The Bloomfield times. [volume] (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1867-187?, 1874-06-09
Miscellaneous News Items.

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Watertown, N, Y, Juue 5.-Hiram
Smith was last night convicted of being an
accomplice in the murder of Charles Wen
ham and sentenced to be hanged on the
gath of July.
e5S Nearly one-third Of the town of Con-
neautville, Crawford county, was destroyed
by fire on Monday week. Forty-fve build
ings were burned and twenty fami lies rem
dered homeless. The loss is over 800, 900.
G5- On Saturday morning last, Mr.. JON
athan Miller, Of West Nantmeal, Chester
county, on going to the stable, found val
liable horse lying dead in the STALL with his
throat cut. No clue to the villain who did
the deed has been obtained.
Rochester, N. Y, June 5.-Henry Neff
was caught in revolving belt at the cen
trail -four mill yesterday and after several
revolutions his body was wedged between
the shaft and ceiling causing the machinery
to stop. He was fearfully mangled, and
died last night.
Philadelphia, June 5.-During a row
this evening in a tavern at Eighteenth and
Market streets Alderman Patton was Sc
verely cut in the head by butcher knife.
Bernard Kelley and James Curran, two
participants in the disturbance, were ar
rested The former was badly hurt.
G5S~ At Philadelphia, on Monday of last
week, Timothy Brophy, prisoner in the
House of Correction, assaulted one of the
guards, named Haines, and was throttling
him, when Haines managed to reach a
pistol and shot Brophy through the heart,
killing him instantly.
ssS The large and valuable brick block
corner of Madison and Market streets, Chi
cago, owned and occupied by NJ. D. Wells
& Co., wholesale manufacturers and deal
ers in boots and shoes, was entirely destroy
ed by fire on the 1st inst. The total loss
was $4,000
G5- A freight train east on the Erie
Railway on the afternoon of the 3rd inst,
struck wagon at crossing about five
miles east of Elmira, N. Y. Four persons
in the wagon were killed. They were from
Smithfeld, Bradford county, Pa. Their
names were John Dashie, George Dildine,
Justen Peat and Jane Dildine.
e5S- Buffalo are moving in immense num-
bers west of Fort Dodge, and hundreds of
hunters are gathering for the slaughter.
Now is the time, if soldiers are any use on
the frontier, to enforce the law against the
wanton destruction ofthose valuable herds.
None should be killed unless the meat as
we'll as the skin is taken away for con.
sumption.
GB- A lady was standing on one Of the
wharves in New York recently, bidding
adieu to some friends who were about to
ing there, a cask of molasses, which was
being hoisted by an elevator above her head,
burst, and she was deluged with the sweet
but sticky fluid. For the time, she unani-
mously admitted to be the sweetest of her
sex.
E8- In De Kalb county (Mo.) recently "a
woman named Jane Stivers went to hunt
for eggs, leaving her child, about seven
months old, playing on the floor of the house.
During her absence, which was less than
half an hour, hog entered the house and
on her return she found that the animal had
killed the infant and partially eaten it, be-
ing intent on it's horrible meal when the
horror stricken mother beheld it.
B-C @. w. Pool, claiming to live in
northern Texas was arrested in st. Louis
on Sunday night, on charge of swindling
a jeweller out of $4,000 worth of iewelry,
which he purchased, giving in payment
mortgage bond against farm in New
York, which proved to be fraudulent. The
jewelry was recovered. Pool claims to be
a reputable Texas merchant, and to have
obtained this bond and another one in
business transaction with party in Chi
cago.
esB- The Burlington Qowa) Hawkeye, re-
lates the following incident: g Yesterday
morning boy sauntered up to yard on
Eighth street, where a woman was scratch
ing the bosom Of the earth with a rake,
and leaning on the fence, said "Are you
going around to the backyard after awhile?"
The woman said she didn't know maybe
she would why?" Because" the boy
said, 81 saw the cistern lid drop on the
baby's head minute ago, and thought if
Won went around Won might lift II orr