The Penn's Grove record., 1889-01-19

kansas, on the evening Of the 18th,
and whipped so severity that he has
since died. He was tied to a tree and
his captors. nine In number, used a
piece of wire from a barbed wire fence.
Reynolds made a statement before hts
death and gave the Sheriff the names
of his assailants, seven OF whom are
under arrest. VIM. Dowell, who lives
in Andrews, Ind, and who. it Is alleged,
fails to provide for his family, was
surprised by twenty masked men when
in a saloon on the evening OF b 18th
and dragged out the back way. a
rope was thrown over his neck, anu ne
was swung up the nearest telegraph
pole. After hanging a short time he
was lowered, when he managed to slip
the moose, and ran, yelling with all his
remaining strength. He was recap
tured, but citizens, attracted by his
cries, came to his rescue, and the
White Caps fed without being recog-
nlzed.
William Wertzel, aged 1G years,
shot and killed George Farnsworth.
aged 20 years, In Marietta, Ohio, on
the 10Th. Wertzel says that they were
Playing white Caps" and before
beginning he had dug the balls out of
the cartridges they proposed to use.
lie cannot tell how a loaded cartridge
got into the revolver. Jos. j. Chand-
Ter, a porter of the Canadian Pacific
Railroad, shot and fatally wounded q.
A. Sheffield, in Montreal, on The even
ing of the 14th. Mr.. Sheffield was
manager of the Pullman dining and
sleeping car service. Jack Coats, a
colored inmate of the jail In Danville
Virginia. received a slice OF molasses
pudding from his wife on the 18th. He
thought it was 'tricked" and refused
to eat it. On the afternoon OF the 14th
Squire Fawkes, another inmate of tbs
jail, eat the pudding, and was soon
taken sick, and on the 18th died In
great agony, with every symptom OF
acute poisoning. The woman who
made the pudding has been arrested.
Mrs. Eads, who resides in James,
town, OHIO, locked her ~2-year-old
adopted child in the house while she
went to a fire in the neighborhOod. Her
own house caught fire, and when she
returned the child had been burned to
death Mary Splitter. a young girl,
was locked up in her room for mlscon-
duct by Ter mother in their house, at
Leadville, Colorado, On the evening OF
the 18th. A window was open, and
the child climbed out and wandered
into the mountains. Her dead body
was found on the 18th. She had frozen
to death.
1t Is reported from Albuquerque,
New Mexico, that hundreds OF cattle
and sheep are p~erlshing. The plains
and the mountains are covered with
deep snow. A drove of antelOpes were
found frozen to death in the mountains
south of Albuquerque.
Allen Campbell, proprietor of the
Bank of Evart. in Evart, Michigan, Is
reported TO have fled to Canada, with
$4,000 of the funds or the bank and
of the village, of which he was trea.
surer. The room of Senator Martin
at the windsor Hotel, in Trenton. New
Jersey, was entered by a thief on the
evening OF the 14th, and a gold watch,
a roll of ILLS and some small pieces of
jewelry stolen.
The smallpox is sill spreading in
Nanticoke, Penna. A place has been
provided for patients in Wllkerbarre
should the disease break out there.
Miss Anna +. Moon. q sophomore at
cornell University, has been attacked
by smallpox, and President Adams has
ordered every student to be vaccinated.
In Paterson, New Jersey, on the
afternoon of the 18th three robbers.
one of them colored, entered the house
of William Roughgarden and found
his wife In the kitchen. One OF them
insisted upon her reading a note. which
he held In front of her face. As she
glanced al the paper the negro threw
her to the floor, and one of the others
thrust the muzZle OF a revolver into
her mouth. While the woman, fright
ened almost into inconsistencies, lay
%motionless. the two others ransacked
the house. In a bureau drawer 500
was found and taken, but little else
was secured. The villains escaped.
Fifteen masked men IN North
Salem, New Hampshire, went to the
house of John Welsh on Christmas
night and, calling him out, coated him
with grease and forced him to leave
that section. He had been living with
a woman who deserted her husband,
Welsh went to Portsmouth and ,nga-
ged Pinkerton detectives. end Is of the
masked mel were arrested. On the
10th they were taken to Exeter. fined
SIS each and costs and discharged.
"A dispatch from Holbrook, Arizona
Territory, says ella Bonita, a cowboy,
dressed and painted as an Apache In.
dian, made a descent upon the Mexican
herders in the employ Of Don Pedro
Montana, killing five and wounding
one.
Reports were received at the Phil.
adelphia and Reading Coal and Iron
Company's Office in Pottsville on the
evening of the 10th of alarming phe-
Inomena occurring at the Phoenix Park
colliery during the day. There was a
succession of heavy detonati ons In the
mine, breaking down timbers, demol-
ishlng gangway doors and doing other
damage. The cause of the disturbance
is unknown, but 1t Is believed that the
conclusions are the result Of an extern
slye fall of ''crop" coal in abandoned
workings, and that the damage in
other portions of the mine Is occasiOned
by the compression and violent rush of
air thus produced.
Tax Collector Norch, of Lacka-
wanna county, Penna., was killed by a
tram on the Delaware, Lackawanna
and Western Railroad, near Moscow,
on the 10th. lie was walking on the
track and stepped from one track to
avoid a stock train to another in front
of the express. A train on the Little
Rock and Fort Smith Road was
wrecked by a landslide. near Ozark,
Arkansas, on the 18th. The engineer
was killed and a number OF others in-
Jured. Joseph Harper and Sidney
Watson, aged 0 and Is years respec.
lively, were drowned in the lake at