Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-06-17

impeach him.
George W. Campbell was arrested at
Blockbury, Va, for passing counter
felt fifty cent notes.
A large mass meeting of workmen
at Columbia, this State, passed resolu-
tons requesting Congress to take i'm
mediate action On the national finance,
also reinstate toe 10 per cent. reduced
tariff on foreign goods and iron.
The graves Of the Confederate dead
we're decorated at Baltimore.
Two men were killed by collision
on the Midland Railroad, Middletown,
n. Y.
The Pennsylvania State Grange Of
the Patrons of Husbandry in session at
Mechanicsburg. The attendance is
large four hundred Patrons present.
More than -fourths Of the counties
in the State are represented.
The Synod of ;be Reformed Church, I,
at Pougbkeepsie, took unfavorable ac-
ton to the proposed union with the
Presbyterian Church.
The State Farmers Convention of
Illinois assembled at Springfield. A
resolution demanding speedy return
to uniform standing of value was LAID
on the table by an almost unanimous
vote.
The Farmers Reform Convention as
semoled at Indianapolis. The plat
form, which was unanimously adopted,
demands cheap transportation, opposes
all monopolies, m favors paper currency
issued by the government, opposes the
holding of Offices two terms in success
sion, and favors a reduction of taxa
tion.
In Harrison county, Ky, party OF
masked men took Robert Beckett from
the house of his employer, riddled his
body with bullets, soaked his clothes
with coal oil, and set him on fire, burn
ing the dead body. Beckett was charged
with the murder of man named Ellis
about a year ago, but was out Oh bail.
Wheat in Philadelphia, amber s. 81.
Corn 7Sc. Oats 60a62c.
1t has been ascertained that the muir
derers of Swift and wife were two Mex
leans. They were trailed to Mexican
rancho on Blaneo creek, twelve or fifteen
miles from Golead. The party in pur-
suit charged the house this morning and
attempted to take them by storm, but
one of them, J ohm Holland, was killed in
the attempt. The boys then withdrew
to safe distance to await reinforce
ments. A large party left Refugio I'M
medIately for the scene of conflict
Mrs. Swift was stabbed in nineteen
places, her throat cut to the neck bone,
and shot in the face. Mr.. Swift was
equally butchered, except that he was
not shot.
The extensive ear shops of the Allie
gheny Car aud Transportation Com
pany, at Swissvale, on the Pennsylva-
MA Railroad, were consumed oy fire,
with the new freight cars, just com
pleted. Sparks from the smoke stack
SET fire to the boiler and engine house
roof. The loss will foot up about forty
thousand dollars, upon which their is
twenty thousand dollars insurance.
THURSDAY, JUNE IL.
Lieutenant Kings command Of
United States troops, operating in Ari-
zona, captured eighty-four fighting
Apache Indians.
The committee on the bursting of
the Massachusetts, reservoir report that
the remains of the dam indicate defects
of the grossest character.
United States Senator Mitchell, Of
Oregon, has been acquitted of charges
preferred against him before the SEN
ate Committee on Privileges and Flee
tions, for not living with his first wife.
A young man named Die;z, clerk
in the Long Island City Hotel, at
Hunters Point, absconded with $4,000
in railway bonds, $500 in cash, Sl65
belonging to a ROOM mate, two revol'
vers, several suits of clothing, and
other articles, amounting in all to about
$4,000. The money was obtained from
the safe of A. Bernhardy. the proprie-
tor, whose KEYS we're stolen fiom his
sleeping-room. Detectives are in pur-
suit of the thief
John Har5ach in Baltimore city Jail
on a charge of drunkenness BY his wife,
committed suicide.
As Johannes Pierre and a woman
accompanying him were boarding a
Westward bouEd train at efferson City,
Mo-, they we're confronted by Leopold
Hoelderle, who fred pistol at Pierre,
but without effect. He then shot the
woman in the breast, inficting a dam
gerous wound, and fred two balls into
his own body and died in two hours.
Jealousy was the cause.
Topping, who was sentenced to be
hanged on the 18th inst, at Wood
stock. Ontario, sor the murder of his