The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1878-10-01
Miscellaneous News Items.

at town in Maine recently. 1t is su ppos-
ed she had pur-puss in being there.
eE- Seventy-seven Kansas bound emil
grant wagons passed through Des Moines
one day last week.
Gg- A young daughter of H. G. Fronce,
of Mahanoy City, was choked to death by
a peanut kernel lodging in her windpipe.
EE- Thomas Wardlaw's body was found
in the woods near Musquash, N. B. Tues
day, with the skull crushed in. His wife
and her paramour were arrested.
BA Lady aged sixty-slx years, the
mother-in-law of Rev. Eisenminger, of Ly-
coming co., committed suicide by hanging
herself in an outhouse.
GE- A woman in Richmond, Ind, who
died recently, had kept $4,000 in gold
secreted for forty years. She didn't
believe in banks.
C5y- Frank Pike dived into the Boyer
river, Wisconsin, stuck his hands into the
mud at the bottom, and came up with a
long lost diamond ring on his finger.
EB- A tramp who stole a ride in car of
flour on the Vandalia road, in Illinois, a
few days since, was smothered by the car
taking fire. When fonnd he was dead.
E5y VIM. Butler, of Chester county, leap
from third story window while suffering
from typhoid fever and sustained supposed
fatal ;niuries
GB- The Odd Fellows Bank of Sacra-
mento has decided to wind up its business,
and has made an assignment of it's assets,
which it is believed are sufficient to pay
the creditors.
eB- On Saturday night an attempt was
made to burn up Taylor Bartlett and family
of Altoona. The fire was discovered in
time to prevent the accomplishment of the
object.
GS-A widow in Reading, who has attain
ed the age of fifty years, has been arrest
ed for firing her own property with the in
tent of destroying the house of her neigh
Dor, against whom she had an old grudge.
CB- Ten persons died from diphtheria at
Sharpsburg, Allegheny county, within
week recently. In the family of Mr. Col
Inns four children have died and another is
dangerously ill.,
tB- A Bohemian woman, while gather
ing blackberries near Iowa city, recently,
was bitten by a rattlesnake, and died be-
fore reaching home Her body was found
the following day.
Gg- A dispatch from Dodge City says
that fight commenced on Saturday
between the troops and band of thiev ing
Indians, several of whom had been killed,
without injury to the soldiers.
CINCINNATI, Ohio, September 23.-The
second section of John Robinson's circus
train on the Cairo and Vincennes railroad
was ditched at Mt. Carmel yesterday, de-
moishing five cars. Four employees were
seriously hurt.
ALLIANCE, o., September 3d. When
the train carrying Mr.. Hayes and party
east arrived here to-day salute was fired
so close to Mr.. Hayes private car as to
break all the windows on one side. No one
was hurt.
NsB- The woman and child found murder
ed on Sunday near indianapolis prove to
be the wife and child of William Merrick,
a livery-stable keeper. Merrick was
arrested, but denies all knowledge of the
crime.
GB- Two men were arrested in New
York on suspicion of having stolen $4,000
worth of opera-glasses from Broadway
optician on Sunday evening. The robbery
was committed at an hour when scores
of people were passing the place.
GEE Additional advices relative to the
tornado which visited portion of Michi-
gan on Friday week, state that two or three
persons were killed and a number injured
at different points. At Greenville the
Baptist church was blown down.
GB- A dealer in lottery tickets was SEN
fenced by the criminal court of Lehigh CO.,
last week to pay fine of $1,000 the cost
of prosecution, undergo an imprisonment
of thirty days and give bail in $4,000 for
two years for his good behavior.
tX-The Harrisburg Patriot says The