Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-02-18
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
Mercer county is psstsrcd with coun
terfeit silver coin.
A $50 barrel we'll has been etruck
near Reynoldsville, in Jefferson county.
There is talk of new county to be
made out Of the eastern part Of Tioga
aud the western part of Bradford.
kresmer L Mann, Of Lock Haven,
have contracted to make six million
feet OF yellow and white pine boards
before the LIST Of August.
The Grand Jpry of Tioga county
have reported favorably upon the plan
of erecting . new eourt-h house, to cost
$35, 900, and make use of the available
portion of tbs edi6ce now standing
Mr.. Butler. of Pittsburg, went out
visiting last week, and when be came
back found the young woman in charge
Of the house bound and gagged, and
5000 in money missing.
Mrs. Boyle, Of Pittsburg, shot her
self while insane from jealousy. Her
daughter vas married not long since,
and became 30 attached to her husband
tha: her mother became jealous of him.
An Erie dispatch says that during
last month six public school, we're
burglsrised in Erie and considerable
school property carried Off Yesterday
morniDg the clue led up to Mr.. SoydeI
Hill, of Pbilsdelphia, who, when 81
rested, was st devotional exercises in
the Young Mems Christina Association
rooms. He has been identified IS the
seller of the stolen property, part Of
which Was found on his person. He
says be has been . preacher of the
Gospel. He was locked up.
In POttsvllle, Pa, on Sunday a week
the body of newly born infant was
found in Z pile Of snow, that had evi-
deatly been placed there whilel alive
and frosen to death. 1t had been in .
paper four bag, which i, had torn in it's
dying struggles and rolled out. The
authorities are endeavoring to discover
the inhuman mother who perpetrated
this awful deed.
In Lancaster recently q youth of
twenty loved girl of sixteen. Her par.
ents didu't object, but his did, in fact
they objected to such an extent that
they tIumped up q charge ssainst him
and bad him put in jail. WheE releas-
ed, he was taken sick and died. The
girl went to the funeral with . wreath
of flowers. but they wouldn't let i. stay
on the coffin, but took it of and threw
it after her. She followed the coffin to
the grave, and when the mourners had
started away, just as they we're begin
ning to fill up the grave, she threw the
wreath in on the coffin, and they vent
on nlling up the grave. They say that
the parents of the youth had the grave
opened and the wreath taken out and
destroyed.
A Philadelphia .Neus reporter has 10
terviewed the proprietor of . concert
saloon IN that city, who was formerly
q resurrectionist, and the .Neus gives
the result of that interview TO its read
ers. The gboul states that the gang of
which be vas member pulled up sixty
corrses, or "stiffs" as they are rechnic-
ally termed, every spring and fall, re-
ceiviug an average price Of twenty five
dollars apiece for them from medical
colleges. This gang operated on the
different cemeteries of Philsdelphis, but
principally on the old Lebanon ceme-
terry, on the Passayunk road, whose
sexton was "all right" and doubtless
received share of the profits of the
disgusting traffic. The strangest thing
about the transactions Of this gang is
the fact that although they robbed
graves for years, almost depopulating
some burial p aces, they were never de-
tected or even suspected.
John Michael Rebhol;z, the oldest
citizen of Reading, died on Sunday at
bis residence in that city, at the great
age of 1000 years, Ii month days.
Mr. Harding, one o: the trustees of
the LIE Moyne furnace at Washing ton,
states that cremation is becoming very
popular, and that he has over q hun
dred applicants for the use of the ere
matory. The cost Of cremation is about
s35.
Levi. Rockwell, Of Pike county, has
Just celebrated his 1924 birthday.
His wife, who died about a year ago,
lad she lived, would have been 80.
A family in Bradford has been pois-
oned by eating cheese.
Whooping cough is prevalent in Erie
and other nor r.hern counties to degree
to make great suffering.
At Roaring Branch, Lyeom;ng coun-
ty, On ouui.y last week while work
ing at log slide, David Reed was
struck by log aud instantly killed.
The top of his skull was broken off and
his brains scattered over the snow.
Miss Minnie Anderson, of Hazlewood
Allegheny county, was married, last
" ednesday'a week while lying on her
doath bod