The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-01

- 20 taS Va See Aoth 49,
near Bessemer Junction, Penna. Nine
cars were wrecked, and William Filter,
flagman, was killed. James Gazlin, q
young man well known as a turfman,
was killed on the morning OF the 2Sth
ult. at Bowling Green, Kentucky. by
being crushed against a stall by an un-
ruly horse. Efie Williamson, aged 18
years, vas killed by q train near Long
Branch Station. Virginia, on the after
noon of the 9th ult. Berta and Edna
Smith and Fred. Barnard, all about IL
years Of age. were drowned on the 28th
ult. at Hyannis, Massachusetts, by the
capsizing Of a boat.
H. s. Benjamin and F. A. Bates,
members Of the bankrupt mining stock
firm of Moore. Benjamin q Co., in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, have been ar
rested on a charge Of conspiracy and
their bail fixed at $40. 000. The charge
of conspiracy is made in connection
with a civil action brought by Mrs.
Helen Warner to recover $50, 600 from
the bankrupt firm. She placed her
money In the firms mining stocks, and
claims that she vas guaranteed against
loss.
"A heavy white frost covered the
ground in the lowlands at Dover, New
Hampshire, on the morning of the
28th ult. The damage to the crops will
be large. =.
Frank Lavelly was arrested In
Shickshinny, Penna., on the 10Th ult. ,
for passing counterfeit money. Con-
siderable of the spurious money and a
set OF tools were secured by the officers.
Lavelly made a confession, duplicating
a number of people OF good standing.
Herbert L. Smith, of Washington, d.
Q, was committed in New York on the
Goth ult. on the charge of passing a
number of checks which were drawn
on VIM. Mayse & Co., bankers, WASH
ington, and forging that firms name in
certilication. Stone, Lyttle and Comis-
key, the three men in Ogdensburg,
New York, charged with stealing
opium from the Custom House, were
committed on the 10Th ult., icing un.
able to furnish $40, 600 bail required in
each case.
-Thirty-four new cases Of yellow
fever were reported to the Board of
Health III Jacksonville, Florida, for
the "a hours ending at 6 O'Clock on the
evening of the 10Th ult. Four deaths
were reported for the same. Leading
colored citizens on the 10Th ult, or
ganized an auxiliary association to
assist the Relief Committee and help
keep order,
1t is reported that a rae war is
threatened at Wabbassa, Arkansas.
1.-THE negroes have a township ticket,
there Is a compromise ticket with
whites and blacks divided, and the
straight Democratic ticket. A negro
politician, named John Taylor. Is the
cause of the trouble, the whites VOW
ing that, unless he desists from crooked
practices, there will be bloodshed.
Taylor has taken to the woods"
Miss Mary Cross, Of Orange, New
Jersey. had her pocket picked of $500
at Asbury Park, on the 10Th ult.
Pickpockets are very active at that
place.
While partridge hunting at Lake
Placid, In the Adlrondacks, on the
both ult., Daniel O'Connell, Assistant
U. s. District Attorney Of New York
city, accidentally shot John Shey, his
guide. Shey. whose recovery Is doubt
full, has made a statement generating
O'Connell.
Mrs. Mary G. Hume, wife of Pro-
fessor H. W. Hume, dropped dead
while preparing to battle In the surf at
Background, Long Island, on the
afternoon of the goth ult. She was 60
years Of age.
The boiler of a freight engine on
the Lehigh Valley Railroad exploded
while ascending the mountain near
Wiikesbarre on the afternoon of the
Goth ult. Joseph Fanhorn, a brake
man, was killed, and two other train
men were slightly injured. A collision
between two freight trains on the
Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad at
Clifton Forge, Virginia, or the mcIn-
ing of the Goth ult., resulted in the
death of two brakemen and n engi-
neer, Joseph Newman. The other
engineer was badly hurt. Mrs. Ann
Jack was struck and killed by an ex-
press train at Eatont0wn, New Jersey,
on the 2Sth ult.
Peter Fl. Head, a farmer, and his
son-in-law, Samuel Milton, who had
long been at feud, met on the road
neal Springfield, Kentucky, on the af-
ternoon of the 9th ult., and began
firing at each other. Head was NOR
tally wounded aud died in a few hours.
In Kansas City, on the evening Of the
9th ult., Charles II. Jackson. from
New Mexico, married the sister of
George Lee, much against Lees
wishes. Meeting on the street on the
9th ult., the two men exchanged pis-
toll shots and Lee fell dead, jackson
was e~xonerated by the Coroner's jury,
but his wife has left him.
DIR. r. H, Miner, a rrominent
citizen of Chester, Penna., committed
suicide on the morning Of the 10th ult.,
by shooting himself IN the head. He
had been Respondent since the death Of
his wife, more than a year ago. Joseph
Breed, Assistant Cashier Of the Hart
ford National Bank, in Hartford,