Raftsman's journal. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1854-1948, 1859-06-01
PENNSYLVANIA ITEMS.


Dearmitt, the conductor Of local freight
train, and citizen of Tyrone, was killed by
being struck by fhe Bridge across the road
at Bells Station as the train passed under.
| On the night OF the 9th the tailor shop OF
| WTn. Port in Tyrone WAS entered by thief,
who stole suit of clothes, two pair of pants
and vest. On the same night, Mr.. HaggS'
shoemaker shop was entered and robbed of
several pairs of boots and shoes. -. 4 hail
storm visited Antes township on the 2lst, and
| did some damage to the gardens. Thomas
| Shorter, colored man, who pFided himself
uDon having seen and served Gen. Washing
| ton aud having lived in the stirring times of
the Revolution, died at Holiday sburg on the
18th, in 95th year of his age. There are
now in the county Jail some II or u ':boar-
ders,'' seven or eight of whom have been COM
mittcd since last sessions. One of them is
charged with Observation-Disclosures with stab
biug-one with iadccent exposure of his per-
son-and four ssdarllies'' with breaking
and stealing, pcrpetrated in Hollidaysburg on
the night OF 18th inst.
ERIE CorSrY.-Emanuel Weidler, of Mil
| Check, was thrown from his horse few days
since and killed. The barn of Robert
| Hall, in Girard township, was burned last
week. with all its contents. Loss about : ,O00-
-. The dead body of newborn child was
found in 4 creek near Eric few days ago.
| Gen. Whallon has assumed the duties Of Col
lcctor at the port of Erie, and Col. Loomis is
retained as Deputy As the steamer Jecr
son was passing Erie, Pa, q couple Of days
| ago, Captain S. Bond discovered some five
| miles from shore, balloon three miles in the
air, rapidly descending to the Lake. The
captain ordered the propeller TO be changed
| in her course SO as to bear toward the descend
! ing balloon. The small boat was sent ont and
made fast to the balloon, when tug came out
| from Erie and took ii ashore. There were two
persons il the balloon, one Of them being Mr.
| Lynn, editor OF the Eric Dispatch. When the
balloon struck the water the basket sunk SO as
| to almost submerge its occupants.
LANCASTER CoUSTY.--On the 26th uIt., .
shooting affair came off near Lancaster city.
A woman named Catharine Wagner, alleges
| that she married TO one Isaac Wagner a.
| bout S years ago. that she had two children
! by him that he deserted her, and has since
married two other women, one of whom he
! had also deserted, and was living with the
! other near QuarryyiIc. On "Wednesday she
| had an interview with Isaac, and demanded
that he should do justice to her. He refused
/ TO acknowledge her, and treated her harshly.
| CatlIarine then took out 4 warrant, charging
! him with bigamy and with assault and battery.
| He escaped the officers but Catharine. deter
mined on his arrcst> procured 4 revolver,
| searched for and finally found him, when she
| fired two shots, one of which took effect in
| his back. and gave him dangerous wound.
| The woman arrested and Imprisoned to
| await the result.
| LYcoNISG CoUxrY.-Mrs. Fanny KibJie died
very suddenly in Nippenose township on the
| 10Th. She was we'll but few hours before
she was found dead in her house, and the cause
| of her death is not known. Henry Smith,
of Nippenose, few days since, fell from the
top Of a barn that was being raised land smash
| cd the side OF his face terribly. a little
| boy, aged years, son of 4 Mr. Wolf, had his
thigh broken by the wheels OF the wagon,
which his father had loaded with stones near
| Phelps mills, passing over him.. An Irish
man in Wayne township, lies in a critical con-
dition, in consequence of large stone falling
! across his hips, by the giving way OF cm-
bankment.
LEBANON CoUyrY-A dreadful accident oc-
CURED at the steam tannery of Dillcr & Arndt
in Jamestown, on the Goth May. A boy named
| Geo. Shrivcr, about Is years of age, had ac-
cOmpanicd man, who was hauling some bark =,
to the tanncry, and accidentally fell into a
vat of boiling liquor. He not seen to
| fall in, but few moments after one of the
men, in passing .thc vat, observed u hat and
whip floating on the liquor, and suspected the
| truth. Obtaining pole, he soon brought the
| unfortunate boy ont, dead of course. The
grain crops look well, and give promise of an
unusually large yield.
! LAWRENCE CoUNrY.-On the morning of the
/ 25th May, q man named William Emery was
! found dead in the road, short distance be-
| yond Croton. He was 4 stonc-mason by trade,
and worthy citizen. 1t is supposed he died
of a disease of the heart. His family reside
| near Enon Valley, and he was then endcayoT-
| ing to procure employment. lie was in his
| usual health last evening, and left the house
of of his relatives to 90 to that of another.
! He appears to have fallen and died without q
a struggle.
! WASHINGTON CoUSTY.-A severe hail storm
visited that region of the country Ling between
! Wheeling and Washington, Pa, Friday even
| ing week which did vast anDuut Of dam
| age The apple, peach, pear, plum trees, &c,
were beaten to the ground b, force of the
| descending hail. In some bcalities, trees
were torn up by the violence of the wind, in
/ others branches were cut oil b. the hail, which
descended in large chunks, and in quantities
| sufficient to cover the ground from three to
| four inches deep.
YORK CoUSTY.-An acci5nnt recently occur
red to Polly Willis, an innate of the York
comfy poor house which rsulted in her death.
| She was walking down tIR stairs, towards the
basement, when she fell, breaking her breast
bone and cracking her sull, the teeth of
comb penetrating it. after suffering much
! pain, she died the folltging morning, aged
about 40 years.
/ ADAMS CoUNTY.-A soung man named Phil
| lip Hoffman, while esgaged in removing the
brick and timber ofihc old Court House at
Gettysburg, was strlk by piece of falling
| timber, and both bors of the leg broken be-
tween the knee and ;nlile. His system never
recovered from theShock, and after suffering
dreadfully, he died Furing the night of Friday
INDIANA CouNTb-A young man named
Irvin,was found ded in the woods near Black
lick Furnace, on tie 18th May. No marks of
violence were discovered, and the cause of his
death is a mystery He was employed about
the furnace, ,and hJ been on a visit to a neigh
boring furnace, tb day previous, at which