Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-11-12
GENERAL ITEMS.

luz Catuc uistese Is mahiue na'oo
with the cows in Putnam conuty, New
York. About one hundred and forty
cows affected with the plague have had
to be killed.
An anchor lost BY one of Christopher
Columbus ships, of Trinidad, on the
4th of August, 1893, has been found
again. 1t was dug out of land made
by the natura! action of the water.
A remarkable accident is thus de-
spatched from Red Bank, n. j.,
About dusk ON the 5th inst, Samuel
Hendrickson, a we'll known citizen OF
Howell, was driving home with his
wife and with valuable team wher at
the South street crossing of the Free
hold aud Jamesburg and the Freehold
railroad, the wagon was struck by a
gravel train aud demolished and Mr.
and Mrs. Hendrickson thrown sense
less ten feet from the track. The
horses dashed through the Free
hold streets, and coming in contact
with another team one horse of each
team was killed. Mr.. HeDdrickson's
injuries are pronounced fatal and his
wife's recovery is doubtful. There Is
no fagman OF signal at the South street
crossing sud the people are indignant
at this careiessness.
The Arkansas river Is entirely dry
at the s'Big Bend" in the Indian Ter
ritory- a thing never known before.
The corn crop in portions of the terri
tory is very short and much suffering
is anticipated.
A young man named Lester Bartlett
recently sold out his business in Ran
doiph n. Y and then reported that he
had been robbed. His creditors had
him arrested and searched on Tuesday
evening, when the money was found In
his possession. He then committed
suicide by shooting himself through the
head.
james H. Mitchell, of Hancock,
S. c., made this year on two-mule
farm Is bales of cotton, 500 bushels
of corn, 500 bushels of pototoes, 17t
gallons of syrup and other farm pro
ducts in proportion.
At Henrietta, a village near Ro-
chester, New YorS, two cliques of rel
atIves claimed the body OF gentleman
who had died and the corpse was finally
taken by force from one coffin and p lac :
ed in another and carried off to differ
ent cemetery from the one at first des
ignated as the place of burial.
The quickest way to expel' foul air
from well is to heat a bar of iron red
hot, and lower it down into the water,
the sudden formation OF steam is effec-
ual
Some Jersey City boys teased an
Italian street musician. The dark
skinned son of sunny Italy lost what
little temper he had, and threw stones,
one of which struck deacon's son. se-
verely if not fatally injuriDg him.
Moral-boys, let Italian musicians
alone
Major Reno again comes before the
public IN the following despatch from
St. Paul Mimi, under date OF the 4th
inst, The despatch says: The charges
preferred BY Gen. Sturges against Ma
jor Reno, of the Seventh cavalry, We're
received at department head quarters
this afternoon, and General Terry has
I detailed court martial to sit at Fort
/ Meade for Reno's trial on the 9th
INST The charges are based on Reno's
having been drunk a week ago last
/ FRIDAY, in which condition he acted in-
/ decently In the presence Of lady and
had fight in consequence. Also that
be acted indecentiy while intoxicated
and wound up with a fight at the
officers club room with Surgeon Brew
er. Reno is said to haze been worst
ed in both fights.
General Grant was not hanged in
effigy by Dennis Kearneys hOodlums,
tut he was hit on the back of the
head with an egg while making a
speech at Quincy, Illinois, on the
night after the election. The St.
| Louis Globe Democrats account runs
thus: just as General Grant began
talking something struck him on the
back of the head, which proved 20 be
an egg, but not a rotten one. The
ruffians threw from behind The
crowd did not at first understand the
nature of the trouble. But when
they did they became infuriated The
culprits had either escaped or min
gled in the throng. The Mayor, who
was in the car, at once came out and,
on the part of the city, offered $500
reward for the apprehension of the
perpetrator. Three eggs were thrown,
two of them overshooting the mark
and striking persons in the crowd.
General Grant was very indignant at
the outrage, but assured the commit
tee that he did not lay any blame to
Galesburg or its people that it sim
ply was evidence that roughs exist
everywhere. MIR. Price stated that
he hoped the villains would be cap
tured, but was glad that they were
not found last night, as nothing
could have prevented lynching. The
people of Galesburg are fearfully
worked up over the affair and feel the
disgrace keenly."
\ Kansas City dispatch of Friday
night says: About one o'clock thi-
afternoon one OF the most terrible ac-
citents, resulting in a disastrous fire
and loss of life, occurred at the cornor
of Maine and Second streets, IN this
city. The premises were occupied BY
J. f. Corle & Son as Wholesale man
uiactory of crackers AID candy, who
employed about two hundred hands,
mostly girls and boys At the hour
above mentioned, as the employees we're
returning to their work from dinner,
the wall between Nos 202 and 206 fell
with terrible crash, carrying with i,
Nos. 202, 204 and 206, and burying in
the wreck over 100 persons. A panic