Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-05-12
GENERAL ITEMS.
Russia and China will fight.

Three hundred Ocean county IN. j.
families who lived by picking berries in
the summer are destitute by the work
of the forest fires.
On account of the death of her
brother, Mrs. Hayes will retire from
society for some time She has already
withdrawn several acceptauces.
William Priest and Charles Pruitt,
two boys of fourteen, ran away from
their homes, near Muncie, Ind, on Sat
urday a week, bound on an Indian hunt
ing expedition in Nebraska. They were
complete arsenais, being loaded down
with pistols, knives and ammunition.
Reading dime novels had aroused a
love of adventure. Their parents are
well off, and will make effort 70 Ger
take the runaways.
A Chicago dispatch says: In conse-
quence of the hot weather and over
crowdng OF cars, there has been re-
maIkable mortality among hogs arriv-
ing here recently. 1t is stated that 20
car loads of dead hogs arrived yester.
day morning. One ea., containing l0l
hogs, had 81 dead, 80 crippled ard only
ii in good condition. Gases of 20 to
80 dead hogs were numerous
At Pen Yam, N. Y, on the 4th inst,
Mrs. George Woodruff killed her two
children by drowning them in the cis-
tern. When found, she was in the
water herself up to her waist, with the
infant of one year dead in her arms
the other child was six years old. 1t
is supposed she was insane from pecu-
mary troubles. The woman was saved,
but the efforts to resusitate the chill.
jren proved unavailing.
DR.. Samuel Chopin, the distinguish
ed surgeon, died at New Orleans of
pneuE mia.
The fly on the tobacco plant is prov
ing very serious in all parts of the to-
bacco producing district of Kentucky.
The three sons of Y. d. Bowen, of
Wadley, Ca, all use crutches. Their
bones are so soft and brittle as to often
break from a slight jar.
A single canning establishment at Mil
ford, Del, has contracted for $50 acres
of tomatoes for the coming season.
The Delaware Beet Sugar Company
have rented 100 acres of land in the
vicinity of Wyoming, and will plant
the same in sugar beets.
Mr. Joseph Sanderson, a grocer of
Cumberland, died very suddenly. Mr.
Sanderson had called in a physician to
attend bis daughter, but by the time
the doctor called at the house he was
IN a dying condition, aud the sick
daughter ministering to him.
Mr.. Richey, of Plymouth, Ind, was
aroused from bis bed by five strangers,
who asked permission to dig for hidden
articles in the cellar. He was afraid to
refuse, and they went to work. At 2
A. NJ. they struck an iron box, which
was so heavy that the FIVE were scarce
ly able to lift it. They finally got it
into wagon and drove away.
A vein Of bituminous coal in Lin
coin county, Missouri, is said to be OF
uniform thickness of twcnty-six feet
for miles.
A train came tearing into Peekskill,
n. Y, recently, with a live Cow caught
fast on the COW catcher, with her head
between the firebox and bumper. No
body knew where the engine had picked
it up, further than that it was some
where this side of Albany.
On the first Sunday in May the Ger
man societies of Paterson, New Jersey,
went up to the top of Garrett Noun
tam to greet the rising sun as usual On
the FIRST Sunday in May. A party of
young men, among them Joseph Van
Houten, a stepson of Alderman Swift,
of the Paterson Municipal Board, at
tempted to cross the lands of William
Dalzell, farmer owning property on
the mountain-top, which they were for
hidden to trespass. They persisted,
however, ard young Van Houten was
shot dead by Dalzell, who discharged
gun heavily loaded with buekshot point
blank into his abdomen. The young
man lived but few minutes. The
party then pursued Dalzell to his house,
where the police were powerless to pro-
tect him. They fired the barn and
house, and when he came forth seized
him and we're about to hang him to a
tree. The rope was in position when a
reinforcement Of policemen arrived,
and DalEell and his con, who was also
we're rescued from the
crowd, and took refuge in the house of
one Carroll, on the mountain near at
hand. Subsequently Sheriff Van Voor-
bees succeeded in taking him to New
ark, where be was put in Jail.