William Hughes, connected with
ihe Lehigh and wilkesbarre Ooal
fViim:anv s I.ann, was found in a pool
f ?t Fr.-tav morning, near
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iha Kt Anton mines. wuajic no
wna thrown from his horse UtO the
wntpr xrhile fsearchinfir for Catti? tn
Thursday night and was drowned.
George B. Hill, of Solebury, Berks
county, while applying Pans green to
his potato vines a short time ago, ab
sorbed a quantity of the poison in a
small cut on one of his hands, in
flammation set in, followed by erysip
elas and gangrene, from which he
died in a few days.
The family of Augustus Cunning
ham, of West Chester, consisting of
himself, wife and three children, made
a narrow escape from death by poi
soning on Tuesday evening of last
week. Baking powder had been used
in the preparation of cakes that were
eaten for supper, and in which traces
of arsenic have been discovered.
How it got there is a mystery, but
the presumption is that it had been
mixed with the baking powder by
mistake before it had been purchased.
A dispatch from Erie county, last
Friday, saye: McKean, CrauesvilleT
Franklin and adjacent townships in
this county are in imminent danger
of total destruction. Embers from
forest fires raging in the vicinity have
ignited the uncleared portions of
Franklin township, and while acres
were in flames barns, hay and wheat
stacks and dwelling houses were
swept away like chaff. Church' bells
were rung and drifms beat to- till out
people, and at this" writing over a
thousand people art at work with
axes and plows fighting he flames.
In Cranesville and McKean town
ships the same work is going on.
