Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-03-01
News Items.

At the recent court 1t Somerset,
Miller Who burned Walkers barn in
November last, was sent to the pen
itentiafy for eight years and three
months.
Paul Haupt, of Denver, went through
the var without . seattle, and when
the regiment was sent to Arizona. en-
countered on one occasion Eve Apache
Indians single handed, killing three Of
their number. Two weeks ago he WAS
crushed to death between two blocks
Of ice in an ice house.
A New York newspaper estimates
that the crowded horse cars 10 that
city give steady employment to 1000
pickpocke;s.
A Nevada sheep man who had tried
and succeeded with sheep said .sSheep
are better than . government bond ;
you can tear off coupon every six
months half as big - the bond, and
the bond j. left Is big Is it was"
The hula-hula, = voluptuous dance
Of the Sandwich Island girls, vas Wit
messed by the daughter of missionary,
and il caused her to faint.
There are nearly 500 men employed
in the hemp-packing rooms Of the Ken
tucky tendency to produce blindness
and consumption that the authorities
are talking Of abolishing the industry.
A broken rail turned sleeping car
Of the track Of the Harlem Railroad,
on tac night Of the Oath ult., BY which
accident Chicago father and son we're
burned to death in the wrecked car,
and ten other persons we're badly burned.
There sre 800, 900 worth Of couu-
terfeit American railroad bonds afloat
in Europe, according to dispatches from
that country.
Bonner recently purchased another
trotting animal named Music. Her
,iue is 1924.
At Leeds, in this State, on Saturday
q week, the man Keith, convicted Of
poisoning the well of . neigbbor, was
sentenced to ten years imprisonment.
Recently counterfeiters in . Western
peniteDtiary issued spurious money from
their prison.
Last week the work shop Of Kings
county, New York, was robbed Of $500
worth of shoes.
A monster in New York city . few
days ago, iu = passion, put bis four
year old child ON . hot stove, thereby
causing its death. He was arrested.
On a wager, . Springfield, ILL.,, man
drank four gallons of water in half an
hour, and at another time two gallons
in eighty-four seconds. They say he'll
die.
Only the bank clerks 10 Pittsburg
knew that yesterday \ week ago was
Wasbingtou's birthday. a.
A nitro glycerinc magazine at ST..
Petersburg, Clarion county, exploded
on the 23i ult., tearing the building to
pieces aud killing one man, workman
about the magazine
Tarrytown. N. Y, was almost entire
ly destroyed b5 fire on the 23d ult.
A Wilkesbarre servant girl took an
ounce and half of laudanum for the
toothache, aud will experience no more
o. the aches of this world.
The bank account of the cashier of .
St. Louis, Mo-, bank is $50, 900 short,
aud the cashier is missing.
The dye house of the woolen manu-
factory at Valley Forge, this State, was
destroyed by FIRE on the oath ult. By
great effort on the part Of the citizens
the surrounding property was saved.
The Harrisburg Telegraph tells that
Ream, youth of l6, was sent to the
hospital. HE hands we're badly frost
bitten in ride from Altoona to Har-
risburg on freight car on q night of
the 23rd ult.
The engineer of train of cars
approaching Alfred, Me-, saw a New
foundand dog on the track, and tried
to fr,ghten him off by sounding the
whistle. As the dog did not move be
stopped the train, and then found that
just around the curve close by was an
OK team fast to the track.
Late on Wednesday night . FIRE in
LIE Mas, Iowa, destroyed large build
ing occupied BY four families. A woman
aud three small children we're burned in
the ruins, and when found we're burned
to cinder. The husband is now . raw
ing maniac.
Rev. Mr.. Forthingbam, of New York,
does not endorse Moody and Sankey.
On Sunday week be said &c They
preach nothing but Christ the Goldman,
and of hun nothing but his DEATH
General Babcock, President Grants
private secretary, handed in h,s resig-
nation after bis acquittal at St. Louis.
U. S. Grant, Jr., is his successor.
During the pas. six years the Pres
byferian Board of Publication has sent
out 300, 200 copies Of The Westminster