Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-07-28
STATE ITEMS.

Berk's county has a debt Of $780,
600.
There is to be no increase In the price
of coal.
Dysentery is prevalent in Blair and
Cambria counties
The new census will make many oil
the counties of the State separate ju.
dicial districts.
Twenty-eight sheep were slaughter
ed by dogs in Que night on the farm Of
Joseph Gutwald in Cambria township,
Cambria county.
Two emigrants, while stopping at the
Altoona depot the other day, caused a
good deal of laug Inter by trying to rub
the black off oolored mans face. He
was the first negro they had ever seen
William Mumma, aged Is, son oil
Rev. l. e. Mumma, United Brethren
preacher of Annville, Lebanon county,
was Saturday night week cut to pieces
on the Lebanon Valley Railroad, neal
Palmyra.
On the occasion of the celebration Of
Perry's victory on Lake Erie, Sept. 10,
there will be q grand demonstration Of
the firemep, in which companies from
all the surrounding towns and cities
will participate.
While q new thresher was being tried
on the farm of Jacob e. Zerr, at Geig-
erstOwn, Berks county, on Friday, the
boiler exploded. A building was
wrecked and the boilor was thrown q
distance Of fifty feet and embedded in
the ground. There was no loss of life
A notorious character of Schuylkil
county is William NJ. Thomas, alias
"Bully Bill" at one time a constable
in Mahanoy City. He is now in Jail
for the seventeenth time for disorderly
conduct. He was chosen as a mark fol
Mo!lie Mcguire bullets at one time and
made a narrow escape.
A terrific hail storm passed over Say
lorsburg, Monroe county, on Saturday
a week. The corn is all cut to pieces
The oats lay fat on the ground, anG
the seeds are nearly all threshed out
while the straw is>iDjured SO that it vii
not pay to harvest it.
An emery stone, about twenty five
inches in circumference, in the planning
mill of S. j. Smith, in Franklin Dor.
ough, Cambria county, while Tnnnins
at the rate of one thousand two hun
dred and forty revolutions per minute
exploded with a report equal to that o
a cannon.
On Saturday evening week an emi
grant stuck his head out of q car win
dow as the train was about entering
bridge near Stearnburg, Crawford coun
ty. The upper portion of bis head wa
torn off and the brains scattered about
His wife aud two children were sitting
in the seat beside him. A purse of S5(
was raised for their benefit.
LIGoNIER, Westmoreland county
July 23.-Some of the men connected
with the "snide" Boyd&Peters' circu,
gave it ont that twenty of them out
ragged Sa.ome Burkett the first night o
her capture She is not IA aud il
simple minded. After she was aband
oned by the circus Williams in the vi
cinity of this place, at night she became
bewildered and wild: would fee if ap
preached and hide in the brush anC
and fields. She was observed in the
vicinity ofSomerset playing in the road
by herself, throwing sand and amusing
herself like little child. 1t is sup
posed the circus men drugged her
They made an attempt to capture three
other girls, but were foiled by q
young mln in charge of them, who wa:
assaulted by the sccundrels and his
eyes blackened before be succeeded il
getting the girls away from them. Sc
it appears that they followed the alb
ducuon business. One Of the three
men identified by the girl at Greens
burg as among her assailants was Pc
ters, one Of the proprietors of the show
The case will hereafter be moved tc
Somerset, the county of the abducted
girl, for further proceedings.