Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-02-20
STATE ITEMS.

Miss. Anna Strasbough' aged tweni-
ty three; at Lancaster, Monday night,
was burned to death by the explosion
of coal lamp.
The body of Mrs Jane Pittman, who
died in cincinnati on Monday, q week,
was conveyed to Washington, pa, was
cremated by DIR. Lemoyne, last Friday,
IN accordance with her own wishes ex.
pressed IN her written will.
On Monday night week says the
Mechanicsburg Independent Journal,
burglars forced an entrance into the
dry goods store of George W. Buttorff,
on West Main street, by boring around
the lock and removing it, and carried
away large lot, in fact all the valua-
BILE goods in the store, in the lace and
ribbon line. besides all the kid gloves
and satchels. Loss about 5000.
The residents of Atchinson county,
Kansas, natives of the old Keysto tone
State, will hold a Pennsylvania reun-
ion at Leu's Hall, in the city of Atchin-
son On Friday February %.
An unfortunate case of insanity is
reported from South Wilkesbarre, Pa.
Wm- Whiteman, young man about
seventeen years of age, who had for
sometime been lsboriDg under great
religious excitement, convinced that
his right hand; 'offended" him (taving
been brooding over the scriptural in
functions, ''if thine eye offend thee,
pluck it out''-"if thy right hand of
fend thee, cut it off, and going alone
into closet, with butcher knife he
proceeded to amputate the offending
member. Before discovered, be had
taken off the thumb and two fingers
Glendale, Cambria county, is the
home of thirteen year old boy who
weighs l70 pounds and measures 6 feet
and 3 inches in height.
According TO the Altoona Tribune
the total number of men employed on
the main line OF the Pennsylvania Rail
road and its branches at this date is
1885, as follows: Nam line-Phila-
delphia to Pittsburg-ll, 1866; branch
es, 1929
The citizens of Sunbury had a con
ferene a day or tive ago and decided to
urge Sudbury as the proper place for
for the new Pepitentiary.
On the farm William NcCollister, in
Chester county, a vein of gold has been
discovered. The owner refused $780,
OCO for bis property.
BY some unaccountable mistake, at
a recent wedding at Williamsport, Pa,
the bridesmaid was married in place of
the intended bride.
The Potter Journal says John Pers
ing, of W. est Branch, IS years old, has
cut ten cords of wood this winter
Besides thrashing several hundred
bushels of grain.
la Berks county three school boys had
a dispute as to which of them had the
hardest skull. One of the boys knock
ed the heads of the others together,
and one has died from the effects of the
collision.
James Crabb, of Williamsburg,
Blair county, had one of his arms
caught in tbreshing machine on the
18th ult, aud the flesh was badly torn.
He refused to have the arm snputated,
and was seized with lockjaw, from
which be dieG.
While sitting in front of a wood fire
in Washington county the clothing of
Miss Rebecca M'Conbs was wrapped
in flames. and she was fatally burned.
The Richmond, which sailed for
Brazil on Thursday from Philadelphia,
has 40 cabin passengers and 500 la
borers.
Last year two cows in Lawrence
county yielded their owner Sl3l 80 in
butter-659 pounds.