Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-07
NEWS KREMS.

to Massachusetts,.
The Metbodists announce forty-three
camp meetings to be held, nearly all be-
ing appointed for August.
Cape May is literally alive with peo-
pie. end it is said that during Lo pre-
vious season has the rush been sogrsst.
A griudstous, weighing some 1000
pounds. exploded in an axe factory At
jamestown, N. Y, on Friday. A
large fragment struck an employee
named Weber, who will probably die.
Cecil county MsryIandl farmers are
complaining At the lightness of the oat
crop. Il viii take slnosr two bushels
to weigh the legal number of pounds
for one"
About midnight on Sunday night,
Isaac Hammill rode up to John Angel.
as farm house, q few miles south Of
Jacksonville, J ILL.,, and asked to see An
gelas' daughter. Angelas refused per-
mission, at the same time ordering his
son, Jason, aged IA, to shoot Aamnill.
The son took down an old sLo: gun
loaded with slugs aud discharged its
contents into Hammill's head, killing
him instantly. Father and son we're
arrested.
A boy of fifteen, residing in Trzemen-
zno, province Of Posen, has committed
one of the most frightful crimes record.
ed in history. He killed his mother,
cut out her tongue and sewed her lips
together; he also sewed her stockings
to her feet, cut pieces of flesh out Of
her legs. slit open one Of her hands
and tore of one Of her thumbs, When
taken into custody PORTIONS of the
womans's lungs, liver, etc, we're found
on his person wrapped in a handker-
chief.
The large bones recently found in .
cave near Mount Ararst. on the JET
fersou branch OF the Erie Railroad
prove to be those Of n mastodop. The
j,wbone is four feet long and thirteen
inches thick; the vertebIs twenty
three feet eight inches long knee cap
eighteen inches In length aud nine and
half inches in width at the narrowest
point thigh bones six and a quarter
feet long, and the bones from the knee
to the foot seven feet in length. The
skeleton will be boxed and shipped to
the Smithsonian Institute.
MIR. s. j. Leger, smother gentleman
aid two ladies were riding along 10 q
carriage upon an uafrequented road be-
tween the river and the Reading Rail-
road, north of MIfiilu lane, during the
thunderstorm some time ago. A fash
Of lightning tore the bit from the
horse's mouth, ran along the ground,
followed around the tire of one of the
bind wheels, destroying the wheel aud
causing the vehicle to break down.
Mr.. Leger, who was driving, felt the
shock, but none of the others we're at
fscted. The crew of the Park Guard
steam launch rescued the party from
their predicsmen,.
Ten years ago Piute boy OF twelve
years was captured by General Crook,
west of Stein Mountain, Nevada. He
saw the dead bodies Of his chieftair
father and OF his mother lying near the
wigwap, and it was with heavy heart
that be went TO work in San Francis
co store when taken thither. Never
theless be learned the English tongue,
San Francisco manners, became schol-
or and joined hands with the peacemak
rBg brethren Of the church. Not lcug
since General Mcdowell told him to
20 among the indians and counsel them
to bury tomabawk. He visited the
warriors of Chief Natchez and there
found both father and mother, who had
feigued death and thus escaped the
soldiers.
An attempt was made to wreck the
east bound mail train on the Phlladei-
phia and Erie Railroad, near Lock Ha-
ven, on Saturday night a week BY dig
ging the earth away from between the
crossties and placing large boulders be-
tween the tracks. The work of the
wreckers was seen and their plot over
heard by a fisherman, who signaled
aud stopped the approaching tram in
time to avert an accident. The rescu-
er stated that the distractions were
placed on the road in expectation that
q we'll known official wonld pass over 1t
that evening on specia. train. He
says the 6ends fred at him, the ball
striking his watch, thus saving his life.
The impression prevailed sfterward
that this man had been one of the party
sent ahead 10 prevent mischief when
the rascals discovered they we're at
tempting to wreck the wrong train, the
official referred to having passed safely
over the road on Friday night.
She died 10 her boots, aud q revol-
yer, hot from use, was found in the
cIinch of her white fingers. For sew
ersl weeks the pioneers st Costills
county, Colorado, had been harrassed
by the depredatlons Of horse thieves.
Finally posse offrontiersmen took the
saddle in pursuit. They struck the
trail pushed on rapidly aud, after ia
tIguing ride, overlook two Of the mar
auders. Shots we're exchanged. One
of the fugitives rode with face to the
pursuers and dropped bullets among
the heads Of the wild oncomins crowd.
This hot fighter fell dead and the horse
galloped riderless across the prairie
The pioneers saw that they had killed
a woman. Her age was about twenty
two years. She was dressed in a rough
loose suit of mems clothes, with heavy
rawhide boots, into which we're tucked
her pantaloons. Her face in the cold
pallor showed complexion that had
once been light and rosy and her eyes
were of A fair hazel.