The Penn's Grove record., 1889-06-01
NUMBER a..

Ernst, a wealthy farmer. The broth.
ers think he died of heart disease, to
which he was subject. Anthony Ro-
land, aged go years, OF louisville,
Penna., was killed on the afternoon Of
the 2Sth while walking along the rail-
road track. He was returning from o
funeral. Two freight trains on the
Housatonic Railroad collided near
Trumbull station, Connecticut, early
on the morning OF the 18th. William
B. Look and Charles Aids we're killed,
and James McDermott and John La.
monte were badly injured. A freight
train OF the Pennsylvania Railroad
ran into a construction train nea Chris
tiana, Penna,, or the morning of the
28th. The tracks were blocked for
several hours, but none OF the train
hands were injured.
"A tornado swept YER Clements,
t~hirty-live miles west OF Emporia, Kan
Gas, on the afternoon of the 18th. The
news was brought TO Emporla by per.
sons on a stock train, the wires being
down. 1t was reported that four
persons, among them a farmer named
Milton Brown, were killed, and Q
number injured, among them Browns
wife and son.. by a premature explo-
sion In McCormick's Ledge, in Sse-
konk, Massachusetts, on the 2Sth
Thomas Corbett, Dennis Dayton and
workmen named Collins and Gammons
were injured, the first named fatally.
An attempt was made on thu
morning of the 28th to break the safe
Of A. WaltonhOrst, jeweler, Of Gay
street, Baltimore. The burglars
entered an adjoining barber shop, tore
down the PARTITION, and removed the
outside layer of iron and the layer Of
cement from the safe. Here, however,
they struck a thick plate of chilled
steel, and while drilling a hole through
it they were frightened away by a
noise. In the safe were $4,000 in
gold and bills and $4,000 worth OF
iewelry.
Albert Wilson fatally shot his
young wife in Evansville, Indiana, on
the evening of the 2Sth ult., and then
committed suicide. He was about 30
years old, while his wife was much
younger. He suspected her OF ind.
Jellty. Bertha Schreyer, a married
woman, was fatally shot by John
Berken, aged 30, in New York, on the
10Th ult. Berken, after shooting the
woman, blew out his wi brains.
Alexander M. Walter, 81 years of age,
a hard drinksr, attempted to murder
his wife and commit suicide, in Balti-
more, on the goth ult. His wife es-
capped injury, but he is in a critical
condition. Thomas Ryan, convicted
of manslaughter and recommended to
mercy, was sentenced at Westminls-
ter, Maryland, on the 29th uit., to
three years in the pe%nitentlary. He
KILLED an old man, Joshua J. Evans,
while ''under the influence of NOR
phia, opium and cigarettes. as well as
whisky"
-Great damage vas done to vegeta-
ion around Lockport, New York, by q
severe frost on the night of the 28th
ult. A telegram from Rochester says
hat mot i'll five years has the grape
crop of the Keuka Valley been so badly
cut up by frosts" as on that night.
Over $1,000 acres are devoted to grapes
IN that region, and the loss Is estimated
at 25 per cent. Killing frosts are re-
yorted in Livingston, Orleans and
Monroe counties, New York. Grape
vines were witted aud all sorts Of
garden truck killed. There were heavy
frOsts in the vicinity Of Lock Haven,
Pa, on the morning of the 29th ult.
fhe damage to crops is not yet known.
The heaviest frost of the season visited
Southwestern Michigan on the night OF
he 9th ult. Reports are being re-
ceived of great damage to early vege.
ables and small fruits, anu in some
localities wheat and corn suffered.
"A Pacific mail steamer has arrived
1t San Francisco with Chinese and
Japanese news. Great fires are reported
IN japan, which occurred on May Sd.
At Yokoto a thousand houses were
destroyed. The fire originated in the
residence quarter about 10 O'Clock at
eight and burned for 16 hours Many
lives were lost. The Emperor sub
scribed over 1000 pounds out OF his
own purse for the relief Of the suffer-
els. About 10, people were rendered
homeless. On Oshima Island al
eruption TOOK place April Is and de-
stroyed more than half the houses on
the island, Another peculiar disea.e
mas broken out in Tukadagun, the VIC
Tins dying five hours after being
attacked. A series OF earthquakes
was followed by the opening Of the
ground a thousand feet long by three
wide.
"A telegram from Harrisburg,
Penna., reports that Henry Goss a
farmer, forged the name of Martin
Goss, his father-ln-law, to notes
amounting to $1,000, had then discount
ted at Progress and disappeared, leav-
ing a wife and several children.
Thomas McGetchin, charged with for
geries In Baltimore to the amount of
$50, 900 was arrested IN Jacksonville,
Florida, on the night of the 2Sth
ult.
The body of Frank Corney, who
shot himself I've times In presence of
his wife and child, at R~oxborougb.
Massachusetts,, on the 25th ult., and
then disappeared, was found on the
morning OF the Doth ult., i'll a field,
where he had finished the work with
another bullet. Domestic trouble va
the cause.
According to o telegram from
Kingston, Ontario, it Is estimated. from
information received from different
points on the Lakes, that the storm Of
the 2sth ult. caused a loss of is to ~
lives, and destroyed shipping valued az
$500 200. John Shedlock, a miner, and
his helper, a Hungarian, were killed At
the Port Bowkley coal mine. at Wilkes
barre, Pa, on the 29Gh ulG, by the fall
of the roof, all the props having been
broken by the force of a blast. James
| Manlsa was badly burned in the face
and eyes by the explosion Of a LOADED"
cigar, given him by David Mack as a
practical joke. in Baltimore, Nd. on
The evening of the 2Sth ult.
During q barn raising at Loyal
Oak, Ohio, on the 29th ult. one of the
large beams fell upon a score OF work.
ers. Frank Erich, Jacob Kurtz and
| Milton Boerstler were fatally hurt,
william, Charles and Joseph Bauer
received Internal injuries, and a dozen
Wpra badly cat and lrutaai