Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-04-09
STATE ITEMS.

Ii requires about 100000 a month
to pay the corporation employees in
and around Reading.
George Dugan and Jacob Hausly,
two well known hucksters in Alien
town, have been arrested for larceny.
George a. Wiliiams, the ex Sheriff
of Armstrong county, was arrested at
Kiitannipg on the 22d ult.. by the
Deputy United States Marahal, on the
charge Of forging tie name Of his moth
er to pension papers. Williams is un-
der conviction tor having perjured
himself IN taking the oath of office at
ter having paid for number of votes
He claims that his mother knew the
pension was granted, and authorized
him to Draw it.
Henry T. Wagner, employed at Bull
lis Bros. mill, at State Line Mexican
county, was drowned in the mill pond
on Friday week. James Doyle is
charged with throwing him from
skiff during an altercataion, and a cor
oner's jury rendered verdict to that
effect Monday. At last accounts Doyle
had not been arrested
Martin Casey and John Stanton,
miners we're killed near Scranton on
Friday BY the falling in of roofs.
The champion snake-killer of Perm
sylvania is said to be MIR. Sam. Haslet,
of Tionesta, Fore,t county, who IN re-
cent encounter killed se,euty-hve, max
ing nearly fifteen hundred that he has
gotten away with in an existence %
thirty years. The Venango Spectator
recommends Mr.. Haslet as the cham.
pion.
The Titusville Herald says tina. Mr..
j. Z. 1mmel, living near that place,
has sent lumber raft down the river
containing 100000 feet of boards. 1t
is expected that the raft, which is $50
feet long and 6S feet wide, will be a !
month or more reaching Cincinnati, the
place of its destination.
DIR. James 6. Mccoy, of Florence,
Washington county, Democratic nom
inee for the Assembly last fall, has
brought suit against MIR. Patterson
Scott, prominent citizen of Hanover
township, in the same county, for
SANDER The amount Of damaCe is put |
at $4,000
The farmers Of franklin county are
raising large numbers of hogs for mark
ct and the quantity sent to Baltimore
this season has been enormously large.
On last Friday afternoon the body
of Isaac Helm, a one armed ex-soldier,
was found by Judge Wilmer floating
in the canal, in the vicinity of the
Judges residence. The unfortunate
man was in a canoe and bad started
out to set fish nets, when found his
bead was dragging in the water whilst
his legs were held in the boat by .
pole resting across his knees, the pole
having been used to propel the canoe.
The man vas subject to heart disease
and it is supposed that be had an attack
and fell into the canal.-Snyder county
Tribuae.
On a farm, near Lancaster, last Sum
day, during game Of base ball, a
young man named Frank Bryson threw
a ball playfully at Byron Clark,
him on the neck below the left
ear killing him instantly. An exam
nation showed that the lads neck was
broken.
The property of Udderzook's motber
is to be sold BY the Sheriff to satisfy
a mortgage for 5000 given by her to
raise money to defend her son. The
mortgagee is Udderzook's and Goss,s
mother in-law.
David Biting residing 10 Knights
Valley, Snyder county, on Wednesday
The 26th, ult. fell from the haymow and
]islocated his neck, causing instant
isath. So says the Middlsburg Post. i