The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-18
Miscellaneous News Items.


GE- While the fire ragged at Coleville a
laborer, named John Clark, went upon
250-barrel tank and smothered a small
flame that would soon have caused the oil
to explode.
HUDSON, N. Y, May 13.-The village of
Stuyvesant, containing population Of four
thousand people and situated on the Hud-
son river road, 1875 miles from New York,
aud II from Albany and 10 from Hudson,
was destroyed by fire this morning.
CB- A colored man recently drowned the
infant of his paramour at Columbus, Ca,
and when officers last week attempted to
arrest him, he jumped forty feet from a
bridge into the Chattahoochie river.
Uninjured by the jump he sought deep
water and drowned himself.
icy William Rocks, of Canton, Fulton
county, ILL.,, has been afflicted with what
was supposed to be dyspepsia, but the
matter came to crisis last week, when he
vomited up several "acephalocists or
ulOiO-SuuDOu ihphSOSio, CdOh dOOuv bWO
inches long and covered with substance
resembling moss.
Gy- There is a great mystery about the
case of the death of two men whose bodies
were found in the woods near Fort Benton,
Mimi, the other day. The doctors de-
clare they died of poison, but not the
shadow of motive for murder, or sui
eide, or trace of possible murders, can be
discovered. Suicide is suspected.
GB- Recently bitter feeling sprung up
between Henry A. Stocks and John Il.
Russell, farmers, living on adjoining
places on Eight Mile Prairie, Williamson
county, Ill. On Tuesday the parties met
ON the road aud AN alteration ensued,
during which Russell shot Stocks, killing
him almost instantly Russell has not been
arrested.
CE- The Bradford Era tells briefly as
follows how some recent fires occurred in
that region. A man visited a 25,000-bar-
rel oil tank with naked lantern and Red
Rock was burned. A man built fire near
a well and went to dinner the destruction
of Rev City was the result A woman
upset gas stove and Rixford went up in
smoke and 60, 900 barrels of oil were lost.
eB- At least one child owes it's life to
the bravery of its mother, who had learned
to swim. Mrs. Shoff, living near Neff's
Island in the Susquehanna river, took her
two small children in a boat on Thursday
of last week to row where her husband was
fishing. The boat struck a rock, and the
woman, telling the children to cling to her,
undertook to swim ashore with them. One
of them fell off and was drowned, but she
reached the shore in safety with the other,
but very much exhausted
WILLrAMsPoRT, May 10.-Forest fires
are still raging in this part of the State,
Sullivan county being the latest sufferer.
The hemlock forest of that county have
beer burning for two or three days, and
great quantities of timber are reported
destroyed. The latest advices received
here to-day are to the effect that two
| thousand acres are already burned over
between Thorndale and Schreyvogels, and
over fifteen hundred cords of bark belong
ing to Thorn Mcfarland & Co. here have
been eaten up by the flames. The fire is
still fercely burning and promises to do
still greater damage unless it's destructive
progress is arrested by rain.
BosToN, May 13.--The shutting off oI
gas and water in the Post Office and Sub
Treasury today resulted in seriously Grip
pling tho workings of both departments
The mails are greatly delayed, as they
cannot be sorted in the basement without
light. The Sub-Treasury suffers prlnci
pally from lack of water The POSTMASTER
General has been notified of the situation.
The clerks at the Post Office to-nigh
performed their duties by the aid of loco
motive headlights loaned to the Postmas
ter, tallow candles and lanterns. The
Postmasters of Portland, Newport, r. L.
and New Bedford, have received and ac
cepted offers from the local gas companies
in those cities offering TO furnish gas a
their own risk.