The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-20
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

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NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Two heavy freight trains on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railway
collided near BOohville, Missouri, on
the 14th. The traipmen escaped injury
by jumping, but $50 head of cattle,
consigned to Chicago parties, we're
killed. Both engines and 81 cais we're
demolished. Loss, $4,000. William
Hearsley was killed by a Northern
Central freight train neal his home at
Ashland, Maryland, On the evening Of
the 18th. Lloyd Denison, aged u
years. of Franklin county, Ohio, was
killed by a Baltimore and Ohio train
near Cumberland, Maryland, on the
14tb.
The body of a man, about 30 years
Of age, was found in a badly decom.
posed state IN the closet of a Pullman
sleeping car, at the depot in st. Louis
on the 18th. From papers found on
his person 1t is thought his name is
Richard Adams, of Sutton, Missouri.
A despatch from Wheeling, West Vir-
Rinia, says that at a picnic at Reas
Run, on the Ohio river, on the 18th, a
fight occurred, during which Jacob
Francis, a wealthy farmer, was fatally
stabbed, Thomas Cook had his skull
fractured, and a man named Rowland
was shot In the arm. The fight grew
out Of a family feud.
Gilman, the murderer of Mrs.
Eatenhover and her child, who is in Jail
In Empire, Oregon, becoming alarmed
at threats of immediate lynching, c0n-
fessed to the double murder and also
admitted the killing of George Morris
a year ago. He was suspected OF this
| crime and was only saved from lynch
ing by being hurried from Coquille
City before the mob had been fully
organized. Gilman denies That his
wife is implicated. A telegram FROM
the city of Mexico says that a fight
has taken place at Puerto del Aqua.
State OF Nuevo Leon, between a party
of 30 smugglers and a force of Custom
House guards, in which two guards
and three smugglers were killed. A
quantity OF c%ontraband goods was
captured. Horace Sebring has been
arrested ut Three Oaks Michigan,
on the charge of poisoning his father,
mother and sister. The reason al
legged for the wholesale poisoning
is that young Sebring wanted to marry
y Girl who refused him because of his
poverty, and, as the farm was willed
to him, the death of his parents and
sister would make him its pOssessor.
Robert Dalton, a Deputy U. ). Mar
shal, was fatally shot In Oklahoma,
Indian Territory. on the 14th, while
trying to arrest Lee West, a whisky
peddler. Before expiring Dalton shot
aud killed West. Henry ThOrnhill
shot and killed william Barrett, a we'll
odo farmer, near Aurora, Nebraska,
on the evening of the 18th. Barrett,
upon big return home from town,
fnppd FhoFnhill moving Mrs. Barrett
and the Barrett furniture into another
house which he had provided for her.
A 6ght followed, with the result sta
ted.
The steamer City of New York,
which has arrived at San Francisco
from Hong Hong and Yokohama,
brought q copy OF the Japan Gazette,
which contains news Of a flood on June
81 in the Chan Ping and Ping Yuen
districts. Many houses were swept
away, while others were inundated.
Upwards of 5000 lives were lost.
l9c-Addie and Kate Gordon and
Myrtle CRANKY, ranging in age from II
to IA years, were drowned on the 10th
| while bathing at Paoli, Kansas.
" Tho OAfrA Ntnnnnnoa Nnrfh.
bound passenger train jumped the track
near Mt. Carmel, ILL.,, on the afternoon
Of the 18TH. and went Down q ten.foot
embapkmept. The most seriously In
jpred are: Conductor Charles Long,
Of Danvliie, ILL.,, left ear cut off and
bead cut. seriously hurt; Baggage
master Cook, bruised all over the body;
Mrs. Porter, of Terre Haute, badly
bruised apd injured Internally; Mrs.
Daniels, Fairfield, ILL.,, bruised and
injured internally; Mrs. McMahOn.
Carmel, ILL.,, seriously injured in-
ternaIly; son Of Mrs. Mcmahon, cut on
the head; Miss Luella Cox, of Greene
county, Ind, hip dislocaIed and in
jured internally; Mrs. Cox, Jones'
b050, Ind. body bruised; W. Q. John
son. Of Vincennes, SIDE and baak ILL
jured. Most Of the passengers wer'
extricated only by cutting into tie
e1aches with axes.
-Fonr men lost their lives 10 Lin
coin, Nebraska, on the 18th, from the
effects of foul air while trying to re
cover Q watch which had dropped int
a cessp0ol. Three others were pros
trated. The dead are Jas. Crawford,
. bricklsyer; Albert Kunkler, a labor
er; John Oleary, q black smith. and
Frank MalOney, a plasterer.
During u performance at W. II
Bristol & Co. g circas, in Milford, Mas
sachusetts, on the evening Of the 10th,
the greater portion of the seats fell. A
number Of persons were injured, but
nons fatally. The supports of the seats
had been forced down into The wet
ground by overcrowdlng.
Prank Myers, Edward Tanning
and James ,Eaggn, '~leDgshOremen
while at work on the pier OF the uceali
Steamship Company in New YORK O.
the 18th, were shot and slightly wound
ed by some unknown person or persons.
While James stephens was sitllng d.
home 10 strawberry Plains, Jefferson
county, Tennessee, with his wife and
child on the evening of the 18th. BIT
was shot dead by spmp unknown per
son. 1t is thought the shot was fired by
Bill jackson, a desperate negro. who
is a member of a band of thieves
against whom Stephens appeared
az u witness. William p. Hills, a
brakeman, was shot and killed on a
passenger train at Macon, Missouri, on
the evening OF the 10Th, by Loul'
Hughes, They got into Q hight owe
the rate of fare. and the shooting &C.
Cured when Hill undertook TO elee'
Hughes from the train. On the morn.
ing OF the 18th the dead body Of al
unknown man was found In the west
era suburbs of st. Louis. not far IRON
ar nl.oa ohora fha remains of Anna