Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-12-02
News Items.

18th of this month.
Two children were suffocated st fire
in Chicago on the night of the 23d ult.
A dummy engine jumped the track
near Chicago on the 24th ult., killing
the engineer and scalding a passenger
so seriously that be died.
The house of farmer named Breed,
about FIVE miles from Titusville, in this
State, was entered by four masked men
on Monday evening, the 23rd ult., who
demanded his money. On being told
he had noue, they tied him on a lounge
and placed his feet in the FIRE to make
him tell where it was hid This having
no effect, they ransacked the house, OBJ
tanned $40, and made their escape.
The body of William Kerr, a laborer,
from Sharon, Pa, bound for Stockton,
England, was found near Princeton
Junction, n. j., on the 9th ult., on
the line of the Pennsylvania Railroad.
He is supposed to have fallen from a
night train the night before. A through
ticket from Pittsburg to New York, and
one from New York to Liverpool BY the
steamer Nevada, we're found on his
person
The rbinoceros in the London Zooio-
gical Gardens fatally gored two keep
ers on the 25th ult.
Certain portions of Massachusetts,
we're alarmed by the shock of an earth
quake on the 24,h ult. Houses we're
shaken as if ready to fall down.
A daring burglary was perpetrated
at New Haven, Com, on the night of
the 24th ult. The burglars dug
through double brick wall In the rear
of Monson & Carpenters dry goods
store, aud stole large quantity of the
best silks. Loss heavy.
Charles Benson, white, and Hattie
Neal, colored, were committed to Jail
at Memphis, Tenn, on the 25.h ult., in
default of bail, for having intermarried
in violation of the State Law.
The State Aid Society of Nebraska
has appointed committee to proceed to
New York and solicit subscriptions in
AID of the sufferers. The receipts by
the society have been to date $lS,747.
II, and the disbursements Sl7, 900, not
counting clothing contributed.
William Cooper, a member Of the
grand jury at New Castle, DEL, died
almost instantly of heart disease, on the
afternoon of the 25th ult. He com.
planned of feeling unwell in the jury
room, and died a few minutes after
wards.
During a heated political discussion
at Burlington, Indiana, on the 22d ult.,
three men were stabbed with pocket
knife by a man named Wightman, who
attempted to escape, but was shot.
Wesley Underwood, sentenced to be
hanged at Palmyra, Mo-, on the 9th of
the last month, for the murder Of Rich
ard Menifee, in 1871, hanged himself
in Jail on the night of the 24th Of the
same month.
A Bridgeton, N. j., despatch, under
date of the 25th ult., tells in the fol-
lowing language, of the tea drinking Of
the Centennial tea party at that place
on that day: At half-past seven the ex-
ercises opened, l.. Q. G. Elmer, presi-
den. of the Executive Committee, pre-
siding. Addresses we're made by Gov.
Parker, Thomas Il. Dudley, Esq, aud
Judge Elmer. Over 5000 people we're
present in and around the spacious
West Jersey Railway station, in which
the tea party is held. The station is
finely decorated, aud there is a large
room filled with relics, which is throng-
ed by visitors. There are fifteen tea
tables, one representing each township
in Cumberland county, and which are
attended by young ladies dressed in
Revolutionary costumes. The festivi-
ties were kept up until a late hour.
Special trains we're run on the West
Jersey, Port Norris, and New Jersey
Southern Railroads, which brought
large numbers of people to this city.
South Jersey seems to have given up
everything else for the time being to
make the celebration a success. To-
morrow it is expected the people of the
whole surrounding country will be here.
A new party movement was partici-
pated in at indianapolis on the 25th ult.
by about fifty gentlemen, mostly west
ern men. They propose to organize
upon a national currency PLATFORM
The following has been published as a
basis of the new party:
First. 1t is the duty of the Govern.
ment to establish a monetary system
based upon the public faith and re-
sources of the nation, in harmony with
the government and adapted to the de-
mands of the legitimate business. To
this end the circulating notes of all
National and State banks, as well as all
local currency, should be Withdrawn
from circulation, and paper money is
sued by the Government directly to the
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