The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

The gorge at Turkey Hill. caused
BY the moving Of the Ice at Columbia
on the evening OF the 22d, was fol-
lowed by q rise Of IA feet Ia the river,
which did much damage to the Penn
sylvania Railroad bridge. one pier be-
ing showed 10 inches out Of line. IAN
the lumber yards and mills are flooded"
and the Columbia Iron Company has
been compelled to suspend operations
until the water recedes. The river Is
higher than at any time for % years.
A later despatch says the ice is gorged
from McCall's Ferry to Chickies, q
distance OF 81 miles. A gorge at WASH
ington, two miles south Of Columbia,
on the evening Of the 22d, piled ice to
q height OF over 80 feet and crossed the
Columbia and Port Deposit Railroad
tracks. The Delaware river was
gorged at Port Jervls for q distance Of
four miles, the ice being piled to q
height OF twenty feet. Many cellars
and Easements are flooded, and the
wooden breakwater in front of the
abutments Of the Burret suspension
bridge has been destroyed. By the
sudden breaking OF a very large boom
Of logs In Palouse river, neal Colfax,
Washington Territory, on the 23d,
Moses Ebert was killed and three other
men severely injured. An unknown
man was drowned.
There is o difference of eIghty.one
years in the time which TIE Jews
spent In Egypt in the account of Exc
dus and that Of Josephus, the former
making it a period Of 430 years, and
the latter Gil.
Near Toussaint, Ohio, on the 22d,
William Lindley, aged % years, went
to the house Of his mother-in-law, Mrs.
Tibbetts, to get his wife who had left
him, to 20 back to him. Mrs. Tibbets
and her 1~7-year-old son John refused to
let Mrs. Lindley 60 back TO her hus-
band. The latter went for q shotgun,
and returning to the house found the
doors locked against him. He broke
tho panels and shot young Tlbbetts in
the head, i~nHicting q probably fatal
wound. Notwithstanding his injuries,
TIbbetts returned che fire, killing Lind
ley OIL the spGs. Two children of
William Babcock, bridge tender at
New Hapsburg, New York, we're
drowned on the 23d. They were play
ing on the ice, when 1t gave way,
throwing them into the water. AT
Blowing Springs, Georgia, on the 23d
Mrs. John Wilhorte was seized with
apoplexy and fell into an open CRATE,
and was burned to death. HARLEM
Plautz, aged Is, was killed while coast
ing at Amsterdam, New York, on the
evening of the 23d. Several of his
companions had legs broken and were
otherwise injured.
Two masked men boarded a train
on the Southern Pacific Railroad at
STEMS Pass Station, Arizona, about 8
o'clock on the evening Of the 22d.
| When a short distance from the sta
ton they forced the engineer to stop
the train. They then uncoup)ed
the mail and express car with the
engine from the other part Of the train
and made the engineer move on a mile
and q half further. When the cars
wers stopped the robbers then forced
the Wells, Fargo q Co.'S. express mes
sengers to open the car, which they
riHed Of valuables, but without disturb
ing the mail. The express robbery is
reported heavy.
I'm Richland county, South Caro-
lima, William Myers, a white man, has
been living with q colored woman and
had several children. On the evening
of the 22d . PARTY Of unknown men
surrounded the house. barred up all
doors and windows on the outside, and
set the building on fire In several places.
There was an axe In the house and
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in time to save himself and the other
inmates. but they were severely burned.
John Johnson, cOlored, was terribly
cut about the neck and head with q
razor in the hands Of Annie Carmichael,
In Harrisburg, Pa. on the oath. She
tried to kill him because Of the theft of
a scarf. Two young men broke into
the cottage of Mrs. Clara Hovey In
Chicago, on the evening Of the 23d.
\ Mrs. Hovey is 81 years old, and lives
alone. Both men assaulted her. A
policeman vas attracted by her cries
and he followed the men as they ran,
firing two shots at them, One bullet
struck n of the fugitives 10 the back.
He was identified as Thomas Krim-
minis. He Is now in the hospital in q
critical condition.
Special timber agents have re-
ported to the General Land Commits
sl0ner that between the years 1880 and
1887, inclusive, IL, 29S, 200 feet of pine
timber were cut and removed for spec
ulatIve purposes from the public lands
in Alabama by the Muscogee Lumber
Company, of Pensacola. The manu-
Il fuatprod 1urnttar tc x,o1noA NJ about
$l73,000. The Commissioner recon
mends that the parties be proceeded
against both civilly and criminaliy. 1t
has also been reported that the Aver
Lumber Company, Of Flagstaff, Ari-
coma, and the Arizona Lumber Com.
pany caused to be cat from the public
lands in said Territory 10, 435, $50 feet
of timber and IS, 1T railroad ties. The
value of the timber at the mill is given
as Sl43,6 $40, and of the ties as SIC, 900.
Both civil and criminal proceedings
against the parties named are recon-
mended.
The gorge In the Susquehanna
river at Wilkesbarre broke on the
morning of the Goth ult., and the river
fell four feet in a few hours. In the
evening the river was clear Of ice.
The great ice gorge which threatened
the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge
across the SusQuehanna, at Columbia,
passed of during the evening Of the
18th ult.. without damage to the
structure, although the water released
did much damage along the river
banks. The river at Columbia is fall
ing. The qOrQes at Washington and
Turkey Hill remain intact. Ice covers
the track Of the Columbia and Port
Deposit railroad to the depth of FIVE
feet for some miles and between four and
five hundred men were engaged on the
26th ult., in trying to clear the track.
The railroad track from Columbia to
Marietta has been cleared and travel
resumed. All fear Of q flood at Port
Deposit has passed. TIE gorge at
McCall's Ferry having broken, the ice
on the morning of the 26th ult.,
moved down the river and out into
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