Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-04-05

/ :. s.,.-r,ioed suicide is related thug
d..nsteb from St. Louis on the 3OtL
AZ Msroh Frederick RoheH's q mem-
Der Of the frm of j. Roesli & Co.,
bookbinders, comnitted suicide last
night BY severlng the arteries Of his
WRISTS, bat no. dying speedily enough
that way, hanged himself with a towel
to the bed post, where ne was found
dead by bis wife about - Ms'slock,- No
c<ses "'" .sLsd - .he act. On the
same Jay suicide was reported BY de
spatch from Milford, N. r., which says ::
A young medical student naned Chas.
g. Hutchinson shot himself dead last
night. Sickness vas the cause. A
third suicide was reported on the same
day from Leroy, N. Y. Geo. W. Free
man, respected merchant. committed
suicide on Wednesday night. He tied
a BEDFORD TO door-knob, passed it
over the top os the door, aud fastening
it around his neck, drew up his legs,
remaining In that position until be died.
He was insane.
Intemperance is the ruling vice in
Japan. Even the women get glorious.
ly drunk.
A little girl living in Philadelphia
jumped into eternity the other day BY
means of a skipping rope. She jumped
one hundred times in succession, fell
down, was picked up and carried into
the house. where she died.
A monster gun is said to be on its
way to the Centennial Exhibition. 1t
is from the celebrated mandatory of
Krupp, in Berlin. Its weight is no.
600 pounds, or 55 tons. 1t will be
one of the principal features of the
German department. This weighty
piece of artillery is equal to the famous
gun in England, known s'.Queen Anus
Pocket Piece," which it is said has
never been fired off.
VIM H. Sheriff, of Slate Hill, York
county, was On his way home on Mon
day night a week, between the hours Of
2 and 3 o'clock. He was aceosted By
two ruffians, who bucked and gagged
him, and tied him 70 a tree, after which
they relieved him Of his cash, which
amounted to 81 63 and a seven shoot
ing revolver.
In battle between Virginia and
Philadelphia fishermen on the lower
Potomac on the 3ist uit.. Spencer rifles
we're freely used, aud several persons
were seriously wounded.
Abraham jackson, the Boston law
yer convicted of forgery apd swIndiing.
has been sentenced to ten years in the
State prison.
Rudolph A. Dryer, the cashier of the
Farmers and Traders Bank Of st.
Louis, who absconded with 100000 Of
the funds, has been arrested at Austin,
Texas
A man calling himself Frank Mas
ton has been arrested IN New York for
passing counterfeit 6ve-dollar bills on
the Traders National Bank Of Chicago.
The bills were well executed.
While an Iowa woman was strug
Cling in the water aud likely to drown,
her husband yelled out, "New bonnet
swim for life y" and she kicked out
and safely reached the shore.
There are fiftythree Saturdays and
6fty- three Sundays in 1876. So those
employers who pay on Saturdays will
have to pay their hands for fifty three
weeks work, while the hands do but
little over ifty two in the year. This
circumstance also affords one more day
than usual for people to attend church
on and preach and be preached at.
We don't know when there will be
fifty three OF each Of these days again
in one year, but 1881 is to have fifty
three Saturdays, and 1882 fifty three
Sundays.
Eggs are worth three cents a dozen
in Hamilton county, Nebraska.
Five hundred Persian pilgrims bave
been drowned by the sinking of ship
in the Arabian Sea.
Rev. j. G. Nahon, a Methodist pas
tor in Peru, Ind recently married a
black mau and white woman. The
latter was yelled and he supposed they
we're both colored' He says he didn't
mean TO, and is willing to suffer i: he
has broken the law.
B. L. Butler will be candidate for
Congress next fall in the Essex district
of Massachusetts,.
The burning of the Norwich, Conn.,,
aims house restored TO mental health q
man who was insane before the fire.
Two female pedestrians of Pittsburg
are engaged in walking match fer
purse of three hundred dollars and the
champion medal of Pennsylvania, the
one who accomplishes the greatest dis
tancu in six days to be declared the
winner.
j. d. Cameron, William R. Leeds
II. NJ Hoyt and Robert ". Mackey
will represent Pennsylvania as dele
gates at-Iarge in the Cincinnati Conven-
ton.
The SIX chinese companies at Gan
Francisco have signed n recommended
tion to their countrymen to stay at home
as any further emigration will intensity
the feeling among the whites on the
Pacific coast to such a degree as to en-
danger the lives and property of China
men.
Peter Keyser, of S;ouchsburg, Pa,
committed suicide on the 18th uIt., by
drowning himself.
Two wolves we're caught in common
fox traps in Clear6eld county, about
ten days ago.
Mark Smith, an Adirondack trapper-
recently killed panther six and half
feet long.
A scientist says: "Eventually, as
our globe contracts there will only be
thirteen days IN years." Every day
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