The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-29
NUMBER 4S.


collect their bills. Both brothers were
lynched after being arrested. Recently
Harvey Duncan was drowned in the
OHIO river near Parkersburg, West
| Virginia, the result of a supposed acci-
dent. 1t is now thought that Duncan
was deliberately murdered. He and
three other men had been living In q
| boat house on the OHIO side. There
three men were seen to place Duncan
in a skif, row him out On the river
and throw him overheard.
While several laborers were at
| work on the oath, at the new race track
at Van Nest, Westminster county,
| New York, an embankment caved in,
burying Gebano Derein, 60 years Of
age; Joseph Varinta, aged 80; Nj
| cola Ganagnina, aged "a, and Francisco
Degared, aged 35, all Of New York
city. All the men were removed to
the Harlem Hospital, where Degared
died soon after his admission.
-Four children of Thomas Dunn,
of Belleville, New Jersey, have died OF
diphtheria within ten days.
General Cameron's family were
| Rdlll6ltu dlUuuu Ills Dtu vi Lu6 tN6u-
ing of the 25th, expecting the end to
come at any moment. AT the same
time 1t was thought possible he might
survive the night.
William Walter Phelps, one of the
| American Commissioners to the Sa-
moan Conference, arrived in Wash.
lngton on the 25th, and had a long
consultation with Secretary Blaine.
MI. Phelps delivered to Secretary
Blaine the triplicate copy of the treaty
negotiations by the Commissioners. 1t
was placed in safe keeping In the De-
partment, where it will be jealousy
guarded until Congress meets and its
terms are formally communicated by
the President to the Senate for action.
The Illinois State Board of Agri-
| culture estimates that there will be
127, 900 900 bushels of oats harvested
In that State this year and 4,072,0 600
bushels of rye. An average yield Of
| oats is estimated at IS bushels to the
acre on an area Of 100000 acres.
While the bookkeeper of the San
Miguel Valley Bank, in Telluride,
| Colorado, was alone in the bank, on
the morning of the 25th, three men
entered and, presenting pistols at his
head, demanded the funds of the in
| stitution. After securing the bank
funds they Joined a fourth robber, who
was holding their horses just outside
the bank. They left town on the run,
firing shots in the air to frighten
citizens. 1t is not yet known just what
amount they secured, probably only =
few thousands.
Eugene Emery, aged 40 years. a
farm hand, employed near Oak Or
ehard, New York, killed Cora Grimes,
aged IL years, with a club OF the even
ing of the 25th. He had been paying
the girl considerable attention and her
parents forbade him going with her.
The parents were away from home
when the murder was committed.
1t is reported that several persons
we're killed in an accident on the st.
LOUIS, Arkansas and Texas Railroad
near Pine Bluff. on the evening of the
18th. John yelling, aged Is years,
was killed on the evening OF the 25th,
while trying to board a freight train at
Oakland, Maryland. Mrs. Elizabeth
Schroeder. an aged woman, was killed
on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, in
Baltimore, on the morning of the
25th.
Mrs. Loren Jensen, a farmers
wife, living nea Hutchinson, Mime
sofa, in a fit of insanity, threw two Of
her children into a well. Almost
directly afterward she called for help
and both children were taken out
alive, but the youngest, a babe of four
months, died in a short time, and the
other, a boy, three years old, is not yet
out of danger.
"A boating party consisting of
John Mattimore, Edward and Joseph
Cody, Maud and Maggie Hoover, and
two other young ladies. cousins of the
Hoover girls, from Hudson. N. Y,
while rowing on the river opposite the
Knickerbocker ice houses at Bath,
New York, on the evening of the 25th,
were run down by the tug Evangeline
and the boat upset. Before assistance
could reach them all were drowned ex-
ceptlng Joseph Cody, who escaped, but
was almost completely exhausted ny
his efforts to a his companions.
L. H. Oatsman's jewelry store, In
East Dubuque. Iowa, was entered by
uuiRidlo oh III CfOhibs IA ShO &cths
They left nothing but one watch, the
regulator and fixtures.
Michael Rizzello, alias "Red Nose
Nike" was hanged in Wilkesbarre,
Pa, on the 25th, for the murder Of
Paymaster Mcclure and Stableman
Flanagan. 1t is stated that Rizzello
made a confession, giving a detailed
account of the tragedy. He admitted
having shot both Mcclure and Flana-
gan, and believed that his weapon
caused the death in both cases. He
claimed that he took part only under
compulsion and through fear OF his
desperate accomplices.
"A mob went to the jail at Shep-
herdsville, Bullet county, Kentucky,
on the morning of the 26th and de-
manded of Jailor Bowman the surren-
der of Thomas Mitchell and Charles
Ardell, who were confined there,
charged with the murder of a peddler
named Joseph Lavine. Mr.. Bowman
refused to surrender the men, and took
his stand in front of the door with u
shot gun, declaring he would kill the
first man who tried to pass. Mrs. Bow
man hearing the threats, and fearing
her husband would be killed, ran for
ward and gave them the keys, begging
Mr.. Bowman not to provoke them.
The leaders then unlocked the doors
and went to the cell where the prison.
ers were confined. The jailer followed,
begging item at least TO spare Mitchell,
who he believed was Innocent. They
!, ieljed to his entreaties and did not
disturb Mitchell. but took Ardell out
and hanged him to a tree.
"A landslide occurred on the Co.
lumbla and Port Deposit Railroad nea
Haines Station, Pa, on tine morning of
the Goth, covering the tracks to depth
of FIVE feet for a distance of sixty feet.
George Dix was crushed to death
between two cars at kOhinoor Colliery,
and Patrick Gaugan was Killed by a
fall of coal at Packer Shaft No. 5, at
Shenandoah. Penna., on the 10Th.