The Penn's Grove record., 1891-10-16
THE news Of A WEEK
Eastern and Nidoic states.

The Jugboat Meadow was sunk In
New York harbor by a collision, and
the engineer and a boy passenger were
drowned.
The schooner M. NJ. Merryman,
which left New York for Salem with a
cargo of gas coal, went to pieces of
Chatham, Mass, but the crew were
saved.
Attorney Bloch, of New York, has
appealed to the State Commission of
Lunacy to release Mrs. Bloch. who Sc
spiritualistic features got her into
Bloomingdale Asylum.
Farmer Henry Hoch, aged rs. q
Schoenersville, Lehigh county, Pa,
dropped dead of heart disease at his
breakfast table. 4
An Albany and SusQuehanna train
jumped the tracks near Oneonta, N. Y,
and Engineer James Patterson, who
stuck to his post and put OF the air
brakes, was killed. Fifty-fve cars
were wrecked. Loss, $3.50, DOC.
The bodies of the SIX miners impris
oned in the Richardson Colliery at
Glen Carbon, ia, were recovered. The
men died OF suffocation from mine gas.
Brakeman John Sbissler caught his
foot in a frog in front of a train at Sum-
bury, Pa, und struggled hard to free
himself, but lost a leg and an arm.
An unknown colored minstrel was
found dead on the banks OF the Juni-
alta, at Tyrone, Pa, with his banjo
clasped tightly to his side.
Engineer Robert H. Coleman of Leb-
anon, Pa, ran engine No. 10 with one
car four and eight. tenths miles over the
Cornwall and Lebanon Railroad at an
average Of forty-eight seconds to the
mile.
H. M. Wilson, a New York cloak
maker, committed suicide at the Grand
Central Hotel by shooting himself in
the head. 8
Anne Hilkowska was burned to death
by the explosion Of a lamp in q New
York tenement house.
Alexander Goodale and Herman
kits, farmers living near Little Falls,
New York, were drowned In the Erie
Canal, near that place. 1t Is believed
the men drove of the bank into the
canal.
W. B. Davis, a Brooklyn iron mer-
chant was drowned In the East river
by falling from the deck of a steam
launch.
A despatch from New Haven, Con-
necticut says that Patrick Flannigsn,
the murderer of Torrance McDermott,
and who Is under sentence of death,
will doubtless die before the s~entenceis
executed, Being in the last stages of
consumption.
David Reagan, aged "a years, was
sentenced to % years. Imprisonment,
under the Habitual Criminal act, at
Boston. He had served two terms for
~''breaking and entering" and was re-
Gently convicted again on a similar
charge. l
An arteslan well at Springfield, s. D.,
became choked up. After 1t discharged
about 100 pounds of coal, it began to
run freely again.
A head-end collision of freight trains
on the Minneapolis and st. Louis Rail-
road, north of Shakopee, Minnesota, re-
suited in the killing OF Fireman Thomas
Rogers. The engineers and the other
fireman escaped by Jumping.
Neel & Wampher's extensive planning
mills, at McKeesport, Penna., were
completely destroyed by fire, entailiDg
a loss of $50, 900.
Sylvester Franklin Wilson, who was
on trial at New York on a charge Of
abduction, discharged his council, and
announced that he would conduct his
own defence. 2
Arthur D. Mayo, son of Rev. Mayo,
of Boston, Mass. has been missing for
a week.
A soldiers AMI saiIors. monument,
costing 1872 600, was unveiled at Utica;
N. Y.
Fourteen-year-oId william Kauff-
man, a twin, was killed by a trip Of
cars on the Gordon Plane at Ashland.
Fugitive convict Link Person Is
again In jail at Williamsport, Pa.
After leaping from a train and escaping,
he carried a hod for two weeks to earn
his living in Pittsburg.
The post-ofice at Lebanon, Penns..
was broken open and about 5000 and a
number Of registered letters were stolen.
At Nisgra Falls the cage men at
shaft No. 2. on the tunnel, lost control
of the cage and it fell to the bottom of
the shaft, killing thres colored men and
fatally lnjuring two white men. The
cage tenders were in danger OF being
lynched by the tunnel men, and they
were locked up in the police station for
safety. 3
South and wesE
The Lick Call Observatory Genet
will NOT be visible to the naked eye, and
its %perihelion passage in November
Is eighteen times that of the earth.
The Times building and the two
buildings adjoining it in Lima, Ohio,
We're burned. Loss. $100, 900; insur-
ance, $500
Mrs. Joseph Burrough left her hus-
band about two weeks ago and went to
her parents home, in Girard, Illinois.
Her husband procured a shot gun and
fired through a window, killing her IN
s%tantly. She leaves a baby about a
year old.
While at work in the Union Tunnel,
Baltimore, Thomas Hughes and julius
Miller were struck by a train and
killed, and Frederick Cappells, John
Funk and Henry Coleman were injured
,bably fatally. 4
An ~unmanageable Kansas City cable
car crashed into a crowd and injured
more than twenty people.
At Anpannlis the trial of Naval Cadat