The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1867-09-27
w. c. SCHAEFFER, Sec'y.

w. c. SCHAEFFER, Sec'y.
DIABOLICAL OUTRAGE IA Negro
attempts to commit q Rape upon yO,0lg
LGdy He uses q Knife and threatens
to cla her heart out !-Gredt excitement
IN this community On Friday evening
last, as Miss Nora Filler daughter of
Capt. Jos. Filler was passing from the
lower part of town to her home, few
hundred yards distant, just as she
stepped from the northern end of the
"wire bridge" she was met by negro
man, who walked past her, but imme-
diately turned about, seized her, at
tempted to gag her, and threw her to
the ground. 1t was then just dusk,
but cloud had arisen in the west and
viOlentstOrm was approaching, which
rendered the evening rather dark
Still, there was sufficient light for Miss
Filler to recognize her assailant, and
she called him by name, begging him
to desist. He replied that he would
"cut her heart out" if she resisted, and
"would shoot her if she told on him."
drawing knife as he said these words.
Though frightened almost to death,
the poor girl struggled heroically and
succeeded in keeping her tiendish as
sailant at bay until he heard the ap-
proach of some students going to town,
xUh iob 6rOx-a him, Nuo baf ha no ac-
cOmplished his purpose. Halfdead with
fright and terribly bruised, the young
lady went toward her home, Shrek
ing and crying, and passed the night
in state of distraction. Parties who
visited her the next day, informed us
that her face was much cut, and that
the marks of the negro's efforts to gag
her are left on her throat and cheeks.
Miss Filler, on Saturday evening,
made information before Esq. Nico-
demus, charging John Brown, negro
lately hostler in the stable of Mr.. John
Little, as the perpetratOr of the crime.
There was unaccOuntable delay in
making the information and the affair
was kept so quiet that but few persons
knew of it until Saturday evening"
When it became known, however, there
Was universal expression of horror
and indignation, and every effort was
at once made to arrest the criminal. A
reward of $4,000 was raised by the
citizens, and squads started out in every
direction TO find Brown. At this writ
ing he has not been arrested. He is a
short, thick set. stoop- p-shOuldered fellow
with a gOatee, and is about twenty-five
years old. One of his hands was cat
in the struggle with Miss Filler.
A New RAILROAD PROJECT.-JOhn
w. Duncan Esq. and othergentIemen of
Pittsburg, and James Madara, Esq,
and other leading citizens of MOrrison's
Cove, are agitating the building of a
rail road from Newry, by way of
Bloomfield Furnace, through the cove
to HopeWell. This is very impor-
tant enterprise. 1t would develop the
large and valuable deposits of hema-
tite iron and other minerals, along the
route. 1t would offer proper facilities
to the farmers to transport their crops
to market, and put the people of the
Cove in more direct communication
with Bedford. We hope this enter
prise may be successful.
There is also another project sugges-
ted, viz: the extension of the HolIi-
daysburg and Newry railroad to Cum
berland, Md. The people of Union,
st. Clair, Be ford and Cumberland VAL
ley townships, would be greatly bene
flied by the success of this scheme and
there is no reason why it should not be
successful, if prosecuted with the prop
er energy. In the first place, we need
legislation; there must be liberal char
ters for the companies that will under
take to build these roads. Much, there
fore, will depend upon the character
of our representatives at Harrisburg
In view of these facts, we ask, ought
not every friend of railroad improve
ments, vote for Hon. w. p. Schell?
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