The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-03
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

-O0Lh ouIiAVous IL v0olo Oius anu
Patrick Doyle, while cleaning out an
old well at One Hundred and Seventy.
third street and Webster avenue, New
York, on the 9th, were overcome by
sewer gas and died. John Sullivan,
father CT the boy, went to their assist
ance. but he too was affected by the
gas, and is In q critical condition.
David Miller, q workman at the
Central Iron Works, Harrisburg, was
crushed to death by . lot Of iron falling
upon him on the 9th. Mrs. William
H. S~chlayer, a Harrisburg woman who
was temporarily insane from illness, on
the Goth, gave her four-months-old-
babe a dose of morphine and laudanum
and took a similar dose herself. The
baby died. but the mother will recover.
"A considerable area OF Sugar Hill,
a few miles from Wilkesbarre, settled
on the morning Of the 9th, owing to
its location above the Enterprise Col
liery. Three dwellings we're damaged.
A few days ago. near Pine Ridge, a
young woman was talking to her
mother, who sat out doors Smelling
peas. Continuing the conversation,
her remarks received no answer. Go.
Ing to the door to ascertain the cause,
the daughter discovered a hole % feet
deep, at the bottom of which lay her
mother In a dead faint, with the pan of
peas in her lap. The ground had set
tied noiselessly, carrying her down
with 1t. Ropes and ladders were re-
quired to bring her to the surface.
Lucy Bedford, aged So, and Emily
Parsons, her niece, two col0red women
of Nashville, Tenn, were poisoned on
the 9th by arsenic in their coffee.
The younger woman died, and the
elder is in a critical condition. Lucy
Bedford is said to be the richest col
Ored woman In the South. Four of her
servants are under arrest. James
C0naty, a Richmond bartender. who
had deserted his wife, went to her
house on the evening Of the 18th and
cut her throat. While her mother
went for the police Conaty cut his own
throat from a to ear and died in a
few minutes. The woman will re-
cover.
DR.. A. E. Jones, aged Z, years, a
well-kn0wn resident of Cincinnati,
was murdered on the 25th by his
colOred hostler. The body was found
on the 9th In the man-hole of a sewer
near his residence. Christian Vein
man murdered his wife at Columbus,
Ohio. on the morning of the 9th, and
then shot himself. He was living at
last accounts. Wesley Elkins, an IL
year-old boy of Elk township, Clayton
nOnnfu ynrsyo nm tkA pra,s-- IS khn
Gath. murdered his father and step.
mother. He drove four miles with his
baby sister to a neighbours house, and
sad lie had found his parents murdered,
aud had led for sci protection. He
subsequently confessed his crime. say
ing that he had had ''some difficulty
with his father" whom he shot. The
noise aroused his step-m0ther, who
was then killed with q club by the
young fend In order to escape detec-
ton.
"A dog, supposed to be mad, ran
amuck in HOboken, New Jersey, on
the morning Of the Goth, and bit four
persons, a horse and another dog. He
was then killed.
by an accident to a passenger tram
on the New Orleans and Shell Beach
Railroad on the evening of the 28th,
caused by the spreading Of the rails,
the engineer and one passenger were
severely injured, and a number Of pas
sengers slightly 50. A despatch from
Peoria says that a boat in which Frank
kOwalt and Hannah Shearer went
rowing was found upside down OF the
morning OF the 10th, and the parties
are supposed to have been drowned.
Russell Armstrong, q well-known resi-
dent OF Kansas City, on the Goth fell
between the cars ON the elevated rail
road, and had both legs cut off.
While attempting to arrest a man
whom he presumed to bea burglar. To-
liceman Sylvester L. Fish, OF Chicago,
was on the morning OF the 10Th shot in
the head and will probably die. Three
or four arrests HAYS been made, and II
is believed the number includes the
man who did the shooting.
-. D. Dimrick, a livery stable
keeper of Rock Island, H., was found
by his wife In a disreputable house on
the evening of the 9th, and in a
tussle that ensued Dimick was shot
through the body and lies In a critical
condition. Mrs. Dimick, who was
arrested. claims that she meant to
shoot some n else.
&C. A. Herbert, Of Haaerstown
Nd. was on the 29,h sentenced by a
justice to receive fifteen lashes and un.
derg0 1--WE days imprisonment for wife
beating. The first part of the sentence
was duly executed. this being only the
second case OF the kind in Maryland.
An unknown man at Chicago on the
Goth hired a boat, rowed out on the
Lake, eimsels his body falling
tx re was about 25
W Flown, of Kansas, a
suicide by hanging
'0n'ill'' Fla.