoved to
be a defaulter for $40 1000. His bonds
men are good for the amount, and he
has made an assignment to them. He
has been arrested at the instance of the
County Commissioners.
-Waltar s. Hawthorne, a bookkeep-
er, has brought suit in Chicago against
the Pullman Palace Car Company for
$4,000 damages for malicious prosecu-
ton. He was arrested as an accom-
plice of William A. Sapp, in an alleged
forgery Of railroad tickets, held three
days and then discharged, there being
no evidence against him.
-Four men we're injured by a cave
in while digging a trench in Youngs-
town, Ohio, on the morning of the 18th.
One of them had a hip fractured, an
other a leg broken, another was terribly
cut, and the fourth-Thomas Coyne-
sustained fatal injuries.
The steamer Robert B. Carson
sank in thirty feet OF water four miles
below Evansville, Indiana, on the
evening of the 18th. She had on board
fifty head of cattle and four horses, be-
sides some freight, which were lost.
The crew were saved.
Thomas Wardwell, a wealthy coal
mine OPERATOR, was killed by striking
miners in a riot at Bevier, Missouri, on
the afternoon of the 18th. Nearly all
the mine owners there have engaged
new men, who have been coming from
other points for several days. This has
| greatly incensed the strikers, but there
was no violence until the 18th, when
some of the new men were set upon
and a general fight ensued, in which
Wardwell was killed, Further blood
shed being feared, a Sheriff's posse has
gone to the scene.
An explosion of gas occurred on
the 18th In the Dorrance shaft, GEAR
Wilkesbarre, Penna. Thos. .Benyed,
David REESE and Benjamin -Ma5key
were burned, the latter fatally. Minnie
Soyd, aged 7 years, was burned to
death in Mexico, Missouri. on the
evening of the 18th, her dress having
caught tge from a crate. The smoke
s~uffocated her two baby sisters, The
father was at work and the mother
away from the house at the time.
Angus Morrison was killed by a de.
layed blast in the Lithonia Granite
Works, at Atlanta, on the afternoon of
the 18th. He leaned on the spot where
the blast was, Ito see what was the
matter" and had his head blown off.
James Haslin, a lineman, was killed
by an electric current while repairing
a Brush lamp in Baltimore, on the
evening of the 18th.
Only is new cases OF yellow
fever and 2 deaths we're reported on
the 14th in Jacksonville. Gases
to date. 1914; deaths, 313. There
were two new cases of yellow fever
in Gainesville on the 18th. Thirty
one new cases OF yellow fever and
three deaths were reported in Jackson
vile on the 18th. OF the new cases
six were whites. There was a light
frost at Decatur. Alabama, on the
morning of the 18Th. One death from
yellow fever occurred there on the
evening of the 18th, and a new case
of the disease was reported on the
18th. This makes four new cases
since moor of the 18th.
Typhoid fever IS reported raging
in Tobyhanna Mills, a small village
north of Stroudsburg, Penna. Fifty
cases were developed within the last
two weeks.
"A passenge: train ran into a num-
Der of freight ears neal Beech Creek
Station, not far from Lock Haven,
Pennsylvania. on the evening of the
18th. Joseph Cassidy, fireman, was
killed, as was also n unknown man
who was stealing a ride on the cow
catcher. A passenger train on the
Old Colony Railroad, in Massachusetts,
on the afternoon of the 18th, struck a
wagon, real west B~arnstable, contain
ing Henry Cowell and wife, and
Howard NJ. Lowell and wife, all of
Ostervllle. Cowell was killed and
Lowell MORALLY injured. The woman
received severe injuries. A Manhattan
Beach train struck and killed two un-
known men at the Vesta street cross
ing on the afternoon OF the 18th. One
of them had a caid in his pocket, bear
ing the name of Robert Goodman, AZ
Mckibben street."
The Farmers and Merchants
Bank, in pittsburg, closed its doors on
the 18th. The cause of the suspension
is not known. The bank had a capital
of $130, 600. Upon an investigation
into the affairs of the bank it was
found that the general ledger showed
deposits of SOB, 900, and the individual
ledger 500, 000, a difference of $2l5,-
00U. The books have not been ex-
ahmed for ten years and it Is not
known where the money has gone.
-Catharine Quinn, IS years old, at
tempted to commit suicide in New
York, on the 18th, by throwing herself
In front of q train on the elevated rail-
road. She rolled off the track out of
danger and was arrested on a charge OF
.'disorderly conduct"
Napoleon and Omer Bemler were
drowned on the 18th. by the upsettiDg
OF a boat IN the st. Lawrence river,
near L'Islet, Quebec, William Rue,
aged 50 years, a wealthy farmer, was
killed by Pennsylvania Railroad train,
near Jamesburg, New Jersey, on the
18th.
Miss Mamie Carroll was assaulted
IN Troy, on the evening of the 14th,
by Dan" Sheehan, "a notorious rufiian.
She was kicked in the abdomen, and
it is feared she will die. Sheehan was
arrested. At Waco, Texas, on the
evening of the 18th, Charles W. West,
Secretary and Manager, killed Charles
Moran, Vice President of the Waco
Farm Confederation. West was the
son of a New York banker. At Water
loo, Indiana, on the 18th, Willis Jarvis.
aged - years. shot and dangerously,
if not fatally, waunded f~our-year-old
Kate Kelly. lie pointed a revolver at
her, and telling he her would shoot, dis.
charged 1t, and the bullet entered her
head. AT Marysviils, nine miles west
of Harrisburg, Penna., on the evening
of the 18th, John Harold shot Noah
Sharp twice, inllIcting dangerous
wounds. Domestic trouble was the
cause.
While Mrs. William Morgan was
sitting In her house near Donaldson.
Penna., on the afternoon estlSle 14ths
with I Ter Si s,InTaar.e1d oKp W,r nsl