The Penn's Grove record., 1894-07-27

By the explosion of gasoline John
Reynolds grocery, at st. Louis, was
burned and three persons badly
scorched.
Finding the Young babe of Mrs. True
Miller unprotected, a vicious horse, at
Huntington, w. Va, chewed it to
death.
While brutally a.saulting his wife,
John Ashbacker, of Louisville, was shot
dead by his daughter, Mrs. t. F..
Meagher.
Evil gossip about a young woman
led to a general fight, near Farmers
vile, La, in which Jim Plat and John
Stewart were killed.
Suit of Mrs. Ann Small, aged 70,
against John Smith, 60 years old, of
Detroit, for breach of promise, ended
in a verdict for the defendant.
Guy T. Olmstead, who, in March
last, shot aud seriously wounded Will
liam L. Clofford, a letter carrier of
Chicago, has been found insane.
At Knights Station, Georgia, Charles
Isom snapped a pistol at Robert i.
Cutters with whom he had had q quar-
rel, and, thinking that he had killed
the man, committed suicide. Cutler
was not injured.
Z. r. Leonard, retiring postmaster at
Boise, Idaho, is $1,000 short i'll his ae-
counts, and has disappeared.
By an immense %cloudburst, the Fet-
terman bottoms at Dougless, Wy, were
turned into a lake two feet deep.
While handling a pistol at Columbus,
O., Elmer Clark, aged Is, was shot and
killed by Harry Snow, aged 10 years.
While harvesting in Lawrence
County, Ind, Farmer Thomas Bird
found a medal, given to William Henry
Harrison for bravery in Indian wars.
Thomas Lcgsden, about is years o
age, was killed while loading a hay
wagon near S~hawneetown, Illinois. A
sister who was sick was 50 affected by
the accident that she died. The father,
crazed by the shock of the Two deaths,
cut his throat with a pocket knife, and
cannot recover.
A bull charged upon a rapidly NOV
ing Colorado Midland train in a cut
near Colorado Springs and succeeded
in whecking the train. TIE trainmen
escaped by jumping, but the bull was
killed.
Three men entered the grocery of
James McGaw, at Springfield, ILL.,, as
he was closing up for the night, and
by torture compelled him to open his
safe and give them the $24OO in gold
it contained.
Mrs. Charles johnson was found al
the foot of a precipice near Rock Island
Tennessee, badly bruised and uncon-
scious. When she was restored to
consciousness she charged thst, while
out with her husband he had deliber-
ately driven the horse over the precl-
pice, jumping out in time to save him
self, evidently with the purpose of caus-
ing her death. johnson has disap-
peared.
Edwin Traughber was taken from bis
home, near Adairville, Kentucky, by
a mob and lynched. The motive for
the crime is not known. !
A terrible five-years' drought IN
Durango, Mexico, has been broken by
heavy rams.
Jealousy caused Thomas Brown, a
Coal City, Ill.,, miner to kill his wife
and commit Suiciin.
Governor Tillman, Of South Caro-
lima, has issued his proclamation open
ing the State dispensaries on , gust
LIST.
Thirteen escaping %convicts at the
Detroit, Mich, Jail were fired on by the
guards, all but two captured.
Ten year-old Bertha Wenning, OF
indianapolis, Ind, vas bitten by 3
vicious dog six weeks ago and died OF
hydrophobia.
Fifteen men and a large number OF
sheep and cattle were drowned IN 8
cloudburst in the mountains of the
Petra district, Mexico.
Fred Pfengler, of Chicago, who ha;
been separated from his wife, attempt
ed to abduct her boy during her alb
sence, and was shot twice by William
Fletcher.
While Mrs. Matilda Schwsrtzhubel
was tending bar in her husbands Chi
cago saloon she was shot three times
by William Hahn, who then blew his
own brains out.
J.. H. Haas, an Indian spolis, Ind,
shoemaker, sent money to bring his
Sweetheart from Germany, but received
his answer from her husband. Haas
hung himself. 6