The Penn's Grove record., 1889-10-12

mas been a feud between the boys liv-
ing Oh the west banks of the Missls.
sippi river al Brainerd, Minnesota, and
the west side boys "declared a wal Of
exterminatlon" against the other.
Armed with small breech- loading
lilies. the little rufli3ns. sheltered by an
old saw mill, opened fire Oh the east
siders across the stream. The
east siders, though armed only with
toy pistols, stood their ground until
four Iithe shots were fired at them, the
last wouLding Bert Tracy, aged Q
years in the groin, and intictlng u
wound which is believed to BIS morta'.
The attacking party then dispersed.
Their age range from 10 to IL years.
At Barton, Ohio, on the afternoon OF
che 7th, John DevaulJ, Jr., shot and
slightly wounded Miss Lulu William.
son, and then committed suicide. In
Skagit county, Washington Territory,
III the evening of the 9th, a young sen
Uf Henry Kimble taking some pheas-
ants to market was robbed by all
Indian OF the fowls. His father. ueaI-
ing the boys cries, went to the rescue,
aud gave the Indian a b3ating. The
latter returned about midnight, with
,everal other Indians. and opened fire
On Kimble's house. kimble, aided by
d friend named George Lester, returned
The fire, killing one of the assailants
and wounding another. The rest of
the Indians have been captured.
Charles Eidmann, 40 years or age,
d lineDan employed by the Manhattan
Electric Light Company III New York,
was killed on the afternoon of the Sth
while repairing a wire on Grand street.
lie received a shock from a wire which
came In contact with his body, and
I which rendered him seIseless, causing
MIN TO fall Gloss a string Of wires and
then to the ST. Get, landing on his head
and crushing in his skull. He died a
lew minutes afterward. The pole
which he assembled is twenty feet high,
and has two cross arms on which o
Number of wires were strung. Ed
nann reached over to roll a piece OF
insulation around a naked portion of
| wire, and In doing So his shirt was
| pulled up and a portion of his back
vas LAID bare. When he resumed his
sitting posture a live naked wire
touched his lack and the current en-
Lered his body. The wire burned deep
INTO his flesh, and people in the street
saw a blue hame aud a grayish smoke
arising from the flesh.
In Franklin township, Wright
county, Minnesota, OF the morning #
The 7th, James Dean, a farmer, shot his
son, aged s years. Dean had been miss
| ing poultry, and a short time before
| iaybreak heard a commotlon in the
uen house. Springing from bed, lie
seized his shotgun and, running to the
loor, saw in the darkness something
moving about the hen house. He I'M
nediate'y dred, and was hoIriGed when
ne discovered that he had slain his son.
The boy was a somnambulist.
Daniel ". Chfisty, representing
Mulcaby Il Co, commission mer-
chants, of Chicago. has disappeared,
!eaving ID 'shoI lage" Of S21UU in his
accounts. He used the INNS money in
speculatiUns On his OWN account. This
| is said to be his third deIalcatIou He
is TepoIt ted to have been once worth
Sl0O, 900 and to have ''lost 1t all on the
Board of Trade"
The grand procession OF the
Knights Templar took pace in WASH
,ngtun, on the Sth, and was reviewed
by President HARRISON and Grand Mas
Ter Roome. There were nearly fifteen
thousand men in line, Pennsylvania
having the largest delegation. at the
close of the parade the sessions of the
irand Encanpnent were begun. Mr..
| Myrop NJ. Parher delivered an address
II welcome on the part of the local
committee, and introduced Commits
sioner Douglass, who welcomed the
| knights in behalf OF the city. To
| both addresses the Grand Master re-
sponded, and this closed the public
exercises. TIE Iowa delegates were
excluded from the Encampment.
The people of Jerome, a small
| Town IA mics east of Hokomo, Indi-
| ana, resolved to have a ''gas well dis
| play" on the evening of the 7th. To
provide a grand torch a 6O-foot 4-inch
Jipe was LAID from the mouth of a
powerfully flowing well, a 4-foot elbow
| being ATTACKED and standing with the
| uozzle upright. Just when the torch
Aas applied this eud Was pushed side
ways ON the ground, and the immense
| pressure hurled the sixty feet of pipe
around among the spectators, several
| of whom were caught. Rev. T.. War
| mon was burned to death, and several
| others were severely injured. One of
| The latter, John Hogue, is not expected
TO ecover.
On the evening Of the 7th, on the
Carbon Cutoff Road being built west
uf Laramie, Wyoming. a work traia
containing about Is graders cOllided
with a couple of cars standing Oh the
track. A man named Diamond was
instantly killed and William Penn IA
tally injured. Patrick King had an
arm broken. The graders said
the accident was the result of
he carelessness OF the trainmen,
and, procuring a rope. went after the
train crew with the intention of lynch
ing them, but the latter escaped.
DIR. W. b. Madden, a prominent
physician. was killed on the 9th at
JohnstOwn, Penna., by an express train
while trying 10 cross the track near
the depot.
Heavy rains have prevailed at
Quebec for several days. and there are
fears of another landslide from Caps
Diamond. Small portions of rock have
teen falling at intervals for two days.
An immense piece of rock fell from
Tue cliff at Lewis a few days ago, de-
m~olishing part of a dwelling. but no
lives were lost. Six inches Of snow fell
at Bay st. Paul, Quebec, on the 4tn.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Aurora,
West Virginia. and It is said the
country for miles around is infected.
There is scarcely a family without
one or more Of its members Frustrated
with the d disease, and in some localities
there are scarcely enough well persons
To nurse the Sick"
"A freight train on the Missouri
Pacific Railway stopped nea Astoria,
Kansas, for slight repairs on the 9Th.
The stop was made on an incline and
when the engine started off suddenly
the train broke In two. The rear part
started down grade and crashed into a
west-bound passenger train, The a