The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1872-05-07
Miscellaneous News Items.

EB- An unknown man was killed in Ber-
gen Tunnel on Saturday night week. A
handkerchief found in his pocket was mark
ed &C. w. Taylor"
eB- On the Goth ult., fire broke out in
a stable attached to the Germania Hotel in
Warren, Pa, and spread so rapidly that
nearly $50, 900 worth of property was de-
stroyed before the fire was extinguished
tB- A well in Decorah Iowa, was 80 feet
below the surface, the last seven feet
through solid rock when a body of
water was struck that apparently has no
bottom.
tB- On the night of Both ult., the house
of John Jennings in Brooklyn was burned,
and his wife and three children escaped
by tying the sheets together and lowering
themselves from the third story window.
aB- At Columbia Pa, on the night of
Tuesday last, the large woolen mill of
William G. Case was entirely destroyed by
fire. Loss about $4,000; insured for
$4,000. The origin of the fire is supposed
to have been accidental
EB- Three men drove mp to John NJ
Stearn's silk factory, on east Forty
street, on last Tuesday at an carly hour,
knocked down the porter, and robbed the
building of $4,000 worth of silks. The
robbers escaped with their booty.
GB In Massachusetts, recently, was a
wedding in which the bridegroom, wild
over of nearly seventy, married q lady
whom he and his former wife had brought
up from infancy, and who had lived in his
family as daughter for forty years.
e5y" At Davenport, Iowa, the wife of j.
II. Malokan drowned her baby, fourteen
months old, in barrel of water, and then
drowned herself 1t is supposed that she
was insane. The husband, on recovering
the bodies, was seized with spasms and
lies very low.
eB" AT Titusville Geo. w. n. Yost, con-
victed of perjury last week, was sentenced
to fine of $4,000 and costs of prosecution,
and confinement two years. at hard labor,
in the Western penitentiary. His perjury
consisted in false afidavits in patent suit.
tSs- The entire town of Mcclure in sny-
der county was recently destroyed by
fire. The statement is not very alarming
when we state that the only building in
the place was saw mill used for station
by the railroad from Lewistown to Selns-
grove.
| aB- At Buffalo, on the 1st inst, daring
attempt was made by gang of burglars TO
blow open the safe of the New York and
Erie freight house, in which several thou
sand dollars in currency were deposited
The burglars entered the building and
gagged the private watchman. They were
in the act Of blowing open the safe when
they were disturbed by the police, but
made good their escape.
| EB- The notorious Jack Shipman, alias
Gilbert Norton, a professional burglar
manufactured an instrument to pick locks
from tin cup, picked the locks of the
Carbon county Jail, and escaped with two
of his cronies last week. They were well
provided with funds, and it is thought they
have put many league between themselves
and the sheriff.
ts- A remarkable feshy woman, Mrs.
Daniel Bolich, died in East Brunswick twp,
Schuylkill county, on the 26th ult. In life
and health Mrs. Bolich weighed about four
hundred and fifteen pounds. Notwith-
standing the fact she was sick for some
time, and fell away considerably coffin
eight feet in circumference was required to
contain her body.
GB-David NJ. Book, young man,
whose father and family still reside in
| Maytown, Lancaster county, committed
suicide in Chicago recently. lie blew his
brains out with pistol, at the hotel where
he was staying. lie was at one time
clerk in the Columbia Bank, afterwards
resided in Pittsburg, where he leaves n wife
and two children.