The Penn's Grove record., 1888-09-22

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his revolver at his assailauts, but they
escaped.
There was a heavy rain storm at
Fort Jervis, New York, On the 18th.
People living lei the Delaware and
Hudson Canal left their homes on the
morning of the 18th by boats. A. ID.
Browns saw mill. a tannery and two
small dwellings on Vaudermark Greek,
near Milford, were carried into the
Delaware river. at BelvIdere, New
Jersey, the rain on the 18th washed
out railroad tracks, and traffic was on
the 18th suspended on the Delaware.
Lackawanna and Western and Lehigb
and Hudson Railroads. Bridges were
washed away and crops destroyed,
Two large washouts occurred on the
Lackawanna and Western Railroad, at
Portland, in Northampton county,
Penna., on the 18th. Nine county
bridges were destroyed. and Wise
Brothers saw mill, at Portland, was
washed away. with lumber and ma
chlnery, entalling a loss of $4,000.
The storm at Easton lasted ten hours.
Washouts occurred during the night on
the Lehigh Valley, the Bangor and
Portland and the Lehigh and Hudson
Railroads. AL mills were idle on the 18th,
and navigation on the Delaware and
Lehigh rivers was stopped. A pas
senger train on the Belvidere and
Delaware road ran into a pool of water
a mil above Phillipsburg on the ever
ing of the 18th and was stopped. Ii
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The rear coach was wrecked and three
passengers were slightly injured. The
rain on the 18th caused a washout on
the Ontario and Western Road at
Mountainable. New York, and on tine
Susquehanna and Western Road, near
Charlotteburg, New Jersey. Ram
fell at Newburg. New York, on the
evening of the 18th, to the depth OF
nearly five inches. Land slides and
wash0uts occurred on both the Erie and
West Shore Roads. On the afternoon
of the 18th neither of the Erie tracks
had been cleared fol the passage OF
trains. All trains for the north and
East have been detained at C~harlottes.
vile, Virginia, since the evening o.
the 10Th, by a washout at Mechunk
Creek, on the Chesapeake and Ohio
Railroad, and a washout neal Orange.
Tied" Bates and John GRESHAM,
''moonshiners," In the Backbone Noun.
tain, about 30 miles from Hot Springs.
Arkansas. were shot and killed a few
days ago in a conflict with two United
States Deputy Marshals.
Mrs. e. J. Delon, an elderly
widow, committed suicide at her home
in Chicago, on the evening of the 18th,
by attaching a rubber tube to an un-
lighted gas jet, which was turned on
and placing the other end beneath the
bed clothes which she tucked closely
over her head and body.
One hundred and fifty.six new
cases of fellow fever and twenty deaths
were reported OF: tbs 18th in Jackson
VILE. -""-"ts
The number of deaths in Havana
from yellow fever during July was Sc.
During August the deaths numbered
ia.
The electric light dam and main
building In Neenah. Wisconsin, were.
washed away by high water on the
CttIlAls VI thC lula AlC uylluL1OS hlt
at the bottom of the river. The loss is
estimated at $4,000.
Thomas W. Cornell, a letter car
rier In Chicago, was on the 18th dis
covered tearing up and throwing into
a vault, three letters entrusted him for
delivery. He was arrested.
John Smith, Jr., a contractor on
the Nashville and Knoxville Railroad,
was shot and robbed of $1,000 by two
tiighwaymen nea Lancaster, Tennes-
ZEE, ON the evening of the 18th. Mr..
Johnson, an emplOye Of Smith, pur-
sued the robbers and fred upon them.
wounding one fatally and the other Sc
verely. Mr.. johnson recovered the
money and took the robbers TO Car
thage.
Clinton Garrett, a prominent farm
er, was killed by a train while walking
on the track of the Baltimore and Ohio
RAILROAD at Newark, Delaware, on the
18th. The boiler of +. W, Browns
saw mill at Point Mountain, West Vir-
glnia, exploded on the evening of the
18th, killing William Brown, manager
of the mill, and a son of the owner, and
William Knabenshu, a mill hand. A
despatch from Quebec says Mr.. Perre-
ault and his son, farmers Of Ste. Anne,
Mr.. Boisvert, d miller In Rosseau's
mills, with Mr.. Morrin, the station
agent at Ste. Anna de la Perade, and
Mr.. Goodin, Of the same place, were
drowned on the evening of the 18th,
while crossing in a boat from st. jean
dissertations to Ste. Anne. The latest
mail advices from Cuba estimate the
loss of life by the recent cyclone in that
island at over 1000.
John Murphy. Deputy Postmaster at
Artesian City, Kansas, has been arrest
ed for robblng the United States Ex-
press Company of SIC. 600, at Greenville,
Ohio, a year ago. He confessed his
guilt and returned $500 of the money.
A swindler, as yet unknown, succeeded
n securing from BusSey's Bank, in
Urbana, Illinois, $500; from j. W.
Helm, of Danville. $4,000, and Gillett &
Ball. $4,000. by the use of forged bills
IF lading, he secured the payment uf
drafts on Eastern houses for the above
amounts. The drafts bear the name
Of Klser Brothers, agrain firm at Ham
mond. Chas. B. Whiting. the banker,
who failed in Worcester, Massachusetts,
recently has been arrested on the charge
of embezzlIng S50O0 given him by Dr.
John o. Marble for investment in
stocks. Two masked men entered the
residence of Isaac Hariger, at Ligo.
nier, Pa, on the evening of the 18th,
and forced him to give them $1,000 in
gold, which was in the house. In
Baton Rouge, louisiana, on the 10Th,
the jury In the case of ex.Secretary of
State William A. Strong, charged with
embezzing about $500 from the State,
found a verdict of guilty. When the
verdict was rendered Strong had left
the court room and has not since been
found. An application has been made
to the Department Of Justice, in Of
tawa, Ontario, for the extradltion of
De Baum. the New York Park National
Bank d~efaulter.
One hundred and thirty new cases
of yellow fever and fourteen deaths
were reported on the 10Th in Jackson
vile, Florida.
Two weeks ago Joseph Beers, "a