The Penn's Grove record., 1888-05-19

relief was SAB 1884. and the total amount
expended for relief and working ex-
renses was 1896, 635.
The Great Council of Pennsylvania,
Improved Order of Red Men, met In
York, Penna., on the 18th, Great
Senior Sycamore Thomas d. Tanner
occupying the Great Sachem Stump,
owing to the illness of that officer.
After the address of welcome a secret
session was held. The reports showed
an increase in the order. About 125
new members received the Great
Council Degree. Petitions for 10 new
tribes, two chieftain's leagues and
three Courts of Pocahontas were re
ceived. The order now have 10000
members in the State.
The river at Muscatine, Iowa, on
the 10Th, reached a height of II feet 5
inches above low water mark, one inch
higher than ever before. The levees
protecting M~uscatine Island were in
danger and teams and men we're tele-
graphed for to prevent breaks. The
water is steadily falling at Winona,
Minnesota, and all the lumber and
-four mills are again running. There
were heavy hail stones in the country
around Harrisonburg, Virginia, on the
14th and 18th, with u~nseasonably cold
weather.
"A Northern Pacific freight tram
was wrecked near Superior. Wisconsin,
on the afternoon of the 18th. An en-.
CINE and ten freight cars were wrecked,
and a large quantity of gram was
ruined. Tie cause was a misplaced
switch. May Grimm and John Schmidt
wkre killed by an express train on the
Pennsylvania Railroad at Menlo Park,
New Jersey, on the evening of the
14th. Both were well dressed and re-
spectacle looking.
-Lindley 7. Brown, an aged and
prominent farmer living neal Gap Sta
ton. Lancaster county, Pa, was gored
to death by a bull on his farm on the
evening Of the 14th.
"A gang of burglars ana thieves
have been operating of late in Wilkes
barre and other parts of the Wyoming
Valley. On the morning Of the 10th
the robbers went to the residence of
Councilman John Mahoney, a wealthy
liquor dealer, and, as lie lay asleep on a
lounge, dressed, they took from his per-
son his watch and the keys to his liquor
store and the safe, and also a revolver
from under his pillow, without disturb
ing him. They went to his store and
effected ar entrance. They were about
to rob the safe, containing nearly
$1,000, when an employe in the store
awoke and frightened them OF. The
burglars went from the store to the
house of William Blase, a barber, a
block away. and entered the room
where his two boys were sleeping.
They aroused the elder boy, who
reached for a revolver lying beside
him on the bed, and fired at n of the
burglars wounding him. The robIer
escaped with the assistance of col
federates. and they have as yet not
been discovered.
Sergeant Porter Webster, of Com
pany A, oath Infantry. was shot and
killed by private David SimOns, of the
same company, at Fort Reno, on the
10th. Simons had threatened the life
of a woman with whom he had trouble,
and while attempting to arrest him
Webster was shot. William Hetmer,
a well-known nursery gardener, was
killed and robbed at Evanston. ILL
nOis, on the evening of the 18th.
There is no clue to The murderer.
Marshal Bowen, of Carthage, Ohio,
shot and killed c. ID. Phillips on the
evening of the 10Th. Bowen had re-
fused to prosecute a man who owed
! Phillips $40. 80. Hot words followed,
and the Marshal shot Phillips.
"A telegram from Louisiana, Mis-
souri,, says the gap in the Sny levee,
through which the Mississippi river
Is pouring, has widened almost 300
yards. 1t is estimated that 5000
acres of farming land will be inunda-
ted. Of the submerged land, $4,000
acres are in crops and the majority in
wheat. At Quincy, Illinois, on the
10th, the situation grew worse, and IT
IS now said to be almost certain that
the Indian Grove District will be
abandoned for years to come. People
have retreated to the bluffs. The en-
tire region is covered with water. The
damage to property is estimated at
about 81, 10000. A telegram from
Ofallon, Missouri, says the water is
now an unbroken sheet from bluff to
bluff. Business on the Keokuk limo is
wholly suspended, as an open lake Of
water reaches from st. Peter to beyond
old Monroe. Last fall there was a
large acreage OF wheat sown IN these
lowlands, and, owing TO the favorable
season for corn planting, a large
acreage Of corn was planted. All Of
these crops will be destroyed if the rise
does not abate.
Thomas Rowan, aged 4S, head
man at the South Wilkesbarre shaft Of
tine Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Com
pany, was leaning against a gate placed
around the shaft to guard the opening,
at a late hour ON the evening of the
18th. The gate was not locked, and as
1t gave way Rowan fell headlong down
the shaft, a distance of over 1000 feet,
into a stump of water some 90 feet deep.
His body has not yet been recovered.
William Hughes. IS years of age,
a minor. employed at Blackman's mine
at Wilkesbarre, Penna., was loading a
cartridge on the 10th, when his lamp
fell into a keg of powder, causing an
explosion which killed him. About
the same time, in Murray shaft, Ell
ward Roderlck had his skull fractured
by being struck by "a ''sprlg." 1t is
believed the "sprig" was thrown with
the intention of committing murder,
as it came from a window at the top OF
the breaker.
The New York Republican Stale
Convention met on the 10th in Buffalo.
Edmund l.. Pitts. of Orleans, was
made permanent chairman. Resolu-
lions were adopted approving the a
tIon of the Republican congressman in
opposing the Mi Is Tariff bill, and
deploring the death of Roscoe Conk.
ling. Chauncey NJ. pepew, Frank
Hiscock, Warner Miller and Thomas
c. Piatt were chosen delegateS-at-large
TO the Chicago Convention.
George Benson, the Patti ticket
swindler, awaiting extradition tO
Mexico, killed himself in Ludlow Street
Jail, New York, on the evening of the
10Th, ly throwing himself over the
stat. case railing to tie stone floor