The Penn's Grove record., 1888-02-11

! planning mill, in Allegheny City,
Penna., gave way on the 9th, and five
men were burned in the debris, and
one, Patrick Conroy, was dangerously
hurt.
Frank Rominski, aged 26 years,
was killed in No. , slope at West
Nanticoke, Peuna., on the evening OF
the 7th. by a fall of coal.
An express train on the Penn
sylvanla Railroad struck a wagon con-
tanning two men, at Gordonville ross
ing, Pa. on the 7th. The wagon was
knocked to pieces, and the occupants.
DR.. Hoover and Jacob Brua were Sc
verely injured. A truck OF oHe of the
Pullman sleepers on an express tram on
the Pennsylvania Railroad jumped the
track near Conestoga bridge, Penna.,
on the morning of the 18th. The pas
sengers escaped with Il severe shaking
up. A freight train on the Reading
Railroad while moving slowly e a
Lewlsburg, Penna.. ON the morning of
the It'll, was overtaken by another
freight train tue engine of which
plowed through the caboose and two
cars of the first train. The engine then
ran off the track and was stopped by "a
bank of earth, into which 1t plunged.
ALI the train hands escaped injury by
jumping into the snow banks.
"A laborer named O'Nelll. living in
Pittsburg, shot and killed his wife on
the morning of the It'll, and then shot
himself through the head. The wound
is considered fatal. The cause of the
tragedy was jealousy. The couple had
six children. Robert Cloud, colored.
waylald his wife and a negro named
Henry Phelps, in Atlanta, Georgia,
on the morning of the 9TH. LIe shot
and killed Phelps and fatally wounded
his wife, after which lie surrended to
the police. AT Jeanette, Louisiana,
on the It'll, during a Quarrel, George
Dixon was shot and killed by Jake"
Marshall, colored, a deputy sheriff.
Marshall fled and concealed himself in
a corn crib, where he was found with
his brother. The pair were fired upon,
and the brother and Louis PaytOn
were almost instantly killed. Payton
was a spectator. and was warned to
retire for fear of being shot. The
shooting was done by unknown persons.
W llllhu tpsiolC1 SolOlCbs hLlCLlIOcu W
escape from the Vickspurg Jail, on
the evening of the 9th, and had bur
rowed through the wall, and was about
to drop to the ground, when he was
shot and mortally wounded by the
~watchman.
John Benson, whose gambling
house was raided in Wilmington, Del
aware, last December, Oh the nh plea
ded guilty and was fined $1,000 and
costs In each of two cases for writing
lottery policies, OF Ii year In jail; 500
for running a poker table, and $50 for
selling liquor without license.
"A despatch from Olympia, Wash
ington Territory, says fourteen bodies
from the wreck of The A5ercorn have
been washed ashore. Among them are
Pilot Clerks johnson. of Astoria. and
Captain Irving. Those sav.d aIe
Andrew Akin, cabin boy, Angus
McCloud and Roi ert Rankin, seamen.
"A natural gas explosion occurred
in the house of T. NJ. Norton, in An
derson, Indiana, on the morning of tue
eth. The house was demolished. and
Fenton G. Rogers, of Cincinnati, who
WAS SleppluB Ill tHt llOut lOOID NdS
killed. Mrs. Norton WAS severely
burned about the head and shoulders.
There was a leak in the main, and
when Mrs. Norton went to light the
gas, the explosion occurred.
Just as a train on the Third
Avenue Elevated Railroad, in NV
York. was approaching Forty-second
street station on the morning Of the
7th, an unknown man, about So years
old, jumped from the platform TO The
tracks, and placing his head on the
outside rail, was instantly killed. 5. ).
Tattman, a prisoner in the jail in
Medina county, Ohio, awaiting trans
portation to the ~penitentiary to serve
a sentence of seven years fol
shooting with intent to kill, committed
suicide on the 9th. He tore his hand
kerchief in two, rolled the pieces into
balls and pushed them down his throat.
choking himself to death.
Near Stewartsville, Missouri, on
the morning of the 7,h, William Ball,
superintendent on a farm, shot and
killed Miss Ella Everett, daughter of
the proprietor, and then committed
suicide. She had refused to marry
him.