Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-04-30
STATE ITEMS.


caster on Saturday, from the effects of
fall talked and walked several hours
with his neck broken.
The number of fruit trees in Berks
county are rapidly being increased.
Nearly ten thousand have recently
been set out near Fritztown, in that
county.
A prisoner confined at Lancaster ran
his head through the bars on Saturday
and, unable to withdraw it called for
help three hours before be was heard
He was nearly dead when rescued.
John ID. Callahan and Joe Hook,
two notorious characters in Pittsburg
met in saloon of that place on Sun
day night, and during fight between
them the former was dangerously stab
bed with a carving knife.
Mexican county, since its organiza
tion, seventy FIVE years ago, has had
but one hanging, and that was man
named Timothy Robbins, residing with
iu four miles of Smethport, who muir
dered his wife BY putting arsenic in
her food. Therefore, when the SEN
tence passed upon Andy Tracey, at
Smethport, few days since, for mur-
dering bis cousin because OF her refus-
al to marry bin, is carried out, it will
be the second event of the kind for Nc
kean county.
Miss Warner, of Cartiers township,
Allegheny county, lay dreaming, at the
hour Of midnight, when her beau, his
knee in suplisnce bent, should ask her
hand She awoke and found a man
standing at the foot o. her bed She
made no outcry, but, with the determin-
alton OF woman thoroughly IN earnest
took 81 caliore horse-pistol from uu-
der the pillow and commenced to blaze
away. The intruder went out of the
window taking part of the sash with
HIN, and Miss Warner turned On her
side aud finished out the nap.
As three children of Oliver Stout
we're going to bed, in Penobscott. Pa,
Monday night week a coal oil lamp
exploded, setting fire to their clothing
They ran toward a nelghoor's house,
but the oldest girl fell in the road and
was so badly burned that she died early
on Tuesday morning a week. The
other girl died yesterday, aud the third
child, boy, is not expected to recover.
OF Judge Boggs, who died at Kit
tanning, on Saturday, aud wbO was one
of ihe most powerful jury lawyers in
that part of the State, Plttsburg pa.
per relates the following "One hot day
while driving load of hay he remem-
bered that be bad case IN Court, and
tbither be werded Lis way with his
breeches tucked in his boots, his breas.
exposed and his hair plentifully be-
sprinkled with hay seed. He proceed.
ed with his argument and won the
case"
On the lst day of May all the EN-.
ployes of the Pennsylvania railroad
will appear in new uniforms.
A PittsbHrg residence was entered
on Sunday morning while the family
vas at church and robbed of S700.
George Minnick, young man Of
Allegheny City, pricked India ink IL
his arm, and died from the effects of it
A young lady, accosted in the streets
cf Lancaster after nightfall, by mar
kuo.lted him down with her prAyer-book
A doh. este in Lancaster named Liz.
zie Ditman, blew out the gas upon re
firing the other night never having
been accustomed to It's use, and wa:
found dead in the morning.
John Wagner, of Mannheim township
York county who has been miss:nl
since March "A, was found drowned
yesterday in Cadorus creek.
Three of the FIVE men who escaped
from the Allentown Jail on March 29
have been captured.
The Juniata Valley Campmeeting
Association buildings were broken in
to recently, aud bed. clothing to the
amount Of 26O pieces stolen therefrom
comprising quilts, pillow cases, &c.
The authorities got on the track of the
missing articles and recovered all but
fifteen pieces. Subsequently Mrs.
Margaret Maebamor aud Vine Camp
bell were arrested for the larceny, tried
at the Miffiin county court convicted
and sentenced to three months in the
county Jail.
Rober, Hays, boy was crushed tc
death in Allegheny City on Wednes
day, BY a pile of lumber falling upon
him.
A iourneyman shoemaker in Pitts
burg named Beach, who had but lately
returned FROM the South made two un-
successful attemps at suicide on Wed
nesday afternoon by shooting himself
in the head.
Charles Kirby, colored, has been ar
rested in Pittsburg and held in So COO
for kidnapping a young girl of his own
name with a view to exhortiDg money
from her parents.
While a number of men we're raising
a barn on the farm of Mr. Peter Kei.
bert, near Meadville, a cross beam fell
and three men we're seriously injured.
A small boy played with matches
in Kingston, Luzerne county, on Wed
pesday, setting FIRE to an ice house.
The flames then communicated with .
barn, which was destroyed, and store
shared the same fate. The loss amount
ed to aoout 1000, partially insured.
The small boys mother thrashed him
soundly.
At Carpenter, q station on the North
ern Central railroad, several ladies
we're standing on the side of noun
tain looking into q stream below, when
q very large log broke away from mau
and coming down with a tremendous
velocity. passed over the body of a Mrs
H. H. Mcneil, inficting terrible ipjur-
les. Two other ladies sere slightly in
jured.