The Penn's Grove record., 1889-04-13
NEWS OF HI WEEK.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
"A freight train on the Yoit Rive
Branch OF the Richmond and Danvill'
Railroad, ran into a wash-out neal
West Point, Virginia, on the evening
of the 9th, and was wrecked. TIVE
men, a colored brakeman and the fire
man, a young man named Durvin
were killed. Engineer Lynch was ter
ribly scalded.
Crafts saw mill, near Junction
City, Kentucky, was wrecked by 8
boiler explosion on the Sth. Chester
Hughes, Jack Sheets, Albert Hurley
and Samuel Norris were killed. j
Ulrich Alton was killed and Joseph
Legros was fatally injured while at
tempting to drive across the railroad
track in Fitchburg. Massachusetts, OIL
the Sth. A tornado struck a SETTLE
ment at Long Lake, British Northwest
Territory, on the night of the 3lst ult.
Its path was 80 yards wide, and it tore
up trees by the roots blew down
houses and barns. No loss of life repor-
ted.
August Anderson, a boarding
house runner, was shot and killed on
the It'll on board the Norwegian bark
Ernring, at New York, from Brazil,
by the bark's mate, Osmond Tholen.
1t was alleged that the murdered man
was trying to induce the sailors 10
desert. Anderson is said to have
left a wife and two children in rhila
delpbla.
Miss Ella White, a music teacher,
was arrested in Susquehanna, Pa, Oh
the Sth, on the charge of %defrauding
various people in Elmira, New York,
out OF sums a%ggregating $4,000 on
fictitious mining and silk mill stocks
and other pretences. She confessed
that she lost the money in an Elmlra
''bucket shop" Harry u. Darby, a
registry clerk in the post office at
Washington, was arrested on the 9Th,
for riding registered letters. When ar
rested he had in his hand $40 which he
had lust taken from a letter.
"A street Car In jersey City, New
Jersey, was struck by a drill engine
while crossing the Pennsylvania Rail
road on the morning Of the 9th. Henry
Book and Thomas ii. Spun were dan
gerously and Charles Erickson and
Frederick Seeger badly hurt. Several
other passengers received trifing in
juries. John DAILY, the gateman at the
railroad, was arrested.
William Kenny, a %well.known
Tammany politician, In New York,
was found dead at the foot of the
stairs Of his house, on the 9th. d.
had been taken with a 6t while ascend
ing the stairs, and, falling down back
ward. broke his neck.
james Clemmo, employed III caulk-
ing a vat at the Mineral Bath House
in Port Huron, Michigan, was over
come by gas on the morning of the 9th.
stephen Porter. a colored attendant,
who went to his rescue, was also over
come. DR.. Stephenson, the proprietor,
assembled a ladder and looked in The
vat. He became unconscious almost
instantly, but fell outward sustaining
painful though not serious injuries.
Clemmo and Porter died o aftel
being taken out.
Mrs. Mary Kline was committed
to Jail in Bordentown, New Jersey, on
the 9th, for trial IN a charge of having
placed poison in her husbands coffee.
William p. Fox, shot and killed a
colored man, named Walls, in Paris,
Kentucky, on the 9th. Walls was
drunk and tried to strike Fox with a
club. Policeman WOodville was shot
in the thigh by burglars. in Chicago.
on the morning of the 9th. WoodvIlle
managed to draw his revolver, and
fired a shot which struck n of the
burglars in the head, inf1icting a fatal
wound. The officers wound is no,
dangerous. Lewis Conklln, colored,
aged As years, was murdered in PORT
Jefferson, Long Island, on the 9th, by
his wife. They had quarrelled, AMI
Mrs. COnkiin hit her husband with al
axe.
The house of Robert McBane, an
aged farmer, near East Liverpool.
Ohio. was entered by two masked men
on the morning of the 9th. They at
tempted to chloroform the inmates
but were unsuccessful. They then
knocked three small children almost
~senseless and locked them in a small
room. Mrs. McBane was locked IN a
closet. and Mr.. McBane was knocked
senseless with a fire shovel. The
thieves escaped with a small amount of
silver. A neighbor, who called a few
hours later, found the mother and
children almost suffocated IN their
close quarters, and Mr.. McBane almost
from the loss of blood. Lewis
Patterson, a wealthy farmer living
Centreville, Pa, was robbed on
the evening of the Sth by three masked
men. There was nobody in the house
with him at the time but his mother,
SO years old. The robbers burned Mr.
Patterson's feet and face IN an unsuc-
effort to make HIM tell where
his money was hidden. They then
searched the house, and departed
securing S43 III money and Mr.
gold watch. Two stranc.
ers visited Daniel Keller, an old farmer,
Shamokin, Penna., on the 9th, and
proposing TO buy his farm, en-.
gagged him in a game OF cards. Keller
became so interested that he procured
S47O0 and put it up as stakes. The
strangers seized the money and covered
Keller with a revolver while they got
OF with the cash. One of the fellows
represented himself to be the son of ],
u. Packer, of Sunbury, an old friend
Of Keller. A despatch from Sault
Ste, Marie, Michigan, says that Will
liam Kintella, a capitalist, was on the
evening of the Sth beaten by foot pads
and left for dead, after having been
of 5000, There were five men
In the gang and they all have been
arrested.
Two passenger trains on the At
and Pacific Railroad colllded ON
eth, near Peach Springs, Arizona. They
into each other at a sharp curve or
4 high embankment. Both engines
and three ears fell down the bank into
a stream below. The engineer was
injured and a laborer stealing a
ride was killed. The passengers were
badly shaken up, but escaped danger
Gus injuries.