The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-04

threw Dolby down stairs, and las Dolby
died loon afterwards, 1t is supposed his
neck was broken by the fall.
by the capsiLing Of a boat by a
squall at Halifax on the Both ult., Gar
rett Roach, his little son and u young
nephew, named Wells. were drowned.
l.. Smith, a school teacher, was found
dead in a sloOp near Esquimalt, British
Columbia, on the Both ult. Two other
men who left on the slOop with Smith
are missing and supposed to be
drowned. Angus and Thomas Chas
sells, brothers, were on the 3lst ult.,
drowned while bathing in Charleston
lake, at Farmersville, Ontario.
Maria and Virette Reever, maiden
sisters, living near Parkersburg, West
Virginia, OF the evening of the 3Otb
ult., killed n burglar and mortally
wounded another. One of tie women,
seeing a man In her room, seized a re-
vOlver and sent a bullet through his
brain. The other sister, being awak.
ened, sprang upon the other burglar and
shot him through the groin as he was
about to jump from a window.
The iHcendiary fire that swept Port
au.P Prince, the capital of Haytl, on the
4th and It'll .ult., destroyed $50 build
Ings. and the loss amounted to 2,O00,-
600.
"A train Of empty fiat cars was
thrown from the track 10y q fallen tree,
nea Otsego Lake, Michigan. on the
Both ult. Twenty-Five men are reported
injured, 16 severely and three perhaps
fatally. BY an explosion on the Della
ware, Lackawanna and Western Rail-
road, near Scranton, on the morning of
the 31st ult.. a locomotive attached to
a heavy coal train was blown to pieces.
Harvey keid, the fireman, was killed,
and Irving stein, engineer, was severely
injured. Frank Basil, Joseph Gala
CHAN and Giovanni Antonio, cellar
diggers, were badly injured by the pre-
mature explosion of a blast in New
York on the 3lst ult. The boiler of b
locomotive attached to the 10. 30 O'Clock
train, on the Philadelphia and Reading
Railroad, from Chestnut Hill, IN the
evening of the 3lst ult., exploded at
Columbia Avenue Station, Philadel-
phia. Andrew Pond, the engineer
and Peter GrakIow, fireman, were
killed.
Frank Mott, a confidential book
keeper for Daniel Stone Il Co., Of Cln-
cinnati, left his home on the 2Sth ult.,
not see him again. On his desk was a
note saying that if his books were
wrong his father would make up the
deficiency. He has not since been heard
of. 1t is not yet known that he is a
defaulter.
On the 30th ult. wa the warmest
day of the season in Chicago. the tenn.
perature ranging from IS degrees in the
shade, at 7 a. NJ, to 90 at 4 L. M.
Several cases of prostratiOn were re-
ported, one fatal. On the morning OF
the 3lst Ut q heavy thunder storm
was followed ~ u RAPID rise of temper.
allure, giving promise of another hot
day. During the storm a flagstaff ON a
corner of the Palmer House was shat.
tered by lightning, and the crash and
shock caused quite a panic among the
bOarders. Reports from Western Kan
sas state that during the last few days
a hot wind has badly burned the corr
crop. This is the situation west OF
Ellsworth, Great Bend, Lyons and
Chase. The crop, 1t is feared, will not
meet expectation.
"A gang of ''moonshIners" has been
for some time operating in DIbb's
county, Alabama. A short time since
they expelled a U. S. deputy Marshal
and ordered him never to return. Last
Sunday they waylaid, robbed and muir
dered a prominent citizen. A posse
was then organized for their capture,
and they took refuge in an old drift OF
a coal mine. when the posse determined
to starve them out. On Monday night
one of the gang made a dash for liberty
and was shot dead by the posse. al
last accounts the rest of the gang were
still besieged In the mine. George
Klingbeil, a Chicago saloon keeper.
was shot three times last evening, but
not dangerously wounded, by an I'm.
known drunken man, to whom King
bell refused to sell liquor. The assail-
ant escaped.
AT Plttsboro, Mississippi, on the
3lst ult., a eight took place between
Robert Reagan, on the II side, and
E. N. Enochs, james Enochs and
Charles Cochran, on the other. Rea.
gan was assaulted by his three antago-
nists, and finding retreat impossible he
drew his pocket knife and used it with
such effect that in five minutes Coch-
ran lay dead on the ground, while the
two A4nOchs were mortally wounded.
Reagan had three ribs broken by a blow
from q bar. At Carthage, Tennessee,
on the evening Of the 3lst ult.. 80 armed
men took from the Jail and lynched W.
II. Handley, who In September last,
killed a deputy sheriff named Norman.
Handley's trial was to have begun on
the 1st. William Ellsworth, IS years
old, was shot and killed at Laporte,
Ind, on the LIST by Onver White, about
the same age. Ellsworth was fishing
and White and other boys were throw
ing stones at him from a bridge over.
head. White drew a revolver. when Ellis.
worth picked up two stones and advan.
ced on him. The former fired with fatal
effect, ran away and has not been cap
tured. The Coroner's jury. which OIL
the LIST investigated the deaths OF
Henry Heesh and wife at Chicago,
found that Heesh had deliberately
strangIed his wife and then committed
suicide by hanging. Testimony was
adduced showing that on three differ
ent occasions Heesh spoke of trouble
with his wifes and intimated that The
result would be her death. While
George Harris, IA years old, was prac'
ticing at q target with a rifle, in Cincin-
natl, on the evening Of the 3lst ult, his
sister, II years old, seized the muzzle
and there was a playful struggle for the
possession of the weapon, which was
accidentally discharged. The little
girl was instantly killed,
During a gale at Tiflin. Ohio, or
the 3lst ult. the west wall OF the mai
works was blown down aud Other
buildings were damaged. Tie tent Of
the Transatlantic circus was blown to
shreds and Its paraphernalia wrecked.
One of the men INJURED by the
railroad disaster at Gaylord. Michigan,
Joseph Pollhen. of Bay City has since