The Penn's Grove record., 1891-03-06
NUMBER 80.

IenD., broke as them miners we're going
to work and the Car dashed down the
mountain. Two men we're killed and
eleven Others badly hurt.
The house of Henry Going ct Silver
Lake, Kan, was burned and two chill.
dren persisted In the flames.
A passenger train on the Georgia
Southern Railroad, a into a freight
train on a side track at Triton station,
Fireman Allen was instantly killed.
Conductor Ralford was ser ously injur-
ed, and Engineer Henry Speer mad his
leg crushed. Several passengers were
slightly bruised.
Important developments are expect
ed in the Illinois Senatorial fight this
week.
An air-ship COMPANY in Chicago pro.
poses to blow ST. 100 to the wind in
air crafts.
The Worlds Fair directory ID dis
charging clerks and wedding out sine
cures.
The Laclede Light Company, Of st.
Louis, has absorbed Its rivals by paying
s.. 900, 900.
After fifteen attempts, Dave Harris,
a mathematical phenomenon, Of Gal
weston, Tex, killed himself.
Tie two-story brick factory of the
She.t Wagon and Carriage Company.
st. Louis, was almost completely de-
stroyed by fire. Loss, $4,000: in
sured.
Lizzie Cloak, al old negro woman
was found murdered In her house Ii
Harrisburg, Ga. She was knocked In
the bead with a hammer, which was
found hear the body.
Miss Philippine Wanbach, Of George
town, Minn., died of chloroform under
the surgeons knife.
An old ''bull's eye" watch, the first
on Kentucky soil is still keeping time
for DR.. F. L. Harrod, of Hsrrodsburg.
A vein Of natural cheese has been dug
up IN Iowa. A mountain Of rye bread
and a lake of beer are being prospected
for.
Henry Green was the name piven by
| a woman who worked on q Kentucky
arm for a year without her sex being
discovered.
A thief threw a stone through the
show window Of Rosentbal's jewelry
store In Birmingham, Alabama, and
selling a tray Of diamonds, made his
escape.
Nearly all the houses in Yuma, Ari-
iona, were destroyed by the flood aud
the people are now camped on the hill
side. 1t is feared that there has been
great loss of life In the ella Valley one
report placing the number at about
200; but no definite news has been re-
ceived as the telegraph wires are down,
the bridges washed away and the roads
impossible. Indian inner sent out
have not yet returned.
The Southern Pacific Railroad Com
pany has settled this matters In dispute
with its employees and there will DO no
strike.
Four thousand dollars worth Of
Struggled opium on the steamer Belgic
from China, was seized by the custom
officers az San Francisco.
Thomas Baker, accused OF having
killed six men in Kentucky, was arrest
ed in Antigno, Wis.
1t has been decided by the National
Board Of Control of the Worlds Fair
that both Director General Davis and
secretary Dickinson must cut down OF.
penses in their offices owing to the act
ion OF Congress in reducing the govern
ment appropriation.
A c,llision occurred between two
w nh frcirhf fraIra MAS Narhnu
Iowa, fatally inIuring two passen-
gers.
At Gray's Station, netr Barbours-
vile, KY, Abner Mitchell killed John
Woods and IN turn was shot to death
by John lngle.
AS the result of the decline in the
price of silver Desr.y 100 bars Of bull
lion have been taken from the mint at
Carson City and sent to China, where
a higher price p .evails for it than In
America.
A special dispatch from Burlington,
Iowa, says over one hundred and 6fty
hopmen and clerks with other laborers
have been discharged by the Chicago,
Burlington and Quincy Road at Bur-
lington.
Dudley T, Morton, senior member
of the shipping firm of A. b. Morton
Sons, Of Baltimore, died suddenly, aged
60 years.
A despatch from Richmond, Vlr-
ginia, says that in the terrible gale which
swept tile lower James river "a oyster
men, mostly colored men, were dro
at points just above and below the
mouth of the Warwick river.
Sim Stevenson has been arrested In
Peoria, H., for killing a man named
Simons, whom he stabbed to death.
Two freight trains collided near Car
bon, Iowa,and william and Oren Hunt
we're fatally injured. Several others
were slightly hurt.
Jefferson Cobb, Cha rles Cobb. and .
mau named Dowdy we're killed BY the
explosion OF a boiler In y saw mill ear
Charleston, Nc.
Advices received by the Indiana
Board OF Agriculture state that there
Is a good prospect for more than an
average crop Of wheat.
Daniel Porter, the murderer OF Ed
WIN d. Smith, escaped from the jan at
Quincy, Ill.
Hans Peter jacobson, IL years old.
and his sister about ive years old, were
partly burned and partly suffocated to
death at their home IN Chicago.
During the first week in February
three men held up a train at Alils,
CAL, and In a Eight which followed the
| rnNna- of fNn . trat.. uynA lrlIIAH rUya
of the train robbers have been caught.
During the past ten days three hum
dred negroes passed through Gaines
vile, Tex, en- route to Oklahoma to
settle there. Nearly all come from
Eastern Texas.
The power house, car room and .
number Of cars OF the Street Railway
Company iu Sioux City, Iowa, were
burned. Loss, $4,000.
Thirty clerks have been disehArged