The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-07-26
Miscellaneous News Items.

C5y- On the 18th inst, five men were
crushed, three of them being killed instant
ly by the caving in of a stone quarry near
Kingston N. Y.
05y- On the 10Th inst, the steamboat
"kight-way" exploded on the Mississippi.
Nine persons were killed and a number
wounded.
"a A large number of Germans have
signitied the Prussan Cousulin New York
OF their Willingness to return to Europe to
serve in the army.
G5Y" Excursions to the coal mines are
among the summer entertainments of the
people of Columbus, Ohio. The necessary
costume includes walking shoes, shawls and
water proof cloaks.
G5S- Some hardened criminal has been
desecrating the graves at the Fair Haven,
Conn, Cemetry by carrying off the bo-
quets and wreaths of natural flowers placed
there i'll memory of the dead.
GB- After the passage of a tornado
through st. Clair county, Illinois, last week
birds were found mangled and torn, and q
dove was picked up dead with scarce u
feather remaining on it.
G5Y" The pOssessor of a big dog, out West
being denied passage for him on the cars
chained him to the rear brake of the train.
After an hours journey he went back to
look at him and found the chain and
collar all lightbut the dog was pretty
much towed away.
G5Y" When the Russian Minister DeCata-
cazy, paid visit to Colts works in Hart
Tnpl lnS rvaaly ba xyiSitaI thn ,uiIo,y ff
John Callaher, who was killed some time
since while assisting in testing the Russian
arms and informed her that his Govern
ment had settled on her a pension for life.
~ The lightning recently struck the
powder magazine of Santo-Sprito, lat Venice
where 600,00 pounds of that material are
stored away. The conductor received the
electric discharge, and its top was literally
melted away, and the whole length twisted
but no further damage was done.
G5s- In an affray at Pawtucket r. T., on
the nth inst, Charles E. Kent a street-car
conductor stabbed and instantly killed
Joseph r. Whiting, and also stabbed per-
haps fatally, Louisa Whiting, daughter of
the murdered man. A family difficulty was
the cause Of the affray. Kent is in custo-
dy.
E53- A Chicago paper is responsible for
the story that a few days since some boys in
that city dropped an anvil weighing 200
pounds out of a fourth-story window on the
head of an African who was passing, and
he had them arrested. He said he was will
ling to let the boys have fun, but when they
.jammed a "gemman's" hat down over his
eyes and spoiled it in that way, the law
must take its course.
GB- A. Winsted lady was some time ago
struck by lightning, and lay for hours
unconscious-dead to all human appearance.
She distinctly heard her friends declare that
she was "unquestionably dead" and she
would have been buried alive had not her
brother insisted while the bystanders
laughed him to scoln) upon hoping and
working and waiting for her restoration.
which he at length accomplished.
A Tragedy.-On the 10Th inst Captain
W. f. Hayward proprietor Of the hotel at
Chester's Summer Retreat, on the Rich
mond and Petersburg Railroad, shot and
mortally wounded his son-in-law, B. f.
Lindsay, for deceiving his (Haywards)
daughter. Hayward is also proprietor OF the
Dime Hotel, Richmond and is well known
and much respected
He called Lindsay into room of the hoA-
tel and taxed him with his crime. Lindsay
it is said, confessed and professed himself
willing to realize such punishment as he
merited and Hayward then commenced
firing on him, wounding, him in the abdo-
men and thigh.
Terrible Accident.-On Saturday after
noon, as the o'clock train on the West
Jersey Railroad was approaching the
Woodbury. depot, horse attached to
carriage, containing Mr.. George Gregory
and his wife, and an aged lady from Iowa
named CALDWELL became unmanageable.
In his fright the horse dashed egainst the
smoking car, and he with the carriage and
occupants, were forced along with the car
between the platform and the passing train
Mr. Gregory and his wife were instantly
killed. aud mutilated in a horrible manner.
Mrs. Caldwell was thrown under the cars
which passed over her, cutting one foot
completely of above the ankle, and cruslr-
ing the other in a terrible manner The
horse was literally cut into pieces and the