The Penn's Grove record., 1889-03-16
NEWS OF I'll WEEK.

While workmen were tearing
down a building in Cincinnati on the
Sth the roof fell. Peter st. Peter and
Solomon COIN we're fatally, and adam
Mccarthy badly, hurt. Part OF d
freight train On the Louisville and
Nashville Railroad was wrecked neal
Covington. Kentucky, on the evening
OF the 7th, and three train hands were
badly injured.
e. 4. Schroeder, a train baggage
master on the Chicago, Milwaukee aud
st. Paul Road, has been arrested on a
charge OF having stolen passenger
tickets. The company estimate thelr
loss at $1,000. Martin Thorp and WI:
liam Garnet, leaders of II gang OF
counterfeiters In the Southwest, have
been arrested in Conway county, Al
kansas. A large sum Of bogus money,
comprising IS, $40 and s2O imitatiop
gold pieces were also secured. Moses
L. Myers, for IL months II clerk IN tht
registry division of the New YORK
Post-otlice, was arrested on the STU iol
stealing money from registered letters.
He confessed his guilt aud was admit
ted in $1,000 bail.
Elizabeth johnson, a widow, ageu
65 years, died in jersey City, Ne"
Jersey. on the 10th, while standing De-
side the coffin of her daughter, Mrs.
Langdon, who's funeral was about TO
take place. Mrs. Elizabeth Glmbe, an
aged and slightly demented woman,
was killed on the railroad, IN East
Harrisburg, Penna., on the Afternoon
of the 9th. In Akron. Ohio, on tne
10th, John Greeley, John Costigan,
william McGinnis and Frederick
Schrank, boys, stole q a of blasting
powder and filled their pockets from II.
Somehow the powder became ignited,
and all the boys were terribly burned,
Greeley and Schrank perhaps fatally.
The boilers in the Victoria flour
| ing mills in st. Louis exploded on the
morning of the 10th, killing Patrick
MacMalion, the fireman, and Nell
| Brown, a coal passer. The mill was
| almost entirely destroyed.
Mrs. Thomas Love was shot dead
| by her husband, near Fredericksburg,
Virginia, on the morning OF the 9th.
Love says she was replacing the maln-
| spring In his revolver and that his
inger slipped from the hammer. HIS
wife was standing in front OF him and
| tile bullet entered her left breast, kill
| ing her instantly" Mrs. Love was "a
| years Of age and had been married
eight months.
George F. Reese, the foreman
| burned in the explosion Of the Powell
| suuib factory at Plymouth, Perna.,
| died on the afternoon Of the 10th. Ills
| daughter was one of the victims OF the
explosion, having been burned TO death
| with nine others.
"A gang Of young men who had
| been gambling and drinking got INTO
a fight in a Charleston, South Carolina,
parroom on the evening of the 9th, anu
| one of them, William MupJcnmap,
| was killed, his throat Scing cut with q
razor tpt Weir. Joseph Resell,
sga1L42 years, on the 10th, shot and
killed his wife, and then committed
suicide, at their residence In Auburn,
New York. Jealousy was the cause.
AT the house of Judge Snead in
Augusta, Georgia. on the 10th, bis ten
year-old son, "while playing policeman
and soldier" with two colored boys,
killed n instantly and wounded the
other. They were playing prisoners
and he was the police, They made a
break for liberty, and he ran in the
house and seized a gun, (which he did
not know was loaded" aimed at them
and pulled the trigger. The shot
entered the face and head of one of the
bows. killing him instantly.
"A boiler in the forging department
Of the Cleveland Rolling Mills, at
Cleveland, Ohio, exploded on the
morning OF the 18th, killing two met
and injuring eleven other persons.
several OF those injured were struck
by fragments of the boiler In buildings
adjacent to the mill. Robert Neal
and a colored man named ''SoInle"
Lawrence were drowned at st. Mary's
City, Maryland, on the evening Of the
10th. Their canoe was heavily laden
with oysters, and was capsized by a
stiff breeze. The locomotive of a
freight train on the MahanOy Division
Of the Reading Railroad ran off the
track at st. Nicholas. on the 18th.
The locomotive and IL cars were
wrecked. Benjamin Walker, fireman,
was instantly killed, and John Gilkner.
conductor, has since died.
by the fall of a breast of coal in
the New Hope mine at Frostburg,
Maryland, on the morning of the 18th,
Conrad Rank, aged IL years, wa
killed, and his father and brother were
dangerously injured.
The hotel known as Clinton Hall,
in Lakewood, New Jersey, was burned
early on the morning Of the 18th.
Sixty guests and 20 servants were in
the house when the fire was discovered.
All escaped, some in their night robes,
some partly clad, but none fully
dressed. DR.. L. Wallace, of Phila-
delphia, jumped from a second-story
window and fractured one Of his legs.
The loss is placed at S35, 000.
Some weeks ago william Cahoon,
landlord of a small tavern near Jack
son, Michigan, received a warning
from White Caps. but paid no attention
to it. On the evening of the 10th,
while sitting in a room reading. a load
of buckshot crashed through the win
dow and lodged in n of his legs. j.
5. Price, a neighbor, who quarreled
with CahOon, has been arrested. The
house Of j. Calvin Core, a farmer. neal
UniOntown, Penna., was entered by
six masked men on the evening of the
10th. Core was bound. and the rob,
bers searched the house for money, and
finally found about $500.
Antoine Belanger arrived at Ray
mond, Dakota, on the 10th, from his
home, about 20 miles north Of Doland.
He said that five masked men took
him to his barn, and, placing a rope
around his neck, raised him twice to a
joist, threatening to kill him if he did
confess that he burned his neighbours
building last fall. To ave his life he
confessed and was then driven away and
his house was burned. He knows all the
men and officers have started after
them. Albert Wilson shot and killed
Miss Sarah Marshall in Watford, On.
tario, on the evening of the 10th, be-
cause she refused to allow him TO walk
home from church with her.
F. L. Smith, Cashier of the Nor
wood Bank. in Norwood, New York,
was alone in the building on the 9th
vVhan Charles PhelnS the DOSt-Oflcp