The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-06-11
Miscellaneous News Items.

eg- AT Pontiac, Illinois, John Safer for
the murder of VIM. Rolling has been sem
fenced to be hanged. He received the
verdict with stold indifference.
Charles II. Staples, aged eighteen, has
been arrested and held in 80, 600 bail, char
ged with kindling the forest fires in Frank
lin and Medway Massachusetts,.
GB- A Louisville paper supports the
Greeley ticket because it says that Greeley
is a teetotaler, which leaves "all the more
whisky for the rest of u.s." The question Of
whisky is a potent one with all politicians.
eB- Henry Hanslee has been convicted at
Chicago, of the murder of his wife and
sentenced to twenty years in the State
Prison. A motion was made for new
trial.
ZEE An Iowa City chap has been COM
PEELED to pay 5000 to the doctors for sewing
up his throat and the arteries of his wrists,
which he had voluntarily opened for the
purpose of going hence. ..
eB- The residence, barn, and out build
ings Of Frederick Douglas, at Rochester,
were destroyed by fire on last Tuesday
night. The library and about 500 of furn-
iture was saved. The family was absent.
The fire originated in the barn about mid
night.
tB- Phelps, Dodge & Company, mer-
chants in New York, have caused the ar
rest of several other merchants on a
charge of conspiracy with their janitor to
steal their private correspondence, thereby
involving them in serious losses on bust
ness transactions
a5g- The night express train No. 3, on
the Erie road was thrown from the track
on the 4th inst, at 6:4S o'clock at Lavona
Station. Engineer Richard Welch had
both legs broken and his skull fractured,
and cannot live. A stranger on the engine
was instantly killed, and many passengers
were injued, but none seriously.
Cy- On Thursday last, fearful storm
swept over the western part of Hamilton
county, Ohio, doing considerable damage.
The tent of the Queen City Circus was blown
down and three actors severely injured.
A falling tree crushed cabin, seriously
injuring three persons. Great damage to
timber and out-buildings is reported.
eB- There is rather a curious case pend
ing in Massachusetts, court. At Worces-
ter there is a large copperas factory in
close proximity to very beautiful Gem
etery. The fumes from the factory dis
colors and corrodes the tombstones, and the
proprietors of the cemetery have asked for
an injunction to shut up the copperas
works. " i
GaB- A monomaniac in New York labors
under the hallucination that he is destined,
when opening oysters, to find pearl more
valuable than any yet discovered. Under
this impression, disguised as professional
opener, he has worked diligently at the
barges, having opened over thirty thousand
oysters during the past winter.
GB- Mail accounts of the freshet in
southwestern Missouri, say that whole
farms in the valley Of Spring river, Centre
Creek and other streams, were completely
washed away, leaving nothing but rock
and gravel. Large numbers of live stock
were drowned, and hundreds of yards Of
the Atlantic and Pacific Railroad track
was sw ept from its bed into adjacent fields.
EB-A conductor of freight train on the
New York Central road was at first fiatter-
ed, then amazed and then indignant at the
fact that while passing through Syracuse
everybody made signals to him and pointed
to his train. He finally in his wrath re-
sponded by sundry digital gyrations, which
ceased when he discovered that one Of the
grain cars was leaking at the rate ola
bushel minute.
eB- A sad and peculiar accident hap
pend to child at Wichita, Wis, recently.
The mother stepped into store to make a
purchase, leaving the baby in its carriage
on the sidewalk A gust of wind struck
the carriage, and pnshed it down the street
against team of horses. The horses be-
coming frightened kicked over the carriage
and injured the baby SO seriously that
there is no hope for its recovery.
Rochester, June A. = This afternoon a
section of the floor in Bevier's brewery,
on Water street gave way with several
hundred bushels of grain and tub con-
tanning several thousand gallons of hot IL
quor. Three men working in the grain
were carried down with the wreck. Two
men were at work on the floor beneath
| All five were fearfulIv Rcalded and the in