The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-07-08

the rain. The umbrella is now used for
another purpose.
ELMiRA, N. Y, July 1.--At Wyalusing
Pa, ON Monday, well caved in, burying
man named Chambers who was working
In 1t. A party of men were digging all
night, but had not reached Chambers at
last accounts. The we'll is thirty.six feet
deep, and is situated near the railroad
track. 1t is thought the caving was caused
by the passage of freight train. Cham
bers leaves wife and three children.
tB- A peasant named Bandsleben, living
near Konigsburg, sold COW and received
as part of the purchase money hundred
mark bank note. His little son pulled the
note from his pocket, and in playing with
1t tore 1t into pieces. The enraged father
dragged the child to chopping- block and
cut its head off with an axe. Then he
returned to the house and told his wife
what he had done. The woman, who was
bathing younger child, fell down In a
faint, dropping the infant into the bath
tub, where it was drowned.
ATLANT1c Cry, July /. = Charles Her
man and Thomas Welsh were arrested
here to-day for the murder of William
Martin, real estate broker, who was mys-
teriously beaten to death in his office in
Philadelphia some time ago. The charge
is made by woman claiming to be Her
mans wife. Her testimony was taken by
the mayor this afternoon, but the officials
are very reticent concerning the affair and
no particulars can be obtained at present.
psr The Russian army near the Caspian
Sea are tormented by the common black
house flies. The commander of the caval-
ry told the correspondent (who wrote the
tale in tent of gauze, within which there
was little light, owing to the countless
flies clinging to its exterior) that he had
known horses to fall dead, exhausted by
the incessant prosecutions of these diminu-
tive tormentors.
David Schrack, thirteen year old son
of VIM. Schrack, of Norristown, was kill
ed by falling from cherry tree on Thurs
day afternoon. There is something strange
in his death in that he fell fifteen feet, on
soft, yielding grass, without breaking a
limb or making bruise. His feet struck
on the ground first, when he fell over and
stretched himself out as though asleep
He was unconscious, and before physi--
clan could get to him he was dead.
aB- A brief account of the arrest and,
escape of Homager, the desparado, burglar, :
and Jail breaker, at Pottstown, on Satur-
day, show his captors in ludicrous light.
Known to be desperate and ugly custo-
mel, he was handcuffed as soon as arrested,
and fairly surrounded by policemen, was
on his way to the Jail, when he broke loose
and dashed down the steeet pursued by
large mob. The policemen at once brought
their revolvers into use, and in another
moment perfect din was created by the
crying children and shrieking women who
were dodging the whisting bullets. The
trees along the road were plugged with
shot, and one or two accidentally hit the
fugitive, who, in spite of his wounds, :.
manacled hands and many pursuers, es-
capped.
GB- The residence of Robert S. Viii.
liams, in Milwaukee, was broken into and
robbed recently during the temporary alb
sence of the family, and the servant girl
was found lying ON the floor in most
painful position, gagged and bound hand
and foot. No clue could be found to the
robbery, and the girl has to thank her own &,
stupidity for her ultimate detection. She
excited suspicion by her lavish expendi-
ture of money and was arrested. Then.
she was frightened into a confession, and
made to show how she had planned and ]
executed the whole robbery herself. After
all the stolen goods had been removed out
of the house to place of hiding, she re-
turned and deliberately scratched her own.
face until the blood ran, tore great rents in.
her clothes, thrust gag into her mouth,
bound her feet, and finally, by means of
slip-knot, actually tied her hands so tightly
that she could not move. Then she threw,
herself ON the floor, and was in a fainting
condition when the family returned.
CY- Ben Rosencranz rode into Boise
City, Idaho Territory, on Wednesday two
weeks ago and whispered to his bar-room
friends queer story. Ben said that as he
and Len Lewis were passing along near
Glenn's Ferry, on Snake river, they had
come across an old canvas blouse half hid