Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-12-15
STATE ITEMS.

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snow to the depth of three feet GOV
ers many parts oil the Allegheny noun
tains.
Reports from the Lebanon valley, il
the neig6borhood Of Humuels:own ant
its surroundings, running IS low dowr
as Annville, in Lebanon county, SHOW
that the hog cholera prevails to NOR,
or less degrees, private feeders suffer
ing much loss. 10 the neighborhoot
of Lingles,own the loss Of hogs BY th'
cholera has been severely felt.
John Koons, . clerk aud William
Smith, night telegraph operator ia th,
Lehigh Valley forwarding Office o
Psckerton, we're killed on Monday nigh
= week BY an engine of the Lehigh Val
ley Railroad, which Was thrown Of th'
track at Lehigh Gap BY land slide.
Mrs. Msresretta d Fem, daughter
Of the late James @. Verbeke, who VA
surgeon to Bousparte until bis down
fall At Waterloo, in 1915, died il
Msrysville, Perry county on the 9th.
A brakeman named SAMUEL b. Gun
agan was killed 1t Chslfont Station
near Doylestow, ou Monday . week, BY
falling between the cars of the tram
His body was terribly msngled.
No presents are allowed to be mad.
BY employees to bosses IN the Parrish
coal mines in Luzerne county.
Last October the congregation o.
Bellusu's Reformed Church Centre
township. Berks county by 3 vote o.
s6 to three requested Faster r 8. Ap
pei TO step down and out. He refused
to comply and on Sunday . week sl
the doors of the edi6ce we're bsrred
against him. He proposes to prosecut.
his opponents.
Some New Brighton boys chased Z
rabbit under . warehouse the other day
and crawling under found . lot of sto
len goods dolmsns, linen towels, cloth.
ing, etc. Whence they came is un'
known.
At Towsnda the number Of secret OF
benefcia. societies exceed. the churches
Cornelius Enders, of jefferson town
ship, recently killed three large rec
foxes on Broad mountain and secured
the bounty on them By sending the ears
to the county commissioners. The
bounty on q young fox is one dollar
and on full grown animal one dollar
and Fifty cents.
Harrs Ruth, the boy who fell from
the stairway IN the Erie Academy oi
Music. a distance Of forty feet, to the
second floor and was picked up fol
dead . month or six weeks since, has
recovered and is attending school. He
recollects nothing about his fall, and
there is = space Of ten days of which be
has not the slightest knowledge.
David Carbaugh, of Carlisle, ha.
been arrested for illegally collecting
pensions.
Large quantities Of sorghum syrup,
in the northern coun ties,
are put in the market rs the best New
Orleans molssses.
A young man named Ramsey bad
both eye. put out bv sparks from q
roll at the Westernsn rolling mill,
Sharon, last week.
A shocking accident occurred 10 East
Medin, Delaware county, Saturday ST,
ternoon last, BY which little daughter
Of Lewis and Annis DAVIS was burned
SO badly that she died Sunday at noon.
The mother of the girl bad just slipped
out of the house, and when sue returned
she found the little thing in flames.
She endeavored to extingulsh them,
but found it impossible, aud burned
her hands severely in the effort.
Scarlet fever has closed all the pub
lie schools of Hollidsysb
An opossum has been captured in
Chester county weighing twenty pounds.
The faro banks of Putsburg we're
rsided on Tuesday nigh, and Eve Ar.
rests we're made. The offenders we're
fined $50 and costs each.
Mrs. Lynch, of Hyde Park, Lscka-
wanna county, is los years of age. She
ls said to be almost As frisky - . miss
nf l8 years.
Robert johnson, . cOlored uan aged
81 years, was frozen to death on Gap
Hill, near Lancaster, on Wednesday.
Th. earth over the old mines At Up
per Lehigh sunk six feet on Wednes
day.
Cattle are being shipped to the East
from Wayne county in large numbers.
THIS is a queer time of the year to
tie from sunstroke, but such was the
fate of Martin Carrick, of Millerstown
On Tuesday. The sunstroke was re-
,eived last summer, and be bas been
i'll ever since.
The erection of . big hotel at Cress-
On will be begun in few days. The
building will have frontage of 800
feet aud will be four stories high. 1t
will be ready for occupancy BY the first
Of next May.
Many Berks towns are alarmed at
The prevalence of diphtheria. Emans
has closed its public schools. Montery
Wernersville, Gough!ersville
md other places report the devastation
IF the disease.
Huntington and Blair counties com
plain Of the ravages Of hog cholera.
More than 1000 porkers have died
rom the disease this season.
The miners of Elklick, Somerset
county, struck last week for higher
wages. Some Of the men returned to
work, which so enraged their comrades
bat q fight ensued, which resulted in .
lot of such magnitude that the county
authorities had to take tho matter in
,and.
A case has been decided in the West.
court to the effect that when
/, man dtaa from, the afTacts of ,ot.-