The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-11
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

George Mccarthy, conductor, shot
and killed A. j. Carpenter, brakeman,
at Battle Creek, Michigan, on the
I'd. They were drunk and had been at
a dance.
The two rear coaches of a passen-
ger train on the Northern and Pacific
junction Railway left the rails on the
4th near Bracebrldge, Ontario, and
rolled down an embankment. Five of
the passengers were severely injured,
and all were badly shaken up.
An explosion of mine gas occurred
on the evening of the 4th in Slope No.
!, at Nanticoke, Penna., fatally burn.
ing David Evans, John Griffith. Jo-
seph Diber and Anthony Mulaski.
Owen Thomas, aged 43 years, was IA
tally burned by all explosion of gas in
the Mineral Spring colliery, near
Wilkesbarre, on the morning of the
4th.
"A passenger train on the New
York, Pennsylvania and Ohio Rail-
road was thrown from the track by a
broken frog while passing Steamburg
Station, New York, on the 9Th, and
dashed into a freight train. Hattie
Abbott, aged II, of Sheffield, Illinois;
George Ellis, conductor, and James
Dean, brakeman, of Meadville, Pa,
were killed, and eight others were In
jured, several severely.
The jewelry store of Chapman &
Gale, in Norfolk, Virginia. was en-
tered before daylight on the morning of
the 9Th through skylight, and robbed
of all the gold watches, diamonds and
other yaluables in the stock, valued at
$50, 900.
For some time past burglaries have
been frequent along the line of The
Harlem and New Haven Railroad.
On the evening of the 4th the station
at S%carsdale was broken open and two
silk dresses. worth $3.50, and several
rolls of linen, belonging to Mrs. George
2. Tome, wife Of a Wall street broker,
were stolen. On the 9Th two men, who
gave their names as Edward Winters,
Is years old. of New London, Con-
necticut. and Edward Irving, of
Mount Vernon, were arrested on their
way to New York city at fremont
with the stolen property in their pos
session.
"A telegram from Lancaster says
that great jams OF boom logs have
formed on the Susquehanna River from
Turkey Hill to McCall's Ferry, and it
is feared they will present serious OBJ
structions to the passage of the ice.
The ice In the river is still solid, but
that in the tributary streams has
broken up.
The heavy thaw of the 4th and
the rain of the 9Th caused many of the
frozen creeks in all parts of Long Is
land to overflow, especially Oh the
south side, and several washouts &C.
Cured. Near Bayport the water car
ried away several long sections of EN-
bankment, leaving in many places
nothing but the bare ties and rails of
the Long Island Railroad. The con-
ditiOl of the track was Just discovered
in time to SAVE the East.bound train.
"A despatch from Springfield, ILL.,
nois, says scarlet fever is prevailing in
Pana, on the Ohio and Misslssippi
Railroad, to such an extent that the
public schools have been closed. There
have been two deaths, and fifteen cases
of the disease were reported on the 4th.
-Four men and a woman were
frozen to death near TampicO, Mexico,
on the 10th ult.
Neal Hamburg, Iowa, on the even
ing of the 4th, a farmer named Tieson
and his son concealed themselves neBr
the hog pen to watch for thieves. At
midnight two men got into the pen and
slaughtered a hog, %whereupon Tleson
fired upon them with a shotgun, killing
one instantly, The other started to
run and was shot down with a revolver
and killed. The dead men proved to
be brothers named Rambeau, neighbors
of Tieson. The Tiesons were arrested.
A fight took place in a house of Hire
pute in Wichita, Kansas, on the 9th,
during which j. E. Gregg, William
Sparr and Lincoln Mills were shot, the
first named fatally. Adam Spear was
shot and killed by James MOunce, in
Monticello; Illinois, on the evening of
the 9TH. The shooting was the result
of a quarrel. Matthias Busch, a saloon
keeper, murdered his wife in Chicago,
on the afternoon of the 9th, by cutting
her throat with a razor because she Ie-
fused to turn over to him a small sum
of money left her by a relative. Two
brothers named Turner quarrelled
while threshing together at Port Muir
ray, Warren Co., n. j., on the 9th,
and fought. The younger finally killed
the elder by driving the point of a
pltchfOrk into his eye.
"A passenger train going west on
the afternoon of the 9th, ran into a
freight train going east at Hoosic Falls,
New York. Both engines were wedged
together and the baggage and head
freight cars were smashed. An ex-
pressman, a mail agent, and a a re-
pairer were severely injured, and an
old lady on the passenger tram was
severely burned by being thrown
against a stove. All the other passen-
gers we're badly shaken up.
Miss Louise Royce, a school
teacher at Norfolk, Nebraska, three of
whose pupils died in her arms during
the recent blizzard, Will lose both feet
and a portion of one arm, as a result of
exposure. Nearly $4,000 has already
been contributed to the fund for the
teachers-Miss freeman, Miss Royce
and Miss Shatiuck. Over $1,000 of this
amount goes to Miss Shattuck, who
lost both her legs. Miss Sbattuck died
on the 9th, and the money will prob
ably 60 to her parents.
"A coal train dashed into the rear
Of a freight tram OH the Reading Rail-
road, at Port Clinton, on the morning
Of the 9th. The engine of the coal
tram was badly damaged, and about
thirty cars of both trains we're thrown
from the track, many Of them being
partially wrecked.
"A dynamite explosion. at the
works of the Hancock Chemical Com
pany, at Marquette, Michigan, OIL the
9th, destroyed two buildings and killed
j. A. Arnold, John Olson and Adam
Ytsls. William Summerville, IS years
old, was killed in Memphis, Tennessee,
on the evening of the 5th, by coming in
contact with an electric light wire.
One of the Brush lights was on the
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