The Penn's Grove record., 1896-03-06

gers and part Of the crew OF the Ailsa
took to the rigging and were rescued by
tug Harold. The French steamer, it
is said, offered no assistance, and menu
bers Of the crew of the Ailsa took the
only available life beat.
The Old Dominion steamer Guyan-
dot e ran into the Clyde Line steamer
George w. Clyde off Fort Wadsworth,
New York. The Clyde was beached to
prevent her from sinking.
An engineer and brakeman were killed
and a fireman aud brakeman injured
IN a collision on the Delaware Rail-
road, at Blackbird, Delaware, betwe n
y freight train and We k train.
The American liner Pnris arrived at
Newport News, Va. She is to be
docked and repaired
As a result of the escape Of coal gas
from a stove in a farm house Of Fred
erick StuenEel. near Creto, Illinois,
Stuenkel and two Of his children were
killed, and Mrs. steuenkel and four
other children are not expected to re-
cover,
A passenger train on the Southern
Railroad was wrecked on Stone Creek
~irestle, nine mi es from Macon, Geor-
gia, and ten minutes later a freight
train fell through the broken trestle.
Robert Mercer and John Reddish,
fremen, and F. w. M hippler, baggage
master, we're killed. 1t Is believed that
a rail was removed from the trestle
and that the motive was robbery.
DIR. Laughlin McFarlane, Professor
of Surgery in the University of Tor
onto, died in that city of blood poison
ing, contracted while amputating the
toes Of a patient at the General Hos
pital
Milliard Boyer, aged 10 months, was
killed at his home, in Lockport, New
York, by drinking ammonia from a
bottle which his father had given him
to play with.
a telegram from Seattle, Washing
ton, says that the land and snow slide
on the Great Northern in the Cascade
Mountains has developed into the
most DISASTROUS one in the history OF
the road. Rocks, trees and earth were
swept down the mountain side, carry
ing away snowsheds, bridging and
tracks. There has been, 10 conse-
quence, a complete blockade.
Gordon & Keith's wholesale and
retail house furnishing establishment,
in Halifax, Nova Scotia, was destroyed
by fire. The loss will be oyer $780,
900.
The OBrien Block, a business and
apartment building IN Duluth, Min
nesota, was destroyed by an Incendlary
fire. Mrs. Paul Baldwin was burned
to death and her husband terribly in
jursd. A number of persons had mar
row escapes from death.
Henry G. Castor, a telephone en-
ploye, was fatally injured during a fire
in Decatur, Illinois.
Michael Kraemer, % years old, shot
and killed his aged mother and then I
put q bullet into his own brain in
Long Island City. The Kraemer family
had been entertaining q party of
friends from New YORK and plenty OF
drink was supplied. Michael had had
a quarrel with n of the visitors, and
he left the room. His mother followed
him into the kitchen, where the ehoot.
ing occurred. There we're no witnesses
to the tragedy.
Harry Hindes, a gambler. who runs
establishments in Salt Lake. Cheyenne,
Laramie, Boise and other cities, shot
and killed Walter Dinwoody, a promi-
nent young business man, in Salt Lake
on account Of the latter's intimacy
with Hince's wife"
A crowd Of masked men held up the
South Carolina and Georgia west-bound
passenger train at Windsor, a small
passenger station, 10 miles from Black
vile, s.. g., and took Calvin Kennedy,
a negro prisoner, from the custody of
two constables and lynched him. Ken
nedy was charged with assaulting a
woman several months ago.
Two negroes, who had broken into a
country store near Convent, Louisiana,
were taken from the Jail and lynched.1
A slight shock of earthquake was
AOts ~ Satu"VhS mall
Durrant, the San Francisco muir
derer, has bean granted another stay
Of execution.
The La Bourgogne, which sank the
Ailsa IN New York harbor, sailed for
Havre.
The house of Michael Crawley, near
Lexington, KY, was burned, and his
3-year-old daughter creniated.
After getting into several serious
financial scrapes, Edward NJ. Doyle, of
Newburgh, N. Y, shot himself, and
will probably die.
Charles Pustalka, convicted of MUIR
derlng his wife in New York, will be
e~lectrocuted at Sing Sing during the
month OF April 20.
Governor Greenhalge, of Massachu-
sets, is suffering from Bright dis
ease, his left side is ~paralyzed and his
case is considered hopeless.
Thomas B. Rockford, an american,
employed to investigate the Aurelio
mine near Juninez, Mexico, was shot
and killed by Evaristo Rodrigues, the
superintendent,
T. Nj. Goodwin, who wa shot by
bank robbers at Warren, Ark. and
nearly all OF those who started in pur-
suit Of the robbers have given up the
chase.
William F. Cough. who for ten
years has been running the largest
| naesen Ger engine in the limited States.
died suddenly just after he had run his
train into Boston.
A Chicago and Northwestern train
struck n crowded carriage at Memo
mInee, Mich, killed the ~12-year-old
son of Alderman Louis johnson and
seriously injured The father and four
other men. u