Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-28
GENERAL ITEMS.

GENERAL ITEMS.
Many Vassar girls are serving as
walters in the white Mountains.
Samuel Armstrong. wealthy young
farmer living near London, Ohio, was
shot while asleep in his bed on We'd
nesday night. No clue to the mur-
derer.
The powder mills near Negauncee,
Mich, exploded on Wednesday, killing
four employees Huber, Brown, Cooper
and one whose name is unknown.
Forty turkeys were poisoned in
Chester county by eating potato vines
which had been sprinkled with Paris
green to destroy the bugs.
TIE Bell Bennett wedding will take
place at Newport about the middle of
next month. Cardinal McCloskey will
/ oficia.e.
Minnesota is engaging 10 frog culture,
which consists chiefly in protecting the
eggs and young from their enemies by
wire screens. The product so far has
been about 5000 dozen legs quoted IN
s.. Louis at 20 cents dozen.
The Scientific .4mer,oan states that
half the vinegar now sold is rank poi
son. A Massachusetts, chemist ana
lyzed the pickles put up by twelve diff
ferent Wholesale dealers, and found
copper IN ten Of them.
Wooden pavements are not profitable
Williamsport, under Herdic's regime,
incurred a debt of 100000 for the
Nicholson patent pavement, which bad
to be relaId in about four years, aud is
now entirely worthless.
The cashier of the Pullman Palace
Car Company is Alfred Weinsheimer,
son of prominent merchant of Allen
town. He is very sorry now that be
gave Charles ANGEL. the secretary, two
checks for S25 600 each and took DO
vouchers for them.
Jimmy Clark, aged fourteen years,
son of John Clark, of Summit town
ship, Crawford county, left his home
two weeks ago, since which time his
family have heard no tidings of him.
Iowa is determined on stocking her
streams with fish, and the Fish Com
mission has sent to al mill owners plans
cf an inexpensive ishway for dams. If
hey are not put In during low water
this GUNNER, every mill owner will be
prosecuted ucder the State law.
A man FISH ing near the mouth Of the
Housatonic river hooked fine striped
bass, aud as he was haulins IN the prize
what was bis astonishme,.t to behold
large shark make dash for 1t and take
it, tackle and all. The shark mas eight
or nine feet long.
1t has been discovered By Minnesots /,
farmers that two acres of sunfowers
will supply family with fuel through a
long winter. The wood Of the stocks
and the oil of the seed make roaring
and cheerful fires.
A scandal has come out at Nantuck
ct, Mass, in which Miss Eliza Hous
ton, young lady Of sixteen, daughter
of Frank Ii. Houston, of Bedford, Pa,
who was attending school at the former
place, charges that last April, when A.
S. Mowrey's wife was abroad, he COM
mitted an outrageous assault upon her.
Mowrey is the proprietor Of the SPRING
field House, and Miss Houston was
placed in the care of the family.
Three men entered pawnbroker's
shop at Portland, Oregon, on Tuesday
morning week, disabled the proprie-
tor, and made off with all the valua bles
in the place An officer attempting to
arrest them, they fired two shots, one of
which killed boy of fourteen years.
The robbers then escaped into the tim
Der, and search was being made for
them. A later dispatch says a valise
containing all the jewelry has been re-
covered. The robbers are still at large
The pursuit is active.
The other day, Mrs Esther E. Chap
in, of Ludington, Mich, heard some
one trying to enter the house, and
without waking her invalid husband,
thc auu cutclcu tue
room where her children were sleeping
A man presently appeared at the win
dow of the room not six feet from her =
aud raised his hand to lift up the sash,
when she shot bullet straight through
his heart. He ran some steps before
be dropped.
A way freight train on the Marietta
and Cincinatti Railroad struck a horse
on Wednesday night, causing the en-
gine and twenty eight cars to leave
the track. The fireman and brakeman
were killed, and the engineer was Sc
verely bruised aud scalded.
Last year the National Labor Green.
back party elected Eve out of seven As
semblymen in Louisville, KY. This
year they didn't elect any, only poll
ing for their most popular candidate
LOO votes out of $4,000. Tried and
found wanting.
Near Shenandoah on the 14th, at
the St. Nicholas colliery, Jacob Wentz
and his son, aged about eighteen years,
we're working together in . breast,
when fall of coal occurred, completes
ly burrying them. The son was taken
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