Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-05-31


man, end his wife we're {, ,uni murdered
in their bed.- Tue ,nurderers, iour in
number, had attempted to fire the prem
ises, bat islied. They we're arrested
aud fully ldertified. The crime caused
much excitement, and to day they were
taken from the sheriff aud shot. Three
hundred persons we're present at the
execution. One hundred shots were
fred.
Religious excitement caused romsn
TO drown herself. at Detroit, Michigan.
last Wednesday.
Alvin G.. Fes,er was chloroformed,
robbed and murdered on Tuesday night
a week, at Keen, n. Il. He had two
hundred dollars on his person, which
was taken by the murderers.
A man named Faunery, step father
of Patrick MeIarkey, had a quarrel
with his wife at Ashland, near Potts
vile, on the night of the 24;h inst.
Melarkey, while protecting his mother,
was shot in the back Of the head BY
Flannery, who was in liquor. Melark-
es may die. Flannery is under arrest.
Winnie Ream, the Washington sculp-
torcss, has busted a number of distin-
guished people.
Brigham Young in early life, lived
in New York State, aud learned the
trade Of painter.
When the Poet Longfellow, who is
doing the Centennia! Exposition, passes
through any part of the grounds, and Is,
or becomes known, people forget the
sights of the show to look at him.
Ga the 2oth inst, while Mrs. Jennie
Bruce, her daughter Mamie, and Rober:
Drlrkard were upon bridge near Dam
vile, ILL.,, on the Toledo, Wabash and
Western Railroad, freight train came
upon them, crushing and killing Mrs.
Bruce, breaking Drinkard's leg, and
knocking the girl through the bridge to
the ground, a distance of fifty feet,
from the effects of which she will prob
ably die.
Certain places in Andover. New
Hampshire, had two feet of snow last
week.
A Paris baker jumped into his oven
and was roasted TO death.
The pistol with which Aaron Burr
killed Alexander Hamilton is now in
the possession Of Louis Marshall, of tie
Commercial National Bauk, Of YER
sailIes, Ky. Throw it into the sea.
John Stone, of Manor station, Pa,
aged 20, fell in love few weeks since
with Ella Shuman, l3 years old. She
told hun she would not marry him until
she was l6. On Sunday this note was
handed to her by boy:
Ella, Darling l can't live 8 years
without you. When you read this |
will be dead. JOHN.
They found his body in lot near by.
He bad shot himself through the head.
The boy doubtless was crazy
A little son of Edwin Matson, of
Shannonville, Montgomery county, aged
about = months, was drowned by fall
ing Into we'll on his fathers premises.
He was not missed, aud his fate was
I first discovered through the actions of
a shepherd dog. The animal hung
around the spot. Nr. Ms,son called II
to chase some cartle, but il refused to
move. Surprised at this, he examined
the we'll and discovered the body.
A Tyrone druggist was recently or
dered to " "stand ana deliver" on a
CleariieId road The highwaymen
mulcied their victim to the tune of $40.
Bismarck spends his spring vacation
spading in his garden and planting cab
bage.
Mrs. Stephenson, of Salem township,
Mercer county, was frightened to death
recently. " nth her husband she was
driving into Greenviile, and the horses
becoming frightened at locomotive as
they approached station, Mrs. Steph-
enson was so seriously alarmed that she
died the next day, in the meantime re-
naming entirely unconscious.
On las, Thursday a week, John d.
Sullivan, carpenter, living at Roaring
Springs, Blair county, and in the EN-
ploy of Morrison, Bare & Co, of that
place, while putting handles in some
chisels, slipped and fell upon the sharp
end of one of the chisels which pene-
trated the body considerable distance
in the region OF the heart, from the
effects of which he died in few mo-
ments. He was between 80 and 30
years of age, and leaves a wife and
three children.
In learfield county several farmers
were losing lambs, and they couldn't
account for the manner in which their
death was caused. One day recently
a gentleman named Ephraim f. Shaw,
who lives in Lawrence township, found
FIVE of his lambs lying lu field where
he kept his sheep, and portion of the
hind quarters OF each bad been gor-
mandlzed. He procured some s;rych-
nine and busted 1t over the meat that
was left. Then he retired to a conve
nient place, where a watch could be
/ kept up, obA PASs'y SSoo 49, eN
eagle, measuring nearly seven feet from
tip to tip of wings, swcoped down.
After enjoying repast, the bird was
observed to give indications of being
sick at>the stomach but 1t flew to the
topmost limb Of an adjacent tee. Soon
the poison finished its work, and dead
eagle came tumbiing to the ground.
The farmers in the vicinity are satisfied
that their lambs are now sale.
Baron De-Palm, an European noble-
man, was buried in New York on Sun
day week. The ceremony of the fu-
neral was conducted under the "Egyp-
tian ritual" The Baron was a noted
Spirltualist, and his dying request was
that "uo Christian priest or minister
might have any thing to do with his OBJ
sequies, but that they might be purely
pagan"
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