The Penn's Grove record., 1888-07-28
NEWS OF The WEEK.

six in number, were placed in a line
and robbed of about $500. There was
one lady passenger. Nothing was
taken from her. About $1,000 was taken
from the express box of Wells, Fargo
Co.
Near Decatur, Illinois, on the 22d,
Albert M. Fields shot and fatally
wounded Florence Fitzpatrick because
she refused to go to u camp meeting
with him. Theodore Suffer was IA
tally stabbed by Henry Romaz in Chi
cagO on the evening of the 21st, and
died on the 22d of his wounds. He had
been counting RomaZ's sister, and
Romaz did not like 1t. Officers ar
rived IN San Diego. California, with
Pedro Zames, a 16.year-old-b boy, who
recently murdered Station Agent Ste
venson, at Glamis, on the Colorado
Desert. The boy shot and killed Ste
venson while the latter was lying on a
| cot. and then robbed the station Of S75
In money.
The work of clearing the wreck
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
| which occurred on the morning of the
22d, eight miles above Lynchburg,
Virginia, was begun on the 23d, and
eight bodies were recovered. The
names of the killed, so far as known,
are: Walter Harris, William Henry.
James Donnelly, Edward Walker,
George Williams, Grant jackson and
S. Smith. The four last-named were
| colored. Two more bodies are known
to be under the wreck, but the names
| could not be ascertained. A freight
/ trafn ~, tho p,1ftrnnra ao1 Tlbtn Pail
| road jumped the track near Belmont,
Ohio, on the 23d. A brakeman and
three tramps were injured and 16 cars
demolished. Mrs. Charles Scboon-
maker and her grandson James
Berrian. colored. were struck and
killed by a train just below Sing Sing,
New York on the 23d, while crossing
the track. Thomas Hennessy, living
near Fairview, LuZerne county, Penna..
went to that village on the 23d, to get
some medicine for his wife, who is
dangerously ill. He jumped from a
railroad car in front of an engine on
another track and was fatally injured.
During a fight in Luzerne, borough
two miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa. on the
22d, James Quinn shot Thomas Grit
fin and Thomas Dougherty, the latter
fatally. During a drunken row at the
house of John Meyer, in Nebraska
City, Nebraska, on the evening of the
22d. Charles Hoffmeister had his skull
crushed, and ''Jack'' Young and John
Hart were shot, the latter probably ia.
tally. Isaac Lambert, being drunk.
shot and killed Z. ID. Hestle and two
colored men at Mount Pleasant, Ala
bama, on the Dist. At Clear Lake,
Iowa, on the evening Of the 22d, Mrs.
Jessie Mckinney shot and fatally
wounded j. F. Sullivan, a resident OF
Forest City. Sullivan and two other
men were prowling about her cottage,
and refused to leave. During a fight
on a schooner at Chicago. on the 22d,
John Mangan fatally wounded Edward
Kennedy with a catlass. Richard j. Ca
prom, a capitalist, on the 23d,
entered the Office of John King, a real
estate broker, in baltimore, to transact
some business. They Quarrelled and
cllnched, and Capron picked up a large
pair of shears from a desk and stabbed
King three times. Two of the stabs
are slight, but the third is believed to
have penetrated n of Kings lungs.
Capron. who asserts that one of Kings
clerks struck him before he did the
stabbing, has been released on bail to
await the result of Kings injuries.
r. W. Henry, a brilliant young
lawyer, shot and killed himself In Hop
kinsville, Kentucky, Oh the evening Of
the 22d. lie was 80 years old. The
cause Of the suicide IS unknown. Mary
Chef, an Italian, aged 10 years. was
shot and fatally wounded while in hei
home in New York, on the evening OF
the Odd, by Callie Massese. Jealousy
Is assigned as the cause that prompted
the shooting.
Two men were arrested in Pitts
burg on the 23d while attempting to
swindle an old man. They had IN theiI
possession $4,000 in spurious green
backs and a large number of dies foI
quarters and half dollars. 1t is thought
they belong to a gang which has re.
Gently been flooding the country with
counterfeit money, The men refused
to reveal their identity, but admitted
they were from the East, one hailing
from Brooklyn and the other from Phil.
adelphia. ID. Engler, a merchant tailor
In Niagara Falls, Ontario, was on the
23d robbed of $1,000 by his son Max.
aged Is. The father had drawn the
money from the bank for the purpose
of starting his son in business.
On the afternoon of the 23d, a por.
ton of a sidetrack in the Fitchhure
Railroad yard, in Boston. used foi
storage purposes, collapsed as a train
was being shifted upon it, owing to the
/ Otxinp nav Of tho niEpn ,,pn, xrltah l.,
rested. Two cars fell INTO the water,
and are nearly 20 feet under water al
high tide. Charles Morris, a brake
man, residing in Troy. New York, who
was OF the platform between the cars,
was thrown into the water and
drowned. Dollie Van Horn, aged 16
years, was burned to death at Carding
ton, Ohio, on the 23d, by the explosion
OF a gasoline stove.
"A sever storm struck Sandusky,
Ohio, on the afternoon of the 23d. The
wind blew a gale and hail fell in tor
rents. Crops were badly damaged,
while fruit was stripped from the trees.
The damage in Huron county is esti-
mated at Sl00. 900. A heavy rain ana
hail storm visited Plymouth, Wiscon-
sin, on the 22d. 1.-THE extent of the
hail fall may be judged from the fact
that it covered the ground to the depth
of several inches for hours after the
Storm" Fruit and crops were greatly
damaged. The storm is thought to
have been quite general and to involve
a large area of country.
George Hildebrand, a farmer, was
stopped by three masked men while
driving through the woods between
Newark and Bloomfield, New Jersey,
on the morning of the oath. Hide.
brand fought the highwaymen with his
whip until the approach of two other
wagons frightened them away.
James Kane, 25 years of age, was
paid on the Dist for work done in June
on the new Lehigh Valley Railroad
branch, four miles from Wilkesbarre.
On the afternoon of the 23d his lifeless