The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-14

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The accounts of S. n. Weir. Treas.
urer of New Albany, Indiana have
been found $4,000 short. The ex-
pert's report makes no attempt to show
where the money has gone, nor does 1t
charge criminality upon Weir. Thirty
seven pages of the record have been
torn or cut out. and upon these 1t IS
supposed the accounts for the missing
money were kept. Weir has beer
Treasurer for IA years. His only one
t%ravagance was the ownership OF aIace
horse, which cost less than $1,000.
DIR. G. W. Chase a well.known phsi-
clan of Chicago, was arrested in that
city on the morning of the 10th, while
selling a buffalo robe which the police
supposed to be stolen. He was lodged
in a cell in the Central Station. and In
the afternoon committed suicide by
hanging himself with a pocket hand
kerchief. He was only 30 years Of age.
Mrs. Lucy Marley, a well-known
widow of Frederick, Maryland, hanged
herself to her bed.post, at her son-in.
laws residence in that city OIL the wen.
ing of the 10th. She had shown symp-
toms Of insanity.
DR.. Howard Slmonds died in ALE.
gan, Michigan, on the 9th, Of apoplexy,
after an illness of a few hours. The
funeral was fixed for the 18th, but,
owing to the peculiar conditions which
have followed his death, has been post.
poned indefinitely. 1.-THE body remains
warm, the color of the face natural,
the limbs relaxed and the expression
OF the eyes, when opened, bright, As
hours after apparent death. The de-
ceased's Spiritualistic friends believe
him in a trance, which condition wa
frequently assumed by hun in his med
ical practice. The doctor was one OF
the most distinguished S~piritualists il
Michigan"
Near arrollton, Iowa, on the 9th
a "double-headed" freight train ran
over a COW on the track. Both engines
and ten cars were wrecked, many cat.
tie were Slaughtered, brakeman L
Powell was killed and two other train
men were injured. The engines and
ten cars of a freight train on the At
lantic and Pacific express Railroad
plunged down an embankment near
Carnizo, Arizona Territory, on the
evening of the 9th, and were wrecked
Frank Ashton, fireman, and John Bel,
brakeman, were killed.
-''Blinkey" Morgan, the murderer
of Detective Hulligan, was refused q
new trial at Ravenna, Ohio, on the
10Th, and sentenced, for the second
time, to be hanged on June /. N. Al
ston, a farmer, living near Weather
ford, Texas, killed his daughter on the
9th because she married s. W. Turpin,
a merchant, against his will. The
convicts on the farm at Friar's Point,
Mississippi, made a break for freedom
on the 9th, and 10 of them got outside
the stockade. One of them was killed
in a swamp, another was captured.
and the rest escaped, Laney Walker,
a boy, aged nine years, and Libbie
Ashe, a girl of twelve. quarrelled in
Union county, South Carolina, on the
10th, and Walker plunged a knife into
the girls breast, killing her instantly.
I'm the United States Circuit Court
at New York, on the 10th, the jury
found for the defendant in the suit for
5000 damages for false arrest and
imprisonment against Hugh O'Neill,
the dry goods merchant. by Mrs. julia
Hershey, of Philadelphia. On August
4th last the plaintiff was arrested in
O'Neill's store and charged with shop.
lifting. When tried for larceny she
was acquitted, and Immediately |
brought suit for damages. In the
libel suit of E. H. Lewis against the |
No,ne and TIoruT1 of Jonlyonuusl1a
Florida, the jury on the 10th rendered
a verdict of $4,000 for the plaintiff.
Roscoe Conkling was very much
better on the evening Of the 18th. DR..
Baker said he had a sound sleep and |
was steadily improving. "Twenty-four
hours ago." said the Doctor, ''his
chances were one in a hundred; now
the chances are one in twenty. five that
he will recover" Shortly after mid.
night a change for the worse was re-
ported.
The Minnesota river is changing |
its channel at st. Paul, having washed
away so feet of the east bank, necessi- |
| tating the removal of several houses. |
Men are working on the Omaha Rail-
| TOhu W pltNCIG d iloLh bClhS WhSutu
out. The Blue Earth river is higher
than it has been for years. The fine
iron bridge wet Of Winnebago City,
Mimi, has been swept away, and also
the iron bridge at Woodland Mills. four
miles north. All the wooden bridges
are The railroad bridge at VIM
nebago City is impossible. The vast
plain on the south side Of the Tittaba-
| massee river, at Midland, Michigan, |
containing thousands Of acres of land, |
is covered with water, which has back
| ed up because of a jam of logs at Bail
ey's Bridge, four miles below. Mid
land is inundated and the roads leading
to It washed out or submerged. No
trains have arrived at La Crosse, Wis
consin, from the west Over the Min
nesota Division of the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul Railroad since the 9TH
because several miles of track are sub
merged in the valley Of the Root river.
1t is said that it will take 10 days TO
get the track in condition for traffic
after the water subsidies. The bridges
are all gone. Villages are inundated
aud there IS distress in many places. AT
Eau Claire, Wisconsin, the river rose
rapidly on the afternoon Of the 18th
and swept away a million feet of the
Mississippi River Logging Company's
lumber, worth about $4,000.
Mary smith, who has kept house
for John and Henry Hill, farmers,
near jamestown, Kentucky, went to a
neighbours on the 18th, and said she
had fed for her life. Three weeks
ago she said the Hills killed two ped
oilers. forcing her to hold them. BY
threat OF death they had kept her
silent, but now talked of killing her
also The remains of the peddlers
were found in a cave. The Hills
were arrested on the evening of the
1lth. A despatch from Parkersburg,
West Virginia, says the feud between
the Banks and Monroes broke out
afresh on the 9th In Writ county. Silas
Banks, armed with a Winchester rife,
met the three Monroe brothers, Eben,
George and Lemuel, who were armed
with revolvers, near Laurel. About
20 shots were fired, resulting In the