Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-11-11
News Items.

News Items.
The coal miners of Clay county, In
diana, have struck.
Newp0rt, Kentucky, has been devas-
tated BY great IRE.
A fire IN Mont ,omery, Alabama, de-
stroyed great deal Of property.
The brotherhood of railroad con-
ductors held convention in Baltimore.
Tie smoke on the Ohio river has
been SO dense that steamboat naviga-
tion has been rendered almost impossi-
bic.
The Secretary of the Treasury has
issued circular calling for greater
economy in telegraphing on department
business. al telegrams sent or re-
ceivej by officers in their own personal
interest r:ust be paid for by those send
ing or receiving them.
\ letter from Havana, of the date
of October %, gives an account of the
mysterious appearance OF three nen of
that coast in a small boat, AID Of the
capture of two Of them after land
ing, who claim TO be American
fishermen from Key West. They
have been imprisoned and no commu-
nication allowed with them. Nothing
has been seen of the third man who
came ashore, and .he boat has also dis
appeared.
Delegates from the governments Of
the provinces of Ontario, Quebec, New
Brunswick and Nova Scotia are con
ferrlug with the Dominion government
for the consideration of united scheme
of Immigration from Europe.
A moulding aud frame mauufactory
III Cincinnati was damaged by fire to the
extent of $4,000.
Saw mills at Saginaw, Michigan, were
destroyed by FIRE. Loss $4,000.
The tleyeland, OHIO, Democrats
fred 800 guns III iubilation Of Tues
days election.
A daring attempt was made to rob
the Bank of British North America, a,
Paris, Ontario, early on the morning of
the 9th lust. Four masked burglars
entered Manager Carnigle's residence,
obtained the keys of the bank, and
bound all the family but one, who man
aged to give the alarm, when the bur-
glars fed without accomplishing any
thing. Three men have been arrested
on suspicion.
An officer sent by General Ord to
visit the grasshopper region of Ne
braska reports that though there are no
cases of actual starvation the suffering
Is very great, and unless aid be ex-
tended many will starve before the
winter is over. The present aid is bu,
drop IN The bucket, and unless the
government aids them the Alternative is
fearful to contemplate.
The fire departments of the towns of
SuLcook and Nashua we're called out
Friday to save the towns from forest
that were driven into town by a uorth-
west wind.
Intense excitement is said TO exist in
Allen county, Indiana, over the abduc
ton of three children Of John Marlin,
few weeks since The children are
aged 10, l3 and l5 years, and hive
been traced to Illinois, since which
time all signs have been lost
The Pope while receiving deputa-
'ion on Thursday, tainted. His illness
is reported by "cabIe" as not serious.
DauIel Nalin, = negro Desperate, out
ragged a respectable white woman near
Osceola, Arkansas, on Thursday he
was captured, a.d On his way to Jail,
tried to escape, aud was shct to death
BY the angry crowd.
The Democrats of Allentown held a
grand jubilee meeting or Saturday =
One hundred guns we're fired
The grave Of Thomas Pane, near
New Rochelle, y. Y, was entirely ob
liberated on Saturday. by Simeon Lister,
upon whose farm i, was.
The trotting stallion Manhattan ran
away at Newberg, New York, on FRI
day, and severed the tend0ns of both
hind legs. He was valued at $40, 900:
Saturday night o. G. Haw.ey's !iv-
cry stable, at Peoria, ILL.,, with seventy
horses and large number of vehicles
were destroyed by FIRE. The loss is
seventy thousand dollars.
On Friday evening husband. pushed
his wife from 6he ROOF Of house in
New York into the street. The wife
was killed. The husband was arrested.
They we're drunk.
At Little Rock, Arkansas, on Friday
afternoon Archie Powell shot his wife,
and thea shot Himself Both are sup