The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-22
NUMBER AZ.

Indiana, on the afternoon of the 18th,
doing damage estimated at several
thousand dOllars. The Standard Oil
COmpany's brick warehouse WAS de-
stTOyed.
"A flood Ia the Walnut river caused
great damage in Augusta and Edo
RADIO, Kansas, on the evening of the
18th, and 18th. Fifteen hundred
feet Of Missouri Pacific Railroad track
and II dwellings were washed away.
East Of EldOrado six Missouri Pacific
bridges were carried away. At Angus
ia, 800 feet OF Santa Fe track and u
bridge Of the San Francisco were de-
stroyed. -Four farmers were drowned
near Eldorado on the 18th. One OF the
severest rain storms ever experienced
in Cuba occurred there on the 10th. In
Havana several of the streets became
roaring torrents, walls were under
mined and houses collapsed. A rain
and hail storm passed through Marion
county, Kansas, on tie 17th. The
wheat and oats were badly damaged
and in some places ruined. The har-
vest was about to commence.
"A railroad train carrying a large
number of miners to the Pratt Mines,
near birmingham, Alabama, was
thrown down an embankment on the
morning of the 18th, killing Walter
Bearley and Henry McAuley, and In.
juring about 100 others, none fatally.
Mrs. John Naples and her two boys,
aged . and 3 years, were drowned in a
small creek in Chester township, In.
diana, on the evening of the 10th. MI.
! Naples attempted to ford the creek,
which had been swollen by heavy rains.
The wagon was overturned. Mr..
Naples and one child were saved. A
rowboat collided with a sailboat on the
East River, New York, on the evening
of the Nth, and two boys, Benjamin
Foster and Robert Smiley, were
drowned. Isaac Wat and VIM. kaup
we're killed on the 18th by a cave-in at
the Cleveland iron mine, at I%shpeming.
Michigan. George Reyer, Secretary Of
the Western Shooting Association
while out hunting fell from a fence and
accidentally discharged the contents Of
his gun into his chest. He died in
stantly.
Ill SON D tlCCht WV 4 "
Gloucester Court House, Virginia, on
the 18th, a horse attached to a mail
wagon was found, and near by was the
drowned body of p. Il. Shawn, the
mall carrier between Gloucester and
Matthews. Of the four mail bags
known to have been in the wagon n
was missing. Shawn was in the habit
of watering his horses at Cows creek,
and the accident is presumably due to
the water being deeper than usual.
Antonio Ricca killed his wife dur
ing "A quarrel. in New York, on the
morning of the 18th. Jealousy was
the cause. Elizabeth and Caroline
Leavitt, aged 16 and s years, were
found murdered IN their home, in
Gresham. Seward county. Nebraska,
on the evening of the 18th. Their
parents were absent from home at the
time.
"A despatch from Marion, Indiana,
says that within the last day or two a
small green bug Of parasite has ap-
peared in several counties and threat
ems to demolish the wheat, oats and
rye crop. The bugs plant themselves
at the base of the grain and sap the
life out of it. 1t has rained at Bloom
lngton, Illinois, every day for two
weeks, and much of the county is I'M
der water. The groundlhas been cold and
wet 80 long that Ill the low places the
corn has become yellow. Should the
rain cease the corn may be saved. but
should it continue a few days longer
the loss will be heavy. n despatch
from Lebanon, Indiana, says the pros
pect for crops in that section is very
discouraging, owing to the long con-
tinued rains. A great deal of the corn
is under water, and the wheat will
probably not yield more than halt a
crop.
$. S. Ryland, aged 70 years, sexton
of the Eutaw Street Methodist Epis-
copal Church, in Baltimore, was killed
by a train at Fulton Station, in that
city, on the evening of the 18th. S.
W. Avesser, aged 2 years, was Ii
over and killed by a street car on the
evening of the 18th, in Baltimore. A
wind storm passed through Lowell, "A
small town 20 miles south of Charlotte,
North Carolina, on the afternoon of
the 10Th. The Methodist Episcopal
Church was demolished.
The river at WiIlIamsport, Penna.,
Is falling, and The fear Of a second flood
is subsiding. From statements now
coming in the loss from the flood in
Willlamsport is estimated at SlO,0OO,-
900, The lumbermen have completed
arrangements for the collection OF the
logs which are TO be brought back by
railroad.
The Special Grand Jury In Chicago
on the 18Th returned an indictment
against Martin Burke, alias Delaney.
who is in custody in Winnepeg, Mani
toba, on two counts, Tor the murder OF
DR.. Cronin and for consplring together
with Z. O'Sulivan, Coughlln and
Woodruff. Application was made to
Governor Fifer for requisition papers
for the e~xtraditIon of Burke. These
papers will be sent to the State Depart
ment at Washington and the Secretary
of State will make the formal request
TO the Canadian Government for the
surrender and ~extradition of the &C.
cused.
The Indians had another council
at the Pine Ridge Agency, Dakota. on
tile 18Th, and, after a talk by General
n number of them went to the
Agents office and signed the treaty.
w. A. Collier shot and killed his
son.in-law, Philip Givhan, in Canton,
Alabama, on the 1911. Glvhan had
been drinking heavily for several days,
and had frequently threatened TO kill
Collier and ms family, and was en-
d~eavoring to enter the house when he
shot. The CoroneI'5 Jury found "a
verdict of Justlllable homicide.
David A. Puts, IA section foreman
the Louisville and Nashville Rail-
road, was robbed and murdered by
unknown parties in Birmingham, Ala
bama. The crime was committed III
an open lot on FIRST Avenue in u
populated neighborhood AMI
within 100 feet of an electric light.
There is no clue TO the assassin.
AN attempt was male on the
of the l7th to derail the north
Messenger Train on the Clacln-