The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-18

cattle train on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad was tele-
scoped at Stroudsburg, PenIpa., on the
18th. Many cattle were killed. The
accident was caused byl defective
brakes.
stephen Swift, 80 years Of age, and
at one time a prominent bus ness man
of Lexington, Kentucky, fell down a
flight of stairs at his residence in that
city. on the 18th, from the effects of
which he died on the 18th.
Heavy snow in the mountains has
caused a freight blockade onI the Penn
sylvauia Railroad, and, fot the first
time since the riots of 1877, the COM
pany bas been compelled toi refuse to
accept freight cars for points east of
Altoona. The blockade is 81! utting out
Eastern coke shipments and seriously
affecting the coke trade. Nd shipments
have been made since the 1Clh.
The roof of the ordinat fa building
at the Washington Navy Y ID fell on
the 18th, being unable TO SUPPORT in the
heavy weight of snow upon It,.
Among the localities that suffered
from the forest fires last fall was the
neighborhood of Sigler's Landing, a
hamlet i'll Upton county, Tennessee.
The deep mould in the forest composed
of d~ecayed earth was iEnited and
burned down a distance vt ten to
I ura,,tN ittpla.g Tho fro ~ fIia Ylnna
has continued to burn below the sur
face of the earth. and at "a dyZen points
a blaze issues from crevices iI the soil.
1t is believed that there isy'a bed of
coal not very far underground which
caught fire from the burning mould on
the surface.
Seven persons. all colortd, namely
Horace Carter and two of is daugh-
tiers. Pierre and Frisbie Alleii, Priscilla
Smith, and Cecilia Lewis, were drowned
by the upsetting of Il boat, near Fair
view, Louisiana, en- the llth. The
boat was capsized by swells from a
steamer.
Stephen n. Wilson shot and NOR
tally wounded Archie Irtln in st.
Louis on tie evening of the 13.h.
They are both colored, andithey quar-
relied over Al assertion made by Will
son that the female teacl1rs in the
colored schools were tile VIII IS of pro.
prietors of negro gambling houses and
disreputable saloons. Brack Cornett, IA
noted outlaw and leader of the note
rious train robbers, was shot and
killed OH the 18th while resisting al
rest by Sheriff Alice. OF FIlO county,
Texas. j. w. Hacker shot and killed
Mabel Sterke in Berlin, Wisconsin, Oh
the evening OF the 18th. and then COM
mitted suicide Hacker was 10 years
old and his victim a year younger.
They met some time ago at the Girls
Home III Belle Plaine, Iowa. and fell
in love with n anothey. The mar.
rage was opposed by tine girls par
ents. and she was sent to visit rela-
tives in Berlin. Hacker learned of
her whereabouts and followed. Mrs.
Irene Parker, wife OF a house painter
III Washington, DC, attempted to kill
her two children early on the morning
of the 18th. The younger child. aged 7
years, received seven cuts across her
head, which were made by a Ratchet.
The woman then attempted to cut the
threat of her eldest daughter, aged IL,
with IA case knife. She made an unsuc-
cessful attempt TO kill Ter husband
with IA Ratchet. When locked up in
the police station she said that she had
intended to kill the whole family and
then kill herself. She is thought to be
insane. A young man assaulted Miss
Sophie Hungerford, a school teacher
in Baltimore, as she WAS passing
through Druid Hill Park, on the morn
ing of the nth, She caught one of his
fingers in her mouth and bit it severely.
She then drew "a revolver. at the sight
of which he ran, but she fred two
shots after him and is uncertain
whether either took effect. Several
outrages of similar character have oc-
Cured in lonely sections of the Park.
Chester Every, 40 years Old, shot and
killed his daughter, aged II, in AL
toona, Penna., oil the l4lh, and then
committed suicide.
The bonds which Frank McNeally
stole from the Saco and Biddeford Saw
lngs Institution, in Saco, Maine, have
been recovered by his brother Harry,
and are on their way to this country
from Europe.
An explosion occurred on the 18th,
in the Wyoming colliery, at Park
Bowkley, near WilkesbaTre, injurlng
live men, two of them, Jacob Monohan,
aged So years, and John Boyle. aged
40, fatally. Another explosion of pow
der occurred on the morning of the
IA b., OH the Pittston branch of the
Lehigh Valley Railroad, by which
three men were badly injured. one of
whom, John Reed, fireman, will lose
his eyesight. Men had drilled "a foot
hole in the rock and bred several small
charges of dynamite TO enlarge it for
the reception of powder. Eight kegs
of powder were opened on the spot and
two of them were emptled in the hole,
where they were exploded by sparks
which were still alive. The explosion
igDIted the powder in the other kegs,
and Il second explosion occurred.
Mrs. Isabella Fopless, 80 years old,
Z, id in Baltimore, on the 18th, from
The result OF burns received on the
evening of the 18th. She had just
given her sick husband some medicine
and going down stairs tripped. causing
the lamp to explode. The burning
fluid was thrown over her person.
r.. 5. Porter, a wealthy farmer,
and his wife had an encounter with
burglars at their home, in Lawrence
vile, Illinois, IN the evening of the
18th. Early in the evening Nj. Porter
responded to ID knock at the door, when
man entered and placed a revolver at
Lead. He threw his assailant to the
tlCor, aud while struggling with him a
second man entered and held Mrs.
Porter at bay with a revolver. She
went at this one with Il poker, while
her husband struggled with the first.
Two more of the gang came in to the
assistance of their c~onfederates and a