Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1879-05-21
GENERAL ITEMS

There is severe drought in Illinois
The crops are suffering IN consequence,
Congress costs the country Sl2,OOV
per day. The Pennsylvania Leglsia-
ture costs the State more than S3,oUU'
Other States pay in similar propor'ion
CaIifornias new constitution was
adopted By the people by majority OF
from from 5000 to 1000. The cleo
tion was held on Wednesday last q
week. -,
Edward kenner, colored, and Mary
Susan Hale, white, are now eonhned 10
the Virginia penitentiary on term OF
FIVE years for miscegenation that being
an indictable offence under the State
laws.
Tbs sixth annual convention Of the
National MiIlers' Association met at
the Grand Pacific Hotel, Chicago on
the 18th, GOO out of 900 members be-
ing present.
Floods have destroyed 800 LOusss
in KOttori, Hungary. The harvest
prospects in that district are ruined.
At jamestown, N. Y, Oh the l4th,
while several men were repairing the
bridge on the Lake road the structure
gave way, falling upon George heed,
contractor, aud Swan johnson, causing
a conclusion of the brain of the former
and breaking the back of the latter.
Their injuries are probably fatal.
The Rev. John Locker, Methodist
clergyman of Cass City, Mich, eloped
recently with the wife of a mechanic,
Mrs. Bell Locker left behind him
wife and five children. The runaways
we're arrested and lodged in the Cairo
Jail
A due. is reported from Sherman,
Texas, between Wiley and Jacobs, cat
tie thieves. Ten PAGES were stepped
off. aud both men began firing reVOlyers.
Wiley fell mortally wounded at the
third shot, but raised himself on his
elbow aud sent ball through Jacobs
brain, killing him instantly.
Andrew Manuing. dissipated fac
tory operative at Danielsonviile, Conn,
on the 18th inst, quarreled with his
wife, aud struck her on the head with
sn axe, killing her instantly. He then
ran to a ne:ghbOring pond and drowned
himself.
Withio a circuit of twenty miles, in
the adjoining counties of Fulton, Ham
ilton, Montgomery, and Saratoga, New
York, is the seat OF American glove
making. There are nearly three hun
dred factories on that spot, turning out
yearly three-ffths of ali the gloves
made in this country.
Louis Barron, a mschinist, of Water
town, n. Y, las: " ednesdsy went home
from work, sick, fell fainilng IN his
yard, and exclaimed to his wife, 81 am
yiDg" This frightened Mrs. Barron
to such an exten, ,ha: she died shortly
afterward.
Although delivering the ten dollar
certificates at the rate of $500 600
day, the Treasury department cannot
meet the demand. rhe total amount
to be issued Is S40,000.0 600, of which
00,000 have already been dis
posed Of.
At midnight on Sunday week 200
feet of the north Irwin dam, on the
west branch of the Penobscot river,
Maine, was washed away by a great
freshet from the melting snow.
Wm. ii. Brush, leading brick man
ufaeturer Of Buffalo, ~ y, was seri-
ously and, it is feared, fatally shot at
bis works the other morning b. his
brother in-Isw, Ellis Hampton, during
a quarrel arising out of family dlicul
ties. Hampton was arrested.
The Freeman, husband and wife, who
killed their child under a mistaken re-
ligious spell, were found guilty of homi-
eide By the magistrate at Barnstable,
and fully committed for trial. Free
nan says be will have an astonishing
revelation to make May 2lst, and still
main tains that be was justified of God
HIS wife l, greatly crushed by the
growing conviction that she has been
guilty of crime
Away down at Pocomoke City, on
the Eastern Shore of Maryland, last
Miss Lily Duer shot and
sllled her friend, Miss Ella Hearn.
There was something very strange
about the homicide, both sla7er and
slain being girls in their teens. Some
said jealousy of a certain young man
brought about the shooting and others
leld that jealousy Of q young woman
,aused it.
A regular rough and-tumble fight
oOk place on Monday morning a week,
1t Wooster, Ohio, between Seniors and
against Juniors and FRESH
men belonging to the college a, that
,laee. The battle ended by the SEN
ors and SOphomOres being driven in
ilsgrace from the field Threats of ex-
oulsion are made by the faculty. but as
he whole college is involved, it is not
likely anything will be done, unless the
aculty wish to 90 out of business.
A dispatch from Watertown, New
7 ork, on the 18th, says: Mrs. Charles
Nerrihew, who resides near Deer river,
md who has been suspected of poison
ng her brother law and husband,
confessed to the coroner that she made !
IN attempt upon her husbands life.
She was urged to make a confession of
10Th crimes, which she refused to do,
'ut virtually admitted having killed her
,rother in law. She duplicates VIM
hrop n. Herrihew, a cousin, who was
n love with her. Mrs Merrihew has
,een arrested and taken to LowviIle.
She is small woman, with dark hair
md eyes, and is about twenty -four years
# age. She is quite broken down, Gays
he richly deserves punishment, and |
noaus over her crime continually.
A dispatch from Fitchburg. Mass
ays: Francis E. Hayden was arrested |
lere for the alleged poisoning of his
lister. He is also SUSPECTED of having
Dg in like manner murdered his father
nd mother. There was some property
t stake, amounting to about $4,000,