Lewistown gazette. [volume] (Lewistown, Pa.) 1843-1944, 1867-03-20

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Nolte.
Assessor-John Baum. Assistant, r.
u. Jacob r. H. McClintic
School Directors-John Hamilton, H.
Frysinger.
Collector-John Kennedy.
High COnstable-George Miller.
Constable-S. A. Marks.
Auditor Alvin Parker.
Judge, East Ward-Wm. Beatty. In
spectors, Thomas Diven, Daniel Tice.
Judge, West Ward-John A. Shimp.
Inspectors--Jos. A. Fichthorn, Daniel
Zeigler.
GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP.
Judge-James Shehan.
Inspectors-Wm. II: Brought, VIM. B.
Strunk.
Assessor-G. NJ. Hobaugh. Assistants,
VIM. III. Smith, Lewis Leopold.
Supervisors-George Sellers, Martin
Ort, Jacob Rittenhouse.
School Directors-George Rittenhouse,
Alvin Shimp, VIM. Foy.
Auditor-John Cavanaugh.
Onstabie-Absalom Wagner.
Justice of the Peace-Owen Owens.
DERRY.
Judge-Jas. II. Alexander. Inspectors,
VIM. Mowry, Jacob Bollinger.
Assessor-Jos. w. Kearns. Assistants,
Johnston Sigler, VIM. r. Graham.
School DirectOrs-Elias G.. Kearns, Dut-
ton Madden.
Supervisors-Samuel Aurand, Peter AL
bright.
Auditors-Francis r. Means, jeremiah
YeageT.
Constable-Daniel Albright.
Clerk-E. P. Mann.
Justice of the Peace-Hardman Phil
lips.
School Directors, Freedom-Thompso
Kreuson %; Forest Swyers %; J. A.
Simpson "A.
The remaining districts will be publish
ed next week.
RIVER DAMs.-The alteration in the
Columbia Dam has already demonstrated
that fish will again be caught in abund-
ance in the Susquehanna and Juniata, if
the distractions now in those rivers are
so altered as to permit their passage up
wards. On Friday a week shad were ia
ken at Fairview, few miles below Har-
risburg, and pike, rock, perch, and other
migrating fish have already made their
appearance in unusual numbers. We
trust the present summer will not be suf-
fered to pass by without an alteration in
the dams on the Juniata, and if the Fish
Commissioner will not at once see to their
alteration, that the Grand Juries of Hun
tingdon, Mifflin, and Perry, will bring
the question before their respective courts.
No matter who made or who holds them.
There are natural rights which no State
nor company can destroy; and as our riv-
er is a natural highway, any obstruction
which prevents fish from ascending is to
our mind as much of an obstruction as a
fence on a public road, and that any one
can remove.
POWDER MILL EXPLOSION AND Loss
OF LIFE.-We regret to learn that IRA
McMANIGAL, son of Thompson McMan-
igaI. of Armagh township, in this county,
was instantly killed by powder mill ex-
plosion near Xenia, Ohio, on Tuesday of
last week. The sad details are given as
follows:
"The dry house of King and Dickey's S
powder mill, situated on the Little Miami
Railroad, three miles south OF Aenla, o.,
blew up on the morning OF the l1Ih.-
There were about ten tons of powder in
the building at the time the explosion
took place. Two men, Jasper Luck and
Ira Mechanical. were instantly killed and
horribly nutilated. The latter was thrown
n distance of three hundred feet from the
huiIdinp and literally blown to pieces,
his bowels being torn out, and his limbs,
hands, feet, and other parts OF his body
being scattered here and there lie mao
been a soldier, and while in the army had
q finger shot off of one hand. BY this
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The other man was badly mutilated, and
could not be recognized. He was thrown
nearly a quarter of mile from the build
ing The explosion was most terrlnc.-
Every norton of the fated house was
swept away. and only the blackened and
torn nm ground indicated where 1t stood.
Every building within circuit OF quar-
ter of a mile was more or less injured
Several persons were prostrated by the
shock and a child was consldeTaply III ureu I
by portion of the exploded building
falling upon it. The Little Mama river
runs near the scene of the explosion, and
for considerable distance the water was
swept from the bed and poured IN a Hoou
upon the neighboring fields. Glass was
blown from the windows of the houses
in Oldtown, two miles south OF the min
Notwithstanding was furiously ripped
from the sides of a large barn more tnan
an eighth Of mile away. For minute
and half after the explosion, the AIR was
horribly convulsed, and terrific sounds
resembling a succession of heavy thunder
claps and rolls, could be heard in every
direction. The granting mill of this es'
Enlistment has been blown up frequent
ly before, but this is the first time the
dryhouse has experienced a like fate. The
mills are widely known as those of the
Miami Powder Company. The entire
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not fall short of $1,000