Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-01

wind. The roof was frst carried away
and fell upon horse and wagon, t~en-
ty feet distant, with q tremendous
crash. Eleven men we're at work in
the mill at the time the disaster oc-
Cured. Immediately after the roof
was swept away the massive stone walls
caved il, burying five Of the unhappy
miilers, who we're probably killed out
right -Four men almost miraculously
escaped, and two are badly bruised"
THURSDAY, JUNE 25.
Post Master General Creswell re-
signed Hon. Eugene Hail, of Maine.
has been rendered the position BY de-
spatch at Altoona, this State, where he
had stopped on his way west. Demo
cratic papers Of the Harrisburg Patriot
stamp effect to believe that the Fresi-
dent confers the appointment on Mr..
Hail as reward for the return to specie
payment resolutions that the Maine
State Convention passed few days ago,
aud further ,hst is Is the FIRST step in
the direction Of third term nomina-
tion for President G-aut II the pro-
phe,ic ability o: Democratic leaders
equaled their pretensioDs, the reputa-
tions of the prophets Of old" would
be eclipsed.
Boys are no longer employed to
catch unmuzzled dogs in New fots.
The law has been amended so IS to
allow men only on The catching force.
Prof. Greist, of Berlin, Prussia, is
coming to this county to collect nate
rial for history of the United States
The French government has issued
an order prohibiting the distribution in
France of the photograph Of the Prince
Imperial-Napoleon's con.
The Tilton aud Beecher scandal
threatens to break out anew. Dir. Til
ten declares that he will not bear the
slurs of Mr.. Beecher aud friends and
at the same time shield Beecher's char
acter, which he was induced to do by
silence, by an apology for Mr.. Beeeher.
Sam Puriy, a trotting horse, was
sold at San Francisco, at auctioa for
S2l,5OO.
The Univeisalist Convention, assem-
bled at Calais, Me. have resolved that
women may preach.
A despatch says, two weeks ago MIS-.
Cook, f Blount, Ala, missed her three
children, the eldest aged six years
Search was made and i; was found
drowned in the we'll. Mrs. Cook went
crazy, and two or three days after es-
capped her attendants and drowned her
self in the same we'll.
TelegraphIc communication has been
established between the United States
and Brazil.
One buadred and forty two dog, were
suffocated in New York S,rangling
in the tank was kept up 81 minutes by
the superintendent's watch.
American Pullman cars have been
pu: on the lines of railroads in Upper
Italy.
The General Assembly of Rhode
Island adjourned without electing a
United States Senator.
"Goveruor Moses, # South Carolina,
has pardoned the county commis-
sIouers, of Barnwell, lately convic;e ed
of corruption aud thieving, and SEN
fenced respectively to three, niue, aud
ten years in the peniten,iary. The
convicted officers on their way 10 Jail
boasted that Moses would not dare to
allow them to remain in Jail one
month"
! Severe rain and wind storms, that
have done great damage to crops are
reported from particular sections in
Ohio and Indiana.
President Grant is on a visit to Vr-
ginia.
Seven thousand FIVE hundred scholars
of the public schools of Cleveland,
Ohio, sang at one time 1t the Senger-
feet in that city.
"a very serious accident occurred at
Baden, Beaver county, Pa, at a tarn
raising, on tx premises Of Mr.. John
Haniek. Some twenty mer were at
work ON scsffolding, at the top of the
frame Suddenly the timber support
ing the scaffolding gave way, Precipita-
ting the whole number :" the ground. a
distance of fully thirty feet. Mr. Silas
Mcpherson was so seriously injured
that death ensued in very short time
after the accident occurred. Seven
men were injured there-Jobn Beckert
and John Suuble, seriously, and Hen
rs Marr. John Smiley, Cbas. Herst aud
John Beckert, Jr., slightly. Several
parties were carried down with the
wreck but escaped without the slightest
injury. Mr. Struble's injuries are con
sidered dangerous. Ii is supposed the
timber used in building the scaffoIding
was unsounI."
Bathurst, n B., was visited by 9
violent hail storm which did a qreat