Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1877-10-03
News Items.

News Items.
Earthquakes have been shaking up
Peru.
A pottery is to be established at
Sharon.
The prisoners in Berks county Jail
have been vaccInated.
Seven daily prayer meetings are held
in New York city.
The Duncannon iron works are run
ming on about half time.
CannibalIsm has become a frequent
incident in Madras since the famiue.
An attempt vas made recently 20
burn the court house in Huntingdon.
Highwaymen have broken out in
Berks county, but they haven't made
anything yet.
The Cincinnati Tunes thinks the sat
est banks in ihicago are the faro banks.
Hayes is the first President who has
entered Georgia since George Washing
ton.
Lancaster county is now the heaviest
tobacco growing county in the United
States.
The number of miners killed by &C
cidents in the anthracite regions Was
22S and the wounded i62.
Crazy Horse killed only thirty four
white men and women not including
his victims in battle.
Thus far eighty persons have been ar
rested on the charges of having been
engaged in the Reading riots. OF these
fifty gave bail, aud the others are now
in prison.
There are over two thousand liquor
sellers in the District Of Columbia or
over four to every member Of Congress.
About 800 men are out of employ
ment IN consequence of the laborers'
strike at the Pittsburg American Iron
Works.
\ young lady in Allegheny City has
partially lost her reason from inhaling
nitrous oxide while having dental op-
GRAFTON performed.
Owing to the high price of gas In
Pottsville many of the merchants have
been obliged to dispense with lis use
and substitute OIL
A daughter of Philip Smith, of Lu-
zerne county, was burned TO death the
other day. Her clothes caught fire from
the stove.
One hundred and forty deaths from
yellow fever occurred at Vera Cruz
during the month of August.
The skelton found in the mountains
near Lock Haven is supposed to be that
of an old scissors-grinder by the name
of Nathaniel Kepner, who disappeared
from Sugar Valley some time ago and
has not been seen or heard of since.
William Shrack, young farmer, Of
Bethel township, while cunning near
Millersburg, Berks county, with five
other young men, accidentally shot him
self, the load of shot entering bis thigh
and passed upward into his body. He
died in about two minutes without
speaking.
A Defiance, 10 J dispatch states that
there is much excitement manifested
there over the report that A. Shaw
County Treasurer, Is .sbort" between
$1,000 and $4,000. The State Auditor
has appointed special inspector, who
has taken charge of the Treasurer's
Office protected by an armed guard.
The Chicago Grand Jury has indict-
ed Spencer, Guild and Buckley, off
GERS of the State Savings Bank, for the
embczzlement of S700.000. None of
them are in the city, nor are THEN pres
ent whereabouts known.
Mrs. James St. Clair, her son and
daughter, residing at No. 229 Lake
street, Cleveland, Ohio we're poisoned
on Sunday week by eating toadstools,
which they mistook for mushrooms.
The two children are dead and the
mother is not expected TO recover.
Judge 3iddle, of the Supreme Court
Of Indiana, has invented a musical in
strument somewhat like q violin, and
called tetrachord 1t may be made
in different sizes, so that twelve instru-
ments will constitute a full string band.
A gang of twenty tramps robbed the
depot building at Warrentown juno
tion. Va, on Tuesday, week of every
thing portable amounting to S400. and
then made an unsuccessful attempt to
board and rob the pay train. Seven of
the gang were arrested.
AT Buffalo, the other day, a dentist
was called in to extract tooth for the
daughter oe a citizen who owned a very
fine watch dog. The dog, who was out
side, heard the cries, and thinking his
mistress was being harmed, rushed in
and seized the doctor by the leg, and
was only persuaded to loose his hold by
severe beating.