The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1870-08-09
Miscellaneous News Items.

EY- A serious riot occurred at Shelbyville,
ILL.,, ON the goth ult., because the sentence
of one of two meu condemned to death had
been commuted. The mob demanded that
both or neither should be hanged. A strong
guard secured the execution Of the law.
GB- Joseph Brads, poor but honest dry
goods clerk i'll Indianapolis, has been over
taken at last by fortune of $1,000 600,
which has been three years looking for an
owner. His brother at Terre Haute has an
exactly similar experience.
g1Y- Edward Monihan, of No. 67o w.
Forty-third street, N. Y, aproduce dealer
in Washington market, committed suicide
last week, 10y shooting himself, at his resi-
dence. He was reported to be in good cir
cumstances. He leaves wife and four
children.
eTS- The infected buffalo robes arc suppos-
ed to have reached as far as Chicago. Dur
ing the past week two cases of smallpox
were brought to the notice of the health
officer. 1t is to be hoped that the trail"
may not be traced any further this season.
gY- The banking house of John Handley
81 Co. was robbed of $50, 900 in currency,
at ten O'clock on the 1st inst, by parties
entering the vault from the rear of the
bank, while accomplices engaged the atten-
tion of the cashier at the counter. The
plan was boldly and adroitly accomplished.
There is no clue to the robbers.
az" Port Byron, H., was visited by a
terrible storm on Wednesday, afternoon
1t lifted large tree by the roots, laying it
across the railroad and breaking down the
telegraph wires, and tore the roof off brick
house, carrying the main part about $50
feet. Shingles were blown as far as 400
feet. A calf was blown into the air fifty
feet, and found dead hundred feet from
where it first stood.
G3y- A youth named McCay managed TO
make very daring escape a few days back
from the prisoners box at Toronto, Canada,
by squeezing his body through an aperature
in the wall nine inches in width, passing
through the Grand Jury room, and jump
ing from window into the steet. He had
just been sentenced to two years and four
months Imprisonment for larceny.
Ldg- About ten days ago, Frank Belief
discovered the decomposed body of u man
floating in the Detroit river, pulled it into
his boat and since that moment he has
been suffering with a deadly nausea, and no
1000 or nOul1SnmenC VIII remain 1Or an III
stant on his stomach. Nor does the alb
sence of food relieve him from the horrible
retchings that agonize his frame, and his
death is greatly feared.
tB- A very singular freak of lightning
occurred during recent storm near indie
pendence, KY. Eight men were at work in
a field threshing wheat, when lightning
struck the machine they were handling,
stunning them all quite severely, and pros
trating four horses. When the men recov-
cred their consciousness, three Of them
found their tongues had been blistered, as
if they red-hot iron. The spots on each
mans tongue were exactly alike, and near
the 'front.'
Eg- Long Bottom, Meigs county, Ohio,
was disturbed by nuisance in the shape OF
whisky boat, and no one else being will
ling to ahats it, the ladies' took hold of the
matter. The assembled on maSSc, and pro
viding themselves with, an apron full OF
rocks, proceeded to the landing, united the
the boat, showed it off, and then commenced
its bombardment, and says an, eyewitness,
perhape no boat ever, got such pelting
with rocks, the ladies following the boat
for half mile.