The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-16

Ottoman schmidt, OF Wilkes
hare. was struck and killed by n
rain on The Lebigh Valley Railroad.
Al Mud Run station, on the morning
of the 18th. lie was walking on the
track, A, a of benzine exploded in
a naint shop in New York on the
evenina Of the 18th, and Philip II,
I%Tlsfern and Samuel Levine, the pro-
n,ietors. were horribly burned and
otherwise injured. Fire and water
ruined the wholesale grocery house OF
Gates Thalheimer, in Syracuse, New
YORK. on the 18th. Loss $50, 600, cov-
cred by insurance.
CAPTAIN +. W. Dawson, OF the Neus
and Courier, Charleston, South Carolina.
shot and killed on the 18th by DR.. T.
II Mellow. 1t seems that Mellow.
who ia a married man, had been too
familiar with a swiss maid In Captain
DawsDn,s family. and that Captain
Dawson had visited Mellow at his
office TO demonstrate with him. A
light ensued. which ended in the
shooting.
A party Of five masked robbers
entered four houses in McClellandtown,
Fayette county, Pa, on the evening OF
Inc 18th, aud tortured the inmates
until they delivered UP their money,
The thieves escaped to the mountains.
in Altoona, Pepna., early on the
morning of the 18th, three young
men returning from a wake saw flames
r.,na /, hnuaa on TYuion avnr,1
They broke in the front door, aud
found Sarah Malstrom, colored, in bed
and euveloped in flames. She has since
lied. John II. Williams, white, who
3scaped from a back door as the men
entered, las been arrested on the
charge OF setting the bed on Gre. His
hands were burned. Philip Paul, Chief
Of Police in Remove, Pa, was shot
about midnight on the 18th and died
IN a short time. He had arrested a
Young man named Bedford, and had
reached the lookup with his prisoner,
when he was shot by Michael Ciary, a
friend of Belford's. The murderer,
who is IS years old, escaped.
Louis White, known as "Curly
Billy" ''lhe terror of the pine regions
of Minnesota" was shot dead at Rum
River Camp, in that State, on the
afternoon of the 18th, by Charles E.
HAYDEN. The latter was showing a
photograph OF his wife and two child
rem to the loggers, and White aspersed
the goman's character. This led to a
light, In which White rushed at Hayden
with an axe and was shot through the
heart. On the evening of the 18th
August Beiper entered q house in
Baltimore i'll search of his daughter,
who bad gone visiting without his per-
mission, and meeting Miss Kate Walsh,
A 16-year-old girl, whom he did not
know, but whom he mIst00k for his
daughter, threw her headlong down a
long digit of stairs. Miss Walsh was
BADLY cut about the heaG sud injured
internally and wnfprobably die. Beiper
vas scat 70 jail to answer.
"A gang Of robbers boarded a freight
train near Slannopin, Penna., on the
P~lttsburg and Lake Erie Railway, on
the evening OF the 18th, and beat
brakeman Clearly to Insensibility. They
were driven off by the other train men,
however, before they secured any
booty. A special train was telegraphed
for, and "A posse under Lieutenant
Booker, of r%ittsburg, left for the scene
of the attempted robbery. Nine of the
men wefe surrounded near Phillips
burg and captured. They were
heavily armed and carried revolvers,
knives and blackjacks. The party was
taken to Pittsburg and lodged in jail.
Forest fires are burning In the
Welsh Mountains, south Of New Hol-
land, Pa, Men are fighting the
flames.
The towDoat kangaroo capsized at
Spottsyllle, Indiana, on the 18th,
George Ingram, owner. and E. Sim
mons, cook, were drowned. Five
others were saved. Intelligence has
been received at Prince Albert, North
west TER tory, Of the ieath of two
trappers, named Finlays0n, In the far
north, from starvation. 1t is feared
hat Lord Lonsdale has met the same
fate. While Lille Brewer, Of Har-
rodsburg, was petting a valuable Alder
iiSy WV va eiiC 46bbt th0 0AAtAhhA 6OAoN
her frightfully. The COW was killed,
as she was thought to be suffering from
hydrOphobia. A number OF animals
the neighborhood have been bitten
by mad dogs recently.
"A nest of three boilers at the st.
Nicholas Collery, nea Mahanoy City.
Penna., exploded on the morning OF
the 18Th, with terrific force. Mrs.
Louisa Hoffman, with her child in her
arms. was passing at the time. A
fragment of iron broke her hip and
killed the child. James Delaney, q
driver, passing with his team, had his
skull fractured. Michael Warren, a
lad of ID, on the same wagon. had his
thigh broken and leg crushed. Ed
ward Settler, a painter, at work on the
breaker. had his skull crushed. Patrick
Warmer and Edward Watts was terri
bly, injured by flying pieces OF the iron.
Others were scalded and injured, but
their names were not learned.