The Penn's Grove record., 1888-05-26

living in the garrets or on the roofs OF
their houses. The towns of Fall Creek,
Secllorn and HullS are but mere islands
and hundreds of refugees are huddled
together IN limited space. The damage
to railroad property is very great, and
it is said that 1t will be three
weeks after the water subsidies
before trains a he running on
! time. Quincy is cut off from railroad
communication North, West and
South. 1t is estimated that the loss
from crops alone will reach So, goo, 900,
and that tue damage TO levee., houses
and railroads will approximate S600, 900.
Reports were received i'll Quincy on the
2lst. of the drowning Of Samuel Moore
| by the floods in the Indian Grove levee
/ district, and of the children of William
| johnson in the Sny district. 1t is
thought that many fatalities will be re.
corded when all the facts regarding the
food are fully known.
! The steamer Atlantic, which
reached CollingwUod, Ontario, on the
Goth, picked up two men, dashed to
their boat, near Killarney. They were
both dead. 4 despatch from st. John,
New Brunswick, says that on the 18th,
five lumbermen were crossing the Arts.
took river when their boat upset and
| three Of them, named Feeney. McQuade
and Cole, were drowned.
George Thomas, a peddler, shot
and killed Maggie Wise, a divorced
woman, in Cincinnati, on the morning
of the 2lst, and then shot himself
through the temple. Peter kalb, d
saloon keeper, III San Francisco, shot
Louise kuilmeyer, on the goth, and
then killed himself, The woman's
wounds are not fatal. lie had pro-
| posed marriage to her and she had re
jected him. b. f. French and six
others have been indicted at Hazard,
Perry county, Kentuky, for killing j.
g. Eversole, SIX weeks ago. Eversole
was shot from ambush. His murder
was the result of a feud between him
self and French of four years. stand
ing. The body of a mar about %
| years of age washed ashore at Paines-
| VILE, Ohio. on the Goth. Fastened to
the body were two flour sacks filled
with sand and stones; over the right
ear was a pistol shot wound, and on
the left temple a bad bruiSe.
William Hubert and Henry Cook,
boys, were arrested on the 22d, i'll
Newark, New Jersey, for d~efacing the
| sign of a saloon keeper. Hubert said
that if he could have got into the
saloon he would have opened all the
faucets of the barrels. He said there
had been great suffering in his own and
Cooks family from intemperance,
land both he and Cook had resolved,
if possible, to abolish rum drinking"
e. Bradley, teller of the Union
National Bank of Chicago, has disap.
peared, and it has been discovered
| that his accounts are wrong. The
amount involved is not known. Brad
ley was supposed TO be IA young mar
of the most exemplary habits" He
| had "a wife and one child. The safe
III Rothschild's clothing store, in Da-
venport, Iowa, was blown open by burg
lars on the morning of the 22d, ano
$500 in gold and valuable papers taken
A clerk who slept in the store was
bound and gagged by the burglars.
The post-oflice at Attleborough, Mas
sachusetts, was robbed of $1,000 worth
of stamps early on tie morning OF
the 22d.
The river at Quincy, Illinois, is
slowly falling. Relief committees are
hard at work caring for the most
urgent cases of distress.
Thomas Wynne, IS years old. a
resident of Canton, Penna., died in a
hospital in Cincinnati on the 2lst.
! He was found in a freight car, and the
| direct u of death was exposure.
| Horace Ellis, Is years of age, fell upon
the saw i'll a mill at Ilewittvllle, New
| York, on the 2lst. His head was sew
cred from his body. Schubert Wilder,
a retired iron merchant, was found
dead in the street in Mlddleboro, Mas
sachusetts. on the morning of tie 22j.
1t is thought he was thrown from a
carriage.
Howard Gaskiil, aged IL, and
John Williams, aged II, were drowned
IN the canal at Lockport, New York,
on the 22d.
AT Beloell, about 20 miles flom
| Montreal, a tract of land containing IL
| acres has sunk a distance of 40 feet
| The land was ploughei ready for SOW
ing.
Allan b. Dill a well-knowI
farmer neal Webster, Jackson county,
North Carolina, shot and killed VIM.
III. Bumgartner and fatally wounded
| his father, Logan BumgaItner, on the
| afternoon of the 23d, The difficulty
-.- ... 80 n ,,,stpi ret atIIn akn.,t
a small tract of land, and Is the termi-
| nation of an old feud. Parson Cantrell
is a Seventh-day Baptist, and his father
| in-law, Deacon Cofiey, went to his ield
| near Jimtown, Indian Territory, on The
| goth, where Cantrell was blowing, and
| not only demonstrated agalnt his work
| ing onthe Lords day, but undertook to
| kick him out of the field. The Parson
| resisted and split his father-ln-law's
| head open with a hoe. Advices from
| the Chickasaw Indian Nation give an
account of a fight with bowie knives
| between Wash. Edwards and James
Schneider. The former was literally
| cut to pieces. Schneider WAS not hurt
and escaped.
The Democratic State Convention
met on h e23dIn Harrisburg and carried
out the programme previously outlined.
| w. U. HenSel was chosen temporary
| chairman and William a. Wallace per-
manent chairman. The platform en-
| dOrses Cleveland and the Mills Tariff
Bill. X. Milton Speer and A. f.
| Heating, the latter Of Plttsburg, were
| nominated for Electors-at-large Fol
Delegates.at-laTge to st. Louis, Lewis
| c. Cassidy, Charles Z. Boyle, William
r. Mutchler and William l.. Scott were
selected.
While playing on the commons in
St. Joseph, Missouri, on the Afternoon
of the 21st, Lizzie and Lena Baker,
aged II and - years, were struck by
lightning during a severe thunder
storm. Their clothes were torn from
Their bodies. 1t is thought Lizzie will
die.
On the morning of the 23d, I
freight train on the Rock Island Rail-
road went through a bridge near Ran
dolph Point, Missouri, crashing into {
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