The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1879-09-09

but that the State Supreme Court has held
that town authorities can bar them from
the High School.
Dy- Richard Stevenson, United States
Deputy Marshal, was shot to death in
Kingsnian county, Kansas, on Saturday,
by horse thief, who escaped to the In
dian Territory. He had arrested the thief
at Wellington, and was returning the
prisoner and property to Kingsman. Both
men, together with drummer, were in
carriage. In descending a sudden declvi-
ty the thief snatched Steyenson's revolver
and shot him.
GB Shortly after twelve o'clock yester-
day morning patrolman found FIVE little
children at Twenty-second and Hamilton
streets, who said their mother was drunk
and their father in prison for theft, and
that they were destitute. Their mother,
whose name is Nichols, was found drunk
at Sixteenth and Carlton streets. The
children were provided for by the s. p. G.
@. They said constable had put them
out of their home for non-payment of
rent.-Phil'a. "North American"
Gg- William Crane, merchant tailor
of Bradford, walked into his house ON
Wednesday afternoon week, and after
lightning his pipe and sitting down, said
to his wife, "Good-by; l hope we part
friends; l am tired of life, and 1 shouldn't
wonder If died in two hours" His wife
paid no attention to him, as she thought he
was drunk, and in ten minutes he was
in two hours. He had taken poison with
suicidal intent on account of business
troubles.
G5s- Samuel Ham, y farmer living near
Roscoe, in st. Clair county, Missouri, was
murdered recently. Three unknown horse
men rode up to Ham while he was engaged
in boiling sorghum and shot him dead
He was supposed to have considerable
sum of money. After searching the body
and failing to find money, they rode away.
Parties are securing the county, but SO far
have not come up with the murderers.-
Ham was recently from Kentucky, and
one theory is that the homicide was the
result of an old feud.
GB- Dennis Slatterly, at work in q La
Crosse sawmill, Monday, showed great
presence of mind. He was engaged in
putting belt on pully, when his left
hand was caught between the betting and
the wheel and was terribly smashed. 1t is
stated by witnesses of the accident that he
would have been killed, or at least suffered
much more serious injury, had he not, as
soon as his hand was caught, taken his
knife from his pocket with the other hand,
and opening it with his teeth, cut the belt
in two.
eg- Lewis Gray, aged twenty seven, and
Charles Jones, aged twenty y-one, of Brad
ford, were killed at one o'clock Tuesday
morning by the explosion of sixty pounds
of nitro-glycerine with which they were
about to torpedo an oil we'll at Bells
Camp, eight miles from Bradford. The
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that not single one of many pieces of
flesh found scattered around on trees and
hillside could be identified as belonging to
either of them. A team of horses and
buggy were also blown to atoms by the
explosion. 1t is supposed that the men
were lifting one of tho cans of glycerine
from the buggy, when the handle gave
way. The report of the explosion was
distinctly heard in Bradford.
eB- A negro widow of Brunswick, Ca,
beau. He pretended to love
her, and she joyfully accepted his affection.
The wedding day and hour was fixed, and
the ebony bride, attred in the height of
Georgia African fashion, ,anxiously awaited
her equally ebony bridegroom. But the Q.
b. G. didn't come, and the guests, whose
appetites we're growing ravenous, went in
search of him, saying Gwen find dat
niger, dead or alive" All through that
long and weary night did they seek without
finding, but the next morning they caught
him up plum tree, dragged him down,
him to the bride, and were
about to send for the preacher, when she
the proceedings by exclaiming,
"l'se got enough specimen wild dat mig
GER" and administered to him lively
with broomstick. Then she
told him to "git out OBJ her sight for ebah
mo-" He got.
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