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

Flannery, clerk in the office of the
Pottstown iron company, has mysteriously
disappeared with funds of that company
amounting to $4,000.
CE S. V. Van Inwegen, tax collector
in Pike county, has been sentenced to
eighteen months at hard labor aud solitary
confinement, on the charge of embezzle-
ment.
CY- Mrs. Mary Adams, who died in
Pittsburgh last week, left George f.
Burdett, newsboy on the Pennsylvania
road, 50, 500 in money, and a farm of 1876
acres In Ohio.
GE Mr.. Baxton, Postmaster at Morrison
vile, ILL.,, was arrested on Monday for de-
tanning and destroying mail matter from
st. Louis, Chicago and Decatur. He con-
fessed to destroying two letters containing
drafts.
ET- Tolle, Holton & Co., of Cincinnati,
whose failure was recently announced,
filed petition in bankruptcy on Monday.
Liabilities $685., 000. The assets at low
estimate are $3.50, 000 Most of the credi-
tors are in New York.
eBT Three men entered the house of
George Mingle, near Attica, N. Y, on
Monday morning, knocked him down,
dragged out his wife, aged SO years, and
brutally murdered her. Two men have
been arrested on suspicion.
CB- A suit has been instituted against
the estate of William Il. Garner by Peter
Sullivan, of New York City, who claims
fifty thousand dollars for the loss of his
son, drowned on the Inflated yacht Mo-
hawk.
ZEE Satin is once more in vogue. 1t
went out of fashion in England twenty
eight years ago, when Mrs. Manning,
celebrated murderess, at one time lady's
maid to the late Duchess of Sutherland,
was hung in black satin dress.
eA- Captain Foglesby, who is to under
take the recovery of six millions of dollars
treasure, supposed to have been sunk in
the frigate San Pedro Alcantara, on the
Spanish main sixty years ago, has obtained
subscriptions enough to start upon his ex-
pedition.
BLOOMINGTON, ILL.,, December 81. -
James O'Neill, well known passenger
locomotive engineer on the. Chicago and
Alton railroad, was shot dead in the street
here at three o'clock this morning, while
returning home from his trip on his loco
motive. The shot was fired by an un-
known hand. The murder is unexplained.
Gg- A strange disorder has seized upon
cattle in Cromwell and Rocky Hill, Conn.
1t has many of the symptoms of hydropho-
bia. The animals begin by jumping,
moaning, aud believing ; they grow worse,
and in three days they die. If approached,
they become furious and dangerous. All
attacked by the disease have died.
GB- The Georgia farmer who has carried
off the palm this year is Mr. James II.
Booker. He raised sixty bales of cotton,
twelve hundred bushels of corn, five
hundred of potatoes, a thousand of oats
and wheat, and twenty-five hogs. The
newspapers chronicle this all the greatest
harvest by any one man since the war.
CINCINNATI, Dec. 25.- The residence
of DR.. D. W. Mccarthy was entered this
morning and about $10,O worth of notes
and valuable papers carried off. 1t is
surmised by the doctor that the burglary
was planned for the purpose of securing
papers bearing upon recent sensational
scandal case, as six large envelopes con-
tanning correspondence relative to the case
were taken away.
rB- At Memphis, Tenn, last Monday
morning, Detective William G. Pride,
while half asleep, imagined he heard a
burglar at the window, and in attempting
to cock his pistol it was discharged, the
ball passing through the body of his five
months old child, and also through the
body of his wife, causing the death OF
both.
eB- At Tuskethakes, fifteen miles from
Yarmouth, on Sunday a week, David Hat
fields two children and another child fell
through the ice. Hatfeld's family ran to
the scene, and in the excitement fell into
the water. Mrs. Hatfield, her two daughters
aged ten and six years respectively, and
her son aged ten years were drowned.
gg- Lieutenant Ward who was sent ia
the Rio Grande to find the trail of horses
stolen and driven into Mexico on the 10Th
inst, reports that the Mexican troops
reached the river on the morning of the
Goth, when he Joined them. They follow