The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1877-01-16
Miscellaneous News Items.

eB A child sat down on hot stove
hearth in Pittsburgh, and wss permanently
branded with the words "Base Burner"
tB- Snow-balling in Shamokin, the other
day resulted in Oscar McCord, young
man, striking Joseph Burkhardy, o Po-
lander, with sprag and killing him.
tB At Lancaster, Pa, at midnight of
the 9th inst, Hunter g. Brothers. tea store
and H. II. Haslett's hat store on East King
street, were burned. Loss about $4,000.
Dg By fire at Swanton, franklin
county, VT, recently, in a building wherein
were located the Custom-bouse and Post
office, the Custom-house books and the
contents of the Post-office were destroyed.
eB Rev. Mr.. Kramer, Rector of Calvary
Episcopal Church, Louisville, has refused
to allow Masons to participate in the fu-
neral of member of their order held in
his church.
eB The two sons-in-law of ex-Treasurer
Spinner who have a bank in Jacksonville,
Fla, town principally built up by north
ern capital, have been socially ostracised
because they voted for Hayes and Wheeler.
EB- A Winnipeg, Manitoba, dispatch
dated Thursday, states that the smallpox
OhOiO 10 ihONihS oOCdullJ hOuOuWdlus luOIO
is not single uninfected house in Gimli.
1t has also broken out in Big Island, where
the Icelanders live.
GS A passenger train on the Lexington
and Big Sandy Railroad ran off the track
near Star Station, KY, on Wednesday,
cutting engineer John Mains legs off and
injuring four passengers, the latter not
seriously.
eB~ Mr.. VIM. Kunkel, prominent and
wealthy citizen of Ephrata, Lancaster
county, aged 60 years, dropped dead in his
sleigh while riding out with a lady friend
on Sunday week. He is supposed to have
died of heart disease.
eB- Five prisoners made their escape
from the Greensburg Jail on Saturday night
by removing portion of the stone wall,
tearing up their bed clothes, etc. Two
prisoners, who remained in Jail, refused the
option of escape which was offered them.
eBA A safe in the post office at Port Jer-
Wis, N. Y, was blown open by burglars on
Monday night and robbed of about $50 in
cash. A package containing $500 worth of
stamps was overlooked, but about dozen
registered letters were carried away.
sB Considerable excitement prevailed N
Pottsville one day last week, over an un-
successful attempt to escape of John Glib
bons, Mollie Mcguire prisoner. When
discovered the prisoner had cut through
the floor of his cell, and had removed TWEEN
| ty inches of stone and cement, an old scis-
sors and razor being his only tools.
Bay- Miles Ogle and w. r. johnson, alias
Wilson, counterfeiters, we're arrested on a
train of the Panhandle road on the 9th
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and brought to Pittsburg. A large number
of plates, considerable spurious money cur
rency and seven thousand dollars in coun-
terfeit notes were found on their persons
| They were committed for trial.
Gy- Highwaymen have been audacious
of late near st. Louis, and two policemen,
heavily armed and dressed like farmers,
we're sent out to make a capture. They
were assaled by robbers, as they had hoped
to be but otherwise their mission was a
failure, for instead of capturing the gang,
they were themselves stripped of every
thing that they had worth taking.
eB- A Rondout, N. Y, dispatch says
about fifty men marched along the Hudson
river Wednesday, compelling men at work
at the ice-houses to stop. The companies
at Rondout have been paying $1,25 and
$3.50 per day, and have more applicants
for work than they can employ. The in.
timidated men are flocking home from the
ice-houses.
EB RAILWAY, N. j., Jan. 6.-Last even.
ing DR.. Westlake administered ether To
Walter Lewis, aged 10, in order to extract
a tooth, and fifteen minutes afterwards the
boy was dead. 1t is believed that death
resulted from an irregulation of the heart,
as the ether administered was not enough
to render him entirely unconscious. DR.
Westlake is prominent in his profession in
Railway. He has not been arrested.
RICHMOND, Va, January 11.--A passen
ger car on the Chesapeake and Ohio rail
road this morning jumped the track neal
Green Brier river W. Va, and plunged
down forty-five foot embankment to the
frozen surface ofthe river. The ice was firm
and the car did not GO through. Seven per
sons were hurt but none fatally. Mrs
Hall, of White Sulphur springs, had leg
broken.
gB A few days ago, while Charles
Spence, of Steubenville, o., was eating his
dinner, a piece of meat lodged in his
throat. Not succeeding in coughing it NJ
gun, affixed the screw aud attempted to
withdraw the meat, but instead got hold o.
his windpipe and tore off a portion of it,
He has since died from his injury.
eE- A block signal station on the Penn.
sylvania railroad was destroyed by fire the
other day, the floor of the building having
been ignited by hot coal which fell from
O stove. The lady operator in charge of the