The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-13
NEWS OF THE WEEK.

Herbert a. Pearson, aged 40 years
and unmarried, was drowned whlie
bathing in the lake at Chicago, on the
evening of tie 9TH. He was q mill
licnalre mine owner from Bonanza
City, Idaho, and had hired a yacht and
invited an actress to take IA sail, prom
ising 10 teach her how to swim. While
the boatman was going toward the
shore to end a shallow spot in which
the oma might take her first lesson.
Pearson, who Lad put on his bathing
suit, Owed from the yacht side. when
the boat had got a few hundred ieet
away Pearson cried for help and sank.
His body was not recovered.
-Kronsburg, a little Village of afty
people, two miles east of Watertown,
South Dakota, was visited ky q wind
storm on the 9TH, and every house gas
more or less damaged. There is ah
unconfirmed report that two children
were killed.
Michael Gordon, supposed to have
been only slightly injured In a tene-
ment-heuse fight in Chicago on the 9TH,
was obliged to have n Of his eyes
removed by a physician, on b 9Th,
and 1t was discovered after the opera
ton that his internal injuries would
probably prove fatal. During the row
| Mrs. Rossack, wife of his assailant.
| received a slight cat from a knife
| welded by her husband, and she died
Oh the 9th, of Iockjaw. Her husband,
| who received news of her death In Jail,
|, through q visit from their SIX ifttle
| children, is likely to become insane.
In Plttsburg, OIL the 9th, Richard
I Lewis fatally shot Mrs. Elmira Moseby
| and her sister, Emeline Myers, and
then committed suicide. 1t is said
I, ,at Lewis wanted Mrs. Moseby, who
was a widow, 10 marry him, and that
abe refused. She was 30 years old and
her sisle r 10 years. The parties are
colored. Charles Blackmar, while
drunk, shot his aged mother at Black
mar, Michigan, on the Sth. a grandson
of the woman seized the gun and SA3
Charles in the breast. The mother and
son were both fatally wounded. j.
Hage Winfield, aan of Bishop Win
field, of California mas fatally shot In
Benecia, on the Sths '5g j, Il. crooks,
in a quarrel owe a Newspaper article.
At Appleton, Wisconsin, CnEhe evening
of the 9th, August Belz was cal.ed 10 ms
door by about a dozen ''Whitet caps"
who attempted t o fog him for alleged
~wife-beating. Belz drew a bowie knife
and slashed right and left among MS
assaiIants, cutting several, and giving
one a wound in the stomach which "
likely to prove fatal. They then lied
with their wounded.
Henry Blake and Michael Frawley
went to the rocks. about a mile above
Susquehanna, Pa, on the evening of
the 9Th, TO take a swim. They were
under the influence of liquor, and, los
ing their balance, fell a distance of 80
feet. Frawley vas killed and Blake
fatally injured.
Emil Plettig and Gus. John, of
Chicago, accompanied by a guide Oh
the 9th attempted to run the dam AZ
Kilbourn City, Wisconsin, in a row
boat. The boat capsized, and Plettig
and John were drowned.
AN attempt was made on the
morning of the 9th, to blow up with
powder a building in the central part
of Indianapolis in which the Salvation
Army las established barracks. The
building was badly damaged. The
Salvation Army meetings have caused
much complaint in the neighborhood.
William Kirby, an assistant bath
ing master, was drowned on the 9th
at Long Branch while trying to save
the life of William Iiirsch, "a foolish
young New Yorker, who had ventured
too far out. Hirsch was got ashore
in an exhausted condition.
The three-year-old daughter of
Samuel Bower, of Lycoming county,
wa killed on the 9Th by a little
brother, who RAJ swinging a moving
scythe which struck the girl in the
neck, nearly seyering her head.
Patrick Doyle, a one.armed ped
dler, choked Henry McNulty to death,
IN q saloon, in Buffalo, New York, on
the evening of the 9Th. McNulty had
lost both arms and was helpless. The
men had quarrelled over family affairs
"A north-bound train on the Cen
trail Vermont Railroad was ditched by
a washout rear Brandon, en- the morn
of the 10th. About II passengers
we're injured, Zone dangerously. The
engine and five cars were wrecked, and
it was expected that travel would be-
delayed "a hours. A shifting engine
co!llded with a n accommodation tran
on the Pan Handle Railroad at
Nimick's Station On the morning of
the 10th. Five cars of the passenger
train were thrown from the track and
three of them went down an embank-
ment. Several persons were injured,
but not dangerously. The accident is
attributed to the carelessness of the
freight crew.
"A gravel and coal train on the
Pittsburg and Castle Shannon Railroad
coll.lded on the afternoon OF the 10th
near High Bridge, four miles from
Pittsburg. Thirteen cars were wrecked
and six persons injured, ons-William
| kunkle, ablacksmith-perhaps fatally.
The collision was caused by "a mistake
in orders"
In Winnipeg, Manitoba, on the
10th, Martin Burke was committed for
| %extradition. Judge Balm said he would
hesitate to commit the prisoner TO q
Jury on the evidence submitted, but he
was only committing him for trial. An
appeal to the full Court Will be made.
"A man was found shot in the head,
and probably fatally wounded, in L
OF the streets of jacksonville, lllinois,
on the afternoon OF the oh. 1t ap-
peared from letters found upon him
that he wa George l.. Travor. a we'll
TODD farmer of Kansas. He had writ
ten to a brother in Minneapolis that he
was insane and pre- AIRED to kill him-
self rather than be sent to a hospital"
William Parish on the evening OF the
9th shot and killed Mrs. Eva Callahan
in Leavenwcrth, Kansas, and then
committed suicide. She had been
married but a short tine. Parish wal
an unsuccessful sultor for her hand.