Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-03-06
DISPATCHES.


PITTsBtRa, Feb. 26.-Determined
efforts are being made to break up the
recently discovered gang Of Moliie Ma
CURES at Irwin's Station, w Westmoreland
county, and charges have been made
against Harry Davy, George P. Harftt
Pat Dougherty and others. Robert
" hiteiaw is charged with setting fire
to the Bald Eagle Works, Triple Check
House, etc, Patrick Doyle, who is
known to have been ringleader, was
drowned in the YoughiOgheny river las t
fall. Davis who coroborated Par6tt's
testImoney remained in Greensburg un-
I'll Sunday, when he suddenly disappear
ed. Prior to leaving he communicated
with the parties against whom informa-
ton had been made, and on Monday
they commenced leaving Murray's and
Dougherty's taverns at whose houses
the meetings of the organization were
held. Parftt states that when young
Carroll was killed he kept the watch
man on the railroad engaged in conver-
sation until after the fast line had pas
sed the point where the body was to be
placed on the track. Whiielaw is the
only one under arrest, and the evidence
against him for arson Is very strong.
MONTPELIER, Feb. 27.-G. w. Stran
ahan, Jr., of Waterbury, Vt, last
evening attempted to shoot Miss
Demman, of that place, firing three
shots at her, one ball striking her
belt and glancing off. She escaped
by fleeing into closet. through the
door of which two of the shots were
fired. Stranahan then shot himself,
but the wound is not dangerous.
jealousy is alleged to have been the
cause of the shooting. Stranahan is
under arrest.
CLEVELAND, Feb. 27.-This after
noon the wife of J. II. A. Bone com
mitted suicide by drowning in Lake
Erie. She has been for years subject
to occasional fits of melancholy, when
she imagined herself burden to her
family and friends. She left home
for walk, and her bonnet was seen
on the lake shore by a passer, who
suspected suicide, and on examina-
tion saw her body N the water a few
feet from the shore. She leaves two
grown-up children and husband,
who has been for years on the edito-
rial staff of the Cleveland Herald.
She undoubtedly committed suicide
while temporarily insane.
PoTrsTowS, Feb. 27.-Paul Mar
quart, of Geigerstown, cut the arter-
les of both wrists yesterday morning,
thinking he would bleed to death.
Fsiling in this, he slashed the razor
across his throat, and death was the
result. His body was found in a
neighbor's barn late in the evening.
Deceased had considerable sum of
money in the defurct Reading Savings
Bank when it closed its doors, and
this loss SO preyed upon his mind as
to lead him, in all probability, to com
NIT the deed. Marquet was fifty
years old, and member of the Meth
odist Church.
KENSETr SQUARE, Pa, Feb. 81
Bayard Taylor, the newly appointed
Minister to Germany, arrived here
this evening, with his wifeand daugh-
ter, on visit TO his parents. At the
station he was met by committee,
who invited him to welcome in the
Borough Hall, which was filled to
overhowing with the people of the
surrounding neighborhood. After
the most hearty speeches of welcome
and congratulations, to which Mr..
Taylor responded, there was a ban
quet, in which one hundred people
participated.
HARTFORD, Conn, Feb. 2S.-A- j.
Bin, of Berlin, was bitten five weeks
ago by dog, from the effects of
which he died last night in great
agony. The doctors pronounce it a
case of hydrophobia- Seven other
persons were bitten by the same dog.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, Feb. 2S.- Com
modore d. Curtis, farmer, fifty years
old, was shot through the heart and
killed, at his house, near Mount Yer
non, Indiana, on Tuesday, by his step
son, aged thirteen. Curtis was try
ing to murder his wife, IN drunken
spree, and the boy got gun and
shot him.
WILMINGTON, Del, March Am
oil we'll, which III a couple of hours
yielded FIVE barrels,of petroleum, has
been discovered in this city. The dis
covery was made by Alexander Giles
pie while at work in his cellar digging
a we'll to take off surface water. The
oil is almost free from impurities, and
is Enthusiastically petroleum. The mat
ter has attracted a good deal of atten-
ton, and the flow of the oil, which at
present shows no signs of stopping, is
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