The Penn's Grove record., 1889-09-28
NUMBER 9.
damaged. Two or three passengers re.

damaged. Two or three passengers re.
ceived slight injuries.
The summer residence of Nahum
Chaplin at Swampscott, Massachusetts,,
was robbed early or the morning Of
the 23i of nearly $1,000 worth of jew
elry and $500 in cash.
= Lightning struck the house Of
Mrs. Paul5ing, at Pleasant Hill, NJ iu-
nesota, or the evening of the 22d. One
bolt went down the stovepipe and into
the cellar. Tie other went off the
stove and killed a girl, 6 years old, in
her mothers lap, The father was
knocked ~senseless, but not seriously
hurt. The lightning struck the moth
er's shoulder and ran down the leg and
across the body of a girl Is years old .
Tie mother is not expected to live.
1t Is reported from Milwaukee that a
catastrophe during the National En-
campment there twas averted by a
mere chance, The sIoplng hillside at
Juneau Park, where $4,000 people were
seated on the night of the sham navel
battle was moved SIX inches, Had it
not been for the stone roadbed of the
railway at the foot of the hill, the
whole side Of the bluff would have
slipped off into the lake, carrying the
people with it, The ground at the
bottom of the hill Is bulged, and at the
top there is Il deep assure where the
so and earth have been torn apart.
Before the seats were erected many
civil engineers had doubts about the
safety of the bank, as much of it con-
sisted of made ground"
1 The laborers at work at the ruins
caused by the recent landslide In Que
bee, On the morning OF the oath, res
cued Joseph Kemp, aged Y years, lie
was still able to speak, after being
imprisoned for 10S hours, and hopes
are entertained of his recovery.
Another dead body was rescued on the
24sh.
Nicholas Demarest, Sheriff of Ber-
gen county, New Jersey, was killed at
Rutherford III the evening of the Gath.
His team became unmanageable at
sight of a train and dashed in front of
the engine. The horses were unhurt.
An explosion of gas occurred in the
shoe factory of John Richardson 81
Co., in Elmira, New York, on the
oath. Engineer Person and a fore
man named Keener. were badly burned.
There was a panic among the 800 en-
p!oyes, but they all escaped without
serious injury.
Ernest Willingham, a negro pugil-
ist, was killed by ii blow from the fist
of Thomas Branch, in Atlanta, on the
evening OF the 24:h. They were spar
ring AMI Branch knocked Willlngham
out, breaking his neck. The mutlla-
ted body of a man, with the head sew
cred and lying beside the trunk, from
which all the vital organs had been re-
moved, was found on the morning of
the 24th on the prairie near the village
of Clyde, a suburb of Chicago. 1t Is
possible the body Game from a dissect-
ing table. At WIlkesbarre, on the
Path, Martin King, who kicked and
beat his wife to death about two
months ago, Vas convicted of man
slaughter. Immediately after, James
McGraw, about 80 years of age, was
put on trial on the charge of having
scalded his wife to death.
Ter, miners, the full number
llONCa ny laws NGtC VII - t1SC oh
the bottom Of Leisanring shaft No. 3,
at Uniontown, Pa, on the 24th inst,
ready to come out of the mlAa, when
Just as they started upward another
man came running through the pas.
sage wayland jumped on the moving
cage, His momentum jostled the
others, and himself and another man
we're caught between the cage and the
cribbing of the shaft, and both were
literally torn to pieces. They were
Hungarians, and their names are un-
known.
The boiler at the saw mill of Putt
Brothers, in Berlin, Pa, exploded OF
the oath inst. John Putt, Edward
Putz, Oliver r. )ss aud David Baker
wers killed, and two brothers NAMED
y rant were badly Injured. The mill
was completely wrecked.
The New Columbia House and
Koenig's summer garden, at Cape May,
were destroyed by fire early, on the
morning of the 25th. The loss is esti-
mated at about $500, 900. The skel-
eton of an unknown mao, from which
wolves had eaten all the flesh, was
found in the woods neal Little Willow
river, Minnesota, oil the 23d. There
vas nothing to identify HIM save a
shotgun. the silver mounted buckles on
his knit cartridge belt and a letter with
the mann ''Aggie Heath, Minneapolis "
.or minnesota" written thereon. On
the oath a Sane Fe tr. in was
boarded near Crowley, Texas, 10y live
robbers, who took from the express car
three bags of Mexican silver, said to
contain $40, 0UO, and escaped.
"A heavy northeast storm prevailed
on the 25th along the New Jersey
coast, The surf was running under
several cottages at Monmouth Beach
and Low Moor, aud some of the teie-
graph wires were down. A telegram
from Havana says that indications OF
the approach of a Cyclone are visible
in the southwestern portion of the
island. The citizens of Charleston,
West Virginia, are III a state of terror
through the evident discrimination or
incendiaries to destroy the place. On
the oath tile first attempt was made.
and by noon the fire department a
been called ont four times. Again In
the afternoon four fires were started at
once. Property valued at over SjO, 200
was DESTROYED. \ number of men r
patrolling the streets with Winchester