Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-07-02
STATE ITEMS.

There are l2O pensioners IL Luzerne
county.
Ali the tsnneries of the State are
over run with orders.
A number of horses died in Mont
gomery county from eating green wheat.
The Mayor of Reading has issued
his proBuucIamento for bidding the use
of fireworks IN tina; city on the 4ih of
July.
A disease resembling quinsy has ap-
peared among horses IN the eastern part
of the State.
John T. Perdue, who was convicted
of perjury by the Butter county court,
has been sentenced to three years in
the peui,entiary and to pay q fine Of
$500 aud costs.
Miss Mary Jane Rabey, who resided
alone, two miles east of Rockville,
Dauphir county, was found dead in her
bed early on Saturday morning. There
are strong suspicious that the lady was
murdered, as 1t was generally believed
she had money concealed about the
house.
Miss Ann May, of Charlestown, TIoga
county, was killed by Lightning on Mon
day night a week. Others 10 the same
room with her were uninjured. The
bolt struck the ridge of she roof, pass
ing down to bedroom on the second
a. anJ Shirar,nr , hat 20 n;a,aS in
which John Halford lay sick Of typhoid
fever. Hslford was uninj jured. but the
lightning tore sash out of window
aud carried /. several rods.
John Robinson, Frankstown town
ship, Cambrit county, farmer, took his
horses into the woods on Thursday a
week, to haul wood. He left them
stand, and made few strokes with bis
AK. into the t-unk Of dead tree, which
fell sudden, ard struck both horses,
killing one instantly acd breaking the
skull bone and knocking an es;e cut o.
the other.
John Il. Miller, of Reading, Pa,
whose disappearance on Thursday a
week created considerable excitement,
has returned home with his friends. He
was to have been married on the day be
disappeared, and the fact of his dIsap-
pearance caused many reports TO be
circulated that he had been murdered
In the eastern part of the State the
game laws have tended, ia the protec
ton of birds, TO increase the robins to
such an extent that large focks of them
are destroying the cherry crop and iu-
juriDg other fruit trees.
c. 4. Hershey died at Mount JOY,
Lancaster county, Pa, on the 28th of
June, from the effects os injuries re-
ceived at the hands of Lewis Sewers.
The particulars of the affair are about
as follows: An old grudge existed be-
tween the two about the trifing sum of
fifty cents, which one owed the other.
On Thursday las. the two men were
engaged in putting in a boiler at the
-four mill of j. NJ Braudt. Hershey
was standing in a doorway four feet
above the railroad track, when Sewers
came up and spoke few words, after
which be knocked Hershey down. The
latter in falling struck his head on the
track, rendering him insenslble. Blood
eushed from his mouth, nose and ears.
lie was carried to his home, where he
died, as stated. Sewers was taken to
Jail, after refusing to enter bail. When
notified of the deait of Hershey be
showed no sorrow. but instead said he
was glad of it. Both men are o,d resi-
dents of Mount Joy, each being nearly
fifty years of age end having large fam
lilies. They were both under the infiu
ence of liquor At the time of the quar-
rel.