Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-09-17
STATE ITEMS.

vanccd In all the markets OF the State.
The visitors to Gettysburg battle
field embrace people from all parts OF
tie world.
\ new rolling mill is being built at
Beaver Falls, the frs; III the State
this year.
Wm. Mills, colored, of Bellefonte,
served on the grand jury week before
last, and the first person Of color that .
ever served oD grand jury in that
county.
\ glrl named Eliza Burns, aged sew
euteou years, residing at Mechanics
vile, suburb Of PottsvIile attempted
suicide last evening by taking au ounce
OF laudauum. For some ume pas. .Ae
has been laboriug under religions mel
aneholy, her special mania beng an in-
ordinate desire TO 20 to heaven, and has
tasted for month, scarcely tasting food
during that time Bat little hope Is
entertained for ber recovery.
Daniel Brydhead, convicted Of rob
berry at the late term OF the Iioga
County Courts and confined III Jail at
Wellsbpro awaiting transportation to
the Penltentlary, made desperate as
sau,t upon his keeper last Saturday
week The keeper was twice Knocked
down with a club, but succeeded IN
tiuaily overPoweEIng the prisoner.
Anthony Mullane. an Erie bully re-
Gently assaulted an old man named
Michael Henry, beating him very bad
ly. a day or two after John Henry,
a son OF Michael, encountered Mui!ane,
for whom he had been watching, aud
gave him a thrashlng, the effects OF
which were so terrible that Mullane
had TO carried home on shutter.
The most romantic kiud of a marriage
has recently taken place ia PIttsbure
The daughter of a wealthy iron mer-
chant engaged herself to young artist
whose mother. widow, Is very wealthy
The young lady, il order to marry the
artist. was compelled to bid farewell to
her home forever, and was married at
the home of her mother-ln law, receiv-
ing valuable presents, and will here
alter reside IN New York.
John hiBkaId, of Allentown. was
Treasurer of Lehigh Lodge. No. g., In
dependent Order Of Red Men, in 1871
IS -. lie gave bond for the year
1874, but not after that time. He had
all the funds OF the society in bis pos
session in May 1879, amounting 70 be-
tween 500 and $500. As 1t was a
beneficial society, funds WIRE needed
al various times to nay sick members.
Knkaid was urged to pay over the
'unds IN has keeping to the trustees,
which, from January lst, 1879, he
promised to do. In May the lodge
took actiou 70 secure the funds. and IN
formed Kinkaid. who said that the mon
ev had been loaned olt, but that he
would pay it on the 10Th Of May. Fall'
ing to nav on that 1av, he was removed
by vote of the lodge. He said his
house had been robbed of S310 by a
thief while the family we're absent, bu'
the lodge had him arrested for embez
element The difficulty in the case Wa!
a. to whether he could be convicted
the lodge not being Incorporated and a
secret society, and not 4 public com
: pany. The court took the view the. !
was not public company, but left tht
case to the jury who very quickly re
; turned a verdict of guilty. n ne7
trial was granted.
A dispatch from Lebanon on FRIDAY
, said Particulars have been receive,
of brutal outrage, perpetrated on th
person of Mrs. Mary Nagle, liyiny
1 near ReinhOidsville, a station on tn
Reading and Columbia railroad, abou
ten miles from Reading. The facts ar
as follows During the early part o
/ Wednesday evening Mrs. Nag!e wa
sitting at a window in one of the lowe
n rooms, sewing, when violent kuoeI
was made on the door by some peraOl
from the outside. In response to
question as to who was there iie part
r continued hammering at the door, dc
manding admittance. The now thor
n oughlv frightened woman, who wa
A alone in the house, saw from the win
, dow that it was big, burly tramp sh
. had to deal with, She then tried {
a barricade the door, but the man prove
too strong and determined. In a fe'
r,omet;.S he had battered the doc
and ,b,s e,,sr.nd an entrance. Ii
. then demanded what money tnerS wa
!. in the house, and when told there wa
/ none be became more persistent IN hi
d demands, and finally the big brut
4 struck the defenceless woman severa
. severe blows over the head. Telling he
!, 10 the floor IN an insensi5le condition
? He then bound aud gagged her wit
IS ropes, aud taking tallow dup ransacke
% the house from top to bottom, securin
,s as his booty about $50 in gold and siI
yer, after which be decamped. Befor
,f doing so, however, be emptled sever;
Al buckets of water over the woman an
N also left all of the doors in the hous
10 standing ajar The victim os the ou
to rage was not discovered until SON
D. time after, when some neighbOrs WEI
ia passing the house and, seeing the doOl
m open, went to investigate the oaus,
when the woman was found stlil uucor
scious. Medical aid was summone,
when il was found that the woman W.
70 severely but not fatally hurt, her beac
~ arms and body being literally cOvere
a with bruises There is great excit,
meut in the neighborhOod over ii
!, affair, and party are out searching ii
=. country for the villain. He is descri
~ ed as being about forty years of az
: aud wore dark suit of clothes. Ii
- is caught he will be soughly handled