The Penn's Grove record., 1888-07-14
NEWS OF IHn WEEK.

David Clark and his wife were
found hanging in a corn crib on a farm
near Sandwich, Illinois, on the even
ing of the Sth. They left a paper,
signed by each, saying that they died
for each other. They had been married
about two years. Henry Powell, of
steamer servia, which arrived at New
York. on the 9.h, jumped overheard
on July LIST, while temporarily insane.
and was drowned. John +. VENT, a
manufacturing jeweier, of Dayton,
Ohio. on the morning of the 9th, went
to the river bank, cut his throat and
Jump into the water. No cause is as.
signed for the suicide. G. j. Stannard.
aged % years, on the 9th, committed
suicide by taking laudanum at a hotel
in Hartford, Connecticut. A bank
book in his possession Indicated that
he lived at Southington, in the same
State.
One of the floors in Myers Opera
House, in Ell Paso, Texas, gave way IN
the evening Of the It'll, and carried
down into the cellar several iron Pill
lars and girders that supported the
prOscenium and the octagon dome. On
the morning of the 9Th a second crash
occurred, and the entire dome, with the
roof and part of the third story walls,
went down. The architect says the
floor was broken down by a pile of
beans in sacks, weighing about fifteen
tons, which were stored by a wholesale
grocer. The building cost $50 600.
Irj,,rI Grarl,o ohAf oaI rnta1I,
wounded Charles Meyers, in Nicholas
vile, Kentucky, on the evening of the
Sth. a row between Hungarians took
place at Milnersville, a small mining
| village two miles from Hazleton,
Penna., Oh the evening of the Sth, iii
| which eight of the participants were
stabbed.
Heavy rains in Western Pennsylva-
mia, Oh the 9th, did considerable damage
| 10 growing crops. 1t is thought that ut
least % per cent. of the apples and
pears were beaten from the trees. Two
! children named Morris were drowned
in Butler county. A violent storm Wis.,
tied the section between Parkersburg,
West Virginia, and Athens, Ohio, on
the It'll, and caused a great deal of
damage to houses and crops. John
Thompson, a farmer, was killed by
lightning, and Howard James was
drowned while trying to ford a swollen
stream. a wind and hail storm. fol-
lowed by rain, passed near Montpelier,
Indiana, on the evening of the 7th
The corr crop was badly damaged.
-Redstone Creek, at Uniontown,
| ~. 1.1 n,raF1nurad lie IaaIyo "a
submerged all the lowlands of the
town. There are several feet of water
In the houses. AT Leith the whole
place IS submerged. AT Browniield,
twenty feet of water is standing in a
cut of the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road. Two railroad bridges from above
have been carried down and lodged
against a trestle in Uniontown. The
Baltimore and Ohio bridge at Triadel-
phla was carried away by the high
water.
Captain Joseph Davis, of tho Sal
walton Army, was drowned on the Sth,
while bathing at washington, ID. G.
BY the spreading of rails on a
~trestle 10 miles west of Cameron, Mis-
souri,, on the evening Of the 9Th. a Chi
caao, Rock Island and Pacific con-
struction train with II men on board
was precipitated to the ground a dis
lance of 80 feet. Richard Jones and
Engineer Wilcox was killed, and Brake
man Cummings fatally injured.
by a fall of rock in the quarry of
SchWoyer & Leach, about three miles
from Norrlstown, II bna. on the after
noon of the 10th, tw& men were killed
and three others injuted. One of the
latter died while betqg taken TO the
University Hospital 9n Philadelphia.
Mrs. Mary Collins. VIII le sitting at her
window on the fouh floor of 10l