Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-12-17
STATE ITEMS.

ine fennsyivania railr Dad company
employs 100000 people on ell its line,
and branches.
Thirteen boys were before an alder.
man In Erie the other day for sroniDg
railroad trains.
The fool killer is needed in Altoona.
A fellow up there drew his back pen
sion money, went on drunk aud was
robbed
Franklin Shaub while riding on the
bumper of a car on the Pennsylvania
railroad, near Lancaster, on Saturday
a week, was thrown off aud instantly
killed.
Pennsylvania has 500 postofices ;
900 more than New York, and | 200
more than Ohio tie two States which
rank next.
August Weganest. aged Is years Of
Terre Haute, Indiana, was killed in the
Harrisburg yard Monday morning a
week By being struck by shifting en-
gine.
A dises.e of the throat has been yery
fatal among poultry in the northern part
of the State, In Butler county it was
especially prevalent.
Mr.. Calvin Detrick, of Pittsop, has
taken out letters patent for a prepars-
iion of artificial fuel, composed of coal
eulm.
The Newport Perry county, Ledger
report that recently there assembled in
Oliver township, that county, at the
residence of Mr. Nicholas Millers, five
maiden sisters. ranging IN age from
sixty seven to eighty years
Judge Cummin, at the late session of
the Lycoming county court in Williams
port, sentenced Mrs. Stein, who had
been convicted of keeping a bswdy
house, to Sl00 and two years. solitary
confinement IN the Eastern Peui,en-
tiary
Miss Wren, of Tarport, Mexican
county. a girl attractive in personsl
and mental charms, trifed with the at
fections of a saloonkeeper named Dali
madge, who sought satisfaction in cold
poison. The suction of a stomach
pump saved him.
Mrs. Hulsey, Of Pottsville. has been
arrested aud put under bail for throw
ing boiling hot coffee over seven-year-
old daughter, who had offended her. 1t
was proved at the hearing that the
child has been frequently beaten in the
most brutal manner by her mother.
A farmer of French Creek township.
Mercer county, had fifteen sheep killed
bv dogs. The appraisers awarded him
Sis damages The commissioners re-
fused to pay it on the ground that at
the time the sheep were killed the far
mer owned dog which he had never
returned TO the assessors. The matter
was appealed to Court, and the Court
sustained the commissioners.
On Monday a week Messrs. Stage
Il Norris, of ClearGeld, buchered
COW, in the stomach aud throat of which
they found one small sea she'll, two .
knitting needles, four hair pins, and
FIVE ten penny nails. The sea-sheii had
lodged on one of the knitting needles
which had stuck in the throat, aud some
of the nails were protrudiDg through
the stomach
Julia Hoover was committed to jail !
at Lancaster on Saturday for trial Oh
the chtrge of murder She is suppos- |
ed to have poisoned her infant sister, at
Ephrata, by putting arsenic in cracker |
SOUP. At the hearing Professor 7. Il. |
B.se-, professor of chemistry at Mil /
ersvIlle State Normal School, testified |
that he found arsenic IN the stomach
Jefferson + pier miraculously escaped |
death IN the South Sixth stree; tannery /
a: Reading on FRIDAY. While oiIing |
the shaitlng his coat caught and bis
body was phiried round and round with |
great velocity. He bad the presence
of mind to cling to the shaft, and
though his head passed within three
inches Of brick wall at every revolu
rion be kept 1t from touching and saved
his life. As il was, two OF his ribs 1
were broken and the knee caps o! both
legs were knocked out of their sockets. /
He was completely stripped OF clothing |
Adam Roche, fifteen years cd, o.u
ployed at the Continental mine at
Scranton, lett Taylorville, two miles
from here. on Saturday on horseback,
with bottle of vi,rlol, in his pocket.
GA the way the bottle broke in his pock-
ct and ate through his clothing to the
flesh. His outcries freightened the
horse, which dashed wildly along the
road, aud the boy was thrown violently /
to the ground. The horse went to the
mine. Search was instituted for young
Roche, and he was found dead beneath
a tree, with his clothing torn off and
his face, hands and leg badly burned.
lie lay curled up at the foot of the
tree where he mad evidently been thrown
by the horse aud fingered in agony uu
I'll he died from the effects of his fall.
VIM. Lattia, of Dagget's Mills, on the
northern border of this State, hanged
himself to tree in the woods and
when found tho lower portions OF the
body had been torn away by wild cats
and dogs! The startling discovery was
made by some hunters rambling for
game in the dense forest They were
stricken with fear as they saw the fcs-
tering remains hanging from the tree,
and looking like scare-crow, LATIN
left his home early in the fail. He
said when he went away that be was
going "to hang himself" He cut a
piece of new clothes line. which he said
be was going to use for the jpb. THIS
he took with him; also some pipes, to
bacco and loaf of bread. Hi. threat
at the time was regarded as an idle one
and no search was made for him by his
neighbors tie never return d hower
and the half rotten body is all that is
left of him.