Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-01-06
News Items.

ihSNc leAf5 pastor VI tne h tSttTu
Presbyterian church, in Washington
city, and formerly 4 member of the
Baltimore Methodist Episcopal Confer
ence, committed suicide on TIE morn
ing Of the 9Th nit, by cutting his
throat with a razor The cause assign
ed fJr the act is domestic trouble, his
wife for scme years past being insane
The Altoona Tribune of the 2Stb
ult. says: About halt past ten o'clock
fast night special train of thirteen
cars, Containing 200 Russian MenRon-
ties, passed through this city, who were
destined for their new-found homes in
southwestern kausss. 10
The anniversary of the battle Of
Trenton was celebrated at Trenton, n.
j D., on the 26th ult.
a letter dated DuiIerin, Dec. s, re-
ceived at Ottawa, Canada, states that
thirty American whisky traders were
arrested 10 the neighborboOd Of the
Rocky Mountains, fined $500 each, and
their whisky spilled on the plain.
Josephine Mansfield has obtained a
verdict in New York Court against
the executors of James Fisk for $40
500, with interest, being two notes
given her in 1868.
An intoxicated couple, at Cincinnati,
laid on their three months old son, and
smothered him to death.
Moses Chamberlain has oecn con-
victed in New York Of sending scurril.
Gus postal cards through the mil.
Solomon Skidner, of Brooklyn, has
begun suit against Henry Ward Beech
er for the recovery of $500, with inter
est. amount due for four sets of false
teeth supplied to Beecher's wife and
| father, with his consent and knowledge
An answer was served by Beecher'.
counsel denying the allegation set forth
in the complaint, and alleging tina, all the
services performed by the plaintiff were
| for another person, at time more than
six years before beginning this action
and that the cause of action is barred
by the statute of Limitations.
A =" cockpit" association was broken
/ up few nights ago in Cincinnati by the
police, on charge BY the Society fol
the Prevention Of Cruelty TO Animals
The Cincinnati Times says that .
man named Van Wordrr, living at New
Albany, near Columbus, Ohio, has teen
missing some days, and his house ha:
been closed. Saturday his charred re-
mains we're found in the fire place oI
the house. His sou, nineteen years old
confesses that lie stabbed his father.
Mrs. Maggie Kenuis,ou, of Noble
boro, Me on hearing Of the death oI
! her husband, swallowed a composition
for removing freckles, and vii! die.
At Lamar, Barton county, Mo-, Oh
Sunday night, the 9th ult., an un-
known mau rode up TO the county jai
and through one of its windows. shot
and killed Hyronimus, the murderer O
t olonel Norris, and fatally wouudeC
his aceomplice, Dixon, ami then es.
capped.
Patrick Wallace, a laborer, residing
in M. 70 North Fifth street, illams
burg, n. Y, murdered his wife on Mon.
day night, the 2Sth ult-, BY knocking
her brains out with a hiea DRY stick.
a man named Richard Barnum, anC
wife and two children, were burned tt
death in their house, that took FIRE BY
some means on the night Of the 26tt
ult, at Shannon, Miss.
An aged couple named Todd were
killed on the Canada Southern Railroad
on the night of the 2Sth ult.
On the 10Th ult. child correspond
ing to the description published o
! Chasiey Ross, was left at house IL
Black River Falls, in Wisconsin, by /;
strange woman. : photograph of The
child has been sent to Philadelphia
On the 29th nit. an election was held
at Newburyport, Mass, for Mayor
B. +. Atkinson, Republican, was elec
ted
Erie may justly boast the lates. mat
rimonial sensation. A divorce suit wa.
pending for some time IN the courts
the husband beng the complainant
A verdict was rendered against the de
feudant, and a separation ensued. A
short time after, the divorced parties
were for q second time united in we'd
lock, and at present are enjoying tbeil
second honeymoon. And all within :
mouth.
Kate Stoddard, the murderer o
Goodrich, in Brooklyn, is bopelessly
insane.
Ex-senator Morgan. of New York
it is said. has drcliued the Russian
mission. ....
Smallpox of the most malignant
type Is raging among the Indians a
Pickouock, Ontario. The Indians arr
| in a pitifu, state of desti'ution, most q