The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-08


Adam Miller was killed by falling
under a grip car which he was trying
to board, In Chicago. on the evening
of the I'd.
1t is reported that on the evening
of the list frost was disasterous to the
wheat crop at various points in the
Red River valley, Minnesota. A de-
spatch from Whitehall, Michigan, says
a severe frost has badly injured the
corn and entirely ruined the buck
wheat. A telegram from Montgom-
cry, Alabama, says rains during the
past week have done much damage to
open cotton. Some corn is also ruined.
1t Is still threatening rain. Heavy
rains have caused serious damage to
the crops in the Chattahoochie valley,
Georgia. The ~Chattahoochle river is
now II feet above low water mark, and
many large plantations are Inundated.
The Eagle and Phoenix mills in Co
lumbus have been compelled to shut
down.
The accident on the Missouri Pa
ciic Railway near Bonneville, Mis-.
souri,, was not so bad as first reported.
Three, instead of six persons were
killed. They were Charles Hall, Frank
Mckinney and Frank McGonagle,
Two men were severely injured.
Labor Day was generally observed
| on the Sd, in New York City, Brook
Ign. Buffalo, Albany, Boston, Chicago.
Baltimore, Detroit, Peoria, and other
places. In each place there was a pIo-
cession, followed by a picnic, speeches
and games. In Chicago the United
Order of Bricklayers and Stone Masons
laid the cornerstone of their new hall.
The paraders in Cleveland, Ohio, ad
iourned to a garden in the evening,
when a few Anarchists appeared and
displayed a red flag. They were at.
tackled by a number of w~orkiDgmen.
and roughly handled and the red flag
was trampled under foot. Five of the
Anarchists were arrested on the charge
of riot. The others escaped.
There were indications at Havana
on the Sd, of the approach of a cyclone,
moving across the island in the direc-
ton of Florida. The edge Of the
storm reached Key West on the 4th,
with frequent rain squalls and a north
wind, having a velocity Of 55 miles an
hour.
The east-bound Chicago and
Atlantic fast freight tram struck and
killed three laborers, near State Line,
Illinois, on the evening Of the Sd.
| John Mikus was one, but the other two
were not identified. A freight train or
the Chicago and Alton Railroad ran
over and killed two unknown men,
near Jacksonville. Illinois. on the
morning of the 4th. On the 4th, while
a gang of men were at work on a new
highway at Monroe, Vermont, an en-
bankment fell, killing Henry Bedell,
| William Mckay and William Vane.
| Several others were injured.
William Miller, a private officer
of Allegheny City, Penna., was shot
and killed by john nesnmey, a negro,
early on the morning of the 4th.
Demmey was on his way home from a
ball and claims that Miller assaulted
him with a blackjack and that he shot
him in ~self-defense. Sterling p. Tay-
lor, aged 81, shot and fatally wounded
his step-father, Eli Dickinson, aged
80 years, in Wilmington, Delaware. on
the 4th. Tayler charged that Dickin-
son was criminally intimate with his
step-daughter, Florence Taylor. and
this caused the shooting. John Willis,
Samuel Hare and three others
engaged in a fight near the
mouth Of Worthington creek, West
Virginia, on the evening of the I'd.
One of the party fired into the crowd
and Hare and Willis were killed. The
trouble occurred while the participants
were on their way home from church,
and politics seems to have been at the
fireman, shot his wife three times and
then shot himself, in Louisville. 1t is
thought both will die. He had been
on an almost continuous spree since his
brother was killed in st. Paul, a month
ago. The body of William Lewis, col
ored, was found hanging to a tree, near
Durant, Mississippi, on the morning OF
the 4th. The lynchers are unknown.
B. Frank Baker, aged 10 years,
was killed In N~orristown, Penna., on
the morning of the 4th, while sleep
walking. He climbed ont of a window
to a foprth-story roof and walked
Il dlUuR tiC eultOl, O oicOfhhtO Vi w lCCO,
when he fell to an awning below, a dis.
lance of Is feet.
while a freight train was crossing
a bridge a Halifax, on the 4th, q
brakeman named Cummings accident.
ally ran against another named Chris.
tie, and both fell Into the trestle work
and were killed.
1t has been discovered that Jules
List, Secretary of the Duckworth
Building Association in Cincinnati, has
stolen $40, 900 of the money of mem
bers. List used the money in fast liv'
ing, and is now in hiding.
james Shaw. 70 years of age, 8
well.known citizen of Paterson, New
Jersey, committed suicide on the even
ing of the Sd by taking laudanum. ].
C. Payne, of Covlngton, New York
committed suicide on the Sd by shoot
ing himself in the head. He was {
member Of the Assembly from Wyom'
Ing county several years ago. He had
suffered from mental troubles for three
years past. The body Of Maggie Rice
aged % years. was found In the rivel
near Harrisburg, Penna,, on the 4th
1t is supposed she committed suicide.
1t has been learned that S. o. Du
pree. Cashier Of the Lyons Bank, II
Lyons, Kansas, who is missing, an(
whose accounts are $4,000 short
stopped at a hotel in Montreal, Quebec
recently, and then went West. Hi
brother, who believes he is insane, ha'
gone in pursuit.
There has been another mail rob
berry between New York and Chi
cago. On the 3lst ult. Blake Bros. s
leo, of New York, mailed to thei
agents, in Chicago. three notes fol
$4,000 each. The letters did not react
their destination. A railway mai
clerk is reported as saying that a val
liable mail pouch was missing aloni
the line between Albany and Chicago
I'm Chicago on the morning of the
9Th Louis Larsen cIawled into an iror
cylinder used for the piston Of a by
draulic elevator, for the purpose o
cleaning 1t. He took with him a Lighted
candle and a bucketful of benzine. Ii