Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-03-03
STATE ITEMS.

Strawberries are quoted at two dol
lars box
WIlkssbarre has the measles very
badly.
Contests on the liquor license ques-
ton are very lively in the Chester
county courts.
MIR. II. II Fisher, of Allentown, has
the stump of tree dug from coal
mine in Schuy kill county has turned
to solid rock.
A wood chopper working near Sugar
Springs, Berks county had 6ght with
bear few days ago and was terribly
injured.
Census Supervisor Africa has had
1000 applications for position as enum-
orators
Robert Stuart, of Gulich township,
Clearfeld county, is 80 years old, aud
can read without the aid of glasses.
a man named Milan, of Hamburg,
Allegheny county fell from a trestle-
work on Monday afternoon, and broke
his neck.
There is a scarcity of oak timber
among car manufacturers.
Harry Ingalls,, a resident of Frank
lin. recovered S73S damages against
that city before the court last week, on
account of personal injuries caused by
defective sidewalks.
A young woman, who at one fine
was one of the most beautiful and
wealthy girls OF Erie, has returned to
the home of her parents to die, after
leading life of shame for several
years.
The excitement in Claysyille, Wash
ipgton county, is very great concerning
the incendiary act of James Worrell
who burned his fathers house with a
view to destroying the whole family.
He was attentive to a young lady, and ,
wishing to possess sufficient means to
marry her, sought to obtain them by
destroying the whole family, which
would make him sole heir to the prop
erty. 1t is thought that i: he returns
home he will be lynched.
Rev. +. NJ. Collins married couple
in the road near Martic township, Ian
caster county few days ago.
Efforts are being made in all parts
Of this State 10 procure the names ol
AndersOnville aud other prisoners held
by the rebels during the war, foI the
purpose of securing special pensions fol
them.
Two children of Peter Fasnacht's, in
Lancaster, while at play several day:
ago, upset pot Of boiling mush on tine
range. One was terribly burned about
the head and the other cannot recover
Warren county has nineteen inmate:
in the Western peni;eDtiary.
Millard +. Sixte, an undertaken, OF
Philadelphia, while riding in his wagor
collided with a vehicle on Saturday
night. He was thrown out, run oveI
and killed.
Joseph Goldberg, who was shot and
killed by Edward Mulhearn, at Leighton
the other day, Is said to have declared
while moulding the fatal bullet, the
use to which it would be put.
In 1874 a little daughter of Mrs
Mary Kelly, Of Titusviile, disappeared
mysteriously from her mothers home
and it was supposed that she had beer
kidnapped. Recently she has beeE
found in Pittsburg.
An Easton mother had her son CON-
mitted to the House of Correction t,
get r.d Of him. She had promised bel
husband to bear him but three chill
dren, and this unfortunate boy was The
fourth. The facts of the case being
learned he was dismissed.
Rev. d. +. Owen, the swindlinI
clergyman who fed from DIngman'
Ferry, Pike county. some time ago
after forging notes for large amounts
and who was arrested at Oil City fo
swindling widow there was convicted
and sent to prison on Saturday. III,
was travelling uGder the alias OF Colon
ell James Howard when arrested.
Cold Spring township, Lebanon eGun
ty, had fierce" election contest OF
last Tuesday. Only seven votes wert
polled, and as there were nine Offices t.
be filed these seven men elected them
selves each man to an Office, aud hay
ing two over elected the same person
Assessor and Judge, the same person
Supervisor and Inspector. 1t seems
that the full vote of Cold Spring town
ship die not turn out, however, as the
township polled eight votes for Presi
dent in lS76-seven for Hayes and
one for Tildeu. In 1873, for Govern
or, the township gave Hoyt two, Dill
none, aud Mason FIVE.
john Wollege, a barber of Mount
Joy, who had repeatedly threatened
his wife with bodily harm because Of
an unfounded suspicion that she had
been too intimate with other men, shot
her in the side Tuesday afternoon with
an old musket, infictlng fatal injuries
A son of Wollege, aged about fifteen
years, was considerably injured by o
stray shot. The barber, who was com
lnitted to the Lancaster county Jail,
maintains that the shooting was acci-
denta., but his wife told different
story shortly after she had been wound
ed. Wollege is about 40 years old
and his wife ten years younger. The
tragedy was followed by much excite
ment, and for a while there was danger
of Wollege being lynched.
One year ago an Allegheny county
boy, aged sixteen, received severe
whipping in school, which he took SO
deeply to heart that he ran away from
home. Nothing was heard from him
until few days ago, when he returned
home, hale and hearty, but a little
the worse for wear. He explained that
he had crossed the Atlantic during his
absence, and on his return tramped all