The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-05-20
Miscellaneous News Items.

son, OF CharlestOwn, was thrown from his
horse while returning from church yester-
day and was killed
PROVIDENCE May 13.--.Andrew Man
ming killed his wife at Elmvile yesterday,
and then went to the mill pond filed
his pockets with stones and drowned him
self.
ALLENTOWN, May 13. = A boy named
Nagel fell from wagon in this city this
morning. A barrel of water fell on him,
crushing his head, and he was instantly
killed.
CINCINNATI, May 12.-Mary Ruggles,
aged eleven years, stepped on parlor
match, at Bettsville, Ohio. The match
exploded, and, her clothes catching fire,
she was burned to death.
GBr Two human fiends. near Johnstown
caught rabbit few Sundays since, after
which they skinned it alive and then
amused themselves by chasing it around
room till it expired.
t5y- James Cassam, one of the clowns of
Bailey & Co.'S great circus and menagerie,
met with terrible death at Johnstown on
the 18th inst, being literally ground to
pieces by train of cars, passing over him.
ALTOONA, May 11.--A young boy, son of
Porter Orner, was almost instantly killed
this afternoon by horse falling ON him.
He was watching the unloading of some
circus horses at the time.
CINCINNATI, May 13. - Chas. Wallace
and Louis Gable, two young men of Wheat
land, Indiana, had a quarrel about
young lady friend. Wallace, becoming
greatly enraged, shot Gable, killing him
instantly.
Gsy- Robert Held eloped with a Denver
widow, and his own wife aided him in the
exploit. The object of the Helds was to
get the widows one thousand dollars, and
after that Helds deserted the widow and re-
turned home.
GY- Five hundred shad were caught ir
one day at Shenk's Ferry, on the Susque-
hanna. This is the largest haul made at
this point for many years. The prevailing
opinion that the introduction of black bass
destroys all other fish does not seem to be
we'll founded.
GE- The Ann Arbor, Mich, student
who "gave away" the gang of student
thieves, says they were about to engage in
making counterfeit coin when the police
came down upon them. Jewelry, furs,
clothing, mittens, museum specimens, ETC.,
had constituted their plumber.
GEE While party of six men were at
tempting to land from their skiff on the
st. Louis side of the Mississippi ON SUM-
day evening in high wind, the boat was
upset and four of the six, John Hiemanz,
Herman Mastins and two othere whose
names are unknown were drowned.
CB- In a number of northern counties
last falls pigs, owned by farmers in that
vicinity, are suffering from disease which
causes complete paralysis of their legs.
In some cases the paralysis is confined
only to the hind legs but in nearly all, the
animal is entirely helpless.
PoTTsvILLE, May 12.-The body of a lit
tie daughter of Michael Hoary, living at
Locust Gap, was found in the Greek at Mt.
Carmel, in a partly decomposed condition
yesterday. She was missed from home sew
eral weeks ago, and it was supposed she
had been stolen away by gypsies.
GEE A basket full of boy baby was found
on the steps of house in Flint, Mich,
few days ago. A note in the basket said
he was of poor but honest parents, but the
style of clothing indicated that, like Ralph
Raokstraw, he was q Irregular patrician."
He was adopted by family who had re-
Gently lost babe by death.
gB- Salmon measuring nine inches in
length have been caught in the outlet Of
the Union canal, Reading. 1t is thought
they are some of the 5000 young salmon
that were put in the Wyomissing creek
last December. when $4,000 fish of the
same variety were placed in the streams of
Berks county.
eB Information has been received at
Chicago that on Saturday night Charles
Reed, of Sidney, Nebraska, who was in
Jail there for having murdered Henry
Loomis the preceding day, was taken out
of Jail by about four hundred citizens
and hanged to telegraph pole in the main
persed, firing revolvers in the air. and
shouting, "Loomis is avenged"
nSa5- A c,ood daol of av,o;taroank ,yaS Uro