The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-05-04
Miscellaneous News Items.

e8 DR.. Siellng, Of Ephrata, is winning
great deal of glory for saving woman
who had brain spasms and had ceased to
breathe. He kept up artificial respiration
for two hours and half, and at last she
was able to breathe again.
tB- AS Mr.. Hiram Beclley, of South
Lebanon, was driving to Lebanon, last
week, with his wife and child In the car
riage, the collar chol1ed the horse, and be
fell to the ground, and the vehicle went
down an embankment. The child was
somewhat injured.
DB- On last Saturday evening, Mrs.
Mowery, of near Idaville, Adams Co.,
whilst visiting at a neighbors and feeling
unwell, took dose of tincture of camphor,
and then started home with her little boy.
When about half way home she fell to the
ground and within few moments, life was
entirely extinct
DB- A news special from Austin, Texas,
says Mrs. Houston, living in the country,
last week in fit of insanity, attempted to
murder her five children by driving knit
ting needles into their brain through their
ears. One was killed, and two others are
seriously injured.
aB- Joel Eby, q well-to-do farmer, re-
siding about mile aud half from Man
helm, on the road to Litiz, intending to go
out reached for his overcoat and while in
the act of doing So fell to the floor and ex-
pired instantly He was sixty years old
and leaves family to mourn his loss.
Heart disease is supposed to have caused
his death.
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va, April 27.-A
freight train on the Chesapeake and Ohio
road ran into the rear of a freight train 60
ing west last night, at WaYnesboro, badly
wrecked the engine and fifteen cars, killing
the fireman, Mark Wood, and dangerously
wounding the engineer Lorenzo Smith.
The west bound express was delayed seven
hours.
Gy- During the severe wind storm which
prevailed in Indiana county on Friday
last, the barn of w. ID. Somers, of Brush
Valley township, was blown down. A lit
tie son of Mr.. s., aged eight years, who
had taken refuge in the building, was kill
ed by falling timbers. The mother was
also present and made very narrow es-
cape.
rB- A four-year- r-old girl lately made the
journey across the continent to San Fran
cisco alone. She was self-reliant little
traveller, and was inclined to resent any
intimation that she could not care for her
self. She was, however, taken in charge
by the conductors, in accordance with
request written on her ticket. Her mother
had died in the east, and she sought her
father.
WATERBURa, VT, April 27.-Almun
Meeker, twenty years old, confessed to the
murder of his nece, Miss Meeker, who
has been missing since Friday. Meeker
says they wished to rid themselves of the
girl, and he and his mother gave her
strichnine, after which they buried her in
q swamp, after tying handkerchief over
her mouth. Meeker accompanied the Of
ficers and found the body, and to day
physicians are making an examination.
eB- A novel quilt is being constructed
by the ladies of the Cardington M. e.
church, o., The Republican says It'll is
Of the patchwork variety, but in the
squares names of persons are inserted with
indelible ink, and all it costs is ten cents
per name. After the quilt is finished it is
to be sold to the highest bidder, and will
thus pass down to posterity, bearing with
it the names of the people who invested
ten cents in the enterprise. The proceeds
are to go towards iiquidating the church
debt.
eB The queer spectacle of hen catch
ing and killing mouse, was witnessed by
number of persons on Washington street
Huntington one day last week.
''Mousey" approached where the hen was
eating to partake of morsel, but its
feathery friend not taking kindly to the
sleek, sneaking rodent, picked 1t up with
her bill, gave it shake, clawed it, struck
it with her wing, and finally put an end to
its useless and troublesome life.
BERWICK, Pa, April 29.--A shocking
accident occurred at the rolling mills of tho
jackson g. Woodin manufacturing compa-
ny, at this place, on Monday. BY some
means young man named Fennell, an
employee Of the works, became entangled
in the machinery and was drawn through
the rolls, his body being rolled as fiat as
bar of iron Death was instantaneous.
GB- A Bradford, Pa, special dispatch
says John Tully and Luke Kane, of