Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1880-04-07
STATE ITEMS,

a vein VI inaShcAiC uic tSu 'ett III
thickness has been discovered in Spring
township, Berks county.
Hon. Andrew Ii. Dill and others
have formed copartnsrship and closed
contract with Clearfield parties to
furnish them with timber prepared from
lands in Somerset county that will
amount to about 81 100000, and ex-
tend over period of fifteen years.
The lions, tigers, wolves, and PAN
theirs in the Geological Garden in Phil
adelphia eat horse flesh as readily as
beef; they arc therefore fed on horse
flesh. Worn out horses are bought in
the city markets. 1t takes four horse.
a week TO feed the meat eating animals
Mrs. Thaddeus Allen, Of West Ches-
ter, is devoting her spare moments to
knitting q rag carpet. 1t is one yard
IN width. and the rags being we'll made
aud of carefully selected material, the
carpet is very pretty and we'll made.
The large wooden needles are about
three feet IN length, and though Mrs
Allen is q weak woman she phys them
with no little skill and rap,dity. She
intends knitting . carpet long enough
to cover the floor of large sized room
Charles A. Thilo owns the City
Planning mills in Bradford. The other
morning he appeared with terrible
fola hn,,- ha hol Laav, ol,l1.of,~r,oI NJ 4
and robbed during the night by a
thief, who had bored hole through
the wall near the head Of his bed
and dropped sponge over his face.
His creditors put two and two to-
gether and made great deal more
out of them than Mr.. ThilO supposed
They found that some of the auger-
holes had been bored through from
the inside; that the wallet from
which $1,000 had been stolen could
not have held so much, even in bills
Of the largest denomination, and that
Thilo owed great deal more than
he could pay He has been held in
$4,000 for further examination.
-Four men were injured, two Of
them seriously, by the explosion Of q
machine called the gas pump in the
Office of the train dispatcher at Al
toona.
Lebanon county is again excited
over supposed murder. At Fred
ericksburg a skeleton has been found
under bed of dirt that has been ac
cumulating for years. The skeleton
is that of a young man. 1t is now
recollected that a young man named
Croker suddenly and mysteriously
disappeared March 16, 1869, and that
Just before that date he had been IN
mercifully assaulted by a citizen OF
that place. Crocker came to that
section in 1868, and was an entire
stranger 1t is alleged that Crocker
was murdered for a dollar by an en-
vious person and the body hidden
away. An investigation will be made.
The sudden departure of Lawyer
Forrest from Allentown is explained
in this way by the Allentown Demo
crat: He was solicitor of a building
association, and extinguished a g.
600 mortgage held by the association
against his property without its con-
sent He then gave a mortgage for
$4,000 on the property to Messrs.
Powers & Weightman, of Philadel-
phia- He afterward entered up the
association as a second claimant, and.
fearing the consequences of detec-
ton, fed.
A State convention of the county,
city and borough school superinten-
dents of Pennsylvania will be held in
Harrisburg, on the Goth, 2Ist and
22d of April The convention had
been called q week later, but in view
of the fact that the Democratic State
Convention will meet there on April
IS the time was changed
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Young are
on trial at Pittsburg charged with
the assassination Of Thomas Crow in
that city last October. He was sho:
on the porch of their house, and
there are two stoTies-one that the
wife shot him accidentally while he
was trying to get into the house, and
the other is that Young caught him
in improper relations with his wife
and killed him.
A dispatch from Bradford states
that Ben Hogan, the reformed prize
fighter, is conducting a series of re
vival meetings in that town.
Jacob Andreas, 25 years of age
living near Macungie, Lehigh county
committed suicide on the night Of
the 31st ult., by hanging. Disap
pointment in love was the cause.
They had an old-fashioned wood
chopping match at Millheim LAST week
Ninety-two choppers cut four hun
dred and fifty cords of wood in foul
and a half hours. The average young
man may not know what WOOD
chopping match is. An axe plays an
important part in it.
Up in Franklin county man weigh
ing two hundred and fifteen pound:
took the prize at a dancing match.
The old Mill Hall furnace, at Belle
fCnte, is to be started up as a coke
furnace after an idleness of twenty
five years.
General Imboden. as agent fol
Pittsburg capitalists, has purchased
10000 acres of land in Wise ant
Scott counties, Virginia. The lanC
is rich in minerals, and some of it il
sold as low as thirty five cents PEI
acre.
Mr.. James B. Anthony, of Belle
township, Clearfeld county, lost 81,
children in one week with diphtherIa.
Conway, the Erie man who wen
crazy over the IA, Is, Is game, is now
in Dixmont asylum, at Pittsburg, the
most troublesome patient in the asylum
In Pittsbnrg recently husband and
wife were tried for killing n man named