The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-05-12
Miscellaneous News Items.


arrested in Baltimore, for assault on anoth-
er boy. The disgrace of the arrest so
worked on the lad, that he committed sui
eide.
eg- An Arkansas lawyer shot and killed
his professional antagonist in the court
room. The judge got mad, and remarked
if that sort Of thing was repeated he'd |
commit somebody for contempt Of court.
New York, May ga young man named
George Van Velzer, clerk in the Treasur-
er's office of the New York Central and
Hudson River Railroad, at the Grand Gen.
tral depot, absconded yesterday with $780,
900 Of the company's funds, 1t is said
another youhg man named Baxter is with
him.
GSg- A Milwaukee fhati has applied for
patent on fountain pen, which, by the
pressure of the thumb on a small rubber
ball, projects stream of ink throtigR the
holder and into the face of the fellow VINO
is looking over your shoulder while you are
writing.
GB- G. Ash, a well-known till-tapper was
on Monday caught behind the counter of
the new National Bank at Pontiac, Mich,
evidently making for the money drawer
He was seized by the cashier, locked up in
the vault for safe keeping, and returned to
Chicago where he was wanted by the po-
lice
az The appeal published for the urgent
relief of the sufferers by the foods in the
South, states that over one hundred and
forty-two thousand people have been driv-
en- from their homes, and are now without
food or shelter, and that to furnish them
provisions alone, will cost twenty-five
thousand dollars day. fIlt
EB- While praying band was at one of
the Worcester, Mass, saloons the other
afternoon party of seven women came in,
and walked up to the bar and called for
beer, and each one tossed off glass with
zest that was only equaled by the efforts of
the band to restrain them. II
Cincinnati, May 5.-Two brothers, nam
ed Walker, were shot at Owenton, Owen
county, Kentucky yesterday, by William
Smoot who charged them with securing
an indictment against him in the Federal
Court for some misdemeanor. One died
instantly and the other was dangerously
wounded.
eB- Edward Hill called on Mrs. Mary
Lee at Boston, and, getting into a quarrel
with her, was driven from the house but
he returned in the evening, and, after
lively fight, gave her a stab in the arm
which is likely to prove fatal. Hill fled,
and Mary refuses to tell anything about the
affair or prosecute him.
aB- About halfpast one O'Clock, on Sat
urday noon, as the first through coal train
east was passing Tyrone, a boy about six
teen years of age attempted to jump on,
and was thrown under the cars, and both
of his legs were cut off, and he was other
wise so injured that he cannot possibly re-
cover. No one at that point knew him or
where he resided. 100
Pictou, Ont, May 5.-The steam boiler
in the Irving and Downs planning mill ex-
ploded this morning, instantly killing the
engineer Donald Robinson and his son and
young man named Charles McGoweu.
Cole, accountant, was seriously but not
dangerously hurt, and Charles Scar was
badly scalded about the breast and head,
and two others suffered contusions.
The force of the explosion was terrible.
Fragments of the boiler, not less than a
ton in weight, were hurled distance of
tive hundred feet
Esg- At Scranton recently, it is stated,
the next door neighbors of family named
Mannix, used some kind of patent vermin
exterminator to get rid of rats the rats
carried the "medicine'' to the Mannix eel
lar and dropped it into vessel of milk
the Mannixes, five in number partook of
the milk, and soon exhibited every symp-
tom of having been poisoned. Prompt
use of antidotes saved their lives, but left
them very sick.
San Francisco, May 5.-Thirty ladies of
the Women's Temperance Alliance visited
the Board of Supervisors last night, and
presented another petition for the passage
of the order against the sale of liquors in
corner groceries. The Mayor informed
them that they had the subject under con-
sideration, but said it was difficult sub