Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1874-07-29

A man nameQ Hall OruDD committed
gross outrage on a woman at Wath-
ena, Kansas. de vas sent to Jail at
Troy, in charge of constable and
guards. The wagon containing the
prisoner was followed by an excited
crowd of men and women on foot, on
horseback, and in wagons, the former
armed with guns and reyolyers, and the
latter carrying ropes and demanding
revenge. When about a mile from
Wathena, Grubb sprang from the wa
gon and attempted to escape, but WIS
Immediately riddled with bullets and
instantly killed.
Advices from Ell Rito Creek, New
ilexico, to July IL, say; Twenty-one
persons, six Americans and fifteen Mex
leans, have been killed BY Indians be-
tween Fort Bascom and Ration Noun
tains up to the present time, and four
hundred horses have been driven out of
the Territory. A company of the Sth
Cavalry left Fort Union on July IL for
Dry Cimarron river, the scene Of late
Indian outfages.
Pecuniary trouble deranged the mind
of Charles Cook, merchant of Auburn
county, Missouri, and caused him to
thrust knife blade through the brain of
his infant child, and infict mortal injury
on himself with hatchet.
The committee appointed by Legisla-
ture to revise the tax laws of New
York State went to Saratoga to begin
the discharge of that duty.
A suit has been instituted against
Lyman G. Cotton, attorney ard civil
engineer of the Little Mama branch Of
the Pittsburg, Cincinnati and St. Louis
Railroad Company, for embezzling SIX
teen thousand dollars. The emtezzle
ment is said to have occurred through
the obtainment of right of way and
title aud transfer of real estate along
the railroad route.
On the Wabash river, near Grand
Chain, Indiana, boat containing ff-
teen men Was capsized. Six Of the
men we're drowned. They had all been
working on improvements OF the river.
Mrs. Marker, a widow, was muir
dered in the woods near her residence,
at Lake Matapedias, Canada. The
murderer is man to whom it is sup
posed she was engaged to be married.
He has disappeared. 1t is believed his
object was money.
At Bridgewater, on the Chester
Creek railroad, little girl was killed
BY being struck on the head with
stone that was blasted out of quarry.
She was standing four or five hundred
yards from the quarry at the time.
FRIDAY, July "A.
The body of drowned man was ia
ken out of the Delaware river at Cbes
ter. An inquest was held over it and
verdict rendered Of sfound drowned
The stranger is unknown, is apparently
about fifty years of age, has black hair,
mixed with gray chin whiskers and
moustache is five feet six inches in
height and was respectfully clothed in a
dark blue Chesterfield coat, black vest,
brown pantaloons, white shirt, and fine
boots. An examination also evidenced
a rupture on the lett side.
Barnum's balloon man, Prof. Don
aldson, made an excursion from New
York, to test the eastesly current
theory. Other ascensions will be made
until the question has been satisfacto-
rily demonstrated one way or another.
New Market, England, has small pox
to an alarming degree.
Twenty-Five assorters of money orders
in the Sixth Auditors Office at Wash
ingtOn, have been discharged on ac-
count of the failure of Congress to ap-
propria.e for their salaries.