The Penn's Grove record., 1891-02-27
NUMBER 81.

train OF mules within q few yards 81
the Little Rule Mine, carrying nIne OF
them down the mountain and killing
six Of them. The mules were loaded
with valuable ore from the Little Rule,
which cannot be recovered.
The Salt River Valley, in Arizona,
is suffering from the severest flood III
its history. The damage Is estimted
at SIPS, 600. Five indians are known
to be drowned, aud 1t Is rumored
that a white family have met the same
fate.
"A train on the Allegheny Valley
Railroad ran into a landslide, near
Franklin, Pa, on the list. The en-
CINE and eight cars were thrown down
an embankuent. Fireman William
Tegert was killed and Engineer Day
and Brakeman Martin were injured,
Lightning struck a nitro-glyceTine
magazine near FIndlay, Ohio, on the
21st and exploded fifty cans. The only
thing left to identify the place of the
magazine Is a hole in the ground.
"A convent Just completed al
O'Neill, Nebraska, by the Dominican
Order Of Sisters, was burned on the
2lst.
Engineer Lewis Fowler and Will
liam McManus, a telegraph operator,
who are charged with causing the
tunnel disaster in New York, on the
| 21st, have been arrested and held IN
$40, 600 bail to await the Coroner's in
quest on the 2lst.
Justice Cunning, fin Hackensack,
New Jersey, on the 21st, Issued war
rants for the arrest of twenty-five men,
accused Of gambling, or of permitting
gambling, in their houses or places of
business. About half of the accused
were arrested during the afternoon.
A house in Perry, Wisconsin, oc-
cupied by Marcus Holearson and fam
lily was burned on the 10Th. The OLD.
est child was cremated and another has
since died from its injuries. while the
mother, who rushed into the fire for
her little ones. has become blind from
the effects of the fire.
Two more bodies, those of Michael
Polish and Samuel Porter, were recOv-
cred at GAINESVILLE on the 2l5t. The
bodies of Lawrence Reed, Henry Ball,
Michael Smith and John Bullock were
recovered on the 22i.
A fire occurred III a tenement
house In Brooklyn, New York, on the
21st, and six persons, three adults ana
three children, were burned to death.
"A collision occurred on the Balt1-
more and Olio Southwestern Railroad
at Remington, Ohio, on the 23i. Pas
sengers were thrown into a heap and it
Vas found that five persons were in
jured, but no one killed. Miss Retta
Clayton, of Fayetteville. o.; Miss Mary
Fox, of st. Martin, o.; w. H. Foy. OF
Jacksonville, o.; Mrs. Phil. Hall.
of Jacksonville, o., and Wm. II. Gal.
lagher. conductor. were Injured.
The Colorado river broke through
the dykes at Yuma, Arizona, on tina
90 :, and IN a short lime the town was
submerged. Gus Lee was drowned il
bed.
An engine on the Bald Eagle Val
ley Railroad was thrown from the track
on the 23l by "a stone placed Ia a
switch. Edward Clssett, tue fireman.
was killed.
The body Of Professor Bancroft.
of Brown University, who disap-
peared on the morning of December
9th last, vas found on the 29d Ia a
pond at Cranston, Rhode Island.
The Twenty.eighth street wall ii
the Fifth Avenue Theatre In New
York. fell on the 23d. No person was
injured.
Indictments against City Council
men Hayes aud Bowes, In Kansas City.
charged with bribery In connection
with the efforts Of the Eleventh Street
incline Plane Company to secure a
franchise, were quashed on the 23i i'll
the Criminal Court.
"A duel with knives was fought on
the 22d in a village neal Chicago, be-
tween Henry Guth, aged "a years, and
an unknown man. They were rivals
for the hand of a village belle. AS
ruth, who is a butcher, was going
home just after daylight he was attack
ed by his rival in an untrequented
spot. Guth was subsequently found
bleeding and unconscious, but tue
other, who is supposed to be MORALLY
injured, cannot be found.
Scott Bishop, a negro, who 4 Few
days ago assaulted and robbed Hugh
Hammack, neal Blackstone. Virginia,
was lynched by a mob early On the
23d. Hammack died Oh Friday last.
John A. Williams. leader in the
train robbery at Spur Switch, Texas,in
June last, and who was placed on trial
at Lind on the 18th, was convicted on
the 2lst and sentenced to 80 years III
the ~penitentiary. Napoleon McDaniels.
one OF his partners, who was given
a similar sentence last September,
and afterwards escaped, is still AZ
large.
The Methodist ministers of chi
cago and vicinity on the 23d celebrated
the quarter-centennial jubilee OF the
Fl eedmen's Aid and Southern Educs-
tion Society OF the Church.
The discovery is reported OF q
quarry containing q large deposit or
~alabaster, extending for several miles,
on the foot hills near Canon City.
Colorado.
The Traveller, OF Arkansas City,
Arkansas. said edltorily ON tue lSsn
that letters had been received from
Congressman Perkins and others, say
! ing that settlers In the Cherokee Out
let could legally hold their homesteads.
As a result. every quarter section tol
10 miles south Of the Kansas border is
occupied. at the lowest estIm lie 10,
900 settlers have gone in.
The bodies of nearly all the vic
fins of the explosion at Spring Hal
Mines, Nova Scotia, recovered
on the 23d. of the unfortunates "a
were married, 40 single and rs boys.