Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1878-04-24
STATE ITEMS.

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There is general re vivai amotH the
iron works of Tamsqus.
A smsff child in Beaver county q few
days ago drank concentrated lys aud
died from the effects.
Stobers the paper manufacturer of
Lancaster county, pays bis employees
IN gold.
The switches Of the Pennsylvania
Railroad at East Liberty station will
be worked BY electricity hereafter.
1t is notable fsct that deer are fsst
disappearing from their old clicks"
in the Allegheny mountains.
A Mercer county horse caught its
head between the end of its stall and
the wall of the barn and tore its lower
jaw off
President Hayes is expected to be
present At the Centennial commemora-
ton Of the Wyoming massacre on the
Fourth Of July.
There are said to be in this State
about $50 pensioners of the war of 1912,
most of whom live in Delaware, Ches-
Ter Montgomery and Bucks counties.
A monumental fountain, in memory
of the soldiers who fell in defence of
the Union is TO be erected in Cham.
bersburg By the ladies of Franklin
county.
The jury in the Pickering Valley
railroad disaster, which occurred in
October last, have sued the county for
their fees.
Lehigh Presbytery embraces forty
six churches in the counties of Bsrks,
Carbon, Lehigh, Northampton, Monroe
and portion of LuzerIe.
There are large quantities of cut logs
in Clear6eld county, which were not
sent to the lumber mills because the
price is too low to warrant the expense.
A head of rye, grown in Berks coun-
ty this season, was sent to the Reading
Times office The other day. This Is the
earliest rye in the Middle States.
1t isl notable fact that drinking is
extensively INDUCED in by the women
in the mining regions, the wives Of min
ers, as a :ule, being given to intoxica-
ton.
A member of the Mollie Maguires
was arrested on Saturday a week while
quietly engaged in . savuill at Osceola
charged with participating in several
murders.
A body stolen from the Almshouse
burying ground of Erie has been trac-
ed by the police to the medical college
at Ann Arbor, Michigan, and returned
thence to Erie to the college named.
Four boys under ten years of age
were arraigned IN Pittsburg On s,.ur-
day week for picking pockets, and
had . number of silk handksrchiefs
which we're identified as stolen prop
erty.
Within the past year Pittsburg has
had 900 cases of diptheria, of which
400 we're fatal. The disease is at
tributed to the defective sewerage
system of the place.
The Executive Committee of the
Pennsylvania Editorial Association met
at Harrisburg on the 18th and decided
to take their summer excursion to
Cresson Springs 18th Of June.
There is hog trough one hundred
and eleven feet in length on the farm
Of John NJ. Rupp, in Hsmdsn township
Cumberland county. 1t va. hswn
out Of ono pine log, and has been in
use about sixty years.
John Acton, Mollie Mcguire, was
arrested at Osceola Mills on Saturday
a week charged with being implicated
with McNanus and O'Nei.l, arrested
at Shamokiu for completely in the muir
der OF Frederick hesser at that place
in 1874.
AT an Allentown funeral recently a
joist In the house of mourning gave
way with loud crack, creating quite
. panic. When the coffin was placed
in the hesrse the horses refused to pull
aud the body had to be carried to the
church.
A COW died last week for Mr.. Hoke,
at New Paradise York county. A
pound, or moro Of nails were found in
her stomach. Crates had been burned
and the ashes and small nails therefrom
were thrown out, and licked by the
COW.
The Election Committee of the
House, At Harrisburg, adopted . report
giving the seat now held by Mr.. Fell
thoff, Democrat, of Schuylkill to bis
competitor Mr.. Fowler, Republican, on
the ground that sufficient illegal votes
were cast for the sitting member to
render his election void.
John Kelly, an employee of the
Pennsylvanis railroad, tried to commi,
suicide few nights ago At Pittsburg.
The muzzle of . pistol WAS placed
against his head, and the contents Of
the weapon exploded, but the ball
glanced downward instead Of passing
through bis brains.
A tramp on crossing Tussey's noun
on last saturday came in contact with
. she bear and three cubs. He drove
the old bear of and captured two Of
the cubs . male and female, climbing
tree to capture one of them. He
ssys he could have captured the three,
but be could not carry them all. He
took bis spuils to Cove Station and
sold them to John T. Shirley, of that
place, for the small sum Of six dollari
The young ones are doing we'll IN their
new home and under new care and pro.
tection. They live on milk.-.1lfoona
Tribune.
At Pittsburg, on Monday night q
week Mrs Holmes wife Of policeman,
and Mrs. Dougherty, sister, started
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