The Penn's Grove record., 1891-11-27
THE news OF A WEEK
Eastern and Middle States,

Two Buffalo, Rochester and Pitts.
burg passengercars roIled down q Thirty
foot embankment at Perry. seriously
injur1ng Mr.. Hoyt, OF Rochester and
killing MS wife.
A long trestle and costly hoisting ap-
paratus at Piedmont, New York, owned
by the Erie Railway Company, was
damaged by wind to the extend OF
several thousand dollars.
The house Charles Halbach, at Cat
asauqua, Penna., was robbed of five
hundred dollars in gold. a gold watch,
and 500. 900 worth of bonds and other
papers. The papers were found near
the house.
A four-year old son of William
Dooley died of hydrophobia near Cat
rabid dog a short time ago.
James Walsh, aged 28 years; William
Calvin, 90 years, and John Mccain, 8
year,, were instantly killed, aud
William Mccain, 6 years, was fatally
injured, at Greensburg, Penns.,
wagon IN which they were crossing the
tracks being struck by a train on the
Southwest Pennsylvania Railroad.
Charles Cutcabbage and Victor Mis-
kill were crushed by q fall Of coal In
Sugar Notch Colliery, neal wilkes.
barre, the former being killed and the
latter MORALLY injured. Anthony Sill
COlliery by a fall of coal.
John Readily and a Polish IaboIer
were killed and William Hopkins was
mortally Injured by q fall Of top rock
in Packer COlliery, at Shenandoah.
Penna.
Hebron Diamond and a man
named David Poles, were killed In
Elizabeth, New Jersey, by being
struck by a train on the Pennsylvania
Railroad.
G.. Henry StrattoD, who engaged In q
40-days' fast in a New York museum,
died at the Bellevue Hospital, where he
was taken in an exhausted condition.
Fred ID. Miller, IA years of age died
at Long Island City, of heart disease,
resulting from excessive cigarette
smoking. He Is said to have smoked
from two to four packages OF
cigarettes every day for two years
past.
The post Office and hall at Mills,
Massachusetts, was destroyed by a fire
of ~lncendiary origin. The loss was S1O,-
QUO. s
Influenza has Connecticut people in
is grip.
The body of Paulo Sundlno, one Of
the four victims Of the cavern Of sand
on Long Island recently, was recov-
cred.
While a Dumber of boys were shoot
ing at a mark at Lancaster, Pennsyl-.
vania, John Bowman, IL years old, shot
himself in the abdomen, intlictlng Q ia
tai wound.
A rabid dog. In Newark, New Jersey,
bit three men, two women and three
children before BEING killed.
An unknown man jumped from the
centre of the main span of the brooklyn
Bridge, at New York, and was
drowned. This is said to be the first
suicide from the bridge.
A prize-Hght occurred in New York
city between John Hallinger, II years
old. and George Altman, aged 10.
Hallinger was taken home in an IN
conscious condition, from injuries re-
ceived at the hands of his antagonist,
and died.
Edward Straititf, who was convicted
of murder in the second degree at Carl
isle, Penna., was sentenced to 10 years
and four months In the Eastern Peni-
Tertiary.
Joseph Kllloran, arrested IN New
York, was taken to Sunbury, Penna.
He is charged with robbing the Lewis
burg Bank of $4,000 in May last. l
The break in the East Brooklyn
water conduit, by which four men lost
their lives, also brought the city of
Brooklyn to the verge of a water ia
mine.
Mrs Susan Hampton, of Hoboken.
worth $50, 200 in cash, was fouad dead
In New York city, and her son Peter
has been held on suspicion.
The Old Homestead Hotel, at lanes
town, New York, was destroyed by
hre.
About half the business portion OF the
town Of Middleburg, Vermont, was de-
stroyed by fire, besides two bridges.
The loss will reach $4,000.
Herbert Scar bout, a professional
nurse, sho: and seriously wounded
Mrs. Hawley Chapman, wife OF Q
patient he was employed to nurse In
Brooklyn. .
South ana west.
John Wright and Jane $ Fl. Arvey,
miners OF Idaho Springs, Colvrado,
were found dead In the Matte Mine.
II is supposed they were killed by .
premature blast.
A man named Kolasko, who ssid his
home was in Denver, shot and killed
his wife, Lizzie Kolasko, In Cleveland,
Ohio, because she would not return to
live with HIM.
Dr.. w. H. st. John Rose Is In Jail at
Frankfort, Ind, charged with bigamy.
In a freight-traln collision near
Peoria, ILL.,, on the c. B. Il O.,
brakeman q. E. Gilbert was killed.
The bullet which killed Postmaster
Church at Mt. Airy, Ga, was a stray
one fired from a disreputable house dur
ng a quarrel inside.
Two buildings 10 Pine Bluff, Arkan-
sas, occupied by Louthan 4 Robinson,
grocers, and by Hurley & Miller's res
taurant, were destroyed by fire involv-
ing a loss of S45 600.