The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1873-01-28
Miscellaneous News Items.

rB-Mrs. Rosa Quance and Miss Ida
Majers were suffocated by coal gas at Tole-
do, Ohio.
CTThree hundred dollars conscience
money was received at the Treasury last
week on account of revenue stamps.
tB- Great excitement prevails in Peru
at the discovery of plot to blow up train
of cars near Lima, in which were President
Prado and several officers. All the parties
implicated have been arrested.
CB- Cambridge has just had an excite
ment in the finding of some bloody clothes
on the ice, which were supposed to be the
clew to murder; but since they have been
traced to a smallpox patient they haven't
reused so much popular attention.
I cY-A Dorchester woman has been three
times married. Her first husband was
Robb, the second Robbins, and the third
Robinson. The same door-plate has
served for all three, and the question now
is what extended name can be procured to
fill out the remaining space on it.
their wives and five children, were isolated
on the Goth on an island in the Susquehan-
ma, near Port Deposit, by the ice-gorge
and the great flood. All efforts to reach
them were unavailing though their shrieks
for assistance were heard long distance.
Ny- John Newman has died from the
effects of injuries received by an explosion
on Monday, the Goth inst, at the "Mer-
iem," near Ashland, Pennsylvania. After
igniting the fuse he attempted to escape up
the slope, but slipped and fell back into
the jaws of the explosion.
GB" A brutal crime is reported from
Milo, Maine, where a young girl but 10
years of age was outraged by three men,
who conveyed her to an unoccupied build
ing, after rendering her insensible with
chloroform. When she awoke she found
cold.
gY- Swine in Hancock county, Maine,
are dying of a singular disease, which at.
tacks it's victims in the windpipe and in
every case proves fatal in a few minutes
and poultry in that region is also in a bad
way, the local paper asserting that ''some
times their heads drop off, they tluttel
around for few minutes and then expire. -
g3S- A few days ago, at Mr.. Thomas
Hands, Port Norris, a cat took advantage
of the door of the cook stove being open
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family, not noticing the cat, closed tn,
door and made fire, literally roasting it
A peculiar smell attracted attention ant
on opening the door the poor animal wa
discovered.
eB-On the 28th ult., at Fabius township
Davis county La, John Horn, a boy o
16, who had been habitually beaten by hi
father on every slight provoca tion, con
cealed himself and shot his father for fea
the latter would find out that the team ha,
run away with the boy. The boy says h
is ready for the State Prison, for there i
no danger of his being used any wors
there than at home.
Pttsburg, Jan. 22.-Last evening, Will
workmen at Bateman g. Garrison's foundr
were moving ladle filled with molte
metal, the crane hooks broke, letting tn
iron fall into q hole which contained som
two feet of water, and terrific exploso
followed. The roof of the building wa
carried away, and the.walls of the house
cracked in that vicinity and had thci
windows badly shattered. Several of TIN
workmen were slightly injured, thoug
none seriously. The damage to the foun