The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-06-14
NEWS IN BRIEF,

"A boiler exploded on the evening
of the 9th instant, in the building on
SAMSON street above Tenth, in Philadel-
phia, occupied in the lower portion as
a saw mill by Geasey & Ward, and in
the third story by Miller & Reeder, en-
graver of plates for calico printers
The force of the explosion reduced the
building to heap of ruins, and of a
bout thirty men employed in it, only
nine escaped alive. Six of these were
more or less injured. Several buildings
in the vicinity were damaged.
The tiremen worked assiduously for
many hours in their humane efforts to
rescue the victims. They were crushed
and bruised in the most shocking man
ner. The spectacle presented was a
CHASTITY one indeed.
The special correspondent of the
st. Louis Republican at st Joseph's
states that six men were murdered near
Cottonwood recently by Indians. A
man named Tom Lytle was arrested
a few days since and lodged in Jail at
Warrensburg on suspicion of being con-
cerned in the Richmond bank robbery.
On Wednesday morning last some four
hundred mounted men surrounded the
Jail and demanded that the Sheriff
should surrender his prisoner, which
was done under protest. The men took
Lytle short distance out of town and
hung him.
The second match for $4,000, mile
heats, to wagons, was trotted over the
Fashion Course, New York, on the 7th,
between "Dexter" and Lady Thorn"
"Dexter" won in three straight heats.
Time, 2.32, 2.A and 2.28. The second is
the fastest, to wagons ever made. "Flora
Temple" and :'George Wilkes" fastest
was 2.25.
There was severe hail-storm in
the interior of Missouri on Sunday and
Monday last, which did great damage
to the fruit and the growing crops
The hail stones are represented to have
been as large as hens eggs and they
were said to have covered the ground
completely for forty-eight honrs.
"A shot was fired into the carriage
occupied by the Emperors of France
and Russia, on the 9th instant, as it was
passing along from the review in the
Champ de Mars. Nobody was hurt,
and the wOuld-be assassin was arrested.
He is young Pole, who desired to a.
venge the wrongs of his country by kill
ling Alexander.
Colonel Frank Wicker, assistant
engineer in the last Russian American
Telegraph Expedition, has arrived at
New York. He has seXplored the whole
coast of our new possessions, and can
furnish our government with valuable
information respecting that far-off por-
ton of Uncle Samuel IS dominions.
The record of the first sentence Of a
citizen tried by military commission
unber the Reconstruction act was re-
ceived by the President Thursday last.
The case is of one Walker, in New Or
leans, sentenced to Imprisonment for
assaultinga negro.
| In Havana there banu or VII
lains who eXtort money from wealthy
people by threatening to kidnap their
children. In case of noncompliance
they intimate that they will send the
child's head to them.
1t is our pleasure to announce that
the Supreme Court of the District OF
Columbia have refused to order an ar
rest of Judgment in the case of Sanford
Conover, and that that worthy will to-
day begin five years of hard labor in the
Penitentiary.
"A resident of Dewitt County, Tex.
as, gives a gloomy account fthe times
in that section of the State. He says
that stock cattle are selling at So a head
cotton ginned and baled, at the gin ten
cents, and that land is at nominal
price.
John Hill, engineer ofa dummy, al
Chicago, had both ears completely torn
off the other day by thrusting his head
out of the cab just as he was passing 6
post. He barely escaped having his
head crushed to atoms.
1t is said that new island twenty
miles long has been discovered in the
North Pacific on the route from japan
to San Francisco. 1t is in 1902 wes
longitude, and 400 30 north latitude.
Although four hundred clerks are
employed in arranging for the payment
of soldiers bounties, it will take eigh
teen months to settle accounts.
The Democracy of Belleville, Hi
nois, routed the Radicals badly, thC
other day. They polled majority o
150-a gain of 700 since last fall. So i
goes everywhere.
1t is stated that Fred. Douglass
accompanied by othet colored orators
is about to make a canvass of the South
There is a family in Madison
Morris county, n. j., father and eigh
sons, who have never tasted liduor
Good for Jersey.
William J. Marsh, clerk in th'