The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-04-15

around her neck, when she was choked to
death.
tB- The last rail of the branch track OF
the Philadelphia and Reading Road, be-
tween Harrisburg and Baldwin, was laid
last Saturday, and this new and important
artery Of trade ia now ready for business.
A locomotive and train of cars has run over
the road, and everything found to work
smooth and in perfect order. The length
of the extension is two miles and quarter,
one mile of which is trestlework.
New YoRK, April 0.-Mrs Rose McCus-
ker, an aged widow occupying with her
son No. 225 West Sixteenth street, was
found this morning suspended on the iron
railing in front of the house. The sharp
spikes had entered her abdomen and she
died as officers we're moving her from her
terrible position. She suffered greatly from
cramps in her legs, and it is supposed that
while walking around the floor during the
night to gain relief she was attracted to
the window and fell out.
GB- Thomas Konigmacher, who hung
the other day, was very eccentric. He
used to drive to market barehe AIDED in
midwinter, called his three horses after
the members of the Trinity, and once tried
to teach the people of Trenton how to
liquidate the public debt by burning sever
al government bonds in the street. He
was fond of giving wagon loads of bread
to the poor.
eB- John Martin, well-known aud
highly respectable farmer of Lancaster
county, tried to commit suicide at his
home near Rawlingsville, last week. The
instrument used was a small pocket knife,
with which he made frightful cash in
his throat, extending almost from ear to
ear, exposing the windpipe and narrowly
escaping the jugular vein. His designs
were frustrated by the timely arrival of
some of the family. He is in a dangerous
condition and may not recover. He is
about 40 years of age, and lives with his
father, who owns several farms in that
neighborhood.
eB- A Mr.. Jancke, of Iowa City, had
narrow escape from a horrible death the
other day. He was ON horseback when the
animal suddenly plunged into ditch at
one side of the road, turning the saddle
and throwing the rider to the ground, his
foot, however, catching in the stirrup.--
With desperate effort he clung to the
bride reins with one hand, the horse all
the time plunging wildly around, and with
the other took out his knife, opened it
with his teeth and cut the stirrup strap,
which released him from his perilous posi-
tion.
eB- A church steeple at Richmond, Ind,
on which lights appeared at night, was be-
lieved by superstitious people to be haunted
until the other day, when somebody sug-
gested that broken lightning-rod might
cause the illusion, and the sexton climbed
up above the BELLS and found the two sec
tions of the rod apart and gap of an inch
or more between them. The passage of
silent electricity over the gap caused a
spark, which, seen swapping and jumping
in the moist air, assumed phantom forms,
and played the deuce with the imagina-
tons of all who saw it.
DAVENPORT, Iowa, April Z. = Shortly
after twelve o'clock on Friday night Harry
Watt, a cigar maker of this city, and
Louise Filter, his wife's sister, took prus-
sic acid, and died within few moments
of each other. Watt was young man,
comparatively, but he had been married
several years and had children, and his do
mestic life had always seemed peri ectly
happy. Miss Filter was 81 years old and
had lived with the family for several years
past The coroners investigation revealed
the fact that improper relations probably
existed between them.