The Penn's Grove record., 1888-08-25

slider the fishing rights public property.
On the 18th the Major drove away
several men who were fishing. The
shots that killed Mrs. Howes, It il be.
Iieved, were intended for her husband.
William Day and Frank Trafton,
accused Of being poachers, are sus-
pedcted Of having fred the shots. A
sheriff's posse are searching for them.
MN. F. McCabe, collector for the
Western Union Telegraph Company in
Cincinnati, was found dead in his
house, OF the goth, whore he had EVIL
IDENTIFY fallen from apoplexy or heart
disease. On the 18th his wife went to
Poughkeepsie, New York, where her
brother had been killed on a railroad.
Dennis Reardon and Richard WEIGH,
who were unable to swim, were
drowned on the Goth at Troy, New
York, by the overturning of their boat.
John +. Rogers, of Macon, Georgia. a
boarder at the Salisbury House, near
Newburg, New York, was drowned
on the 18th while bathing.
"A Mobile, Alabama, despatch says
. southeast gale which began on the
afternoon of the 18th, increased on the
morning OF the Goth, to a velocity Of 81
miles an hour. The waters Of the Gulf
have been over the lowlands, both east
and west Of there, and the Louisville
and Nashville track Is badly flooded
south. There were no trains on the
Goth either way. The routes via Meri-
dan and Selma remain open. The
lower portion Of the city was inundated
on the morning of the Goth, and many
stores flooded, but the damage is small.
The wires being down everywhere, no
details Of the damage outside of the
city can be obtained.
-Christiana Keefer and her daugh-
ter. Lena, aged %, are In custody in
Terre IIaute, Indiana, on a charge of
defacing and raising money, and have
admitted their guilt. They procured
81 and pasted the figure 0, cut from
the stamp On cigar boxes, next to the
figure /, thus making 1t appear as a $40
bill. They made $40 in like manner,
and defaced other portions Of the bills
to conceal the denominations. 1t is
known that they passed three on local
merchants, and perhaps mort. Mrs.
Keefer admitted that she worked the
plan in Chicago.
"A tornado swept over a strip OF
country about six miles south Of Will
mington, Delaware, on the evening of
the 21st. Orchards were destroyed,
houses unroofed and several persons
killed. The storm also swept up both
sides of Chesapeake Bay and did con-
siderable damage, though no lives were
lost. Numerous frame houses and
barns were demolished and two schOon-
ers we're overturned. Entire fruit
orchards in Maryland were destroyed.
mouth of Chesapeake Bay across Poole's
Island. Reports received are rather
indefinite. A high wind at Salem, New
Jersey, on the afternoon of the 21st
swept away nearly all the buildings Of
the Salem Brick Works and demolished
their high smoke stack. Many barns,
whole orchards and growing crops
were blown down. The damage in
Salem county will, 1t is said, amount to
many thousand dollars.
AT Wheeling, West Virginia, on
the 2lst, a storm ragged with destruct-
i've effect. On the evening OF the 2lst
Wheeling Creek was u foot higher than
ever before, and roads were flooded
from two to six feet deep. Several
bridges we're carried away, and the
water, gas and natural gas mains,
sewers, telegraph and telephone wires
were broken. The losses are estimated
at $3.50, 600. All trains have been Or
dered abandoned on the Ohio River
Road.
-Dorie La Breque, a barber, declares
be heard a woman scream murder
| several times about four o'clock on the
morning Of the 18th, along Wesley
Park, ocean Grove, New Jersey. AS
this was the time and place Katie NAL
Ion, the New York girl, is supposed to
have thrown herself from the bridge, it
is now thought by some that she may
have met with foul play. May Nelson,
the colored woman, who claims that
she saw the girl jump from the bridge,
tellsa straight story, but cannot explain
| why she did not give the alarm. Three
men, supposed to be the murderers o
the wife Of Major Howes, who was shot
on the 10th, while canoeing on the
| Tobique river, were captured OF the
| river on the 21st. and taken to jail at
| Andover, New Brunswick. A despatch
from Springfield, Missouri, says that
| Captain Nat Kinney, the famous chief
and founder of the Bald Knob
bers' organization. was shot and
instantly killed at Ozark, on
the goth, by Bill Miles, an anti
| Bald Knobber. Miles escaped. The
man who was mysteriously killed on
the afternoon of the Goth, in Park Row,
| New York, was identified on the 2lst
| by two Italians as a countryman, Fer
dinand Serganidi, A years old. The
| man Manning, arrested on suspicion,
| was examined by the Coroner on the
21st. The newsboy who caught a
| glimpse of the supposed murderer on
the Goth, could not identity Manning,
| and the latter declared he never carried
q pistol. He was remanded. The case
may prove to be a suicide. While
preparations were In progress for the
marriage of the youngest daughter of
| Michael Willem, In Cincinnati, on the
| 2lst, another daughter OF MI. Willem,
who, a despatch says, grieved because
| she feared she was doomed to live the
life of an old maid, cut her throat and
died instantly. The wedding was moi
postponed.
Two tornadoes swept over New
Castle county. Delaware, on the even
ing Of the 2Ist. One person was killed
and twenty-four injured, four, 1t is
feared, fatally. The damage to prop
erty Ia estimated at $150, 600. At Still
Pond. Maryland, the large frame build
ing occupied as a canning establish
ment by Black & Krebs was demolished.
About 100 men and women were at
work, and In their efforts to escape
nine were killed and o number injured.
three dangerously. The storm demol.
ished many houses and barns and swept
clean all the orchards in the vicinity.
At Pittsburg the 'lowlands are sub
merged. Reports from adjoining dis.
tricts state that the valleys are all over
lowed, and the damage TO crops can
scarcely be estimated. At McKeesport
several mills have been obliged 10 sus-
pend operations. At Reading, Allen
ltnUu Rattan and Rafhlaham tnduytriaI