The Penn's Grove record., 1896-08-21

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5. p. Bond, train dispatcher, and r.
G. Friesner, operator, are under arrest
for manslaughter at Columbus, o., in
connection with the railroad collision
there.
Mr.. and Mrs. Joseph Koehler drove
their team on a railroad crossing near
Canton, o., and were run down. Mrs.
Koehler was killed and Mr.. koehler
was fatally in ured. 3
II. ]. Bryant and his little daughter
were killed by lightning at Rogers,
Ark.
Eena Rivitt, aged 16, and Cora Goa
nette, aged 10, were drowned while
bathing in a pond at Athol, Mass.
Alfred Benedict Porter, a wealthy
citizen of Fairport, N. Y, died f ON
the effect of an attack of %hIccoughs.
Mexican bandits and revolutionists
robbed a mail stage near Preside,
Mexico, and took the driver and a boy
prisoners.
Two men were shot and killed and
another badly wounded at the conven-
ton of the National party in the
Cherokee nation.
Three attempts were made TO wreck
passenger trains on the Erie Road near
Evansville, Ind by placing ties across
the track
All movables have been transferred
from the steamer st. Paul.. which
grounded on the Pacific coast, and the
steamer will be abandoned.
The richest gold PAGER mines of
Alaska have been transferred TO Cana
dian territory. The miners are new
paying miners tax to British authori-
ties.
Paymaster George Robinson, who,
while acting as nurse for Secretary
Seward, saved the latter from assas-
sinstion, has been placed on the re-
tired list.
Viscount Hill, formerly of Kansas
and now of Ontario, sued the Dowager
Viscountess Hill in England, his step.
mother, to recover family jewels, but
was defeated.
Judge Henry W. Scott, of the Third
Oklahoma judicial district, and men,
Der of the Supreme Court of the terri.
tory, has resigned and formed a law
partnership in New York city.
President Cleveland has pardoned
Warren Curtis who has been i'm
prisoned for horse theft in Eastern
Texas. Charles E. Bryan and W. s,
Pritchill, of Alabama, were also par
doned. i
The Chickasaw Nation, in Texas,
has voted to abolish the tribal system.
Bartholomew Thrasher, the Alabama
outlaw, shot and killed Deputy Sheriff
Bass heal Blocton, Ala.
A movement has been started at
Montreal, Can, for the establishment
Of a harbor of refuge at Little Metis.
A passenger train on the Lake Shore
road was wrecked near Elkhart, Ind,
and the engineer and fireman were
killed.
Senator Ii. d. Flood was fined at
Richmond, Va, for assaultlng Senator
w. NJ. Flanagan last March on the
floor of the Senate. 5
A severe storm swept over Central
Iowa and great damage was done. In
Des Moines one and a half inches of
rain fell in ten minutes. Rivers over
flowed their banks, bridges were car
ried away and railroads we're blocked
by washouts.
A. Peate and Miss Darch, in a small
skiff, were blown out into the lake at
Bowmanville, Ontario, during a heavy
storm. Arescuiug party could find no
trace of them, and it is believed they
were drowned.
A despatch from Napanee, Ontario,
says that during a heavy thunder storm
three little girls were crossing the river
in a rowboat, on their way TO Sunday
school, when lightning struck and
killed two of them and rendered the
other unconscious.
The Methodist Church at Beres.
Arkansas, was wrecked by q high wind,
One person was killed and several in
iured.
Lightning struck a 80, 000. barrel
tank of the Standard Oil Company
three miles from Lima, Ohio, and the
fire communicated with three other
tanks. Lo 8, $4,000.
As the esult OF a drunken brawl at
a "church meeting" in Elliott county,
KY, four men were killed and two
wounded.
Alois Dinkelman, aged SO years, In
New York, shot and killed his wife,
Adelheid, and then committed sui
eide.