The Bedford gazette. [volume] (Bedford, Pa.) 1805-current, 1869-06-11
BRIEF NEWS ITEMS.

The Wheeling Recister has published
an extra filled with the details of the
hallstorm on Friday afternoon last, in
that city. According to the account
given 1t was certainly one of the most
severe storms that has ever occurred.
The paper computes the loss at S250. 900
in property, and gives list of accidents
resulting from its fferceness. 1t tells
of one man who was so terribly cut
about the face and head that his life is
despaired of, another who was caught
in the storm and pounded nearly into
a jelly. His life is also in great jeop-
ardy. One man was on an island
near the city holding his horse when
an immense hail struck his horse and
another the man, at the same time,
knocking them both down, the horse
falling upon him, breaking his collar
bone. Another person put his hands
up to protect it, when they were cut
by the hail so badly that he cannot use
them. The train on the IIempfield
railroad was stopped by the storm.
The loss to the vineyards cannot be re-
paired for years. Hail stones fell larg-
er than a mans fist, one weighing
three-fourths of a pound
In Sheridan, Kansas, on the 9th ul-
timo, Charles Davis went into Enoch
Reynolds dance-house, and, without
any words, shot Reynolds, slightly
wounding him in the side. Davis was
taken into custody by the committee
and while the case was being examined
Reynolds, walked in. Going up to Da-
Wis, he said, "Slppose should act the
coward, as you did, AMI shoot you ?'
at the same time drawing his pistol
and shooting Davis in the head The
next morning Reynolds was found
hanging by the neck. Davis was not
expected to live.
Mrs. Eliza Ogdon, aged forty years
died last week at her residence near
Manayunk, Justification from exces-
sive corpulence. At the time of her
death her weight wrs 600 pounds.
When she died, which was suddenly,
she fell to the floor and it required six
stout men to lift her. 1t required ten
men to remove her to the ground floor.
Her coffin was six feet four inches long,
three feet wide over the breart and two
feet one inch deep.
w. r. Bramburg, was shot and kill
ed on the 9th uIt., on the road from
Tuscalusa, Ala. 1t appears that Bram-
burg had a wife and several children,
whom he had deserted He made the
acquaintance of respectable young
girl, only fifteen years old, succeeded
in seducing her, and was carrying her
off when her friends, who set out in
pursuit of him, overlook, and as he
showed fight, shot him.
Some two weeks since, Jerome E.
Burns, of Chillicothe, Ill. received a
note warning him to leave town i'm
mediately. Not needing the warning
he died suddenly, and was buried by
his family two hours thereafter. His
body has been disinterred, and pre-
sents evidence of having been poisoned.
Suspicion rests upon his family.
a few weeks since little child in
st. Joseph Mo-, was bitten by rats in
the arm. Although the wound was
slight aud soon healed, the arm has
since become diseased, and fears are en-
tertained that it viii have to be ampu-
tated,. Some two years since two chill
dren died in st. Joseph from virus poi
son caused by being bitten by rats.
About midnight on Saturday last
three unknown men, two whites and
q negro, came to the residence of a
harmless, aged, and infrm man nam
ed John Futhey, living in Grenada,
Miss, and obtaining admission, drag
ged him from his bed and whipped him
to death with rawhides.
The dec.easc of the public debt, ac-
cording to the official statement, turns
out greater than we expected. Since
March lst the decrease has amounted
to more than twenty millions; and
during the month of May it footed up
$13,3S4, III 81.
a strong party of CheyenneS surpris-
elan unprotected settlement one hmm
dred and fifty miles from Topeka,
Shawnee county, Kansas, Sunday
morning, and massaered thirteen men,
women and children, after committing
other horrible outrages.
Elliot's Mills, several adjoining in
dustrial establishments in Woonsocket,
r. l., were destroyed by fire WedDes-
day night, involving a heavy loss to
the owners, and throwing two hundred
hands out OF employment.
A new conundrum has been pro-
pounded to the Internal Revenue Bu-
reau: Can Pennsylvania authorize the
manufacture of segars by convict la
horers? The Bureau has not yet repli-
ed but doesn't give it up.
CUBA.