The Penn's Grove record., 1889-01-26
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

"A new dIawbridge just completed
for the Louisville, st. Louis and Texas
Railroad, across Green river, at Spots
vile, Kentucky, tumbled down on the
afternoon Of the Doth, while about
twenty-five people we're upon It, and
four of them are reported drowned. 1t
is SAID that owing to some difficulty
between the railroad company and tie
contractors, the latter secured an In
junction on the 10Th, prohibiting the
railroad from using the bridge, and
proceeded to remove all of the latter's
rails, ties and other property from the
bridge, which, 1t is claimed, weakened
1t to such az extent as TO cause the
collapse.
The house Of Mrs. Minnie Hall a
young widow, lea Bro0k6eld, Mis-
souri,, was burned on the evening Of the
10th, and the charred remains of the
woman and her four children were
found In the ruins. 1t was discovered
also that hay had been taken from a
shed, placed under the house and set on
fire. The tracks of a mans feet lead.
ing through the snow to the town. were
followed and a young Inan, named
James Howell, who had been in the
habit Of spending Saturdays and SIM
days with the widow, was arrested on
the morning OF the 10th. He had with
him an unloaded revolver. The theory
In the neighOorhood is that, after q
criminal operation, which caused the
woman's death, he shot the children
and burned the house to conceal the
CRIME.
The seventeen-year.old daughter
Of Joseph Weeks, colored, in Meciian-
icsville, Alabama, on the 2lst, com.
PEELED four of her younger sisters to
eat rat poison. Two Of them have
since died. Albert Harrison. aged 81
years, son of respectable parents, was
shot and Killed on the evening of the
10th, while robblng wilson's store. at
Wilson'S Landing, Kentucky. Ills
companions escaped. During a
fight between W. J. Sapp,
white. and Lee Palmer, colored, in
Memphis, Tennessee, on the 21st, Sapp
drew a revolver and fred at Palmer as
he was running. The shots struck
Palmer's sister. aged Is years, inflct-
ing fatal wounds.
- soutil.bound passengerstrain on
the Reading Railroad on the morning of
the 21st ran into the end of a freight
train, near Locust Gap. The passen
| ger engine was wrecked and The engi-
neer, Weimer, fatally Injured. Tue
passengers were severely shaken up.
but none, 1t is said, were seriously
injured.
Michael McGarrick was being
WHIPPED IN Chicago on the evening OF
the 22d, when he picked up a shovel
with which to hit his adversary. The
latter lied, and McGarrlck. who was
| wild with rage, made for an inr Ocent
b%ystander. The young man ran. but
Just as he reached the track of the
Chicago and Evanston Road NECTAR.
rick overlook and struck him down.
| Before the unfortunate man could rise
a passenger train, which was running
rapidly into the city, struck him, kill
ing him instantly. The body has not
/ yet been identified. McGarrick was
arrested.
The latest reports of the bridge
disaster at Sp~ottsville, Kentucky, con-
firm the first statement that four men
were drowned. Six Others. were in
jured, three of them fatally. The
boiler of a portable steam saw-mill ex-
| plOded on the 22i, IN Danville, Yer
mont, killing Ernest ComstOck and
severely injuring Albert Morgan and
| Carl White. A fly wheel, fourteen
feet in diameter, and weighing six
tons, In the engine house of the
| Northwestern Parlor Suit Company,
In Chicago, burst on the ODD, wreckIng
the engine house, aud %lcjuring VIM.
Jabon. the engineer,
An ice ''shove" occurred in the st.
Lawrence rive, at Montreal, on the
evening or tho 2lst, which broke down
fifteen or twenty feet OF the temporary
dyke promenade, a little west Of Jac-
ques Cartier Square. At noon on the
22d, the river marked 50 feet 2 inches,
having risen seven feet since the 2lst,
but by evening all danger OF a flood
was past. The ice in the river had be.
come firm, and the work of making
winter roads acrose it was begun.
Two freight trains on the Pennsyl'
van'a Railroad collided near Columbia,
Penna., on the 22i. John G. Ryan,
conductor, and Patrick Welsh, brake.
man, were injured, the former fatally
A train on the Southern Pacific Rail-
road was wrecked near Box Springs,
California, on the 2lst. Fireman ThOs'
Carter was badly scalded, but the
passengers escaped with a severe shak'
ing up.
An express train on the Gin
cinnati Southern Railroad va:
boarded by robbers Just beyond
Ludlow, Ohio, on the evening
on the Dist. One of the masked men
entered the express car, but lie was
thrown out by Henry Carroll, tue mes
senger, and his assistant, and rolled
down an embankmen.. Another rob
the car by another door. seemed to re-
aliZe that something was wrong, and
made his escape. 1t is not known
whether the man thrown off the cal
was hurt or not.
-Thoman Conway disappeared from
New Suffolk, New York, on the 18th
inst, the day he was to have been
married. On the afternoon Of the 22d.
Henry Kneeland, a farmer, near Mat
tuck, going to his barn, found in the
hay NOW a man who was insane and
nearly dead. lie was identified as The
missing bridegroom. After having
been attended by a doctor during the
night, Conway on the 23d, recovered
bis senses. and SAID that he had been In
the barn since the day Of his disappear
ance, and that all the food he had had
was what milk he got from the cows
He said he was unable to account fol
his strange actions, Nothing was
known Of Conway's disappearance
until the guests had assembled for the
wedding ceremony and the appointed
hour had passed, and when 1t wa.
learned that Conway had drawn S40t
from the bank that day 1t was feared ht