The Penn's Grove record., 1889-08-10
NEWS OF I'll WEEK.

NEWS Of LIE Elm.
Two bodies were on the 9TH founf
in cellars in Johnstown, and 1t IS thu
general belief that many more Will De
found when the cellars are cleaned
out.
Mrs. Mary Smith. OF indianapolis,
Ind, had her throat cut and was Ia
tally injured on the evening OF the 20,
by a burglar. The latter escaped.
"A severe thunderstorm visited At
Ianta, Georgia, on the afternoon OF the
9th, aud several buildings were strucs
by lightning. A bolt struck the ciocR
in the house of Fireman Closer.
| Closer. his wife and baby were in the
room at the time. The father and mother
were stunned but the baby, who was IL
its mothers lap, played on without
being harmed. A violent wind and
rain storm passed over Newburg, Ind,
on the 4th, demolishing the Newbure
furniture factory, aud %anrooting }.
Folt'zs dwelling, the dry goods s ore Of
e. F. Hopkins and other smaller
buildings. The destruction of two
dwellings and loss OF life on the road
between Boonvi,le and Newburg were
also reported. During a storm al
Mitchell, Indiana, on the 4th, a wagon
containing a family Of fve-father
mother and three small children-was
blown from the roadside into Black
Creek, and all were drowned. Scores
of houses were unroOted and severa
were demolished. The storm was
general throughout South western In
diana
Chief o Police Hubbard, of CHI.
cago, having in custody Mart n Burke,
the Cronin suspect, arrived at Md
YANKEE at Z O'Clock on the evening o
the 9TH, and left soon after for Chi
cago, reaching that city about IL
O'Clock. Burke was taken at once 10
the county jail, avoiding the CROWD
which had assembled at the Union d.
pot. A despatch from Faro, Dakota,
speaking of Burke s trip through Man.
toba and Dakota, says that crowds
gathered at every station, and that al
Grafton 500 men were Assem- bled, sew
eral of whom th, eatened to kill THE
prisoner if they could get a glimpse OF
him. One mar on the platform of the
car drew a revolver, but he was hust-
led off by one of the Chicago police.
Two freight trains on the Virginia
Midland Railroad coll ded neal Brum-
station early on the afternoon of
the 4th and were almost entirely
wrecked. A fireman, named Fox, was
and an. engineer, named Davis,
injured. Another train hand
was severely hurt. The conductor of
one OF the trains, who is SAID to have
iisobeyed orders, has disappeared. J.
Purvis Bruce, aged 25 years. a well
bicyclist, was drowned viii g
bathing at Westboro, Massachusetts.
on the 4th.
William Quinn, aged so years,
and his son James, both being drunk,
quarrelled at Coxsackie. New York, or
the afternoon of the 4th. Finally the
old man struck his o in the head
with an axe, iDficting a wound o
which the young man died on the
morning OF the 9th. John Metcalf,
who is In custody at GAINESVILLE, WIS @,
on the 9th, confessed the murder of
the old woman, Reyasonat EdgertoD,
on July 28th. He claimed that he was
drunk at the time. John Carter, on
the 9th, shot and killed his wife and
then committed suicide, in San Fran
cisco. Jealousy was the cause. A
bloody duel was fought, on the 9TH,
near C~ottonport, La, between Harry
Ducate and his son-in- law, Charles
Armour, In the presence of about 90
men, Ducate was fatally wounded in
the stomach with seven buckshot,
while Armour had his knee shattered
by a rifle ball.
Madison, Ind, was the scene OF
two tragedies IN the evening of thu
9th. William johnson fired at MIS-
Sadie Athey, because she refused t.
marry him, but fortunately mi sed her.
and then, thinking he had killed her
blew his own brains ont. Richdrl
Slseo was shot n killed by George
Schlick. The latter wounded seyera
others and cut the throat of and dan.
gerously wounded Walter Sisco, who
Tiled to arrest him. AT Ensley C ~
Alabama, on the evening OF the 5th
Andy Williams vent home and, find.
ing William McCutcheon with his wife
killed them both with a revolver. Al
Princeton. KY, on the evening O. tn,
9Th. John HutchiIs shot and fatal,
wounded George and Albert Lewis
brothers. A stray shot by Hutch,p!
also fatally wounded Frank Dunn AL
The men were farmers, aud the shoot
ing was the result of an old feud. A
the close of a colored ba, bers' picnI,
at Island Park, near Chicago, on tn,
9th, Colonel Duncan shot aud kllle,
Ed. Bennett, because he thought h,
had insulted Mrs. Duncan. Bennett
friends pursued Duncan and middle,
him with bullets, besides cutting an,
kicking the PROSTATE body. Duncal
died during the night.
benjamin Erh, a farmer, of Cots
vile, Ohio, was instantly Killed on tn
9th, by tie accidental discharge of agu
with which he was about to 90 squire
shooting. t. weapon was discharge.
by Ecb's twO-year.old son, who vi;
bidding hs father good-by. Mrs
Christina WaTtel. of JenersonYlle Ind,
was fatally burned on the evening q
the 9th by an explosion of coal o
with which she was starting a FIRE, -.
freight tram on the Western Ne,
York and PENNSYLVANIA Railroad ra
into a construction tram at Eldref
Pa. on the 9th, and injured tbre
, Italian laborers, one fatally. beside
, causing a bad wreck. A freight trai
and two locomotives on the Omal,
, and Republican Valley yfanch Of ii