The Penn's Grove record., 1888-01-21
NEWS OF H WEEK.

NEWS OF The WEEK..
The lower portions of Findlay,
| Ohio, were on the 9Th inundated by a
flood in the Blanchard river, which runs
through the town.
WATERFOWL, New York, was visited
by a high wind storm on the evening
Of the 18th, which tore the roof of a
| wagon factory of, blew down numerous
chimneys and did other damage. AL
travel on the Auburn branch OF the
New York Central Railroad was
stopped on the 18th by heavy snow
drifts between Seneca FaGf a9d Water
loo. On the evening Of the 18th five
trains were stalled between those
points.
"A report from Hancock. a town
bordering ON New York State, about
10 miles from North Adams, Massa-
chusetts, says Farmer Brockaway OBJ
jected to the attention shown his
daughter Carrie, aged IS years, by
Washington Sweet, but the lovers con
tinued their meetings. Brockaway and
his sons armed themselves and set out
for Sweets house. Sweet heard of
thho IN q SfluC hlO tCSAtitllCtt IIE
Brockaways demanded admission, but
the answer vas a shot from a window,
which shattered the hip of one Of the
sons. Tie B~rockaways then began
shooting at the window from which
this shot was fired. Carrie arrived
soon afterward, and, calling TO her
lover not to shoot, the door was forced,
and Sweet was found 10 have been dan.
gerously wounded in the neck. The
girl then seized a Knife, cut her throat,
and, falling across Sweets body, bled
to death before a doctor could be sum-
| moned.
An explosion of natural gas took
place on the evening of the 18th, in the
foundry of Adams Brothers 81 Co., at
Findlay, Ohio, which demolished the
engine house and fatally burned Joseph
Kaviss, a member of the firm. Captain
William Farren, of Fair Haven, a re-
tired merchant, was killed on the 14th,
while speeding his horse on the sleigh
ing ground at New Haven, Connecti-
cut.
Stephen and Samuel Dyer and
Joseph Kalep, young neil, were
killed by a train while trying to cross
the New York, Pennsylvania and Ohio
| Railroad in a wagon near sharon.
| Penna.. on the u of the 18th.
| Two freight trains collided at Bosky
| Dell. on the Illinois Central Railroad.
on the morning of the l4tb. An en-,
CINE and freight cars loaded with pork
and -four were wrecked and burned.
Three passengers were slightly injured.
A train OIL the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad struck a broken rail at Onida.
| Tennessee, on the evening Of the l4th.
The engine was thrown from the track,
and the road locked for several hours.
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Thieves entered the dry goods es-
Enlistment OF w. Z. Bernardo. IN
P%ittsburg, on the evening of the 14th,
and carried of a large show case, con-
tanning over 5000 worth of jewelry and
'an0s koo's'
On the morning of the 18th. Po-
liceman Joseph Glenn saw two men
acting in a suspicious manner in an al
ley in the rear of the residence of John
Hoffman, Sr., in Wheeling, West Vir-
ginis. On approaching be was chal-
lenged, and at the same time the men
| commenced firing upon him, one of the
shots proving fatal. The assailants es-
capped. A Swede living zeal Princeton,
minnesota, Is reported to have Killed
nis wife anu seven chliuren recently by
ch9pping on oheir heaos WIN an x g
a BOY Oh fourteen escaped by jumping
from an upper u
james Hogan, John Francis and
VIM. Drinkhonse, said to be profes.
sional burglars, discussed the prospec-
tive burglary of u tailor shop in an eat
ing house in New York on the evening
of the 14th, where a detective over
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The loss OF life by the great storm
in the Northwest on the 18th was very
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The shed attached to the store OF
John M, Everett, at Gardnerville, New
York, becoming unsafe by reason of
the snow on the roof, a number of men
undertook to brace 1t up on the even
Ing Of the 18th, when it suddenly gave
way, killing three and injuring seven
men, Those killed were David
Wright, John Tuteill and David Kelly.
One or two of those injured are not ex-
pected to recover.
While a party of boys were coasting
in Haverhill, Massachusetts, on tn
afternoon of the 10th. their sled ran
into a coal train and thirteen boys were