Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-03-20
NEWS ITEMS.

There are 250,OO0 Hebrews 10
America.
Three families in North Carolina poll
thirty FIVE Democratic votes.
Beno Pitman says the entire cost OF
cremstng bis wife, including railroad
fares, was but S75.
At Pilot Grove, Mo-, Luke Taylor, a
negro, was detected in the act OF at
tempting to ravish little si1-year-old
girl and was shot dead.
DR.. Edward TallmaD, q notorious
abortlonist, was sentenced at Pough-
keepsie, N. Y, on Saturday, By Judge
Barnard to four years in Sing Sing.
D. 7 X. Rhine, the noted temper
ancs lecturer, was arrested at Michel,
Ontario, canada, for an alleged inde-
cent assault on Eliza GIbbin, a young
English maid.servant in the house
where the accused was stopping.
A dispatch from Bismarck SAYS the
storms of last week extended over the
upper Missouri Valley, lasting three
days, aud the snow on the stage road
10 Fort Buford was ten to fifteen feet
deep.
Governor Holiday has issued proc
lamation Offering $l00 reward for the
arrest of each of the parties concerned
in the lynchiug of the negro woman,
Charlotte Harris, in East Rockingham
county, Va, on the night of the 9th
instant.
On Saturday afternoon, the Lechmere
National Bank, of East Cambridge,
Mass, was robbed of $4,000 in money
and SIS, 900 in Government bonds and
securities. A man and woman drove
up to the bank after business hours and
calling the President to the sidewalk,
engaged hun in conversation a few min
utes. On his return he missed three
trunks containing the above amount of
property.
The designer of the new dollar, Mr..
George Morgan. is young man of q
years, and is said to receive the mite of
$3.50 per week for his services, or Sl2,-
900 year. He explains that the face
of the female on the coin is bis idea Of
the true type of American beauty of
the gentler sex, and was not mere fancy's
imaginings.
During a meeting in the town hall,
at Harrison, Ohio, on March 6th, a
gasoline machine, which was being
tested by unskilIed hands, exploded,
killing a councilman nam ed Rapp, and
little girl, and injuring many others,
two seriously. The flames spread and
did some damage to the building.
The wooden bridge across the Rari-
tan river. at New Brunswick, n. j.,
was destroyed bs FIRE on alarch 9th.
1t was about 1000 feet long. The loss
is estimated at 100000. Until the
structure is replaced, the Pennsylvania
Railroad will convey its passengers to
New York by connecting with the
Bound Brook route.
At the funeral of the late Larz
Anderson, of Cincinnati, there was
seen a thing both touching and beau
tiful; eight of his nine SONS teuderly
bore their old father to his last rest
ing-place.
Three sons of Matthew Lynch.
aged respectively IA, II and years
we're fatally injured at Fort Wayne,
Ind, on March 9th, by the explosion
of a railroad torpedo with which they
were playing. The two eldest died.
The number of buildings destroyed
by the recent fire in Hot Springs Ar
kansas is stated at $50, and the loss
is estimated at 100000. About
1000 people are homeless and desti-
tute.
Gus johnson, the murderer Of the
negro ferryman, Alfred, was hanged in
Rome Ca, on Friday. The execution
was public and large crowd was pres
ent. Johnson showed no sign of fear
and ascended the scaffold with a cigar
in his mouth. He confessed to four
murders. He died in seventeen min
utes, Of strangu!ation.
Massachusetts detectives made a
raid on the town of Tewksbury, where
they arrested number Of men who
are charged with living in open polyg-
amy They were held in bonds for
trial in the Superior Criminal Court for
Franklin county. 1t is alleged that
many others will be arrested for the
same offence an attempt evidently hav-
ing been made to establish a Mormon
settlement at Tewks5ury.
A terrific earthquake shock was felt
at Columbus, KY, at 4 o'clock Mon
day morning, creating great cousterna
rion. Bedsteads we're rolled across
the room people were tunbled out of
bed and bureaus thrown down and
broken. A portion CT the Mississippi
river bank caved in near the bluff. The
movement caused the bells on locomo-
tives to ring. The shock lasted only a
few seconds.
Powell and Millett both desired to
escort a girl home from q Louisville
ball. Powell had the prior claim, be-
cause he had taken her there and paid
for the ticket; but she gave Millett the
preference, and started from the ball
with him. Powell mustered his friends,
waylaid the couple. stabbed Millett
eight times, and would have killed him
if the girl had not fought desperately
in his defense. She Is going to reward
Millett BY marrying him if he recovers.
Commodore Robert F. Pinkney died
of paralysis yesterday at bis residence,
Baltimore, in the sixty-seventh year Of
his age. At the outbreak of the civil
war deceased was captain in the United
States Navy, which he resigned and
entered the Confederate service. He
distinguished himself in several naval