Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-08-21
STATE ITEMS.

Test wells are being sunk in Cam
briA county by osl operators:
Berks comfy school teachers are
being reduced to sS3 per month.
A seven year daughter of hesry
Billing Reading, was severely gored
BY g COW, few days ago.
Henry Lay, Of Cornwall, Lebanon
county, fell from church, spire at
that place distance of Fifty feet, and
was fatally injured.
A swapping turtle weighing twenty
FIVE pounds was caught iu French creek
Chester county, last Tuesday.
Erie has about forty gas wells, which
furnish gas for Illuminating and heating.
There are over 900 uames attach
ed to the Murphy roll Vi honor in
Pittsburg.
Lackawanna county being an estab-
lished fact, being slised of from Lu-
zerne BY vote Of the people q few
days ago.
Two Pittsburg girls out driving kill
ed rattlesnake four feet long, bearing
thirteen rattles, by throwing stones
from the buggy.
A practical joker, caught in the act
Of pinning a piece Of paper on the coat
collar of an irate friend in Pottsville,
the other day, was repaid with pair
of bruised cheeks aud swollen eyes.
John McCutchen, an old constable
of Lancaster, who lived alone, was
found dead in his bed on Thursday
morning. 1t IS believed he has been
dead several days, and that be commit
ted suicide.
A Pittsburg dispatch says that At
Canonsburg, Washington county, on the
18th, respectable young man named
McNutt was shot through the heart by
a wealthy farmer named Tannehill, in
whose orchard he lad stopped to eat
some peaches
The Commissioners Of Montgomery
county. like those of Lancaster county
have decided not to pay the costs of
commitments Of ride stealers on the
railroads. These bills already amount
to over $500, and they will not be set
tied unless suit is brought and the
court decides that they must be paid.
Governor Hartranft has issued re-
QUESTION on the Governor Of Michigan
for Jonathan Meyer, charged with
being an accomplice in the murder of
the Kintzler family in Snyder county
last winter.
At Sunbury the jury in the case
of Peter McMsnus, Molly Mcguire,
on trial for the murder of Coroner
Hesser at Shanokin in December,
1874, returned q verdict Of guilty of
murder in the first degree John
O'Neill, an accomplice in the crime,
will be tried next for the same offence.
Mrs. Stroll, a lady seventy-6ve
years old, living in suburb of Potts
town, awoke Sunday morning and
found a man had her by the arms. She
screamed, when assistance came, and
after a smart fight her grandson captur-
ed the rufian, who proved to be Ben.
jamin Oyster. He was locked up for
appearance at court.
Hayes Grier and a number of
others attempted to go to fire near
Columbia, the other day, by riding to
the locality on a passing freight traiI.
The entire party were arrested under
the tramp law, forbiddiDg trespassing
on railroads, aud were fined. Hayes
now loudly calls for the repeal Of the
law.
A Reading Pa. despatch says: The
society of the Knights of Labor is said
to comprise SOC, 900 members aud to
WELD a tremendous influence in the
matter of strikes. 1t is bound together
by an oath Its recent rapid growth
has now made the secret Of its e1is-
tence an impossiblity.
Five prisoners escaped from the
Poughkeersie N. Y. Jail on Friday
afternoon by melting ths solder which
fastened the iron bars in the jail win
dow. The feat was accomplished in
broad daylight and the fugirives got
fifteen minutes start of their pursuers.
None have been recsptured. One is
a negro, aud all we're awaiting the ac-
tion of the Grand Jury on various
charges.