Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-09-11
NeighbOring Counties.

4 a boy ten or twelve years Of age, q son
IOl Samuel Abrams, of North Ward, AL
/ toona, attempted to jump on a moving
! freight train, at the lower end ofthe ward
/ but missed his footing and fell upon the
track and had one of his feet so badly
crushed that it was found necessary to
tamputate it above the ankle.
/ a boy named Edward c. Haley, between
the ages of l3 and II, left his home i'm
knox township, ClearfieId county, Pa.
on Sunday, the 10th ult. He has freck-
led face, light blue eyes, and rather dark
hair.
VIM. Johnston, of Altoona, convicted
OF dealing in counterfeit money, has been
sentenced to eight years in the Western
Pcnitentiary.
Two horses attached to q carriage occu-
pied by Mr.. Nathan Bartlett of Birminp-
ham, took fright and became unmanage-
able, breaking the vehicle in pieces and
seriously injuring Mr. Bartlett.
The Rev. John Mckinney, brother of
the Rev. David Mckinney, ID. D., and for
some years pastor of the Presbyterian
church in Alexandria, Huntington coun-
ty, died at his residence, in Hollidayshurg.
on Sabbath morning, August 2ith. The
deceased had reached the age Of seventy
years.
Adam Beach, a tenant of one of the
Springfield Furnace farms, says the Blair
( County Radical of last week, was kicked
/ in the stomach by vicious horse. on Sat
urday morning, from the effects Of which
he died in a few hours. He leaves wife
and ten children.
An old colorcd man named Gates fell
dead on the street in Hollidaysburg, on
Thursday week last.
Michael GiImartin, a most worthy and
respectable citizen, was Instantly killed
in the Pa. r.. r. foundry at Altoona, on
Wednesday morning last, i'm consequence
of crane on which q heavy casting
was being raised, giving way and fall
ing upon him.
J. >. Kirby, at one time telegraph oper-
ator at Concmaugh station, Cambria CO..
but more recently employed as agent Of
the Union Pacific Railway at Topeka,
Kansas, committed suicide at Americas,
in that State, a few weeks ago. He is said
10 have been a dcfaulter to the company
that employed him in the sum of about
IS 600
The suit which John J. Patterson in
sttuted against w. NJ. Allison and w.
w. Davis, for libel, and which was to
have been tried last week i'm Dauphin co.
has been continued until November term
The dwelling-house of Daniel Seiber,
in Fcrmanagh township, Juniata county,
was struck by lightning on Wednesday a
week, but beyond stunning the inmates.
did no harm.
a Onc-armed soldier of Hartley town
ship named Levi Boob, while out hunt
ing with his father on Monday last, stood
his gun on 4 rock leaving the muZzle rest
against his side. While he was picking.
berries the gun slipped, the lock striking
a rock the gun was discharged. the con-
tents entering the inside of his right hin
since the above was put in type we learn
that Mr.. Boob is dcad.-A son of Gcorg
and Catharine Hldebrand, aged seven
years, drowned recently in the river at
Lion city, Iowa. The boy was a grand
child of Mr.. John Hildebrand, of this
county.-Hi6tinburg Tcicgrdph.
George w. Long, young man of Co
lumbia, and brakeman on one of the
freight trains of the Pennsylvania rail-
road, was so much injured by being acci-
IDENTIFY struck with a poker in the hands
of the fireman, that he died soon after
wards
On Thursday afternoon, while Jacob
Gallagher was engaged in cutting clover
seed in field in Londonderry township,
two miles from MiddlctOwn he was struck
by lightning and instantly killed. 1t
seems that he was struck on the head and
that the lightning passed over his whole
body and tore the boots from his feet.