The Penn's Grove record., 1889-07-27

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of wealthy parents in Plttsburg and
prominent in Jewish Society. They
were summering at Zeigler's and were
lust starting for q morning drive.
An explosion of gas took place on
the afternoon of the 23d, in No. IA
Shaft at Port Blanchard, Pa, operated
by the Pennsylvania Coal Company.
Five miners, named Barrett. Harris.
Daugher, Mcdonald, and an unknown
Hungarian, were burned, the frst
three, it Is said, fatally.
Scott Todd, aged 10 years, and
Charles Hoosier, aged IL. were drowned
on the 10th while bathing in the White
river, near Anderson, Indiana. On
the evening of the 21st several hundred
people gathered on the river bank to
search for the bodies. A rope was
stretched across the river, and to this
Stephen Bilby was hanging in mid
stream, when he lost his hoy aud was
drowned la the presence OF his wife
and two children. John and Jessie,
aged 10 and ~ years, the only children
of Edwin DEM, were drowned In foster
creek, nea Huron, Dakota. on the
2lst. While Lieut.. Gov. Meikeljohn
and w. II. Patton were bathing In
Cedar river, ear Fullerton, Nebraska,
on the 2lst, the latter was drowned.
The Lieutenant Governor came near
sharing his friends fate in attempting
to rescue him. IN ts,4
Frederick Wagner, ST., stabbed
his son Frederick while he was asleep
at his home In Baltimore, on the even
ing of the 22d. The father formerly
served q sentence In prison for ASSAULT
Ing his wife, and in q drunken mood
on the 23d had driven everyone from
the house, but young Wagner went
home, in ending to project his mother
and sister. The young man may live.
While William Baugh and Green
Flynn were wrestling at Fairbush.
Kentucky, on the evening Of the 22d.
Baugh's brother struck Flynn on the
head with a handspiKe, causing death.
William Snow. q negro. shot nj killed
Constable Reynolds at HuntOD, West
Virginia, on the evening Of the 2lst,
while the latter was trying to arrest
him for HOUSEKEEPING. Snow was
taken from jail on the 22d and lynched.
Colonel Roger J. Page. a promi-
nent lawyer and editor of the Times
REGISTER at Marion, North Carolina.
was murdered at that place on the
evening OF the 22d, just after alighting
from a train, by an unknown assassin.
Colonel Page was walking between two
friends and leaning on the arm OF one
of them when the assassin came up
behind and shot him through the neck
which was broken by the ball. After
firing the murderer got on q horse and
fled the town. 1t is said that q woman
was the cause of the trouble, and that
a young man Had threatened to shoot
the Colonel.
M. H. Horney, while putting up
an awning in the second story OF a
building IN Baltimore, on the 23d, fell
to the ground, and, striking his head,
was killed. Joseph Larsen, aged Ia
years, was overcome by the damp while
cleaning a we'll ear Macedonia. Iowa,
and ]. A. Wilson, who was lowered to
rescue the boy, was also overcome
Both died. A 4
"A caye.in occurred on the morn
ing Of the Oath in Hyde Park, Scran.
ton, over a vein of the Central Mine
Six acres of ground were affected. A
publlc-school building was badly dam.
aged, and twelve private residences had
their foundation walls cracked aEd
doors badly jamued. Large assures
have opened in the ground. and in Thu
centre of the disturbance the earth ha!
settled ten feet. In the mine six cham
bers are affected, and the miners an
unable to go on with their work. Oh
the afternoon Of the oath, while {
humber Of men were removing thu
rock and coal from the chambers CLOSED
In the Central mine, the lamp of ont
of the laborers Ignited the gas an(
caused 4 terrible explosion. JOhr
Williams and Robert Roberts wert
killed and four others we-o fearful,
burned.
-Chauncey Kruffen, % years O
age, shot and fatally wounded his wife
aged % years, at their home In LAX,
Mahopac, New York, on the oath, and
then committed suicide. domestic
trouble was the cause. During a ggh'
In Detroit, Michigan, on the evening
of the 23d. Morris Crawford wa
killed and Walter Mason bidly injured
Their antagonists were arrested. Jos
eph Buchner has been arrested at Bad
River, Wisconsin, charged with nun.
der. He is an uncle of Mrs. FuchI
and Is charged with being an accom-
plice in the killing. George Lewis, 1
negro, living near Belden. Texas. wa
lynched on the evening of the 23d To-
poisoning the well of William Shaw.
"A notorious Indian desperate, st
Lopki, wal killed in the Indian Terri
tory, on the 21st, by the captain of tn
Creek Indian Light Horse Company
ST. Lopki was a Ute Indian, q member
of the notorious Wesley B~andetta" o.
Outlaws. 1t was he who. while unde
arrest and in irons, murdered Deput!
United States Marshal Philips and
posse . year ago by beating them dow
with his handcuffs. One Of the Ligh
Horse Company was mortally wounded
in the fight before st. Lopkl wa
killed.
Heavy and continuous rains ar
reported from all parts of Kansas
Trains are delayed by washouts.
Mrs. Miranda Lawyer, wife o
Bishop Lawyer, who had been adjudgeI
insane by the County Court, hange'
herself at Huntsville, Missouri. on th
eveuing Of the 22d. Charles Slaughter
a farmer, rs years old, living nea
Klrkmansville. Kentucky, COMMITTEES
suicide on the 22d, after QuarrellinI
with his wife. e
"A. J. Hodson. business partner o
Mayor Mosby, Of Cincinnati, died o
the morning OF the 24th, from injurie
received on the Fourth while discharg
ing fireworks. He was wounded in tn
face, and, although the wound healed
the shock caused a fever from whic
he died.
1t Is said that the cotton crop O
Texas this year will reach 2,00O,0 90
bales, and that the corr crop will b
enormous. Reports concerning til
state of cattle and crops througiOn
Montana are much more favorable thal
was expected. Want Of water is fel
in many sections, but 1t is said that IT,
people have generally given the ide
lfhaf fbtnno mara nrnnh uuOroa than uu