Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-07-11
News Items.

in certain parts of Canada.
York county is hating rfore trouble
with criminal tramps than any other
section of the State.
All the railroads in Illinois are re-
duc.ng wages and hours of labor.
A farmer near Reinholdsville, L,n-
caster county, has set out over ONE ndl-
lion Of tobacco plants.
The Ebensburg Jail has ten prisoners
-four females aud six males-all serv-
ing out terms of imprisonment.
Lancaster had trottirg match on
the 4ih.
Andrew Dietrich, Of Bethlehem,
shot himself dead, because certain
trast funds which be had, we're lost by
The failure Of a savings bank
John L. Hoffman, of Allentown, com
mitted suicide on account of financial
embarrassment. He appointed an as
siguee, and then committed suicide.
They thought they had discovered
gold in Schuy county, but when
they came to test it, the sell was dis
covered.
An ore mine, in Lehigh county, caved
in and Jessie Smith, the contractor,
two others, was buried. The contrsc-
tor was killed. The others escaped
With slight injuries.
Miss. Elizabeth NJ Dowell, aged
seventeen years, of Mercer county, was
fatally burned few days ago. She
was carrying ire, which was commuui-
Gated to her dress, enveloping her in
flames.
One night recently man at Union
City found tramp in his barn snok:
ing. He asked him to desist, a I'd got
an insult for an answer. The proprie-
ter was put out of the barn.
The mother of hanged Mollie Ma
guire charged an admission fee to the
wake Of her son to raise money to de-
fray the funeral expences.
Alex Colt, Of Northumberland, who
is seventy FIVE years of age, shoes
horses with ease. He is a veteran
blacksmith.
Tramp depredations in Westmore-
land county are so frequent and of
such an audscious nature as to be
alarming. A vigilance committee is
suggested.
Frost seriously damaged garden
truck aud flower beds in Honesdale last
week.
Under the influence of the Murphy
movement, arrests in Philadelphia for
drunkenness have fallen off sixty per
cent.
The treasurer Of the school board IN
Titusville ran away with about $40, 600
of the school fund.
A wild cat was killed in a Titusville
store during " ednesday night.
There is an old colored lady in the
Berks county poor house who is 1O2
years old She was married three times,
and had twenty children. She is ac
tive, enjoys perfect health, anG looks as
if she might live twenty years longer.
More buildings are ID process of erec-
tion in Lancaster than at any previous
time within five years past.
Three citizens of Bethlehem had a
shot FUN fight with a crowd of circus
roughs who tried to rob their gardens.
A eircusman is now IN the hospital +,
loaded down with buckshot.
At Lockport. few miles from Erie,
Ham Guy aud Fred HaIstead, two base
ball players, guarreled. HaIstead
struck Guy on the head with base
ball bat, fracturing hIs skull and caus-
ing bis death.
The yield Of clover in crawford coun-
ty was uDprecedentally large this sea-
son.
A man named Wagner was killed at
Forman, Ill. on the 5th, BY his neigh
Dor. Cause, a quarrel between their
wives about some hogs and chickens.
Harry j. HOuck, exhigh constable
Of the borough OF Phenixville, was ar
rested on Friday morning last on charge
of receiving stolen goods. Held to an
swer.
David Kunkle, of Wernersvills, lie
banon county, was shot at by several
tramps The tramps were captured,
aud revolver aud dagger taken from
them. Kunkle gave them a good cow
hiding and DISCHARGED them.
Randolph township, Crawford county,
boasts of bottomless spring Of pure
water about 80 feet square. 1t Is stu
ated on the farm of Walter Holmes.
a rat hunt on Ten Mile last week
continued \ week, an immense number
of rodents being killed-over 1900
Washington Reporter
John Goetz, an old resident Of Ben
Finger township, Elk county, come to
his death in a sudden and unexpected
manner 10 the bark woods of A. Kaul.
In telling a tree it lodged upon a sap
ling the latter Of which struck Mr..
Goeiz, killing him instantly. He
leaves wife and six children.
Welden the Philadelphia lunaiic, has
be- indicted in New Orleans for at
tempting to take the life of Ex-Gov-
ernor Packard in February last. Gov
einor Nichols will issue a requisition
on Governor Hartrauft for Welden's