The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-06-24

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entice away children, strip them of their
clothing, and then leave them naked in the
street. Twelve such cases were recently
heard before one magistrate. In one of
them, mother who had hunted frantic
ally through the streets for her child, was SO
fortunate as to encounter him, at eleven
o'clock at night in the hands of a women
who was dragging him towards Westmin-
lister bridge, scared, exhausted and stripped
of nearly all his clothing. The persever-
ing mother rescued the child and arrested
his abductor.
Paterson, June 18.-Last night pile of
timber, pieces of iron, etc., were found
lying across the track of the Erie Railway.
near Clifton, and were removed just before
the arrival of long express train, west
ward bound. Subsequently one Jacob
Sevon, of Passaic was arrested in Paterson
for placing the distractions on the track,
and this morning was fully identified as
the guilty person, and was committed to
Jail. Sevon was put off train yesterday
afternoon for not paying his fare.
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st. Louis, June 17.--Joseph G. Howard,
arrested here for stealing horses in Franklin
county, was taken up to Pacific City last
night to be placed in Jail at Union, the
county seat. He was put in the calaboose
at Union. About nine o'clock P. M. an
armed mob of two hundred men took him
out and hanged him. He made a confess
sion duplicating several other men in horse
stealing, who escaped.
Concord, N. II. June 19.-Postmaster
Neal G. Mclean, at Meredith village, is in
default to the government in the money
order business to the extent of ten hundred
and fifty dollars, and was to day removed
Buffalo, June 19.-A little boy named
John Ackerman, aged three years, was
found last evening with his neck entan-
gled in a rope of a swing, by which he had
been accidentally stranged to death.
tB~ An insane man attending circus at
Henderson, Kentucky, on the 18th inst,
killed baby with large club and injured
a number of other persons, some of them
badly, in their efforts to arrest him. The
police shot him three times. He is now in
chains.
tB- At Chiffon, Iowa, young man
named johnson, attempted to kick ceiling
seven and and-a-half feet high, and fell, dis
locating his hip. A revolver which he car
ried in his pocket was discharged by the
fall, the bullet entering the thigh of lad
who stood near by. And he did not hit the
ceiling after all.
GB- temperance man reports that
about ten o'clock, Saturday evening, he
met small boy coming from the direction
of Dell Delight, carrying an empty beer
keg on his shoulder In the rear of the
boy came an individual who evidently had
the contents of the keg concealed about
his person.
C5B- On the 10Th inst, train on the
Norwich and Wooster Railroad, was
thrown from the track near Dayvile, Con-
necticut, by tie placed on the track. The
engineer, fireman and brakeman were in
jured but no one was killed. Three cars
were smashed, and the engine was thrown
into ditch, bottom upwards.
tB- A portion of Todd county, Mimi,
was visited by whirlwind recently which
carried everything before it. That it was
not an i'll wind correspondent of the Sauk
Centre Herald, judges from the fact that
lady of Hartford gave birth to a girl
during the passage of the storm, having
given birth to boy two days before.
re- Mr.. John Good and his wife, of
Lebanon, both in the 77th year of their
age, died on Thursday week. They had
been married SO years, and had lived es-
teemed and respected by all who knew
them. They were both buried in one
grave.
eB- The Rev. Mr.. Lampe, of Wheeling,
w. Va, pastor of Zion's Church, and teach
er of German in the public schools, was ar
rested recently for an attempted outrage
upon a girl aged twelve years, one of his
scholars He denies the charge and has
given bail.