The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-09
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

NEWS OF IdE WEEh.
Shocks OF earthquake we're felt al
intervals during the day and evening
of the ID at st. Elena, Ecuador. AT
GuayaQuil during the evening OF the
I'd and morning OF the Sd Is shocks
were felt. Clocks were stopped. The
telephone wires are down and q panic
prevails among the public.
Jacob German, Of Hannibal, Mo-,
was killed at Lagrange, on the LIST,
while thawing out dynamite in a pan of
water on a stove. An explosion &C.
Cured. Three OF his fellow.workmefi
IN a quarry were also injured, James
Fuller fatally. A carriage containing
Jason Despair, Agnes Craddock and
Maggie Sinclair was overturned IN
Barre, Mass, on the 2nd, by the horse
running away. Mrs Sinclair was
killed and Mrs. Craddock fatally IN
jured. Mr.. Despair was hurt internally.
"A passenger and freight train Oh
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad col
lided at Moundsville Narrows, near
Wheeling, West Virgia, on the even
ing of the LIST. No person was badly
hurt. The loss to the company will
reach $4,000.
West Dexter, a prominent lawyer
of Chicago, was dangerously II not
fatally injured by being thrown from
his horse on the evening of the I'd.
News has reached Jacksonville,
Florida, from Okeechobee, OF bloody
ARRAY among the Seminole Indians In
the Everglades. "Jim," a young buck,
became crazy and killed eight of the
tribe before he WAS shot.
"A despatch from Frederick, Mary
land, says the false work Of the new
bridge being constructed across the
Potomac, at Point of Rocks. has been
swept away by a freshet. The river IS
rapidly rising.
--Diphtherla of q violent and ma.
lignant type is prevailing at st. Pet
ersburg, Franklin county, P%ennsylva-
MA, to such an extent that the Town
Council has issued an ordinance closing
all churches, schools and singing
classes and fobidding the holding Of
any public meeting. st. Petersburg is
an oil town, "a miles from Oil City,
Charles Wiel was killed and
George Schook dangerously wounded
by the premature discharge Of a can
non at Galconda, Illinois, on the 4th.
They, with others, were firing q salute
In honor Of President Harrison's in
augurati0n.
Ernest j. Knobelsdorf, % years
Of age. whose father died recently in
Chicago, leaving him the RESPONSE
bility Of conducting a. large insurance
business. committed suicide OH the
9Th. 1t is believed that the burden
was too great for him. Hobart Null
laney, cashier and bookkeeper for the
lithograpliing firm OF julius Bien 81
Co., of New York, committed suicide
on the 9th, after being placed under
arrest by a deputy sheriff fGr embezzle-
ment. HIS accounts show a shortage
otS7GU0.
President HarrisOn's Cabinet, which
was confirmed by the Senate on the
9Th, is as follows: Secretary Of State,
James G, Blaine, of Maine; Treasury,
William Window, Minnesota; War,
Redfeld Proctor, Vermont, Navy,
Benjamin F. Tracy, New York; Inter-
ior, John w. Noble, Minnesota: Post
master General. John Wanamaker,
Pennsylvania; Attorney General, w.
II. II. Miller, Indiana; Secretary of
Agriculture, jeremiah Rusk. Wis.
conSin.
Mrs. l.. D. Merriman, OF Allegheny
City, Penna., arrived in Chicago on the
4th, en- route to Omaha. Soon after
leaving the train she discovered that
her satchel had been cut open and
$4,000 stolen.
John Carter shot and fatally
wounded Robert Gross at the Solar
Iron Works In Pittsburg OF the 4th.
They are both colOred, and Cross de-
cIared that the shooting was intentional
and without provocation.
Sharp earthquake shocks were felt
at Guayaeuil and st. Elena, Ecuador,
on the evening Of the Sd.
An axle broke under a Lehigh and
Susquehanna express train three miles
from Bethlehem, Penna., on the even
ing OF the 9TH, and three coaches were
thrown from the rails. David Baker,
trackman, was killed, and John DE-
bert; another empl0ye, dangerously ILL
jured. The passengers were badly
shaken up.
Newton Watt, a life convict In
prison at Joliet, Illinois, for completely
in the Rock Island train robbery and
murder of the express messenger, died
of consumption on the 4th. He told
his wife and mother that he was inno-
cent.
Mrs. Ann DriscOl decapitated her
sleeping husband Timothy with an axe
at their home in Waukesha, WiscOn.
sin, on the morning of the 9th. She
also attempted to murder her son. She
says she was impelled to murder her en-
tire family in order to save them from
some unknown calamity. Mrs. Wal
tiers, who lived on a ranch near Boze-
man, Montana, was found murdered
on the 9th. Her husband and eldest
son have been arrested charged with the
crime. 1t is claimed that the murder
was committed in order to get posses
sion of 5000 which the old lady had
concealed in the house. Catharlne
Taylor, a widow. about so years of age,
was murdered in Troy, New York, on
the evening of the 9Th by an unknown
person. Alfred and Herbert Rother
engaged in shooting ARRAY
with Tom and Hugh Mattock,
In Temple, Texas, On the 9Th.
The latter was killed and Tom Mat
took was fatally wounded. Alfred
Rother was shot In the arm, The
trouble arose Over the sale of a rail-
road ticket. A despatch from Helena,
Montana, says trouble is feared at Flat
Head Lake unless ]. B. Clifford and
DR.. Cunningham are arrested without
delay. The Indian assaulted by these
parties some days ago died on the 4th.
and the father of the dead boy and the
Chief Of the tribe have announced their
Intention to kill Clifford at all hazards.
Major Roman, the agent, is attempting
to prevent the Indians from carrying
their threat into execution under
promise Of arresting Clifford and Gun
ningham and letting the law take its
course. ]. W. McVelgh was shot and
killed by Harlan Turner, III Butler,
Missouri, on the evening of the 4th.
While Joseph McHenry, OF Bluff
ton, Ohio, was setting traps for musk
rats OH the bank of a creek on the 9th.