The New Bloomfield, Pa. times. (New Bloomfield, Pa.) 1877-188?, 1880-03-23
Miscellaneous News Items.

EBr An unfortunate skunk over at
Everett, in Bedford county, the other day
swan across stream, and while crossing
the Pennsylvania Railroad track froze to
the rail and was killed by train.
eB- Lawrence Shilling, aged flfty-five
years, shoemaker, residing on the Groffs-
town road, ust outside of the Lancaster
city limits, fell down stairs last week and
broke his neck. He was subject to epi-
leptic fits, and it is supposed had an at
tack while coming down the stairs.
cay Mrs. Sarah Coonley, of Lam caster,
who was convicted of conspiracy to marry
young lady to DIR. Eugene De Leon who
had a wife living in Harrisburg, was SEN
fenced to imprisonment in the common
Jail of Lancaster county for thirteen
months, and to pay fine of 800.
Troy, N. Y, March 15.-Albert Mar
croo was killed by the explosion of blast
in the Hoosac tunnel on Sunday morning.
This is the one hundred and ninety ninth
fatal calamity that has occurred in this
tunnel since it was begun, some twenty
years ago.
G8- A newspaper reporter of Cincinnati
died the other day and ordered his body to
be given to the doctors for dissection.
The result of the investigation will be
looked forward to with great interest by
the public, as no such opportunity has
ever been given to discover what is really
in newspaper man.
GB- P. F. Benson, one of the proprie-
tors of the Grand Central Hotel at Oak
land, Cal, and II. Hurget, porter of the
hotel, were arrested last week on charge
of purloining the valuables of the guests
during the fire which destroyed the build
ing on Tuesday morning. A large amount
of property was stolen. 1t has been shown
that the fire was incendiary and that the
plumber was part of the programme.
rY- While they were cutting sewer in
st. Louis the other day through soil d
limestone, the workmen found two human
feet firmly planted in the rock. The calf
of one leg can be traced, but the other foot
possesses only part of the ankle. They
occupy natural positions, as if the creature
that owned them had been standing erect
in the mud that hardened into limestone.
No traces of the body are visible.
WINCHESTER, Ills, March 17.--At one
O'Clock this morning 100 masked men
boldly rode up to the county jail, battered
down the door, disarmed the guards and
jailor and with revolyers in hand COM
PEELED them to give up the keys. They
then opened the cell of Joseph ]. Field
and dispatched him with number of pis-
tol shots.
AURORA, H., March 17-Early this
morning Mrs. w. Baldwin was fou nd
dead in bed with her jugular vein severed,
and beside her lay her unconscious husband
with several gashes in his throat, arms ard
abdomen. His wounds are not serious.
Baldwin came from Vermont and married
three weeks ago. The cause of the bloody
deed is unknown.
a. The smallest railroad in the world is
the two feet ten-inch gauge built by
George e. Mansfield from North Billerica,
Mass, to Bedford. 1t is eight miles and
half long and has eleven bridges, one
over hundred feet long. The rails weigh
twenty-five pounds to the yard; the en-
gines weigh eight tons, the cars four tons
and half each, and run at the rate of
twenty miles an hour.
CE- The New York Central Railroad
employs female spoilers, who are provided
with notebooks and ingenious little mirrors
by which, with their backs turned to the
conductor, they can see how many passen-
gers on coach give up tickets or money
for fares. The wells and wraps worn by
them readily conceal their movements and
disarm suspicion. They have in little
box two mirrors set at right angles.
SING SING, N. Y. March 13.-John Nc
Derno1t, convict, committed suicide at
the prison this morning by placing his