Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-03-28
News Items.

A child of DR.. Messenger, of Rowmans-
/ vile, Lancaster county, poisoned himself or
! Tuesday by drinking a medical preparation
in his fathers study.
! John Sechler, of Weisenburg, Lehigh
county, had his mouth slit into his cheek
and all his front teeth Knocked out by the
/ horn of 4 vicious COW which ne was driv-
ing out of fighting herd.
Nathan o. Gree1field, convicted of the
murder of his wife, in Orwell, Oswego
county, N. Y, was yesterday sentenced to
be hanged in Oswego, May IL.
An organ company is being organized in
Allentown.
Lancaster is now suffering with small
pox. -Four Of ex-Constable Wilson Fishers
children have died of this terrible disease,
and both Mr.. Fisher and wife are down
with it.
Archibald McGown, sixty-five years o,d,
shot and killed his son -in-law, John Nc
Gowan, aged twenty-five, during a drunk
en- csrousal at Granny Mass, yesterday
morning He was arrested.
George Gregory shot and mortally
wounded his wife in Hartford, Conn.,, on
Wednesday night. Jealousy is supposed
to have been the Cause.
At kintnersville, Bucks county, a large
rock fell two hundred feet down a noun
tain and knocked in the side of a house,
terribly soaring the people.
While the child of Geo. Fahrenbach lay
asleep in its cradle recently, at Penn Dale
box containing cabbage plants slipped
from a window falling upon and nearly
smothering the infant. Its nose and mouth
We're filed with dirt when discovered.
The body of the man found floating in
Lycoming creek, LycOming county, was
disinterred and identified As Frederick Frey
Ii had evidently been buried in some damp
place, and either washed out or been dug
considered certain, and the case is being
investigated.
Six girl babies were born in one house in
Emanuel county, Ga, in one night, and one
poor man had 10 own that he was grand
father of the lot.
+. Holman, while telling a tree on his
farm near the Allegheny city line, in Re-
serve township, was killed by the trunk fall
ing upon him.
A Silver gray fox, a very rare ami
NAL in Vermont, was recently killed
at Huntington in that State, and the
skin was sold for $40.
A woman eighty eight years old is
doing the household work for a family
of FIVE persons at Taunton, Mass.
Every city IN New Hampshire was
carried by the Republicans at the re-
cent election.
Thomas NJ. Butler. of Fredonia, Ky,
has spring of water Is feet 10 diane
ter, whose bottom has never been
reached, although weights with ropes
300 feet long have been lowered into it.
At Reinhold's station recently an
auctioneer sold a four horse wagon for
50, that bad the date "lS06" branded
on the front a1al. Elijah Beard, a re
sidenf of the place, has an old piece OF
IRON used on gig, bearing the date
"17l9."
An election will be held in Centre
county April 81, to vote for or against
Poor House.
Ellis Stern Engle, q Harrisburg
school teacher, has been mysteriously
absent since March I.
A WillIamsport man is building a
saw mill in Texas. A WiIliamsport
man builds a saw nill wherever be goes.
A new bridge is to be erected across
the Susquehannah at Rockville.
The average Of snow storms in Penn
sylvania this winter was thirty five.
An old man engaged in hauling coal
in Ashland fell heir to Sill, 900 some
time ago, and on Saturday last he
died, leaving the fortune to an only
son.
Mr.. John Joyce. of Pottsville, is
selling hot house cucumbers in the
Philadelphia market at sixty FIVE cents
apiece.
A careful examination OF the Mag
ara suspension bridge has Just been
made. A few wires on the under sides
of the strands had corrodded and psrt-
ed; but substantially the structure is
as strong as ever.
At Friedepsville, Lehigh county,
John kreedon, a boy fell into a mine
hole with . cart, and tore the flesh off
the calf of his leg. Last Wednesday
the leg was auputated. Yesterday the
stump itcbed and the boy scratched it.
unknowingly opened an artery. Capt.
Pssco entered the room where the bow
lay to inquire how be was, when the
sufferer remarked 81 an as weak as +.
=, expiring a. be spoke, having bIed
to death.