Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-06-30

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j,ctory statements. She lies in . very
precsrious condition 1t the Park Hos
pital, vith no probability OF recovering.
She afrerward made an ante-mortsm
statement that the man was her step
father, and that she never had any trou
Bile with him. She has sister living
A. $50 Seventh street, in this city.
DR.. William Warren, of Barton, Md,
a well-known physician, was sun struck
in Baltimore last Friday, and died in
an hour.
Ottawa, Usnadz, was visited by o
severe hurricane on Thursday night,
which blew down two brick houses and
a rumber of sheds, fences, &c.
A tornado passed over Mendoza, six
miles above ST. Paul, Minnesota, on
Friday afternoon, uuroofug buildings,
several of which were entirely denol-
ished A child vas blown from its
mothers arms and fatally injured.
The city of San Jose de Cucuta, in
Columbia, South America, was destroy
ed BIZ an earthquake on the 18th of
May, a; halepast ii AN. The first
shock, accompanied by loud subterra-
mean detorations, leveled every wall in
the city, aud buried under is ruins in
that single instant of time some 5000
human beings out of population of
10, 900 souls and of those then spared
many have since died of their injuries,
and others remain seriously affected in
mind
4 horrible adventure with q small
pox patient is narrated in the following
language by New York paper; Small
pox is prevalent in the German districts
on the east side of the city, and the
Health officer meets with much opposi-
ton in removing patients to the Public
Pest Hospital. Yesterday case was
reported at No. l67 Stanton street, and
a doctor aud assistant were sent in an
ambulance. They mounted the narrow
stairways to the top floor and knocked
at the door, which was Immediately
opened by woman. When she saw
who were her visitors she shrieked, an
endeavored to push the door to again,
but the men kept 1t open with difficult
ty. You shan't take my husband,"
the woman saiG, doggedly. "He's
aIono here with me, and at the top of
the house." SIT makes no difference"
said the doctor, and can't stay to null
tiply words all night. This is tene-
ment house, and We don't allow any
cases to remain N them" Witbou;
further talk the doctor brushed past
the woman, followed by the ambulance
man, but the woman hung to their coat.
and begged of them to desist. In a
further room a man, Otto Christy, lay
on bed, almost unconscious. The
doctor and his assistant approached the
bed, when the woman rushed forward,
and seizing them both, pulled them of,
and the two men were obliged to nave
haEd-to hand fight to obtain posse,
sion of her husbands body. While the
doctor held her around the body and
p;nioned her arms to her sides, the
other rapidly hCisted the dying man on
his shoulders, in spite of the agonlzing
groans of the moribund. The thought
that the husband was really leaving her
gave her renewed strength, and she
sprnpg once mere away from the doc
tor and seized him, who rolled from the
assistants shoulders 10 the ground
They then began dragging the body
along the floor to The staircase, the wife
cli0ging to it and shrieking dismalIy.
In the evening the man died, and the
excitement among the Germans is in
tense. Friends Of smallpox patients
threaten to mob s.uall poz officers, and
the police have been called on to pro-
tect them.
County commissioners in Western
States, where grasshoppers have ap-
peared in great numbers, are Offering
D to IL cents per quart for grasshop-
pers, dead or alive. Consequently in
many districts farmers are harvesting
grasshoppers instead of grain.
A frightful accident happened to the
daughter of Bonneville b. Augstadt,
Esq, residing about four miles from
Perryville, Berks county The young
iady, who Is about sixteen years old,
went 90 the we'll to draw water. After
she had raised bucketful up to the
surface, she leaned over to pull it back,
when she lost her balance and fell head
long forward and down to the bottom.
As she fell she grasped the rope, and
with great presence Of mind, she re-
tanned her hold ant slowly descended
TO the bottom, about forty feet down.
There was about seven feet of water in
the well, but the rope was not much
longer than would just reach to the
bottom, and by this circumstance the
girl was able to keep herself to the sur
face of the water. A hired man, who