The Penn's Grove record., 1892-08-19


shot down in the Phoenix. Ariz.. Court
room, had not the Widows pistol missed
ire.
Fred LangboG, a a~ell.known ranch
m N, of Cheyenne, Wyoming, was ar
rested, charged with extensive horse
thleving operations.
"Bob" Jordan, a negro prisoner,
who, In the custody OF a Sheriff, was
being taken into Camden, Arkansas.
~ captured by masked r.eu, and shot
to death. He had mE.l.ed a white
woman.
N. Simmons. Of Tallaga, Alabama,
wa shut and killed by R. L. Raspberry,
q bartender, whom he had discharged.
R.sberry Immediately shot and killed
himself.
A South IN Pacifc train was wreck
ed ct Uvalde, Texas, and Frank Leon
ard, Of Plains, Pa, was killed.
Crazy Mrs. Martha Kester, Of MN
kato, MINI, poisoned her 4~-weeks-old
babe, drowned her 2-year-Old boy in o
well aud tiled to drown herself.
Two passengers, carried beyond
their station in Campbell County. o.,
tried to wreck the Kentucky Central
Cannon Ball express at Falmouth. KY,
but were foiled
Colonel b. Clay King, the murderer,
was safely lodged In jail IN Nashville,
Tennessee. Governor Buchanan, in an
interview, stated his reasons fer com
mullng the sell tence Of King. He says
he acted according to his belief.
Congressman W. G. P. Breckenridge,
who opposed the Fair Appropriation
bill in Congress. has Endorsed . news
paper article suggesting his resignation
as orator of the day. October 81. s
A special traiD, containing aKnIghts
Temper party, on their way from Dem
yer, met with an accident on the Chica-
20 and Northwestern Railroad, at Clin-
ton, Iowa.
A freight train on the Columbus,
Hooking Valley and Toledo Railroad
went through q bridge near Logan,
Ohio. A tramp was killed and three Of
the train hands were badly hurt.
At Palmer, Indiana, the Chicago and
Frie Railroad track is sinking In a
quagmire. A bridge ought feet high
| has disappeared. and several thousand
carloads Of dirt have failed to make
| any impression on the pit.
A fast train on the Chicago, Burling-
| ton and Quincy Railroad jumped the
track near Peoria, Illinois, and George
Bane, the engineer, was fatally. and
| John Maxwell, fireman, seriously in
| jured. ut Is believed that boys, plac-
ing q spike on the rs:l to see the engine
smash 1t, caused the accident"
Peter McCauley, q farmer living near
Smithvllle, got DRINK and was ar, ested
| for breach OF the peace His son
| William, hearing of his fathers dis
grace, bought q revolver, shot and
killed McCsuisy and then killed him
self.
While Howard Pulver was walking
home in friendly c inverse with q
stranger at Crete, Illinois, the stranger
suddenly attacked Pulver with ian old
saucer" slashing him fatally. The
man then walked back along the rail.
road track aud committed suicide by
throwiI q himself In front of y train.
IL Is supposed he was insane.
Leroy Bell, aged 6 years, died Of
| ~hydrophobia in Chicago, after eleven
hours of agony. Nothing beyond eau
terization was Used to prevent hypro-
phObia.
+. w Curry, a member Of the Demo
cratic State Committee of Iowa, shot
and killed W lillian F. Ellis. q tough.
Ellis had repeatedly threatened to XII
| Curry, and made a motion 70 draw &
revolver upon him when Curry fired.
George Burton was shot and killtd
at Fort Worth, Texas, by Georgt
Myers, whose 1~3-year-oid sister BuitoI
had attempted to assault.
j. B. Tolbert, a plantation superir
tendent. was attacked by a gang o
drunken negroes in Memphis, and
fatally slashed with razors.
General tiano Dunn, of New York
was found IL a dying condition in hi
room in Denver, Colorado, from TIN
effects of a pistol shot tired by himsel
with suicidal intent. He serves
through the war. gaining his title o
general. and afterward practiced law
1t is said that he was addicted to tn
use Of intoxicants. He was 81 years o
age.
The bank upon which the depot Of
the New o. lsans, Fort jackson ant
Grand Isle Railway company, In Nee
Orleans, was constructed caved In
causing damage estimated al $50. 600.
A warrant was issued at Laurel
Delaware, for the arrest OF William
Evans. on the charge Of murder in tn
iirst degree, for the poisoning of Ray
mond Rosaer. The complaint wa
made by Benjamin Rosser, the child
uncle.
A. q. Ashe, q well-to-co farmer nea
Austin, Texas, was found dead on th
highway, his body riddlsd with buck
shot. His 20.year old o has been al
rested on suspicion, as he had threat
ened to kill his father.
Jennie Taylor, Of Hudson, Michigan
was arrested, having 20 dynamite cart
ridges in her possession. She eOnfesse'
that she bad intended to blow up tn
house, together with her brother AM
sister, iB order that she might So cur
the VIII Die of her fathers estate o
S. 600.
Logan Murphy. a desperadoand mur
derer, was hanged near Mount S;eI
ling, Kentucky, by an armed mob o
800 men, who took him from th
jail by force. He was dragge
10 q ~irestle, a rope was put around hi
neck and he was pushed of. He hs
been sentenced to death, but was grant
cd a respite, pending an application 70
q rehearIng.
William Cuddy, a contractor, Of I'd
firm of Phillips & Cuddy. at the Mich
gan State Prison, in jackson, was kille
at that institution by q life convit
named Henry Blackman, who Is doin
time for m irdering his wife and fam
lily.
The mntilated body Of Mr.. Matt
L ,oney, an aged woman OF MARKETS.
Georgia, was found nea her home
VIM. Ellis, an adopted son and heir Q
tho nur,larad u0mau n auaOecta6 r