Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1876-02-23

Dooy OF an unknown man we're found
scattered along the railroad on the
wagon road crossing OF Main street in
Patterson. 1t is conjectured that
locomotive killed the stranger by pass
ing over him in its passage from the
lower to the upper part of the yard
while he warmed himself at a heap of
warm ashes that had been drawu out of
locomotive near that point On to the
railroad. He was mangled and torn
out of shape, and could scarcely have
been recognized by his nearest friends.
His clothing was torn into shreds, but
those who saw the mutilated mass of
humanity and torn clothing believe that
he wore gray tweed pants, blue drilling
overalls, PLAID overshirt, brown drilling
undershirt, q reddish-colored overcoat.
and light-coIored felt hat.
Squire David Doughman summoned
jury aud held an inquest with the
following named jurors: Theorus d.
Garman, s. r. Notes.-The, Jacob Frank,
DAME. T. Cramer, Simon Shirk, George
Doughman. The verdict of the jury is,
3" That the deceased-name unknown
came to his death by being run over
With an engine on the Pennsylvania
Railroad while warming himself at the
ash-pile near the crossing in the bor-
ough of Patterson. and We find nothing
on bis person, remains, to indicate his
name or residence, except the letters
sc. L. in ink on his right arm blame
attaching to no one, his death believed
to have been purely accidental"
w. G. DUNCAN. a citizen of Harris
burg, a freight train conductor, By some
means fell under his train as it was
coming east on the morning of the l7th
inst, about 5 o'clock, near Vineyard
Station, Miffiin county, and was killed.
His remains were brought to this place,
where jury of the following named
citizens of Patterson was summoned by
Justice Doughman: Joseph Pennell,
s. r. Notes.-The, Theorus ID. Garman,
r. b. Nixon, John c. Thompson. A. II.
Fasics. The verdict of the jury is,
.. That the deceased was in charge of a
detached part Of his train, in the capa
city of conductor of said train, and in
some accidental manner was caught by
it and il ran over him and killed him
on the morning of the 18th day Of Feb
ruary, 1876, about % minutes after 5
O'Clock, at the switch near Vineyard
Station, on the Pennsylvania Railroad,
In the county of Mifiin, and bis death
is believed TO have been purely acci-
dental"
The remains of the unfortunate man
were inferred, on Sunday last, at New
port, Perry county, of which place he
was a native A family, consisting of
a wife and four children mourn his un-
timely end. He was aged 40 years
SPRUCE HILL, JUNIATA Co, Pa.
February II, 1876. !
Editor Sentinel and Republican =
Under the heading of Spruce Hill
Township Items," as published in the
Democrat and Register, correspondent
of that paper recently said Spruce
Hill experienced an elopement extraor-
binary on Wednesday evening, the par
ties TO which we're Samuel n. Rohrer
aud Maggie Book, who refused to ac-
cepr the usual mode of the sect-their
parents are, or have both been bunker
ministers and let th,ir parents make
their match for them, but preferred
their own way. We hops the usual
romantic style may be carried out, and
parental forgivness and lasting happi-
ness may follow"
The Registers correspondent perhaps
meant well enough, but erred in saying
|" Let their parents make their match tO'
them" l have been intimately ac'
quainted with the above named sect,
and l never knew parents to make
matches for their children as a rule
The Registers correspondent is eithel
uncourteuos or ignorant; perhaps be II
both. Ii he were not, he would MOI
write such untruth.
1 SPRUCE HILL.
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JUNIATA COUNTY NORMAL SCHOOL
This well known School will oper
April 10th, 1876, under the manage
ment of John NJ. Garman, Id the Scboo
House in Mifflintown, for term o
elepen week. a marked change take
place in the sessions, as heretofore ther'
have been two-a Spring and Fai
session. This year there will be bu
one session, as the examinations will
take place early in August, and tn
Principal will not have the time to at
| +and q othar than the dufies of hi