The Penn's Grove record., 1889-09-14

bOA VI tuD Nhuttbs lbO uOklbtS CldlLl
that they only gathered to defend Gal
lache against a white mob, which they
were told intended TO lynch him.
The dead body of Charles Wurster
was found in a pool of water In Zanes-
vile, Ohio. on the evening Of the Slh.
His forehead and nose were crushed
and foul play IS suspected.
Mr.. and Mrs. Cats, an aged
couple, were killed by a train while
driving across the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad track near Moundsville, West
Virginia. on the evening Of the 7tb.
William Halstead was killed in Gen.
trail Park, New York, on the 7th. His
carriage came in collision with another
vehicle and he was thrown out, striking
his head upon the pavement. Mrs.
George Houck, living near Lock Ha-
ven, Pa, accidentally shot and killed
herself on the 7tb, while examining a
revolver. John Gillisheimer got drunk
in Newark. New Jersey, on the even.
ing Of the 9th, and kicked his wife Into
lnseusibility. IL is believed she will
die.
"A crowd of boys In Winchester,
Kansas, put a ''tick-tack' on the win.
dow Of Willis Ray, n Of their COM.
pani0ns, on the evening OF the 9Th,
Ray thought the boys were burglars
and fired u load of buckshot into the
crowd. Daniel Lowe and Thomas
Gardner were probably fatally wounded
and Edward Lucas received a painful
wound in the arm. During a fight in
Louisville, Kentucky, on the afternoon
of the Sth. Charles Brown shot and
killed Howard Jackson, They were
both colored. John McCuffy shot and
killed his divorced wife and then
fatally shot himself, in San Pedro.
California, on the 8tb. He had
asked her to return to hiE
and she had refused. A shooting
ARRAY occurred at North Springs,
West Virginia, on the TN, in
which three miners, named Lester, Col.
Inns and West, were engaged. The quar-
rel arose over an old grudge between
Collins and West. Lester and West
assaulted Collins and shot him twice.
Collins returned the fire, wounding
both men. A third shot from Vests
revolver blew Collins brains out.
Lester died from his wounds. T. l..
Waller, a merchant at Sewell's Point,
Virginia, was murdered early on tina
morning Of the 9th. The motive fol
the murder was robbery, and the SIX
negroes, VIM. Henry Custus, Henry
Williams, Samuel Stencil, Cornelius
White. George Pryor and Robert Gus.
tus. are now In Jail for the crime.
"A freight wreck occurred on the
morning of the 9th, neal Lynchburg,
Virginia, Oh the Norfolk and Western
Railroad, resulting in the killing OF
Fireman Charles McDowley, of Peters.
burg, Va, and perhaps the fatal injury
of Brakeman Randolph. The first Sec
ton of the train broke loose on a
heavy grade, and seven cars ran back
into the second, which vas but a short
distance in the Two freight
trains on the New York, Lake Erie
and Western Railroad cOllided on the
morning of the 10th near Cuba, New
York. About 20 ears were thrown
down an embankment, demollshing
them and their contents. Brakeman
Gray was killed.
Secretary Window said, on the
9th, that newspaper statements that
during the months Of July and August
OF this year the public debt had been
increased over $1,000 600 were erro.
neous. He says the fact is, as shown
by the books of the Treasury, that Oh
the Both of June, 1889, the total
amount of the public debt, including
bonds of all kinds, was $500, 35S, 9S7,
and on the 3lst day Of August it was
only SS75 ATS 07, showing a reduction
of S20, 9lU. 1870 during those two
months. q
Charles and Lizzie Atkins have
beed arrested In San Francisco for
manufacturing and passing counterfeit
five cent nickels. The officers also cap
tured a complete outfit.
"A boiler, used on tie farm of John
W. Sneider, rear Carbondale, Illinois,
exploded on the morning OF the 9Th,
killing Mr.. Sneider, W. Thomas Lig-
gett, Andrew G. Liggest, John Bigga
aid Isaac Miller, colored.
An explosion of fire damp occurred
In tie Ellington coal mine, near Nor
gantown. West Virginia, on the morn
Ing Of the 9th, Immediately following
the lighting of the miners lamps.
John Kinsey and William Kirby were
killed and John Kirk fatally burned.
Several others were severely injured.
An Italian workman on the Midland
Railroad, near Clarksville, West Vlr-
ginia, picked up u dynamite cartridge.
on the Sth, and began tossing 1t to- a
companion, who let it fall, and 1t ex-
ploded. Two of the Italians were
literally torn 10 pieces, while Others
we're seriously injured. The names OF
the dead men were not learned.
Vito Antonio Russo was arrested
in New York on the 9th on the charge
of killing his father-in.la law, an Italian
named Avidlos, in Newark. New Jer.
sey, on the morning of the 9Th. F.
Eugene Clark shot and killed Florence
Clark In Tacoma, Washington Terri
tory, on the 9Th, and then took poison.
John Koebl was hit with a brick and
killed in Baltimore. on the evening OF
the 9th, by William Jones, col0red.
Sergeant Hogan, who attempted to ar
rest Jones, vas knocked down, when
he drew his revolver and shot Jones
dead.
-Rosemond Cormier, colored. and
his daughter. Rosalie, aged ID years,
were murdered, near lafayette, Louisi-
ana, on the evening of the 9th, by
Regulators. Rosemond. who was over
so years of age, was whipped and or
dered to leave some months ago by a
baud of Regulators and, falling to
obey, vas killed. A party Of masked
men rode up to his house and demand
ed Ambulance. and on being refused
broke down the door. The old man
Cred both barrels of q shotgun into the
crowd, killing a white man named
John Judice. Rosemond then fed, but
soon caught and killed. Before
reaching Cormier's the Regulators &C.
verely whipped Lucien Montgomery
and Joseph Cobb, negroes.
"A cave.in occurred at Colliery Nc.
Pake Hollow, near Wilkesbarre, on
the evening Of the 18th. In some places
the earth has gone down ver 20 feet.
The loss to the mine owners will ex'
coed SlG0, 000. Luckily there we're no
dwellings on the tract. The cave-in
about 80 acres Of mining prop
erty belonging to the Delaware and
FL udson Company. About 1900 men