The Penn's Grove record., 1889-02-16
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

frightened a horse 10 q WACO
and owned by NJ. Ward. Ward VIZ
thrown from the wagon and injured
probably fatally. Maggie Brown. age
. years, was run over and Instant
kl'led. Cbas. Hollis and Miss Annie Nc
Ginnis were run over and seriously II
jured.
"A diabollcal attempt to barn an
blow up a five story double tenement o
Hester street, New York, was disco,
cred early on the morning OF the 10tf
Bundles Of rags saturated with kerc
sene had been used; also several pound
OF gunpowder. Fortunately the pow
der had not been reached when tn
flames we're discovered and exiting
uished. The author Of the plot an,
Its motive are unknown. Simon J
Dillon was stabbed and killed In
quarrel with an unknown man In Dan
bury. Connecticut, on the morning o
The 10th.
Cesar Frazer and Edward Criss
bvtb colOred, were arrested OH tn
morning of the 10th In Charleston
South Carolina, for the murder Of L
II. Holdenberg. Frazer confessed hi!
guilt, while Criss asserted that he wa
in 1ocent.
William Holden was killed by F,
man named McGratb, In Montreal
Quebec, on the 9th. Holden had called
McGrath q ''nigger.' McGra'h IS q
white man. but his wife has negro
blood in her veins. L. III. Oldenburg,
q grocer in Charleston, South Caroline,
90 years Of age, was murdered at bis
store on the evening OF the 9th, by two
unknown negroes, who had entered the
store for the purpose of robbery. They
escaped with about $50. While u num-
Der of colored laborers were returning
to a camp In Lee county. Kentucky, a
ruf1an named William shaw asked
one of / EN- to drink with him. While
the man was complying Shaw raised a
pistol and shot him dead on the srot.
The enraged colored men would b we
lynched tie murderer had not Thomp
SOD, the contractor, rescued him aud
had him lcdSed in Jail.
Haywood Handy, colored. shot and
killed a young white man named
Charles Stewart, In Bossier parish,
Louisiana. on the Sth. and was lynched
by a mob on the same right. 1t ap
pears that Handy and two other
negroes were charged with hog steal
ing, but were acquitted In the District
Court a few days ago. Feeling
Handy and the others had
evade1 justice through various techni-
and inasmueh as their past
record for hog stealing and other of
fences was bad, n few OF the citizens
residing 10 that vicinity determined to
least give all OF them a fogging and
notify them that if they were ever
with the same crime again
they would have 10 leave the parish.
When the party reached Handy's house
be refused to allow them to enter and
they burst the door open. Stewart was
in the lead and Handy shot him.
William Hamilton was stabbed to
1eath by Benjamin Brown, in st.
on the evening of the 10th.
They quarrelled over a game OF cards
which five cents wa the stake. A
boiler at the brick works of Guild,
White & Gillespie, in Chattanooga,
exploded on the 18th, killing
Charles Falls and fatally injuring his
ION. During a dance at San JacInto, a
! little mountain town in California, a
iew days ago, an earthquake shock &C.
and The two hundred people
present sought safety by jumping
through windows. Many were tramp
ed under foot and others were cut by
,lass, but no one WAS fatally hurt.
The HessIan fly is reported to be
the wheat crop in Central
The dry freezing weather is
slso reported to be killing the wheat.
Michael Rizzolo, alias RED Nose
on trial in Wilkesbarre, Pa,
'or the killing OF Paymaster Mcclure
md Stableman Flanagan was on the
18th found guilty of murder in the
irst degree. Sentence was deferred
until the 10th. Father AshGeld, a
priest at st. Peters Catholic Church, |
In Memphis, Tennessee, was stabbed to |
death on the morning of the 1lth by
W. Reeves, a young man, whom he
had been instrumental in having re- |
leased from jail, where lie had been
on account of mental trouble.
When asked why he had committed
the deel, Reeves replied: God told me
to do T.. He was my best friend, and
1 was going away I wanted him to
Join me-" l.. E. Mann shot at John
Hensley. near Butler, Missouri, on The
9th, and tue bullet lodged in a check
book he had in his pocket. Mann then
himself, intlicting "a fatal wound.
The trouble was caused by Jealousy,
both men paying court TO the same girl.
Rollo Walton threatened to kill Mar
Baldridge, In Grant City, Missouri,
On the 9th. They met in a bar loom
and opened fire simultaneously. Wal
lon was killed, and d. A. Martin was
in the arm. The Marshal was
not injured.
"A broken rall threw a freight car
and a passenger coach OF an accommo.
iation train of the track at Naginey,
Pa. on the 18th. There were nine
passengers on board and they were all
none fatally, however.
"A fight took place ten miles from
Newport, Kentucky, on the afternoon
the 10th, On the line OF Huntington's
new railroad, between Italian work.
and negroes. Three men are re-
ported to have been killed and a score
wounded. The trouble is said to have
begun in a dispute over the ownership
of a jug Of whisky. No particulars
have been received.
While two young ons of Ell W.
were firing at a mark against
q %woodshed, at BucyfuS, Ohio, on the
llth, n of the bullets penetrated the
and struck their mother, who
had Just entered, in the side, inaicting
fatal wound.
On the morning of the 18th an
explosion occurred at a point midway
between Williams Bridge and Bedford
Park, on the line of the New York,
New Haven and Hartford Railroad,
just as the train from Stamford, Conn,
Is due in New York at $40 a.
m. passed there. 1t Is believed that
the explosion vas caused by a gang OF
workmen throwing out n dyna-
mite cartridge too suddenly. Every
pane Of glass In the train was shat
tered, and the 500 passengers were ter.
ribly shaken up. A large number
received severe cuts about the head
and face from the flying glass.
Mrs. Garrison was stonped nv iwo