The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-29
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

David Reese, about 80 years of age,
fell from a %scaffolding in the City Hall,
in Richmond, Virginia, on the 22d, and
was killed.
Three prisoners in the ~penitentlary
In Nashville, Tennessee. scaled a Forty
foot wall OH the evening of the I'D and
escaped. They cut a hole in the roof
to reach the wall, and then, by the aid
of a rope made of Irvine twisted,
reached the ground. They had accom-
plices outside.
Meyer Goldstein, 26 years old, a
clerk for Morris Greenbaum, an auc'
tloneer in New York, was arrested on
the 22d on the charge of having SWIM
died his employer out OF S30,oO0 by
forging checks. He confessed his guilt
and surrendered property worth S9O00.
George Carl, colored, who was con-
victed in the Cumberland County
| Court of placing a dynamite cartridge
under the clothing store of j. G. Rum
nell, in Shippensburg, and destroying
it, was on the 22d sentenced to three
years. Imprisonment and "a fine OF $500.
In a street quarrel in Wilkesbarre,
Penna., on the evening of the 22d. Con-
stable Dennis Gallagher shot and fatal
ly wounded Thomas Ryan, of Syracuse,
New York. Ryan died on the evening
of the ODD in the City Hospital. An
| Italian railroad gang shot and killed
their foreman, c. F. Hubbard lat Haw-
thorne, Wisconsin, on the 22d. Ed
ward Crowley, rs years old, committed
suicide in New York On the 22d by
jumping from the roof of his residence.
He had been Ill for some time.
In Chicago, on the evening of the
22d, Daniel WEIGH was thrashing a
Young rowdy who had insulted his
wife. Policeman Thomas Leddy tried
to stopthe disturbance, he was attacked
by Welch and shot HIM dead.
One hundred anu slxity-three new
cases of yellow fever and six death
were reported in Jacksonville on the
22d. OF the new cases 1O3 were among
the colored population. 1t is nov be-
lieved that many hundred colored peo-
pie have had the fever and recovered
without treatment of physicians. The
old theory that negroes are not liable
to the disease is exploded, but it seems
that the fever is rarely or never fatal
with them unless complicated with Or
ganic diseases. An old and eminent
physician of Jacksonville is quoted as
saving: Negroes never die of yellow
fever unless they call in a doctor.'
One hundred and thirly-three new
cases of yellow fever and ten deaths
were reported in Jacksonville on the
23d. Two new cases of fever and one
death were reported at Macclenny.
H. A. Field, Ii. B. Wright, Henry
Bagg. Herbert and Frederick Shepherd
were drowned on the morning of the
23d, five miles west of Brockville,
Ontario, by the sinking of a sail yacht
in mid-channel. A gale was blowing
at the time and the yacht shipped con-
siderable water, and being heavily
ballasted she sank. AT Glbson's Land
ing, Mississippi, early on the morning
Of the ODD, the log chains of the
steamer Goldman shifted. and the boat
careened. Part of her freight was lost
and four deck hands were drowned.
Patrick Lynch and Nellie Drlscoll,
both young, went from Brooklyn to
Conev Island on the 23d, and, it Is
said, imbibed too freely. About mid
night they returned to Brooklyn, and
registered as man and wife at the VIII
low House. On the morning of the
24th they were found dead from suffo-
cation. The gas had been turned on,
but not lighted. 1t Is supposed that
Lynch either blew out the gas OF
turned it off, and then turned it OIL
again without realizing what he was
doing. Joseph Barberie, Geo. Edward
and Lawrence McPugh were drowned
off Dalhousie, New Brunswick, on the
evening of the 22d, by the upsettmg of
business man of Beloit, Wisconsin,
was drowned on the afternoon of the
oath, in Rock river by the upset
ting of a boat. A carriage contain
ing Smith Boyd, aged 20 years,
was struck by a train on the Penn
s~ylvanla Railroad. near Roomsville,
Ohio, on the evening OF the 23d. Boyd
was fatally injured, and died on the
oath. Mrs. Eva Gately, a widow, and
her two children were killed by a
train on the morning of the oath while
driving across the railroad track at
Versailles, Kentucky. The boiler IN
J. II. Freeney's shingle mill at East
Saginaw, Michigan, exploded on the
oath, killing Noah Smith, the fireman,
and injuring three other men. A pas
senger train on the Arkansas Pass Rail
road was wrecked near BerDe, Texas,
on the 23d. Mis-. Mary c. Long vas
killed, and a number of passengers
were injured.
One hundred and thirteen new
cases of yellow fever and five deaths
were reported in Jacksonville on the
oath. Some suspicious cases are re.
ported in Fernandina. No new cases
of yellow fever. or deaths from that
disease, were reported on the oath in
Jackson, Mississippi. The Board OF
Health of Meridian, Mississippi, on the
oath, adopted resolutions denying that
there is or has been a single suspicious
case OF fever In that city. The Post,
office Department is advised that the
moving of trains on nearly all the rail
roads II Alabama and Mississippi has
been abandoned, that the only means
Of reaching New Orleans with any
certainty is by way OF Montgomery,
and even this route is threatened. The
Postmaster at Cairo, Illinois. tele'
graphs that 'the country below is IL
the hands of a bowling mob, and quar-
antine is everywhere.
The ferryboat Jay Gould ran down
a rowboat in the North river, at New
York. on the 23d, drowning two of the
occupants, Matthew Hay. aged IL
years, and Jules Glangande, aged "a.
The family of Isaac l.. Crane, in
Easton. Penna., consisting Of himself,
wife and two children, are in a critical
condition from having eaten cabbage
upon which Paris Green had been used
to kill insects.
Oliver Bohannon was arrested il
New Orleans on the oath for passing
counterfeit silver money, and S2l5 il
the spurious coin was found i'll his pos
session. The Secret Service agent whit
arrested him says he has ''evidence thai
Bohannon burned his house for th'
purpose of using the insurance thereon
amounting to $500, in the purchase o
a travelling boat to be fitted up for thu
manufacture OF counterfeit CON-"