Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-03-19
STATE ITEMS.

No tramp eats meal in the Cbes-
ter county jail or alnsbouse without
having first earned 1t.
The first barn struck by lightning
this year was that of Charles Miller, in
Berks county. The building was en-
tirely destroyed.
The taxpayers association Of Concord
Delaware county, unanimously oppose
any further appropriation to Normal
school.
Lycoming county has sent 2S6 pris-
oners to the Eastern Penitentiary since
the establishment of that Institution in
1929. Of this number "a have been
pardoned--a percentage OF 8 80.
The religious revivals in Armstrong
county are the most successful ever
had in that part of the State. Over
three hundred persons joined the diff
erent churches in January.
JOSIAH Higley, of Clarion county,
was killed by lightning Sunday night
He was recently convicted Of adultery.
and was to have been sentenced on
Monday.
Governor Hoyt decided to reprieve
Hezekiah Shaffvr, the Franklin county
murderer, until April IL.
An extensive soap factory has been
started in Lewisburg.
Female pickpocke,s are very expert
and successful in Philadelphia.
William P. Sieg for thirty years an
enploye of the Pennsylvania Railroad
at Harrisburg, died on Wednesday
night.
A brave little girl was left alone in
store IN Altoona while her father
went to dinner. An olu man came in
aud made an assault upon her wher
she escaped from his clutches and fell
ed him to the floor with an iron weight.
She then locked him In and ran home
and told her parents.
The body Of an unknown young man
with the initials "R. NJ. B." on the
right arm, was found on Wednesday
near Mill Creek, Montgomery county,
on the line of the Philadelphia and
Reading Railroad.
John HOrner, who resides on top oI
the mountain between Bellefonte and
Centre Hall, has killed fourteen foxes
this season.
William NJ. Rutherford, of Oxford
who was oonvalescent from a severe
spell of pneumonia, dropped dead OIL
Sunday morning while going to tbs
breakfast table.
bile the Rev. Mr. Gilbert, of Nor
risville, was preaching the sermon a,
the funeral of young Stephen Ander-
son, be fell back in the pulpit, insensi.
BILE.
John Michael Ribholtz, of Reading,
was one hundred years old on Wednes.
Gay, when a grand reunion of his fam
lily was held at his residence.
A little girl IN Lewistcwn is report
ed to have committed the entire New
Testament to memory. Thus she has
it, line upon line, precePt upon pre-
cept.
j. c. Lomiller, blind man, arrest
eG for larceny of watches in Wilkes
barre, though dressed in ragged cloth
es. ha6 one thousand dollars in his
pockets aud bank book showing de-
posits os twenty-five hundred dollars
He sells prize packages and stationery
He says he bought the watches, not
knowing they were stolen. He left bis
money with the alderman as bail. .
The boriugs on the Woodward prop
erty at Kingston, Luzerne county, has
shown tha. at depth of $50 Feet an
aggregate of ninety-one feet Of Goa. has
been found in the different veins e?-
countered.
The manufacture of fine skins for
gloves will be feature with some of
the leather factories of Reading here
after.
The trial Of Joseph Stodd, in Schuyl-
kill county, for the murder of his wife,
Mary Stodd, was brought to close for
the present, on Tuesday a week, be
cause of the condition OF one of the
jurors, who was Frustrated by home
sickness and terror at being placed in
such position.
A terrible explosion occurred last
Thursday afternoon at the Mahoning
Powder Works of p. NJ Gallagher {
Co., near Danville, completely destroy
ing the building and instantly killing
Willis Lloyd lone of the proprietorsj j,
John j. Exams and John c. Mowrer,
their maDgled remains being scattered
in every direction. The cause of the
explosion is unknown.
In trivial case returned for trial
in the Scbuy kill county court, the
jury returned verdict of s:not guilty."
with this addition: 'The jury unani-
mous.y regret that they cannot compel
the committing magistrate to pay the
costs"
A special dispatch from Red Rock,
Pa says: "At about FIVE O'Clock Sat-
urday afternoon an unknown man ,evi-
GENTLY intoxicated, staggered through
the streets, carrying cn his shoulders
bag containing eight quart cans of
ui,ro-glycerine. Fifteen minutes later
the town was shaken aud the inhabitants
terribly frightened By a most terrific
explosion. Investigation revealed the
fact that the man had slipped down
causing the explosion, which scattered
fragments of his body in every direc-
tion."
Intelligence from Wellingford under
date of the llth inst saws; Charles
Hill, the young man who set fire to a
neighbours barn, entirely destroying it,
on the night of February IA, was sem
fenced on Saturday evening last to pay
a fine of $500, the cost of prosecution
and undergo an Imprisonment in seper-
ate confinement at hard labor in the
Eastern Penitentiary for ten years.
Hill, and his reighbor, Thomas Bar
clay, attended party on the evening
of the burning. They had dispute,
the latter coming off victorious, and
Hill, for revenge, set the barn on FIRE.
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