Passaic City record., 1891-07-25
At Home And ABROAD.
Domestic and Foreign News by
Telegraph and Cable.
Shocking Tragedy Under the
Shadow of Dartmouth College.

Ihe ASSASSINATION at Hanover, N. d., OF q
young woman by a rejected suitor in the
presence of her mother and sister, both of
whom were also targets for the murderer's
bullets formed at midnight one of the
most sensational tragedies ever enacted in
that vicinity. The murderer was Frank Almy
and his victim was Miss Christie Warden,
daughter OF Mr.. A. A. Warden, one of Ham
overs leading and most influential citizens.
The assassination occurred under the shadow
of the Dartmouth College buildings.
Miss Warden, her mother, her sister Fan
ME and Miss Louise Goodell were returning
on foot to their home located one mile from
the village, at late hour when Almy
jumped into the road in front of them, and
seizng Miss Christie by the hand said, Il
want you"
The mother and sister attempted to defend
her. Almy fired pistol at them, but none
of the shots struck them. They ran for as
sistance. Then Almy dragged his victim in
to the bushes from the road and shot her
twice through the head, one shot tearing out
her left eye.
When help arrived the girl was dead and
her body was stripped of nearly every article
of clothing. Almy had fled.
Miss Warden was most estimable young
woman, about twenty five years old, was
graduate of the State Normal School and a
popular teacher.
Almy was former employe of her father,
and his attentions to Miss Christie had been
repulsed.
1t was midnight before the news reached
the village. Sheriff Roster sent out search
ing parties In all directions. The father Of
the Saurdered girl offered reward of $500 for
the capture of the murderer.
Business in town next day was practically
suspended, and a large number of armed
men, among them nearly all of the Dart
mouth College professors, secured the
country.
Almy first went there about year ago,
claiming that Savannah, Ga, was his home.
He worked at Wentworth awhile under an
other name.
Five Men Drowned.
While seining in the Tennessee River near
MURRAY, KY, Ed Brown, Walter Strader,
John Meader, Dick Eaves and John T.
Brame were drowned. The party numbered
eight They tied one end of their seine,
seventy-five feet long, to the bank, and
stretched the netting nearly straight
out into the river. Stationed at intervals
near the outer end the eight men, with only
shoes, hats and coats off, swan with the
seine poles toward the shore.
None of them was well acquainted with the
river at that point, and they swan into a
swift cold current. Suddenly. one was
seized with cramps A panic followed.
The seine was dragged, and Brame, Brown,
and Strader became entangled in it.
Meader and Eaves were swept under by
the current, while the other three
succeeded in reaching the bank All the men
drowned were well-known citizens near Muir
ray, belonging to old families in the county.
A crowd was gathered, and search for the
drowned men began. The seine when hauled
In still held the three who became entangled
init.
Grasshoppers in New Jersey.
The grasshoppers have made their appear
ance in Middlesex County, New Jersey, and
very serious damage has been done by them,
crops being ruined on many farms. The
country in the vicinity Of Middlebush has
suffered more than any other section, but
the insects are appearing elsewhere, and
their visits are worrying many farmers
The farms at which the greatest damage
has been done in Middlebush are those of
Stewart Carriell, Miller Hoff, Aaron Plum
lev, the Mortimer Whitehead estate and
the poor-house farm. At each of these
crops have been destroyed to the
amount of 5000 or $3.50 while other
farms have suffered in less degree. At
Mr.. Carrielps the hoppers completely de-
stroyed an eleven-acre crop of hay, and did
great damage to vegetables and to standing
oats At the poor-house farm the hay and
potato crops were DESTROYED, and the insects
are now attacking the corn.
This is the first serious trouble the farmers
of this section have had with grasshoppers.
Eleven Killed by q Train.
The terrible accident that occurred on a
recent morning on the line of the Manches-
ter Ship Canal. by which a train passing
along the railroad running near the canal fell
over the embankment near Liverpool, Eng
land, killing eleven men who were working
under the heading and injuring many other
dno the fact that the
pointsman, boy seventeen years Of age mis-
took the points and turned a railroad train
consisting of twenty-five wagons loaded
with ballast, into siding leading into cut
ting. The train then crashed into slight
buffer at the end of the cutting and toppled
over upon the men at work below the en-
bankment The bodies Of the men killed
were horribly mutilated.
The boy pointsman ran away when he saw
the accident, but was captured later In the
day anu was charged with manslaughter.
Caused by Excessive Rain.
The temporary trestle of new Par
Handle Railroad bridge across Cork's Run
eight miles below Pittsburg. Penn, was
washed away by sudden food shortly be
fore noon the other day and three workmen
drowned. The body of one was recovered and
identified as that of Thomas Coleman. The
two others were foreigners
came down the hill below Duquesne Heights
and fell on a CHARTERS street car. The roof
was crushed in but none of the passengers
were injured. 1t had been raining hard since
IL o'clock that night and considerable dam
age by washouts and landslides was reported
all along the lines of the railroads.
Crime of a Mother.
Mrs. Maggie Kramer, the young wife of
the boss of a Camden IN. JD brewer, and her
six-months-old babe were found sticking in
the mud near Poplar street in the Delaware
early the other morning off Philadelphia.
Both were dead. Mrs. Kramer was the
mother of five children, and became insane
from brooding over the birth of her last
child.
1t was found that she had not only COM
mitted suicide, but that she might take the
babe with her she tied it to her bosom with a
large handkerchief. made it fast with several
safety pins, and then jumpei into the river.
A Baby's Terrible Fall.
Two-year-old Elsie Diette dropped from a
third-story window in Chicago, H.. while
-. Hair tho