Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-12-23

West Chester, on the 18th, charged
with libelliug the postor of the First
Presbyterian Church of West Chester.
More of this at another date.
The house of 4 farmer named Petit,
near Fort Nelson, Ontario, Canada, was
entered on the night of the 18th inst,
and the inmates overpoyered and seven
thousand dollars taken.
The jury of inquest over the bodies
of the burglars-the abductors of har.
lev Ross-shot at Bay Ridge, L. l.,
early on Monday morning, the l4th
inst, fad that the killing was perfectly
justihatle, and commend the n.en who
did the shooting.
On the 18th inst, two Iuen lost their
lives by the falling in of brick walls OF
burning buildings in Knoxville, Ilii-
nois. Loss of property by the Ere,
$4,000.
On the night of the 18Th, burglars
attempted TO blow open the safe of the
Hochetogo Bank at Montreal, Canada
The explosion was great one; the
vault was blown into ruins the win
dows were blown out the walls OF the
building were cracked the whole COM
munity or neighbOrhoood was alarmed,
and the burglars fed a. if from the
plague. The regret is that they es-
capped.
Charles Howard, sentenced for life at
Des Moines, Iowa, on the l4th inst,
for the murder Of man named John
son, was taken from his cell in the Jail
by disguised mob during the night,
carried to aneighboring post and hanged.
Quarternaster General Meigs say.
that 1000 woolen blankets, %, 600 each
of fatigue caps and fanael sacks and
25,O 900 pairs Of boots were shipped
by him from the Jeffersonville depot to
the sufferers by the overflow of the
lower Mississippi, IN compliance with
instructions from the Secretary Of War.
King Kalahaua i, in Washington.
Smallpox is raging violently in
Quebec, Canada.
A fire at Napierville, Lupagc eoun.
ty, H., on the morning of the 18th,
destroyed five business places on Main
street, including the post Office. Loss,
about S25 900.
Archbishop Bailey, of Baltimore, or
tue 18th ordained eleven graduates OF
St. Mary's Seminary (Catholie) a. dea-
cOus, preparatory to their ordination as
priests.
Sheriff Joseph Vaun, while attempt
ing to arrest a notorious outlaw named
George Simmons, on the 18th, hear
Wibben's Falls, in the Cherokee Nation,
was shot through the abdomen. After
being shOr, :he sheriff shot Simmons
through the arm. and again through the
groin, when Simmons surrendered and
begged for bis life. Both men are IA
tally injured. They are both Chero-
KEGS.
There were three fires at New Haven
on the 18TH One, in the tin and rag
store of Wheeler & Co., caused loss
of $4,000.
Edward Reilly, counterfe;ter, has
been captured and brought to Jail at
Easton, this State. The bills which he
had been operating with are counter
feits on the Traders National Bank of
Syracuse.
Since the abduction of Charley Ross
many arrests have been made, but none
so singular as the one made at Chester,
Illinois. 4 member OF the Ross fam
lily went to Chester, believing from de-
spatches describing the boy, that he
must be the missing Charlie. Fo,ney's
Press of last Saturday tells the follow
ing in regard thereto Mr.. James Ross,
who returned to this city yesterday
morning from Chester, ILL.,, states that
the boy bore a remarkable resemblance
to the missing Charlie. The boy, when
asked if his name was Charlie Brews-
ter Ross, said '.Yes," but be answered
the sane way when any other name
was substituted for that Of Ross. When
as to his former history
the boy said he had been stolen one
evening By two men, who took him off
in a carriage, and that the man Scott
who had him IN charge was one of the
kidnappers. His hair had been dyed
by a walnut stain, his face vas shame
fully marked where it had been washed
with acid, aud his back was frightfully
Scared. His appearance showed that
he had been badly abused, and from all
the facts which eoeld be learned by Mr..
Ross the boy had undoubtedly been
stolen. 1t was proved, however, that
be could not be Charlie Ross, as he had
a mole on his neck which Mrs. Ross
says was not on her son. The author
tiles of Chester refuse to return the
boy to the man III whose care be was
discovered, and an application has been
made 20 the court by one of the citI-