The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-09-24

the concussion shaking the earth for
miles around. A workman was seriously
injured and the other mills were badly
wrecked. Loss, $4,000 to $4,000.
rB- While young son of James Horn
broker, Of Franklin county, Pa, was as
ssting in hanging barn door, 1t slipped
off the upper hinges, fell ON his neck and
broke It.
nB- John HnIley was arrested at Seneca,
Mich, Wednesday, on suspicion of having
caused the death of his wife and child in
March last, by setting fire to the house
where they were sleeping.
eE- James Broadbelt, of indianapolis,
says that he had $4,000 taken from his
pocket while going from that city TO Chi
cago. He carried the sum about his per-
son for more than year.
tB- A little son of Jacob Bruner, of
Gwynedd, Montgomery county, was play
ing "cook supper in the barn. The
building and $4,000 worth of grain and hay
paid for the supper.
nB- Charles Highly was acquitted at
Beaver of numbering Benjamin Sheridan,
on the ground that the killing took place
while Sheridan was trying to force an en-
trance into Higby's house.
tB- A dispatch from La Sale, Illinois
says that an express driver was assaulted
there on Saturday night and robbed of
$4,000. The money belonged to zinc
company, and had been sent from the
First National Bank of Chicago.
esg- On Saturday night a young Ere nch-
man and lady returning from circus at
Lewistown, Me-, were seized by six
roughs two held the man, while four raw
ished the young lady. Five men are held
for completely in the crime.
CB- There is project on foot to form a
new county out of the lower portion of
Armstrong and part of Westmoreand,
extending from Parnassus to Salisbury,
with view of locating the county seat at
Freeport.
e5E- In Schuykill county the other day
during heavy gust a bolt of lighting
struck one tree, and after splitting it,
jumped to another, which it actually tore
to shreds, then caromed to a cedar, which
it divided.
CX- At fair held recently at Gibson,
Illinois, horse called Judge Thurman
was crowded off the track by the other
horses. He threw his rider, regained the
track, and came in ahead of all the other
horses and winning the heat.
CE" Burglars entered the summer resi-
dence of Mrs. Samuel Hooper, at Lenox,
Mass, on Monday night, and notwith-
standing there were half-a-dozen persons
in the house, they stole $4,000 worth of
plate, and Jared sumptuously ON the wines
and delicacies in the larder.
eB- A specimen of copper ore from the
DR.. Snively mines near Waynesboro, Frank
lin county, Pa, has been ON exhibition in
Harrisburg. It yields ninety cents Of
commercial copper. These mines are said
to be the richest copper mines in the
State
GsE- A young man named Davis, a resi-
dent of Montgomery county, Ind, having
been attacked by scrofula, and fearing to
marry, killed himself. His betrothed at
tended the funeral, and strove violently to
fling herself into the grave upon the
coffin.
GB Mrs. Young, an old lady living in
Berks county, heard a noise the other
Dight, and raising a window, looked out.
She saw two men, one of whom was boring
a hole in her door. She went back, got
her little revolver, and brought down her
game. The we'll man carried off the other,
leaving only pool of blood.
EB- Five tramps reoklessly resolved to
capture Kenton, Ohio. They marched into
the village hourishing clubs, terrified few
women, and began to pillage a store
Their triumph was short. The villagers
gathered in force, stripped them, dipped
them into barrel of tar, rolled them in
sand, and drove them out of town.
NEW YoKK, September 17.-Theodore
Allen to-day shot and killed Private Detec-
tive Edward Malloy at Aliens gambling
house on Broadway. Allen was the first
to inform the authorities of the affair, and
claims that it was accidental. They were
in room together, and Allen was showing
Malloy revolver he had purchased the
evening before.