The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-22

cred at each other. After emptying
their revolvers they pounded each
other with the weapons until parted by
friends. Mancon was shot in the stom-
ach and chest, and died In a few hours,
while Fowler was wounded in the neck
and both arms. Jealousy caused the
tragedy, Maucon having separated
from his wife because of the marked
attentions paid her by Fowler, who was
a bachelor.
The total contributions received
by Governor Beaver for the Johnstown
flood sufferers up to the evening OF the
18th amounted to about SOC, 600.
President Harrison has given his check
for $500 to the relief fund. The June
floods have worked disaster to the
farmers of Southern Indiana who have
crops in the bottom lands. The dam
age to all the Southern Indiana and
Illinois counties along White and
Wabash rivers will amount TO many
thousands Of dollars.
Thunder storms of unusual severity
passed over New England on the after
noon of the 18th. New Jersey vas
similarly visited. In Plainfield, the
spire of a new church was shattered,
and several residences were dam tged.
In Jersey City two fires were caused by
lightning, the loss ~aggregating $40, 600.
In Newark, two churches and several
buildings were struck by lightning.
Damage by electrical storms 10 also
reported from New York and Mary
land.
The roof of the MERGED Market in
the city of Mexico, fell in on the 14th,
burying nearly 40 persons. At last
accounts 8 dead and IA injured had
been recovered. Miss Sarah Rome,
aged "a, Of Brooklyn, and Mrs. David
Rome, aged 26. of Toronto, Canada,
sat beneath a freight train at Coney
Island, on the evening of the 18th,
engaged in sketching. when a special
train ran Into the car, setting it in
motion. Mrs. Rome was killed and
Miss Rome badly injured.
An explosion of gas occurred on
the morning of the 18th in the Not
tingnam Mine at Plymouth, Penna.,
operated by the Lehigh and Wilkes
barre Coal Company. Michael An
drew, aged 26 years, Simon Novolk.
aged % years, John Kutschki, aged 81
years, and Joseph Taylor, aged So
years, were fatally burned. The acct
dent was caused by the carelessness of
a Polander, who went into a chamber
full of gas without first testing the air.
A scaffold fell at one of the power
houses OF the Yerkes cable car system
in Chicago on the evening of the 18th,
killing Peter DOOrnbOs and badly in
juring four other workmen. A mis-
hap exactly similar took place at the
Yerkes power house on Madison street
recently. On the evening of the 18th
a mob of 5000 persons gathered at the
Milwaukee Avenue House after the ac-
cldent and INDUCED in threats of
violence, but gradually dispersed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Tyler, aged %
years, poured ccal oil Oh her fire while
preparing breakfast at her home in
Baltimore on the morning of the 18th.
The can exploded, and Mrs. Tyler and
her eight-months' old boy were so badly
burned that they died In a short time.
On the 18th two children of Ed
ward Bachus, a farmer. of Roster,
Missouri, went to "a creek "A mile from
home to fish. Upon their failing to
return searching parties started out,
and on the evening of the l4th "their
bones were found ear a ledge of rocks
that had long been known as VOLTS
Den. A band Of timber wolves have
infested this section for years. and it is
thought the children were killed and
eaten by the animals. The boys were
aged 10 and II years."
"A heavy rainstorm prevailed in
portions of Florida, OH the 18th, and
did some damage. Reports from
Tampa state that the track of the
South Florida is submerged in many
places and that there are several bad
Washouts. A wind, rain and hail
storm passed wei the southwestern
part Of Berkeley county, West Vir-
glnia, Oh the evening OF the 10th, ruin
ing crops and trees. Several houses
and barns were wrecked by the wind
and live stock was injured by the hail.
A despatch from Eldorado, Kansas,
avs that the upper valley Of the Wal
nut Is fiooued and that Mrs. Graham
and her babe vas drowned. A portion
of the Missouri Pacific track is washed
away. 1t is feared a number of PEG.
pie have been drowned In the lower
valley.
Policeman Hart began abusing the
Mayor of South Oklahoma, Indian
Territory, on the 18th, and was locked
up by Marshall Mckee and Policeman
Howard When Mckee and Howard
returned to the Mayors office Police
man Nattox, a friend of Hart. shot at
them. Mckee was slightly wounded
and Howard severely. Howard shot
and fatally wounded Mattox. A de-
spatch from New Orleans says that on
the evening of the 18th, at the colored
church on the Osceola plantation, Leila
! Mitchell was stabbed to death by Sallie
Underwood. Both are coiored girls
u ider 10 years of age.
Mis-. Charles Cleaves and Erdine
Cole, aged 16 years. were drowned at
Springfield, Maine, on the 18th, while
bathing. Mrs. Cleaves leaves a husband
and four children in the West.
During the Investigations of the
'pNSiui oAauu Ouiy III SulodSO oh thS
18th, William +. Bell, OF the Western
Union Telegraph Company, refused to
produce messages passing between
Alexander Sullivan, Daniel C~Oughlin,
p. O'Sullivan, ]. J.. MorOney and G..
W. Melville. MI. Bell stated that the
statutes of Illinois imposed a fine OF
5000 upon a telegraph company for
disclosing the contents of any personal
or business message passing yer its
lines. The matter was taken into
court and Judge Shepard made an
order directing the witness, under PAIN
of contempt and commitment TO jail,
to produce the messages desired by the
Grand Jury. The officers OF the CON-
pany stated that they would be prompt.
ly produced. So far as known, no
indictment was found against Burke,
the mar under arrest in Winnipeg,
-Newtown creek, in the eastern
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