Miners Journal (Pa.)
we have heard of an act perpetrated on the 20th, near this borough, which surpasses in cool ferocity and anything that has ever took place in this country. It seems that on that day, three boys belonging to this borough or Mr. Carbon, it is not yet known. They went out to the road between the borough and Cressona , until they reached a point about a mile beyond Hillsdale. About a quarter of a mile from the house of a laborer named Hornickel, several children were playing, among them his son Frederick, between eleven and twelve yrs. of age. The boys when they reached this spot, built a fire seized and dragged Frederick to it and horrible to state, held the little boy over it, until he was actually roasted. Then they fled. When found the injured boy was in a terrible condition and it is feared that he is burned internally by inhaling the flames. He has not been able to talk since the occurrence, and is in critical condition. We understand that the motive for the inhuman act is supposed to have been revenge for information that Frederick had given of some boys who had recently robbed a neighborÂ’s spring house. One arrest has been made and after a partial hearing before Squire Frailey the accused was held for a father hearing on Wed. night. That mere boys should be guilty of such a fiendish act seems incomprehensible but the facts of the case are to that effect. If discovered and convicted, incarceration in prison for a life time would not be too severe a punishment.
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Wm. Haring supervisor of the town of Dix was born in Cayuga Co. now Tompkins in the year 1808 and therefore 64 yrs of age, the eldest member of the Board. He came into the town of Reading, now Schuyler in the year 1816 when a small boy and was brought up a farmer with a common school education. He resided in Watkins from 1829 to 1834. The he had a mercantile business at Irelandville, in Reading. At that time until 1843 ( there was too much fever and ague at the head of the lake to think of starting a store at that locality.) He returned to Watkins and there in business where he remained ever since, retiring a few years ago. He was a supervisor of the town of Dix 1852 a part of Chemung Co. and elected again 1870 and 1871.
Supervisor of Reading, was born in Orange Co. in this state, 1822. At the age of six his parents moved to Barrington, Yates Co. where many of the family now reside. At the age of 23 he located in the town of Reading. like most of his colleagues in the board, he was brought up on the farm and by attending school winters obtained a good common school education. He went to Hammondsport than back to Altay. At 18 he was a clerk in the store Clark and Shepherd at Altay. He was the managing the old store for five years. . Four years ago he turned his attention to farming and still makes that his vocation in connection with grape growing. He held the office o Post Master at Reading Center under the Administration of President Pierce and if not mistaken until the first Administration of President Lincoln. He has held office in town clerk 8 yrs. In spring 1869 he brought forward as the peoples candidate for Supervisor and elected. His age is 49 and in politics he is a Republican of firm convictions and unswerving to his party.
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A man (ca. Dec. 1869) hailing from the country by name of Nelson Edwards, was saved from being a corpse and his friends were saved from having funeral expenses to pay by the timely and fortunate services of officer Cain, on Sat. afternoon. the officer observed Edward's starting to cross the RR bridge, in a staggering state of Intoxication. Cain ran after him and reached him just in time to grasp him by the collar as he was falling through the bridge head foremost into the river. Officer Cain has kept the coroner from a job several times within the past few weeks at that same point.
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H. W. Miller the proprietor of the box factory at Gray St. near the canal had three fingers of his left hand nearly cut off by a circular saw Sat. morning. The injured digits were afterwards amputated by Dr. Mickel and Velder.
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Friendship July6, 1884. A thunder storm passed through yesterday. The house of J. T. Burdick was stuck by lightning and considerably damaged. His little five year old daughter was sitting in the door and her shoes were literally cut from her feet. The casting directly over her head was shatter to atoms. Aside from a severe shock and a few slight blisters on her feet she is uninjured. A cyclone passed through the town of Wirt, five miles south, leaving all in its tracks. Two houses and four barns were destroyed besides a large number of orchards and grain fields.
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MONKS AMAZING PROPHECY OF WAR PREDICTS PEACE BEFORE CHRISTMAS.
While razing the old Monastery of the Holy Ghost in Wismar, Mecklenberg
two months ago, an old Bible was found which contained A remarkable prophecy
oF regarding the present world war. It was written in 1701. by one of the
monks on parchment that is now yellow and seared with age. It is on exhibition
in a glass case in the city hall of Wismar so much publicity has been given
to the prophecy in the papers of Germany, that thousands have flocked to
into Wismar to see it. The prophecy not only rives the cause of the war
but also indicates the countries engaged. Up to the present it has been
amazingly accurate. It does not state that Germany will be victorious,
but indicates how long the war will last, when the decisive battle will
be fought, and where and when peace will come, and adds that Germany will
continue to exist as a power for many years. A translation of the writing
on the parchment is as follows: `Lord, have mercy on Thy people despite
the fact that they are turning more and more away from Thee; that they
are on destroying Thy monasteries and cloisters and forgetting Thee. A
time will come in Europe when these people will feel the weight of Thy
hand, when malignity has and hatred will rule. It will be at a time when
the papal seat will be vacant, and the conflagration will come as the result
of the murder of a prince. Seven nations as will rise against the eagle
with one heads, and the eagle with two heads. The birds will defend themselves
furiously and viciously with their talons, and their wings will protect
their people. A prince from their very midst, a sovereign who mounts his
horse from the wrong side, will be encompassed by a wall of enemies. His
slogan will be onward with God. The Almighty God will lead him from victory
to victory, and many will meet their death, `There will be wagons without
horses and fiery dragons will By through the air, dropping fire and sulfur
and destroying cities and villages, The people will turn to God. This terrible
war will last three years and five months. The time will come when food
can neither be sold nor bought and bread will be carefully distributed.
The seas will be tinged with blood and men will lie in wait under the waves
for their prey. Here follows a reference to America, which was in those
times often referred to as the ``country of seven stars: ''The people of
the seven stars will attack the ring of steel and suddenly fall upon the
bearded nation in the rear and rend it rn twain. The whole of the lower
Rhine will tremble, but nevertheless will endure to the end. The land in
the west will he one vast desolation and the land in the ocean will, with
its king, be crushed and suffer all the pangs of hunger. The hand of the
bearded people will still endure for a long time to come, and following
the world will be united in one great brotherhood. Peace by Christmas.
The victors will carry a cross and between four small cities and four steeples
of equal height the decisive battle will be fought. Between two linden
trees the victor will fall upon his knees before him