The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-08-26
Miscellaneous News Items.

EB llOBd COuuIy nus l6bJlV6 youth
aged one hundred and eleven years.
cY Some of the mines in the ClearGeld
coal region are running double time.
Gy- In some towns in New Hampshire
an apparently new disease, it is said, APP
peared among cattle, which as yet battles
all attempts to allay.
ca" j. p. Renson, while chasing cat
last week in Troy, N. Y, ran head fore
most against tree. His skull was frac-
tured and he died instantly.
PHILADELPHIA, August 90. - Theodore
McGuirk, arrested in Erie, Pa, charged
with killing the colored watchman in
store in this city in 1865 while committing
burglary, was brought here today and
committed for hearing.
GB- A man named John Betz, aged "a
years, died at the Pennsylvania hospital in
Harrisburg on Saturday week of lock-
jaw. An examination led to the conviction
that the trouble came from the sting of
bee.
CB- Governor Talbot, of Massachusetts,,
has written letter, dated the 10Th instant,
to the Hon. E. F. Stone, Chairman of the
Republican State Committee, positively
declining denomination, and giving his
reasons for his decisiou which are private
and entirely personal.
CB- A son of Charles e. Jewell, of the
New York police force, who was visiting
his grandfather near Poughkeepsie, while
gathering apples in an orchard one day last
week was stung by number of hornets,
and died from the effects of the stings in
half an hour.
GB- A colored man, named no. Cramp-
ton, was shot and killed by an unknown
person in Prince Georges county, Nd, OH
Monday, while he was sitting at the sup
portable with his family. The assassin is
supposed to be negro who had a quarrel
with Champion recently.
CB- Rev. w. r. Tillinghast, rector of
Trinity Episcopal Church, Detroit, while
camping out on Fox Island, at the mouth
Of Detroit river, was accidentally shot and
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revolver by young man named Wright
BALTIMORE, August IA well-defined
case of leprosy (elephantiasis graecorum) is
reported in Baltimore by well-known
physician. The patient, lady aged AZ,
and mother of four healthy children, died
after long and intense suffering
VB- By the falling of rotten bridge
over the Housatonic river, at Stockbridge,
Mass, Wednesday, wagon with six occu-
pants was precipitated into the river.
Somers Benjamin, of South Egremont,
aged twenty-five years, was taken out
dead. Miss Aggie Ronald and Fanny
Millard, of Thompsonville, were badly
hurt. The others were slightly injured
eB Two members of family having
died of dysentery within few days of
each other at Meohanicsburg, Sangamon
county, ILL.,, the doctors made an examina-
ton which satisfied them that death was
caused by water poisoning. The remain
ing members Of the family were directed
to vacate the premises. Symptoms in both
cases were similar to those in the so-calIed
cholera cases in Iowa.
PITTsBURGH, August H. - This morn
ing at five o'clock lightning struck iron
tank No. 200 on the Union pipe line, OPP
poste Parker, Pa, owned by VIM. Mum
hall, of Pittsburgh, containing $4,000 bar
rels of oil. The tank was torn to pieces
= Al. 4 a
side, destroying five oil wells aud five
dwellings, communicating to tank of five
thousand barrels of Oil owned by r. L.
Brown, which, together with the leading
rack of the Union pipe line, was destroyed.
Total loss, $4,000.