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

"Niiaut iot tue execution OF Samue
Bcighley, on Wednesday, the 10Th day
of January, 1873. Beighley was con
victed IN Westmoreland county, on tn,
18th day Of May, 1874, of the murder
of Joseph Kerr, aud sentenced on th,
18th dag of May, 1874. to be hanged
TIE fires at Boston OF the l4th inst.
aggregate in loss s735,000 insuranc,
on same, $4,000.
A large mill on Warehouse Point
Hartford, Conn, occupied by the Leo.
nard Silk Company and the Chaplin &
Barber Silk Company, was totally de-
strcyed by FIRE on the evening of th,
10th inst. The,,mili and outbuiIding:
covered about two acres, aud about 20G
hands were employed in it. The total
loss Is probably over half a million
dollars. The FIRE vas the work of an
incend;ary. The gasworks of the fac
tory supplied the village also, and the
inhabitants in darkness. The loss is q
severe one to the village as well as tc
I the owners of the mill
James Burke, convicted in New Y ork
of yhem, in having bitten off mans
ear, was sentenced on the 10th inst, to
fifteen years hard labor in the State
Prison.
A 5000 fire occurred in Danville,
Va, on the night of the 18th inst. de-
strOyin the establishments Of L. +.
Acres and Hancock K Pace.
The suppression of the order of Sis
ters of Charity in Mexico has been de-
creed by the Congress o. that country
by vote of ll3 against 81.
A despatch from Canada on the 18th
tells as follows how cold i. was in tba,
country on the day before At Quebec
yesterday morning the thermometer
was 20 degrees below zero in Mon
treal ii below at Oven Sound, Code
rich, and ether outlying points Of On
.ario, 20 below, and at Torouto,
below.
A despatch from Lafayette, Indiana,
under date of the 18th inst, narrates
as follows, the proceedings. in case of
bribery There has been considerable
excitement here for the past few days
over the arrest of Il. Morton, at Kent
land. for an alleged attempt to bribe
the Board OF Grain Inspectors, at CHI
cago, to pas. No. . corn as No. l.
Morton was arrested on a requlsition
from the Governor OF Illinois, brought
here, and tried on a writ of habeas
corpus. The writ was refused By
Judge VintGn, and the prisoner wa.
remanded to the custody of Col. Ray,
who started for Chicago with him, going
by carriage to Battle GROUND, there
10 take train on the Louisville, New
Albany and Chicago Railroad, fearing
trouble if they took the tram here
Finding Morton gone, his friends swore
out warrant charging Ray with kid
mapping, and special cOusiables started
in each direction to attempt his cap
ture He was overhauled near Battle
Ground By Paymaster Kerper, of Short
Line Railroad, and brought back to
this city.
The Louisville Courier-Journai of
the 18th inst, says: -Four employe. of
the Louisville and Nashville Railroad
we're arrested to-day for breaking open
freight cars on that road and abstract
ing goods therefrom. One os the men
arrested was conductor of a freight
train, and the other three were bis sub
ordinates. Their method of operations
was to remove the hasps from the door,
thus not breaking TIE seal, then TO
break open the packages, and, after
taking out portion of the contents, to
nail them up again. These robberies
have been going on for mouths, and
being committed in through freight cars
the company has been unable hereto
fore to fix the guilt definitely. Gu Sat-
urday night a way-freight car standing
at Bowling Green was broken open in
this way, and detectives thus got the
first clue to the perpetrators, which re-
suited in the arrest of the four men as
stated. The property stolen from this
car, amounting in value to about 81
900, was recovered at Nashville this
afternoon, where the men we're arrested.
At noon. on last Thursday, the 18th
inst, j. Ohm Clark, engineer of the Har-
risburg water works, was killed, and a
laborer named Taylor badly hurt. lis
feet of water had been pumped into the
new stand-pipe, when the pressure
forced the head off twenty-inch pipe
which is to be connected to another en-
gine in course of erection. Clark was
standing on the pipe, aud was hurled
off by the concussion caused by the
escape of twenty inch stream among
stone rubbish, and died a few minutes
after being taken out. Taylor was
working in ditch twenty feet distant.
Abou. two o'clock on the morning of
. h. Ith 81, l.