Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1875-04-14
News Items.

The body of an unknown man was
found near Newporr, Perry county, on
Sunday week, who is supposed to
have been murdered He had on his
person ticket from New York to st.
Louis, dated February l, 1915, state
ment of the account of James Glynn
for work done at S2.75 per day, and
SIS in money. Another theory is that
he died from injuries received in jump
ing from train while in motion.
The health officer at Key West, Fla,
reported four cases of yellow fever on
the 2nd inst @
Two more men have arrived at Yank-
ton, Dakota, from the Black Hills coun
try, and the specimens of gold they
have brought and the stories they tell
caused much excitement.
The Senatorial excursion party to
Mexico has been abandoned in conse-
quence of fears of yellow fever and the
sickness Of Mrs. Morton.
Levi L. Miller, employed in saw
mill at Middleport, Schuylkill county,
was caugh, in the fly wheel on the 9TH
inst, and crushed to death.
/ A regiment of Philadelphia troops
we're ordered to Hazleton to look to the
turbulent miners.
At Springfield, Mass, David Kea-
veny, a lad aged Is, was arrested on
the 7th inst, for killing his father, Mi
chael keaveny, at Petersham, on East
er Sunday, by striking him with fla,
iron. rr
A carpenter, aged SO years, stabbed
himself TO the heart with a pen-knife,
in Baltimore, on the 9th inst, because
he was cut Of work.
I General Pope has an Iudian war on
hand, among the Cheyenne Indians.
! Two children in Philadelphia were
poisoned the other day by eating ar.
senic which they found in the cellar Of
the home of one of them anG mistook
for sugar, spreading it on bread and
eating it. -.
Six hundred people we're killed and
some three thousand wounded during
the recent storm in Georgia and South
Carolina. .
A ease of feminine Siamese twins is
reported at Staunton, Indiana.
The New England cotton manufac-
turers are getting plenty of new hands,
in place of the strikers, with no con-
cession Of prices.
A pleasant snow storm graced New
York State last Wednesday.
Lewis kimble, in taking a gun out Of
a buggy, at a point about Is miles
from Baltimore, to hunt, last Wednes-
day, accidentally discharged the piece,
the contents entering his body, from
the effects of which he died.
! At Brownsville, Teun., on the night
of the 9TH inst, Robert Midley, Coun-
ty Clerk, was shot and killed in his
Office by two brothers named Henry
and Eli Bond. Disagreement in regard
to the Clerks fees was the cause. The
Bonds surrendered themselves.
| BY confession IL. S. Carson, a clerk
in the employ of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad Company, is q de-
faulter to the amount of $4,000. He
says two others are implicated with
him.
The situation in he coal region has
become serious. Many Of the mines
are flooded with water, and the miners
not only refuse to pump them out, but
drive off the men who volunteer to do
so. 1t IS stated that it will take at
least four months to pump the water
from the Luzerne miues, and this must
be done before any coal can be mined
therein.
Six thieves we're captured in an at
tempt TO rob train On the lnoianap-
oils and St. Louis Railroad, en- the 9th
inst. The conductor locked them in
the car and carried them to st. Louis,
where he handed them over to the
police. Some others were discovered
but escaped.
1t is said that proofs have been OBJ
tanned to show that four or FIVE clerks
in the Post Office Department at Wash
ington have been engaged with person.
outside in procuring through fraud d
number of contracts for mail service in
the southwestern States. The con.
! tracts will be annulled and the clerks
dismissed.
The -four, grain, and commission
house of Howard Hinchmau & Son,
in Philadelphia, failed on the Sth inst.
their liabilities being placed at one
hundred thousand dollars.
A whirlwiDd about 100 feet wide
struck the Platte river bridge at Schuy-
lcr, Ncb., on the Sta inst, ant lifted