The Penn's Grove record., 1889-11-02
NUMBER ID.

A limited vestibule train on the Lake
Shore road was wrecked at Wawaka,
Indiana, on the morning Of the 3Uth ult.,
The whole train was thrown on its side
aud had all the trucks torn of. The
st. Joseph cannon ball" train on the
Rock Island Road, ran into the rear of
the Denver express. at Seneca, Illinois,
on the evening of the 2yth ult. Several
cars were wrecked. Two passengers
and an engineer we're hurt. One of
the boilers of the Bellaire blast furnace,
at B~ellaire. Ohio, exploded on the
morning Of the Both ult, causing damage
to the mill and adjoining buildings es-
timated at $500, DOC. Two other boilers
were cracked, the boiler-room was
wrecked and one end Of the nail factory
was demolished. No person was In
jured. A portable boiler on a farm
near Hamlet, Indiana, burst on the
30th ult., killing Adam Mann and sew
erely scalding five others.
Five Chinese lepers were shipped
home from San Francisco on the 10Th
ult. on a Hong Kong steamer. Among
them WAS Chin TieD, aged 26 years,
who was sent to San Francisco from
New York, where he had been en-
ployed as a cook for laborers on tie
Croton aqueduct work.
Thirty tramps were arrested on
the 30th ult., between Reading and
Lebanon, and sent to jail in those two
cities and Harrisburg. For months
past the Lebanon Valley has been
overrun with tramps and numerous
crimes have been committed. A large
quantity Of stolen goods was found in
possession of the prisoners.
The first conviction under the
Kansas prohibitory law for the sale Of
hard cider was secured in Topeka on
the goth ult.
The Indiana State Board of Agri-
culture had advices from many Of the
northern and northwestern counties
saying that hog cholera is epidemic,
ard that hundreds Of hogs are dying
daily, and the disease is steadily in
creasing. In Steuben county 1t has
assumed such proportions that some
farmers have lost every hog on their
farms, and there are but few who have
not lost from 80 to Is per cent. of their
| stock, 1t is especially fatal in hogs
that have been put up for %fattening.
No remedies appear to have any effect,
and all attempts to stop the spread of
| the disease have failed.
George Koch kept a bakery on
River street, in Paterson, New Jersey,
Passing the shop of a rival on tine
morning of the 30th ult., he deliberately
| picked up a basket Of bread and tried
to carry it off. Being pursued, he ran
to the river, sprang III, and held his
head under the surface until he was
sufocated. He leaves a family.
"A telegram from Birmingham,
Alabama, says: 1.-THE result Of the
chase after Rube Burrows and hi, party
in Blount county is two dead deputies
and one dead bloodhound. The out
laws have escaped, the chase has been
abandoned, and all hands have re-
turned home"
The bank of Abilene, In Abilene,
| Kan, which closed its doors on the 28th
uli. has begun to makesettlement Of its
affairs. On the 9th ult. $100, 900 worth
| Of real estate was turned over to the
heaviest local depositors. who accepted
it In full settlement for that amount
Of claims. Real estate to the AMOUNT
of $50 900 was accepted by foreign
creditors upon similar conditions. The
liabilities are S420, 600. The assets will
! not exceed the amount first published,
$3.50, 900, mostly in real estate.