The Penn's Grove record., 1896-08-07
Pennsylvania
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1t is estimated that the damage done
to property in Allegheny county by the
storm is anywhere from 100000 to
81, 900, 900. Two lives were lost in
P~ittsburg, one man was fatally IN
jured and several others sustained seri.
Gus injuries. A mIners' boarding
house, near ~BrIdgevillle, was carried
away by the flood, and seven persons
were drowned.
Many buildings were damaged and a
landslide, near Eureka, delayed
through trains on the Baltimore and
Ohio Railroad for more than twelve
hours.
In Lehigh county lightning set a
number of barns on fire and the de.
struction of property in this way and
by the heavy rains will aggregate $780,
600.
At Houtzdale lightning struck and
killed Frank Brunbaugh, aud seven
children who were attending scnool
were struck by lightning. Four of
the children are probably fatally in
jured.
The plans for Readings new Masonic
temple have been modified so as to re-
duce the cost from $3.50, 900 to $685.
900.
Butcher Leberer, of Milford, is miss
ing from his nome, aud his family
fear fou, viay, as he carried a large
sum of money with him.
The infant child of Thomas ID. Ell
vim, the Phpenixville murderer died
recently. 1t was born several weeks
after the murders.
Factory Inspector Campbell is pre-
pairing a bill for the next Legislature
requiring children applying for work
to present certificates that they are
of full age and have attended school
the required time. 8
John Rowland, of G~irardville, was
badly injured by the premature explo-
sion of a blast at Hammond Colliery.
Intense heat made Mrs. Susan
Stoneback, of Harmonyville, insane
and she hacked a dog to pieces with q
knife.
The inmates of the Schuylkill Coun-
ly Almshouse have broken ground
for a new electric light plant and hos
pital.
The buildings of the Berwyn Water
Company, near Phoenixville, are
about completed and ready for the
machinery.
+. B. Hanley, of Lebanon, was APP
~parently mistaken for somebody else,
and badly beaten by unknown men.
Mrs. Anthony Lehner, of South
Bethlehem, poured coal oil on the
kindling in the kitchen stove. She can
not recover
A farmer near Phoenixville has dis
covered that his potato bugs fed on
such army worms as got into his potato
patch.
During a severe storm Norman
Barr, a woodsman at Straights,
Cameron county, was crushed to death
by a falling tree.
Four Reading boys stole five brass
sleeves, worth So each. from the Read
ing Stove Works, and sold them to a
junk dealer for 81 cents.
Matt Putskalitis, who was shot dur
ing a fight at Cumbola, is dying at the
Miners Hospital. Constabies Devine,
Campbell and Martin are held for the
shooting. 4
j.. w Nolf has been appointed post
master at Slocum.
The Wilkesbarre relief fund for the
pittston mine sufferers has cached
$S2S2.05.
Four year old William Stoddard, of
Shamokin, cboked to death on a piece
of beefsteak.
Detectives Quigley and o'Brien have
eyed Luzarne county for $4,000 o run
ming down murderers.
While trying to board a coal train
at Mahanoy Plane, Harry Smith was
run over and died shortly afterward.
While three williamsport boys we're
watching a ball game from q tree top
it was struck by lightning, but they
escaped serious injury.
Frank Meran, of Merriam, near
Shamokin, was bitten by a snake
while gathering huckleberries and
died in great agony.
George Albert, a Lebanon tailor, fell