Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
STATE ITEMS.

WV Ho " Sot fSt 81 y aoeS
month with three ingram looms in the
Berks county prison.
Saturday night week a frost hurt
the tobacco plants in exposed places
very much, and some in Lancaster
county were almost hopelessly injured.
Reading is preparing to entertain
thousand Odd Fellows at the meeting
of the Grand Lodge on the 18th.
At last the Census Supervisors have
all been appointed and confirmed.
George Kennedy, head breakman on
on coal train on the Lehigh and Sus-
quehauna, is hero. He jumped from
the train and snatched child almost
from under the wheels.
A number of furnaces aud rolling
mills projected in the northern part of
the State have been abandoned, owing
to the recent decline in iron.
A host!er in the stable of the new
Psnitentiary at Huntingdon fell from
hay-mow anG broke his neck.
The Plttsburg Bicycle Club has
twenty members who wear corduroy
knee breeches and blue stockings.
Mrs. Mary Ferry, of Norristown, was
killed By falling from the roof of the
house to which she had climbed in fit
of temporary alteration Of mind.
There are reported miracles by
Catholic priests in different parts of
the State, making the lame to walk
and the blind to see.
Brandt Hummel and Wise, the Ra-
ber murderers, will be executed at
Lebanon tomorrow, Thursday.
A Pottsville dispatch of the 4th
inst, says: Last night Thomas Fen
mel, foreman at Richardson colliery,
was shot by concealed assassin, the
ball passing through his hip, inflict-
ing a painful, though not necessarily
fatal, wound. Fennel's father was
compelled to leave this region several
weeks ago on account of acting as
juror in the case of Wunley, Mol
lie Mcguire convicted and hanged in
1877 for the murder of mine boss
Sanger. This is the second attempt
on the life of young Fennel since his
fathers fight, and it is believed to be
the work of the Mollies.
About five years ago man named
William E. Udderzook was hanged in
Chester county for the murder of
man named Goss. The two had con-
spired to swindle life insurance com
panies. They effected insurance to
the amount of $4,000 ON Goss' life.
Goss then burned down little shop
in which he worked, first placing in
it a dead body which he had obtained,
his purpose being to make the insur-
ance companies believe it was his
body. Udderzook was to get the in
surance, which was to be divided be
tween the two. But suspicious cir
cumstances attending the affair caused
the companies to refuse to pay, and
delay ensued. Meantime, Goss, who
was in hiding, became clamorous for
money, and threatened to expose the
plot To silence him Udderzook
killed him. The New York Herald
some days ago published what pur-
ported to be Udderzook's confession
of the crime. Numerous denials of
the truth of this confession have al
ready been made. Among these de
malls is one from A. c. Goss, of Bal
timore, brother of the murdered man.
Mr.. Goss says the confession is lie
from beginning to end, and is moth
ing more than speculation of one of
the lawyers for Udderzook on his
trial He says Udderzook couldn't
have written the confession as printed,
because he had no education at all,
and even if he did write it, it is lie,
as it is full of inconsistencies through
out. MIR. Goss intends to prove be
yond a doubt the truth of his asser-
ton, and is now collecting facts for
that purpose, which he will give to
the public before long.
A Reading dispatch says: Brandt,
one of the three Raber murderers to
be executed at Lebanon on the 18th
inst, has made lengthy statement
concerning the various insurance
speculations in which he was inter
ested at different times. At one time
Brandt says he held $4,000 on the
lives of various persons, but two of
the companies failed and he could
not keep up the other policies and at
the time of Raber's death he did not
hold single policy. Wise took him
to see old Raber. Brandt also re-
lates what he knew of the murder of
a peddler near Cold Spring in 1875.
He also gives an account of a coun-
terfeit money speculation in which
he was engaged. Brandt says that
Wise sent word to him, asking him
what he had done wrong, where
upon Brandt replied that his confes-
sions were lies. A man named Bethel
Young and Brandt at one time had
Raber insured for $4,000. Brandt
most solemnly affirms that at no time
was he ever connected with or con-
nived at the conspiracy for the muir
der of Joseph Raber, and says that
if he had received a separate trial he
could have established the fact
Wise, Hummel and Brandt have
chosen their spiritual advisers. Wise
seems resigned to his fate and spends
most of his time in singing and pray
ing, while Brandt appears Indifferent,
ia;:-mlv maintaining his complete in
nocenc,c OF the crime. He has Bit
ter feeling against Wise, which he
expresses on all occasions. Hummei
has very little to say.
Intelligence from Williamsport, on
Saturday, relates that Caibarine Miller
and George Smith we're that day con-
victed in court, for the murder of An-
drew Miller last March. The crime of
which they are convicted was one of
the most afrOeinus nm record Mrs