Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-11-10

Po"iSnmeIts toI Els lack VI skill iOr
some time, upon payment Of consider
able sum to defray the funeral expenses
The New York World says 10 New
York city there are several scores of
b!ood-driukers, By no means naniscs,
who daily qusff their bovine Burgundy
and find therein health and Strength.
So popular does the practice seem to be
that We shall nor be surprised in the
near future to see the announcement N
all well regulated saloons "Fresh Bull
locks Kept Constantly on Tap" to see
the mounted sign sample Room" give
place to the sign .Slaughter house."
and TO hear about eleven A NJ. the
casual man observs: Now could l
drink bot blood"
Enos Hively, of Springgarden town
ship, York county. has lost within two
weeks forty-two hogs from hog cholera.
Tso other farmers in the same neigh
borhood have lost respectively ten and
fifteen. The d sease is said to be
spreading to other parts Of the county.
A daughter of George Smith, resid-
ing in Hare's Valley, Huntingdon
county, had her dress caught in the
tumbling shaft of a tbreshipg machine,
and was precipitated to the floor with
great violence, the shock breaking her
arm, and rendering her insensible for
some time. She was operating at the
machine, and walked too close to tue
machine, causing her dress to be caught.
A Scranton thief, detected in steal
ing a revolver, fed into a Catholic
Church, aud was arrested while kneel
ing in front of the altar, pretending TO
be praying. The stolen pistol was
found under a seat near where he knelt
On the night of the 2nd or morning
of the 3rd inst, the First National
Bank at Pittston was broken into by
burglars, who effected an entrance TO
the vault, where they blew open two
sperical safes, from which they abstrsc-
ted $40 900 in bonds and money, after
which they decamped The robbers
entered and departed through The root
of the building The bank is a one
story brick structure with q fat tin
roof. Through the latter the thieves
cut a hole about eighteen inches square,
and from this three of the gang de-
scendcd BY means of rope ladder into
the vault, leaving two cf their confed-
crates outside to watch and asstst them
in escaping. The vault is guaded by
a strong door, supplied with burglar
alarm, but the thieves entered through
the top of the vault. Among the bonds
stolen were Lackawanna and Blooms
burg railroad bonds amounting to Sll,-
600; Wiikesbarre city bonds for ST.
900, and Pitts;on Seminary bonds for
81 900, besides some twenty thousand
dollars worth of bonds Of the Oxford
iron company, Of New Jerssy, and
quantity of cash, amounting in all to
over $40, 600 IN bonds and money
The thieves were surprised by one of
the neighbors just as they were esca-
ping at morning. An alarm was raised,
but the burglars succeeded ip escaping,
leaving behind them complete set of
burglars tools.
A man named David Robinson, liv-
ing near Kakoma, Indiana, returned
home after visiting that city on We'd
nesday, where he had purchased a re-
volver, and after a brief conversation
with his wife, shot at her and two Of
his sons, one of whom was in bed. His
wife and the other son escaped rom the
dwelling. when Robinson took a razor
and deliberately cut the throats of bis
daughter, who was also in bed, and the
son who remained in the house. He
then jumped on his horse and rode
away. On Thursday morning bis dead
body was found near Jackson station,
on the Annapolis, Peoria and Chicago
Railroad. 1t is thought that be com
mitted suicide.
Miss Florence Tilton has asked for
letter of dismissal from Plymouth
Church. She sides with her father.
Manton Heard and Robert A. Pear
son, the cashier aud teller Of the Rhode
Island Railroad Bank, who embezzled
$500, 900 of the funds, and were sen
fenced three years ago to nine years
Imprisonment, were discharged last
Friday, having been pardoned BY the
President.
1t is said tha: the mules il the Penn
sylvsnia coal mines, hundreds of feet
below the surface and half a mile from
the shaft, have the epIzootic, although
none of them have been above ground
in months.
A Bingbampton, IN. Y dispatch of
Nov. lst says: A most distressing
drowning accident occurred in the Sus-
quehanna river al Unadilla on Thurs
day last, four persons meeting their
death, including bride and groom,
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