The Penn's Grove record., 1888-03-10

"A storm prevailed at Winchester,
Virginia, on the 9Th, and snow fell to
i depth of eight inches.
The body of Henry Schubach, a
wealthy Brooklyn tailor, vas found
floating in the Gowanus canal on the
9th. Schubach mysteriously disap-
peared on January lst, after making
New Years calls. His iewelry and
money were untouched.
Deputy L. 5. marshal5 arrived
at Fort smith. Arkansas, on the even-
ing of The 4th with Joseph Beasly
Jackson Stillcr ard Lafayette Teel,
charged with murder in the Cherokee
Nation. Martin SteinhanseT, a farmer,
residing near Palmyra, Wisconsin, was
found On the floor of his house in a
dying condition on tile 4tl. His wife
said he had been wounded by burglars,
but, before he died, S~teinhauser said
his wife shot HIM in order to get him
out of tie way. Richard j.. Hanes,
ex-SheriT Of Muskingum county, Ohio,
shot a oma with whom he had been
living, in GAINESVILLE, on the evening OF
the 4th, and then escaped. Tie bullet
struck a gold watch and turned aside,
making a bad flesh wound. She will
iecover
"A masked man named klnDall
entered the Bradford National Bank,
in Bradford, Penua., on tile morning
of the 9th, with a revolver in his hand,
and when midway between the paying
teller'S and discount clerks desk, jump
ed owe the high glass partition and
made a grab for the money cn the cash
ier's desk. Cashier TomiiGs0n seized
the robber, and, as he did so, was shot
through the hip. Tie robber escaped
at the front door with the money anu
ran down the street pursued by a
number of citizens He turned on his
pursuers and shot A. J.. Blech, a
butcher, i'll the abdomen, and then
placing the revolver to his OWL head,
fired and dropped dead. TomIinson
and Blech are fatally hurt. kimball
was % years old, and was recently in
iured on the Erie road, near Stamburg,
in an accident, for which he Is said to
have received several hundred dollars.
Since that time he has been drinking
heavily.
"A cyclone passed over the south
western portion of st. Landry Parish,
Louisiana, on the afternoon of the 9th.
Twelve dwellings were demolished, q
child was killed and several persons
were severely injured.
While blasting out a drill hole al
the bottom of a shaft at the Cleveland
Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan, on the
evening of the 9th, a premature eXplo-
sion took place, k Hing Charles Ensel,
John Williams, Elic Matterson, Will
liam Cindle and Alfred Lucas. 1t is
supposed the dynamite was ignited by
the heat of a gas pipe which was charged
with it, and which had been heated aud
Strengthened in the blacksmith shop Just
before being used. Six tons of dyna-
mite. stored in a house on a farm of
Oliver Hampton, near Richmond,
Indiana, exploded on the 9th. David
Hampton was killed, and Mrs. Cham.
ness, residing IA quarter of a mile
away, was severely injured about
the head by flying debris. The ex-
plOsiOn made a hole in the ground 10
feet deep and % feet in diameter. 1t
is thought the explosion was caused by
Hampton dropping a cartridge, as he
was known to be very careless. Houses
IN Eaton. Ohio, 20 miles distant, were
shaken by the explosion.
In February, 1886, David Sllber-
stein, aged I years, fell on the track Of
the Houston, West Street and I'avonia
Railroad, in New York, and one of Iii
arms was run over by Il car, making
amputation necessary. The boys
father sued the railroad company fol
$4,000 damages, and the jury on the
9th gave him a verdict for $4,000
1.-The driver of the car had only one
eye. There was no conductor on the
car, and his single eye was fixed on
passengers whom he suspected of not
paying fare. He testified that he was
unwell on the day of the accident and
asked to get off duty. but was obliged
to work.
In Harrisburg, on the 9th, Mrs.
LeIue Lemer, wife of Il photographer,
carbo!ic acid IN mistake
inmate of the Children's Industrial
Home, was terribly burned while dry
ing her dress at a stove. Both patients
are expected to die.
-Pleuro- pneumonia has again broke
out among the cattle in Middlesex
county, New Jersey. On the 9TH, 81
animals belonging to George Such,
South AmDoy, were killed. Other
herds are affected and will have to BE-
destroyed. Pleuro-pneumonia has az
peared in Kent county, Maryland.
where a herd of fifty has been attacked.
All infected animals are bs ing slaught-
cred.
A despatch from Fargo, Dakota,
says news was brought into Meme
waukan on the 81, by a young Nor
wegian, that "a man and his son, living
at POPULAR Grove, "a miles southeast o,
Fort Totten. had been eaten alive by a
pack of wolves while ~shoveling snow
from II hay stack. William Johnston,
a prominent druggist of Detroit, Michi-
gan, was drowned in the Detroit rIvel
at AmheTstburg, Ontario, on the 9TH.
Tie heavy ice upset his boat.
"A freight train on the Pennsylva-
MA railroad ran mo lne rear ul an
empty passenger train. near Johns
town, Penna, on the eveniugof the 9th.
Conductor Charles FlatkUwski was
Killed and Brakemen Parhei ard Stew
art we're fatally injured. The crew on
the freight train escaped by jumping
DIR. J. IL. Parvis. a well known pl,ys!-
clan of Middletown, Delaware, wa
struck and killed by 4 train while driv-
ing on the railroad crossing on the
evening of tie 9TH. The continued
rains washed eIt an em~bankment near
Benham, Texas, on the evening of the
4th, leaving the railroad track supper
ted for 60 feet by the fish bars which
connect the ia Is. A farmer discovered
the wa,hUut. and succeeded in stopping
a freight and the Cannon Ballh Ex-
press Just at the brink tf tue hole.
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