The Penn's Grove record., 1888-04-28

NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Thomas Dugan and G.. A. Bird
prominent hotel proprietors in Spring
iield, OHIO, have been fined $50 and
costs each and sentenced to ten days In
Jail for using oleomargarlne on their
tables without posting notice in the
dining rooms. Russell F. Turkham
an attorney and ex-school superinten-
dent of Grand Lodge, Michigan, was
arrested On the evening of the Doth,
and taken to Charlotte under a charge
of perjury preferred by his suretles as
administrator of the estate OF CALEB
Hutton, deceased. The sureties were
obliged to make good to the estate the
sum of S25,0 COO, alleged to have been
embezzled by Turkham.
Michael Kelsey, a moulder in a
foundry in Lowell, Massachusetts, was
fatally injured, and Edward O'Brien
and John Mccarthy severely burned
by the explosion of a brass roll on the
23d. Thomas Gibbs, aged 81, a miner,
was killed on the 23d at Nanticoke,
Penna., by a fall of rock in the col.
ilery of the Susquehanna Coal Com.
pany. A party Of log drivers in Bar
aga county, Michigan, attempted to
thaw some dynamite over a cook stove
i'll their sllanty, on the afternoon Of tie
22d. An explosion followed, which
killed Patrick Ratlgan, William Nor
riSOn and Peter Somerville. and Sc
verely injured two others. John Par
sons, wife and child, were killed by
lightning on the evening of the 22d al
their home in Centrevllle, Kentucky.
There was a wreck on the Louisville
and Nashville Railroad at Calera Oh
the morning of the 22d. A brakeman
was killed.
The collector for the Methodist
Book Concern in Boston on tine 22d
laid upon a counter while he went NJ
stains "a pocBetbook containing S25l
cash and checks for about $1,000, which
he had Just collected. During hi
absence tile p~ocketbook vas stolen.
N. p. B. Wells, Treasurer OF the Senecs
Falls Savings Bank, in Albany, New
York, was arrested on the 22d, charged
with being a defaulter. The amount /.
thought to be under $4,000. Herbert
ID. Wells, charged with having en-
bezzled $1,000 belonging to the Keystone
Watch Club Company, of Philadelphia,
was arrested In Baltimore on the 23d
John Meyer. City Clerk of East st
Louis, disappeared several days ago
and a shortage" nf 1868 has been dis
covered in his accounts. He received
license money for a short time during
lfhn ahoanna Tf fhn ('ifu n'poaaprQr
Deputy United States Marsha
Burns has returned to San Francisco
from Arizona, where he went to hun
down the Stein Pass train robbers. HI
reports that they were burned out of al
adobe and shot down by Sheriff Pau
and some Mexican soldiers. A maj
named Llkins. living near Cabot, Mis-
souri,, OH the 23d killed. his twochildren
a boy and girl, aged respectively y anC
IL years, with au axe, and then cut hi
own throat with a knife. Peter Ryan
a dissolute character in South Bend
Indiana, stabbed and killed Michae
English on the 22d.
The steamer City of New York
which has arrived at san Francisco
from China, brings details of an earth
quake in Yunnan. From the second
day of the twelfth month of the last
year till the third day of this year there
were over ten shocks. In the town an(
suburbs wei 1000 people were eitheI
killed or injured, and nine-tenths of thu
houses were Knocked down.
"A hailstorm of remarkable s~everit.
,NnocaI .tAr hTnhtln Alltn n nnH fha
surrounding country on the Afternoon
of the 23d and was followed by a heav!
rain. The hail fell for an hour, cover
ing the ground, and doing great dam
age to vegetation, as well as smashln!
skylights in buildings. The rainfall
was 2.74 inches, and the streets wer'
flooded. Many stores and dwelling
were damaged by the water, owing T.
the stoppage of the pipes by the hail
stones. In the Battle House, the pipe
being in the walls, burst and many o
the handsomest rooms were flooded.
The river at Dubuque, Iowa, OIL
the 23d marked 20 feet 2 inches abov
low water mark. The lower part o
the city was nearly afloat, and part o
the levee was covered. The basement
of many factories and buildings on tn
low grounds near the river are flle'
with water.
Samuel T. Young, who fired til
barn of Frank Mace, near Norristown
two weeks ago, whereby SO animal
persisted, has been arrested. He mad
a confession. saying lie went to til,
barn to steal a horse, and i'll lighting
match to find a halter he accidental,
set fire to some straw and was unabl
to extlnguish the flames. After selling
the horse and spending the money h
went back to the same neighborhoo,
aud stole IA horse and buggy, which h
also sold.
Mrs. Uonora Judge, aged so years
of Pittston, Penna., was burned T.
death OH the 23d. Her clothes caugh
fire from the kitchen range. Johl
Shay and William Williams wer
drowned on the evening of the 23d, il
an attempt to run the rapids at Chip
pewa Falls. Wisconsin. Each leaves
wife and seven children.
The msngled body of a well
dressed MAI was found on the after
noon of the oath on the Pennsylvani;
Railroad track at the mouth of tn
tunnel zeal the eastern limits of Balti
more. From letters and tickets foun,
on his person it was believed to be til
body of Arthur Exley, Il Philadelphia
manufacturer of water sprinklers, Ant
that he had been a passenger on tn
"Iimited,' and was on his way t,
Washington. a c%oroner's inquest wa
held, but no facts were adduced t
show how he came to his death. vii
liam Stringer, of Hot Springs. Arkaa
sas, keeps half.a-dozen game cocks il