Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-10-27
STATE ITEMS.

Two robbers bound Mrs. Charies Ev-
erson 10 her house at Altoona on Wed
nesday and stole S.. They were dis
guised, and one of them struck her
several blows.
William P. Walker, of Chester Val
ley, died very suddenly Of bemorage on
Wednesday evening while on his way
home from a neighbours.
At st. Peters, Germantown, a boy
choir of thirty voices has been organic
ed under the leadership Of Mr.. Charles
FRAZIER Handsome improvements
have been made in the chancel. The
old organ has been removed, and in its
place a new organ is being placed to
the right of the chancel.
There is a man named Strickler in
Snyder county who never shaved, never
swore and never voted and never walk
ed a mile with any other woman than
his mother.
There was big snow squall in the
northern part of Centre county, on
Thursday, the gale doing some damage
to barns and Enclosed outbuiidings,
and the suffering among cattle was great
A large stone in the center of the
Schuylkil river, near the Pottstown
landing ford, is beginning to appear
above the surface of the water. Old
residents claim that that stone has not
been seen projecting above the water
for period of thirty years, showing the
remarkable drou:h through which we
are passing.
Large numbers Of -four mills in the
eastern part of the. State are suspended
on account of the drought.
A few days ago Samuel W. Russell
of Concord, Delaware county, fed his
pigs with lima bean hulls, when two of
them died in two days Other rsisers Of
pork should take warning from this and
that no bean huils are thrown into the
trough.
Michael O'Connel. of Bradford. Pa,
laborer on the oil pipe line at Port
Jervis, went to bed at the Delaware
House Philadelphia on Tuesday night
week and blew out the gas. 1n the
morning he was found dead
Two citizens said to have been mur-
dered and another supposed to be
drowned, and all in three days, is a
sad chapter in Erie life.
The sedate Moravisn town of Litiz
is to have a stock company for the
manufacture of plows. The capital Of
$4,000 has been subscribed, and the
ground upon which the buildings are to
be erected has been purchased.
Bass and salmon fishing is now 10 the
height Of the season in the North
Branch Susquebanna county.
Counterfeit SlUO National Bank
notes are in circulation in the eastern
counties.
The grand jury of Allegheny county
pr oppose that the better class. Of girls
committed to the Morganza reformatory
school should not be allowed to asso-
ciate with the more vicious class.
A little child ofFIemont Milliken, OF
Jackson township, Greene county, fell
into swill barrel and although remov-
ed from it Immediately it was SO badly
injured that death resulted in forty
eight hours.
An old lady by the name Of Ludwig,
living near Paradise, Northumberland
county, climbed an apple tree one day
last week to get some apples, aud fell
down breaking her back in two places,
and dislocating her shoulder.
The notorious Tom Whitaker, of
Pittsburg, the publisher of an obscene
sheet called the Gatlipg Gun. has been
sentenced to pay fine of S250O aud
undergo an Imprisonment ofeight years
as a punishment for his rascally news
paper conduct.