Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-05-23
News Items.

The Mayor Of WukesosArS ~
gun raid on the dance houses.
Judge Jsuts Of the Jefferson dist
riot will not allow boys in the court
room durirs the rfiaI Of Commoa"eslth
cases.
The trains on the road between Cen.
ter Hall, Center county, and Lewis
burg Union county, will be run BY the
lst Of July.
The Illinois Legislature has Son-
ferred police powers on railroad con-
ductors.
John Berry, an old farmer OF North
ampton county, committed suicide
by hanging himself to = beam in the
cellar
An excursion will 60 from York to
Gettysburg on decoration day.
P. T. Barnum has issued . reward
Of $40, 900 for Charlie Ross.
Nearly one million of people are
suffering from famine iu lodia.
A Gold mine, yielding $4,000 per
day has been discovered in Georgia.
Among other suggestive designs en-
sraved uu wedding rings is that OF .
spiders web with fly IN it.
A brutal assassination occurred last
Friday a week On a lonely road about
fifteen miles from Charleston, 5. Z. j
Evans Edings. . young white man. who
was carr, ing 81 200 to pay the wages
to the hands at the phosphate works,
was snbushed, shot in his buggy, rob
bed. and left dead in the road. Two
negroes we're arrested and confessed the
CRIME. The money was found in their
possession.
A gentleman who Travelled through
Kern county, California, reports that
the carrasses of cattle were lying IN
great numbers where they had died OF
sisrvariuu, aud that many others were
we're too feeble to get up aud eat or
drink Bands of sheep we're subsist-
ing on grease brush, apparently IN the
last stages of hunger. The owners OF
rome herds have abandoned their focks
to their fate, not being able or willing
to have them herded.
Chickens are bscthed by stream st
the teunelyst poultry farm, Pentwa-
ter, Michigan. The hatching- house
has been built in the form Of cross,
giving FIVE rooms, each twelve feet
square, in each story. The first floor
is devoted to Matching. and the iucuba-
tor stands in the room looking toward
the east. 1t is not very pretentious-
looking piece Of mechanism, but it will
hatch SOC or 400 chickens at time.
A son Of John Brobist, of Catswissa,
aged years, while playing with a
number of boys who we're running Ca
boose back aud forth near depot, had
his head crushed between the bumpers
aud was instantly killed.
On Saturday evening week Mr..
Thompson, of Gaskill township, Jeffer-
son county was struck by lightning aud
instantly killed. He had been to a
neighbours returning borrowed horse,
and was returning home, and when
crossing 6eld be was struck BY light
ming, the fluid tearing his clothing
loose from his body and his boots of
his feet, leaving dark burned mark
on the flesh, aud so far disfguriug him
that he was hardly recognizable.
At Columbis, Lancaster county, un-
, known parties have been engaged IN
soaping and greasiug the tracks of the
Reading and Columbia Railroad. The
tracks were covered with grease and
soft soap at point just beyond Col
. lumbia, where there is grade oi
| ITO feet. Trains on account Of the
greasy tracks, have been unable to as
cend the grade. James J. .MeEunis
an ex-6reman, was arrested fJr the Of
fence. The danger attending tracks In
such a condition is very great, and
trains coming toward Columbia would
+ be Unable to stop, but would plunge
into the depot at terrible speed.