The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-15

WILKEsBARRE Pa, Oct. o. - At late
hour last night while four miners, named
Jenkins Lewis, George Tasker, Joe Will
liams and James Ruane, were epdeavoring
TO disperse an accumulation of gas In the
Prospect shaft of the Lehigh Coal Com
pany, one of them appeared with naked
lamp. An explosion instantly followed,
inflcting injuries which resulted In the
death of the entire party shortly after they
we're removed to their homes.
tB- John Evans dropped into Tyring-
ham, Mass, two yeats ago, from nobody
knows where. He would never explain
who or what he was, but he soon became
popular, and married the daughter of
resident A few days ago lie quit the table
in the midst of dinner, went out of Tyring-
ham, and has not been there since. Why
he disappeared is as much mystery as
where he came from. Even his wife only
knows that he made kind husband.
EB-A Fulton street, N. Y, man laid his
finger on the table in front of buzz saw
to feel the momentum of the air. The saw
was going SO fast that the teeth were not
to be seen. His finger was taken off,
While he was looking at it the foreman
came up with the question
How did you do ?"
Why, put my finger down so," he
answered, placing the other forefnger, as
he thought, we'll away from the teeth. To
his horror, the saw took that one, too,
clean off at the second Joint.
GT- The horse that carried Sheridan in
to the fray from Winchester, sixteen miles
away, is dead. He was jet-black colt,
with small white star, standing sixteen
hands high, and three years old when pre-
sented to the General, then colonel of the
Second Michigan Cavalry, in 1869. Rienzi
was his name at first, from the town in
Mississippi, but after the famous "ride'
he was always known as Winchester. The
General had not ridden him since the war
closed. A Rochester taxidermist is to pre-
pare and set up the skin of the horse.
G5g William Delaney, of Wanamie, and
John Evans, of Nanticoke, were arrested
and placed in Jail at Wilkesbarre on Sun
day night, charged with the murder Phil
lip Callandor, who was shot on the 10th of
last January. These arrests are based up
on the statement of Bernard Tins, who
claims that Evans and himself lay in am
bush while Delaney fred the fatal shot,
and that they were employed to do the
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been unsuccessful in lawsuit with Cal
lander.
G9s- AS A. j. Gillespie, of Kansas City,
was going to his Office on Monday morning
a week he noticed red suspender lying ON
top of some freshly caved earth. He stoop-
ed to pick the suspender up, but it stretch
ed and refused to come. Digging down
with his hand Mr.. Gillespie soon found the
dead body of boy. Much alarmed he be-
gan to dig with spade, and to his horror
unearthed two other bodies. Rolly Brooks,
Joe Toney and Charles Stipes had been
buried alive by the caving in of an en-
bankment, on which they had been playing
the night before.
PoRT JERvIs, N. Y, October ga
young girl named Akerman, of New York
city, who, with her parents, has been
spending the summer at Van Benschotin's
Hotel, at Lackawanna, Pa, has been miss
ing from the hotel since yesterday after
noon. She ] eft her room rather abruptly,
saying that she would return soon. To-
ward evening the parents became alarmed
at her unaccountable absence. Although
the neighborhood was at once thoroughly
searched no trace of the missing girl could
be discovered No person could be found
who saw her after her departure from the
hotel, nor could the slightest clew be found
to her whereabouts.
e5g- A rejected lover of the name of Bar
ron ended his troubles and those of his old
sweetheart in rather bold and tragic
manner, not long since, at Juniata, Cal.
Miss Wardlake was the lady's name and
her wedding day brought together large
concourse of friends and acquaintances,
Barron among the rest Just before the
assemblage was about to disperse. Barron
approached the bride, bearing two glasses
of wine. He handed her one and drank
the other himself, saying significantly,
"Let us drink together once more, for the
last time on earth.' She was rather sad
dened by his words, but supposed that they
referred to the necessary end of their in
tercourse, and drank the wine. In half an