Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-12-10
STATE ITEMS.


juries ou Saturday night. Portions OF
her body were crisped.
A gentleman from Altoona says that
there are now e@p.oyed IN the car
and machine shops at that place 3,3Oo
men, AMI that the pay rolls this month
will not be less than Sl4O,OOO. In
some departments work Is continued as
late as eleven o'clock IN the night.
A negro met his death IN the south
ern part of Erie cou0ty in very Pc
culiar manner. viz: He had stolen
hog and killed it, and in order to carry
it tied its feet together and put II
around his neck La climbing fence
lie slipped, the pig falling on one side
an be on the other, breaking his neck.
la LeRovsville, Indiana county,
while a workman was repairing a roof,
he threw a nail to the sidewalk, which
struck Mr.. }. Z. Roseworth in the eye
Instantly destroying the sight and
which the physicians say can never be
restored
A steam cansl boat is being con
structed for the Delaware and LehIgh
canal. New York has a standing pre-
mvm OF some thousands of dol .ars Tor
SUCCESSFUL steam canal navigation.
The largest possums ever trapped IN
Chester county are now caught there,
and sold in the Philadelphia market.
10 Meadville the two year old daugh-
ter of BenjI Spau ling was lnstan,-
lv killed by failing from a chair on a
pair of shears, which entered her throat
severing the jnglar vein.
Indiana county furnished Phiiadel-
phia with 1000 pounds of poultry for
thanksgiving use.
a party OF Clinton county hunters
bad fourteen deer strung mp IN the
woods at the head of Bakers run An
other party returned to Lock Haven
Thursday night week with nine deer.
Five students of Allegheny College
Meadville, have been suspended tor
hazing. The suspended ones and their
sympathizers went in procession through
the street OF Meadviile on " ednesday
preceded by brass band and carrying
banners bearing inscriptions the reverse
of complimentary to the faculty.
GA Thursday e'ening a week about
eight o'clock a stranger appeared at the
front of the house OF Mr.. Joseph KlInch
in Elenburg, and. fodIng the owner
was not in, bound aud gagged his wife.
lie then searched the house, but obtain
ed nothing. Mrs kliDch is badly in
jured.
Charles Newman, who had been
missing from Milford for more than a
year, and had been given up for dead,
returned home the other day TO find
that his purpose of letting his wife go to
the bad had been accomplished. He
found out her upfaithfulness, and soon
after be went away she became an
open prostitute
Henry Ammon, OF Cernarvon twp,
Lancaster county. was the owner of a
bull which he concluded to slaughter
in consequence of the ferocious char
acter OF the beast Daniel Buck. 81:
experienced butcher, Was engaged.
but when Mr. Buck stationed himself,
with rife in hand. to bring down the
animal. the bull made 4 sudden at
tack upon him. The butcher, how
ever, met the animal halfway with a
rifle ball. which struck the bull in the
head and felie1 HIM to the ground.
Before the knife could be procured
the infuriated animal rose and made
another attack on the butcher and
repeated these attacks three success
sive times, although receiving a rifle
bal through the head each time. The
animal was finally killed by well
directed blows from an axe.
The Altoona Tribune of the 3rd inst
says; Alexander Klilug and Martin
Turnbaugh. OF E!doraio, yesterday had
some business up Belts gap. They
took the tram IN this city and went
dowu to Belts Mills and from thence
went up the public road, where their
business called them. On returning ia
the afternoon what was their surprise
to fud Ave pronged bu;k and two
dogs in the middle of the highway, at
a point about one mile and half above
Bells Mills. engaged in severe fight
They Immediately went to the assist
auce Of the dogs, when the latter with
drew and left RIllng and Turnbaugh
TO fight the battle alone, while they
rested and enjoyed the tun. The deer
gave his new antagonists a heavy fight,
and at one time was likely to get the
mastery, tut they finally succeeded 10
throwing the deer down. Turnbaugh
then got out his penknife and managed
to cut the deer's throat. 1t weighed
100 pounds, and was brought up on
the mail train IN the evening. Mr.. Ri
ling took hold of the bucks mind legs
to assist in throwing him down, but it
was like taking hold of the hind legs OF
a mule. lie reckoned without his host.
The deer had been shot and wounded
perhaps one or two years ago in the
fore shoulder, which had healed up,
leaving one leg about six inches shorter
than the other. hiessrs RilIHg and
Turnbaugh are proud of their hard
bought victory over this fine specimen
of the feet footed tribe of the noun
:airs and well they may be. They are
both stout, rugged men, which was an
important factor in their success.
The Chambersburg bank robber and
forger of general repute, Ralph l.. RoI-
land, who is serving out lengthy SEN