The Penn's Grove record., 1889-10-26
NEWS OF THE E

-Mr6. LOulS Smltn, wire OF u mack
driver In Sacramento, on the moraiDg
Of the 10th rushed from her house with
a bullet wound under the ear, exclaim.
ing that her husband had shot her. He
vas found dead In the house, and IL
was at first supposed that he had shot
his wife and then killed himself. An
examination, however, showed that the
wound was In the back Of the head in
such q place as to make 1t almost i'm
possible for him to mflict 1t himself,
1t was learned that Phillip Gerhard had
been in hrs. Smiths company recently,
and that the men had had trouble. 1t
is believed Gerhard was a party to the
shooting. and the police are looking for
MIN. John Brooks was shot dead by
George Gordon at Parksville, Ken.
tuky, on the 10th, In a quarrel lover
Gordon's attentions TO Brooks BROTH
er's wife, Early on the morning OF
the 10th, in Greenville, Alabama, q
quarrel between a negro help,r and a
young white man named Roberts, con-
nected with Burk's Horse Show, re-
suited In the negro pouring gasoline
over Roberts. Another negro touched
of the fluid with a lighted lamp, and
In an instant Roberts was developed
In flames. He ran wildly up and down
the main street of the town, but there
was no m awake, and he was literally
roasted alive. When discovered he was
In q critical condition.
George Pfeffer was found dead in
bed at his home in New York on the
morning Of the 20th, having been snf-
located by gas. His room mate,
Morris A. Redding, was unconscious
and may die. Pfefier was out
of work, and 1t Is thought
that he left the gas turned on
In order to end his life, and that Red
ding was unaware Of his action.
john Muldoon, a saloon keeper 10
Astoria, Long Island, who was bitten
by q dog in April last, and who Was
seized with hydrophobia q few days ago,
died on the 2Uth. He was perfectly
calm and in his senses when he died,
but up to half an hour previous he had
been almost continually In spasms. dur
ing which he frothed at the mouth
aud snapped viciously at every one
near him,
"A construction train on the new
Confluence and Oakland Railroad was
wrecked on the 10Th near Confluence,
Penna., by n of the cars jumpiLg
the track. Fireman James Fitzpat.
rick, Of Wilmington, Delaware, and
| James Williams, colOred, Of Shaker.
| vile, Penns., were killed. Three men
were severely injured, n Of whom,
George Hindpaugh, was not expected
| to recover.
Mira Samuel Tlice, of F0wling
Greek. Maryland, aged u years, was
burnel 10 death on the 18th. She was
paralyzed, and being left alone for .
shorl time, the bed clothes in which
she was wrapped caught fire.
Thomas j. Roberts. Yale '92, diet
at the New Haven Hospital on the
2Olh, of typhoid fever. Roberts's HON,
was in Scranton, Pa. This Is the Sac
ond fatal case OF typhoid at Yal'
within a week. Miss Adelaide r
Thompson, aged 80 years, who has beef
under treatment for a nervous diseas,
affecting her BRAIN, jumied from
third-story window of her home II
Brooklyn, New York, on the 10th, ane
was killed.
Prairie fires are burning Within
few miles OF Bismarck, North Dakota
and . large number Vt farms have beeI
destroyed. The village Of Menoken. !.
miles distant, has been swept away an.
the inhabit ants are reported to DO des
Etitute. Extensive forest fires hav'
been raging for some time past between
Princeton and Brldgeman, Minnesota
Thousands Of tons of hay, great guam
titles OF cord wood and timber hav'
been destroyed, and in some localitie
the heath OF natural meadows ar
burned.
-Ottayio JavaDi, an italian board
ing master, was found dead nea hi
home at Mount Carmel, Penna., o.
the morning OF the 2lst. On the zQtl
be qnarrelled with John Mercana. on
Of bis bOarders, whom he had accuse
OF too much intimacy with his vie
AS both Mecana and the woman hayl
disappeared, foul play Is expected. II
Easton, Penns., on the 2lst. Mis-. Dil
lard, under promise that she woul'
plead guilty to murder in the secon'
degree, and be sent TO prison ~
life, testified that the plan for th
murder OF her husband Ha$- 2br
cocted and carried out BY Wm. VI
bartholomew. Her Evidence close
the case for the State. and the d
fence then attempted to prove a
alibi and Bartholomew's good chareI
ter. Bartholomew went on the stan