The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-04
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

In Faulkner county, Arkansas, a
few days ago, two deputy sheriffs,
named Witt and Lloyd, attempted to
arrest Frederick Conway, a farmer.
While Witt was reading the warrant
to Conway the latter drew a knife and
stabbed the deputy in the left side.
Conway's wife and two son then at
tackled Witt, who drew a pistol and
iired at Conway. The ball however,
struck Deputy Sheriff Lloyd, inflicting
a fatal wound. Witt is also believed to
be fatally wounded. The Sheriff has
sent a whole posse to capture Conway.
A despatch from st. Paul says: At a
Scandinavian gathering at Lake Vad-
nais, III the 10Th ult., Ole Oleson was
struck on the back of the neck with a
club by one of a gang of "fakirs" and
killed. Another of the gang disem-
DOweled a carpenter named johnson
with a dirk, and stabbed, it is thought
fatally, two other Scandinavians. Jim
Donovan, a desperate character, has
been arrested, and deputy sheriffs are
searching for the other murderers.
Conductor Patrick Lester and
three Ohio and Mississippi Railroad
brakemen were poisoned at breakfast
in West Cairo. ILL.,, on the 20 h ult, it
Is supposed, by some drug accidentally
critical. Franz Zuppel, of Laurel
Run, Penna., swallowed two ounces OF
chloroform liniment, while drunk, on
the both ult, and died in two hours.
Charles Cummings and Henry
Boyd were drowned on the 30th ult,
while bathing, at Atlantic City. Cum
mings's body was recovered. Both
men were employed at the brighton
| Hotel, and were from Philadelphia.
The thermometers in Nebraska
City, Nebraska, On the Both ult, regis
tered from 100 to 105 degrees. Two
sunstrokes, n fatal, were reported.
Masked robbers entered the farm
house of Conrad Doup, in Knox county,
Ohio, on the evening of the Goth ult.,
beat the old man with a club, bound
him and robbed him of $500, which he
kept III a trunk.
The Rock Nitro.glycerine Com.
pany's factory, near Lima, Ohio, was
tired on the 18th ult., and o after
wards blew up. Tramps had been seen
near the place, and, as a piece of flesh
was found after the explosion. it is
supposed one Of them was killed.
While a number of boys were playing
"Indlan fighters" at Thompsonville,
Kentucky, on the evening of the 18th,
Virgie Hamilton, IA years, got his
fathers gun, and, not knowing that it
was loaded, fired, killing Willie Haines
and MORALLY wounding Willie's brother,
Lee.
Several workmen employed by the
Fulton Municipal Gas Company at
Brooklyn were partly suffocated while
tapping a main on the Both ult., by the
bursting of a rubber bag used in pre-
venting the escape of gas from the de-
tached main. All the men recovered
except Foreman Patrick Allen, whose
condition is considered dangerous.
"A fragment of rock, weighing fifty
pounds, fell in an unaccOuntable man
ner from the fifth story Of a building
in Chicago to the sidewalk on the Both
ult. 1t struck the brim of John Bur.
gess's hat and crushed his foot. A
stone. weighing about 1000 pounds,
fell from the third story of the Chicago
Court House on the afternoon of the
Both ult.. but injured no one.
"A west-bound freight train back
ing from a siding to the main track at
Galitzin OIL the Pennsylvania Railroad
on the Both ult collided with a shifting
engine. Thirty cars of merchandise
were destroyed causing a loss of about
S100, 900, Tracks were blocked for two
hours. The 20" fast train which left
Journey, ILL.,, on the morning of the
3)th ult, for Kansas City. ove the
Hannibal and St. Joseph division, ran
into a lot of box cars side-tracked al
Round Grove. The mail and baggage
cars were wrecked, and several persons
were injured. 1t is reported that the
engineer and fremen were killed. In
looming Western trains were delayed.
"A. G. Radcliffe, a mounter of gla-
ziers' diamonds. is reported to have dis
appeared from New York with dia-
monds valued at $780, 600, which he OBJ
tanned on credit from different mer-
chants. 1t is thought he has gone to
Europe.
Near Curtisville, Indiana, John
Hadley. for whom Constable George
Crutch6eld had a warrant charging
him with DEMONSTRATING, on the 24th
shot and mortally wounded the con-
stable. Two hundred men are search
ing for the murderer. Near Neigh,
Nebraska, young man named
Schmidt, his sister and two brothers,
named Vanderschuck, were returning
on the 3Oth ult., with several others,
from a wedding at Ewing, and got into
a quarrel, which ended in a free fight.
Schmidt was fatally cut across the
abdomen, his sister was wounded in the
arm, one Of the Vanderschucks had his
shoulder broken, and was twice stabbed
in the back, while the other brother
was slightly cut with IA knife and seri-
Ously cut on the head with a club. The
dead bodies of Henry Heesli. a retired
saloon keeper, and his wife, were found
in their house. in Chicago, early on
the morning Of the 3lst ult. Both
were past middle age. From appear
ances Heesh had choked his wife to
death and then committed suicide by
hanging to a door frame. Friends OF
Mrs. Heesh, who had not fully
lcCONFiCu lLOm a oullolIOht last
summer, fear that the heat of the 2Sth
ult, may have affected her, mind, and
caused a quarrel between her and her
husband in which he choked her in
self-defence, and then hung himself,
out of remorse. Three men who, while
drunk, murdered Charles Burks. brake
man on a passenger train on the Gull
Road, near Hardy, Arkansas, on the
Goth ult, have been arrested by a
deputy United States Marshal. Feel
ing against the men, who are IN Jail, is
bitter, and mob violence is feared.
Laborers, in e~xeavating for a new
building in East Dubuque, Iowa. on
the 31st ult, came upon a number of
skeletons of middle-aged men. One
skull has a bullet-hole through it.
Twenty-Five years ago the site was oc-
cupied by a boarding house, and old
settlers remember storieso of mysterious
disappearance of strangers about that
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