Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-11-26
STATE ITEMS.
Body snatchers have been operating
in the yicipify of Pltisbur0


in the vicinity OF Pit,sburg.
Near Oil Cit, there is family of
children, ten in number, seven of whom
lave extra toes or fingers. The extra
numbsr appears 81 the side. and some
Of them have been amputated.
No set of men are so superstitious as
coal miners. They see a ghost much
sooner than q sailor can, and in conse
Quence of this vision Dunbcr Of vii.
lagos 10 Sohuylkill county are now in a
panic caused BY pranks of as many
ghosts, and they ure all, according to
accounts, real spirits.
There is a spiritualistic club in Tit
usviile that gives dance every week.
Wells are drying up all over Berks
county, aud the mines IN Schuy kill
county are seriously inconvenienced BY
want of water.
August Kaiser, a Milford merchant
IS wanted. but has not been seen for a
week. HIS real estate is mortgaged
for its fell value, and he owes all
around town.
A tract of land twenty-five acres IN
extent has been selected at Ashland
for the Miners Hospital. Twenty
three acres belonged TO the Reading
roal and Iron Company, the remainder
being given by Mr.. r. C. Wilson, Of
Ashland.
A miner lighted fuse at the bot
tom of Leadville shaft, got into The
bucket aud shouted TO The man at the
top to hoist. The rope broke wher be
bad been raised fifty feet and let him
fail The blast exploded and he was
torn to pieces in the air.
A gunnIng party in Chester county
returned with about 100 rabbits, 1
pheasants, lS paruidges, l opossum
aud squirrel, making a total of l22
The farmers say there are about two
gunners out to every "cottOn-tail
A colony being formed at Laceyville
Wyoming county, are contemplating
emigrating to Kansas.
Duck shooting by moonlight is the
favorIte amusement with Eiston gun
ners on the Delaware.
T. Z. Espy, of Rummers6eld Brad
ford county, speared yellow bass in
the river at that place on Monday
evening week that weighed Is pounds
and 10 ounces.
Allentown has a boot black 81 year
old, who is the ,pfight!iest boy among
them all.
John Miller, a farm laborer, was
found dead in the woods near GIlberts-
town, Montgomery county on Wednes-
day afternoon. He had committed
suicide by shooting himself.
4 son of Mr Walter Kieffer, of the
Lancaster NeD Era died on Tuesday
with Giphtheria. This makes the fifth
child Mr. Kieffer has lost from the
same disease IN less than one month.
The body Of q nTu, found dead in
Cameron's woods, near Harrisburg on
Tuesday afternoon, has been recogniz
ed as that Of q soapmaker named Keri-
elmer of Harrisburg, who had become
snd committed ssieide. He leaves q
family.
A eovey Of partridees on the farm Of
Samuel Garner, who lives near Har-
monyville, Chester county, were fright
.ued by hawk few days since, when
they few against barn with such
force that they were all instantly
killed.
Silas Gray, who is row ia the West
ern Peui,eu,isrJ from Westmoreland
county for horse stealing, when his
term expires he will be tried for the
murder of Mary McCrcady. of Green's
burg, in 1878. She disappeared sud
denly and some time afterward what
was supposed to be her skull was
found, and that was the only portion
of the body ever discovered.
Henry Werstler, farmer, who lives
near Giibertville, Montgomery, found
the dead body of man in passing
through piece of woods on his farm
on Wednesday afternoon. The body
was deeomposed and psrtly covered
With leaves. 1t proved to be that Of
John Miller, who until the 9th inst.
bad been in the employ of Lewis Huff
man, Of Douglass township, but who
disappeared on that day. 81 the bodJ
was found revolver with four cham
bers empty At the post mortem exam
ihation bullet was taken from the
spine and another from the left lang.
Miller had been drinking hard for sev
erai days prior to the 5rh He served
with credit as cavalryman in the
Union army during the war