The Penn's Grove record., 1889-09-21

pulpit, and, mettihk vO"O sAa.h
a quarrel ensued. ana Smltn
ttacked Zones with a long cane, wnere-
nm Zones used his pocket knne.
ones Was arrested, but the magistraee
,ismisaed him upon the ground That ms
cts were i~ustlnabie. John McCuily,a
tough. shot and killed Constaole
;rossin at a picnic a rev "iie'
sparta. Illinois. on the Iotn. .xnr..s
"A Chicago and western eApue
from Pittsburg on 0 aosn
at full speed through three open
on to q siding, at Coniers,
West Virginia, and dashed into SeveIs'
The engine was wreckoa'
nd thrown down an embankment'
\ haooap car was thrown .
wise and stripped Of all its trucks
,mo.ar was thrown partly down the
bank, Engineer Barney baino1 en-
Fireman John obey, both Oh II..s,
buro. stood by the engine until u went
oyer. being thrown into some usnes
and ESCAPED with slight injuries. Inc
and trainmen in the smoker
md ha1oaqe car alse escaped with .
lew Sllkut ihJui'N" - -.
The stage between Forest Hili y
Auburn, in California, was stoppea on
the morning Of the 10th by one maskeo
man. who demanded the treasure poS.
IT. vas given him and he rode away:
The Nicely brothers. confneo IN
iail at Somerset, Pa, under sentence
of death for the murder OF Farmer
IImburger. on the 18th 0verpowered
the sheriff, and, when a deputy sneiin
vent to his assistance, q OF Q
brothers, with the sherlf's revoIver,
shot the deputy, and both made good
their escape. The deputy's wound ID
serious one. The fugitiyes were SUD-
sequently captured.
w.. @. Campbell, accompanied oy
dog. made a safe passage through the
ranids below Niagara Falls on the
18th. Both the man and dog wore
cork life preservers. Camppeii ID
about 81 years Of age.
Frank Amos, a prominent citizen
of Morgan county, was ~
his home. on the 10th, by Mrs. lam
ton. bis niece who literally hacked his
face and head to pieces with q putcner
knife, which she had carried for weeks
ayowediy for that purpose. Amos was
picking berries in a field with his wife
when the attack was made. She q .
man who was passing on the road were
attracted BY his cries. and reached him
ONLY In time to see him breathe his
last and TO see Mrs. Hamton n her
daughter run away. The murder grew
out of o lawsuit, In which the testi-
mony of Amos threw the costs on Mrs.
HamtOn.
While some Iaborers III the stone
quaIries neal Vancouver, BRUSH Coi-
umbia, were opening cans OF powder
with chisels on the morning OF the
10th, a terrible explosion occurred,
killing Patrick Morgan and Patrick
Delaney. -Four other men were fear
fully burned. A milk wagon driven
by a young mar named H0lmstrom.
aud containing five persons, was struck
by an engine at a railroad crossing IN
Chicago on the evening OF the 10th.
One Of the men, William Bensell, was
killed; the others escaped with slight
bruises.
Charles Friese, assistant engineer
in the ice-house of Ruppert's brewery
in New York, was killed on the even
ing Of the 18th. While at bis post he
noticed that a bolt which held in place
a huge crank arm, weighing q ton, had
become loose. In attempting to adjust
it he lost his footing and fell, striking
with his feet the lever which started
the machinery, fell into a shallow pit
into which the crank dips and in which
it fits exactly. The machinery de-
scended and crushed the engineer.
An explosion Of gas in Nelson's
shaft, at Sham0kin, Penna.. on the
18th, burned Alexander Crow, John
Tocas, John Murphy and William Cal
win, the first two named fatally.
The explosion was caused by TOcas,
who was ignorant of the presence OF
the gas.
Frederick KrOhn and Frank
Smith, of Fremont, Wisconsin. were
drowned on the 18th while fishing. The
upper story of a new twO-stOry brick
building in the outskirts of Chicago
was blown down on the afternoon of
the 18th, dangerously, If not fatally.
njuring John Robelai and John Kohl.
John Zuinthal and his ten children
left Boone. Iowa. in a wagon about
September LIST for Milwaukee. They
were ten days on the road, and on ar
irving In Milwaukee nine OF the child
rem were taken with diphtheria six
dying within six days. They contracted
the disease on the road.
Another supposed yellow fever
case was reported to the Brooklyn
Health authorities on the 18th. The
subject was a seaman, named Elonen,
on the Atlas Line steamer AlvO, from
Costa Rica. He was taken sick when
two days out, and on arriving at
Brooklyn he went to the Charities
Department and complained OF having
chills and pains In the back. He was
sent to the county hospital. DIR.
Arnold Is Of opinion that it Is a genu-
Inc case of yellow fever. The captain
Of the steamer which arrived ut Brook
Ign, New York. the other day with q
suspicious cas- Of sickness on board,
has been fined 500 in Brooklyn for
making an affidavit that there was no
sickness on board during the trip.
"A large dam at Sprinqton Forge,
eight miles above Coatesville, Penna.,
burst on the evening of the 18th,
owing to the heavy rains, and on the
morning OF the 18th the Brandywine
creek had arisen to an alarming height.
Hundreds Of fields were a dreary waste
Of water. Many farmers and their
families left their houses during the
night and remained on the neighbOr.
Ing hills. The Wilmington and North
ern Railroad is not yet open between
Reading and Wilmington. Many
miles OF fences have been carried away,
and, on a number Of farms, everything
not in buildings was carried away.
The damage amounts to many thou
sands OF dollars. At one time the
creek was eighteen feet
above it's usual height.
The grand parade of Odd Fellows
and Patriarchs Militant, In Columbus,
Ohio, on the 18th, was two and a half
hours IN passing a given point. and the