Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-12-21

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representatives of the millers and
grain dealers of the State was held
at Minneapolis on Tuesday night a
week. Its object was to adopt grades
uniform with those of Chicago and
Milwaukee.
A Detroit dispatch states that a
daring, but unsuccessful, attempt was
made on Wednesday night by seven
masked men to blow open the safe OF
the First National Bank at st. Clair.
They bound and gagged the night
policeman, and after knocking of the
handle of the safe combination, they
drilled holes and exploded powder in
them. They left soon after, neglect
ing to remove their tools.
A band of men known as knights
of the "Switch" have recently been
operating in Harrison county, Indi-
ana, their method being to severely
whip, with the weapon whose &C
quaintance every school boy of quar-
ter of a century ago was sure to
make, such persons as come under
their condemnation. They capped
the climax of their outrages on We'd
nesday night by dragging from his
bed an old man and flaying him SO
severely that his death is feared.
A severe wind storm passed over
Memphis, Tenn, on Tuesday night
from the west, aud two miles northeast
of the city developed into . tornado,
With track one hundred and fifty
yards wide. The house Of q Mr..
Brown was blown down and his FIVE
children buried in the ruins. The
children escaped serious injury, but he
being sick in bed, was almost dead
when rescued. Several other houses
we're wholly or partially wrecked.
At Austin, New, a party of masked
men overpowered the jsiler and .coA
out of q cell Richard Jennings, who
shot and killed John A. Barrett, an
old and respected citizen. on Tuesday
night. The prisoner was promptly
hanged from balcony over . front
deoT
A boy under eighteen years Of age
wished TO marry q woman ten years bir
senior in Vancouver, Washington Ter
ritory, recently, and as be had neither
father nor mother 10 the Territory a
guardian was appointed BY the Probate
court to give the requisite consent to
union.
Walter Sumpter, young and reck-
less man of Hancock county, Tenn :,
on Tuesday week shot and killed his
wife during drunken quarrel.
The Federal authorities at Dallas,
Texas, have levied on the property of
the bondswen of the train robbers
William ard Henry Collins. members
of the Sam Bass gang of 1878, for $780,
600. The Collinses jumped their bail
and fed, and we're afterwards shot and
killed BY officers in attempting to ar
rest faem.
The Indians in the Pembina Noun
tains are said to be starving, owing to
the smallpox quarantine regulations,
which prevent them from securing sap.
plies from the settlements.
Peters, an alleged child murderer,
has surrendered himself, and is now
lodged in Jail at Sweetsburg, Vt.
Threats Of lypching are made, and the
Jail :s closely watched.
Thomas Valentine, white, barber,
was arrested at Richmond, Va, on the
l4th inst, by Constable Harris, of
Elizabeth city, on q warrant charging
him with having been one of party OF
men who last week took VIM. Allen.
col ored. from the Warwick county Jail
and lynched him.
Down in North Carolina q negro boy
sged fourteen murdered his sister be
cause she threatened to tell bis mother
that he stole from her pantry . piece of
cold opossum.
The family of tailor in New York,
who has scarcely been able to earn
money enough to buy a sufhciency of
the plainest food, was added to on Mon
day BY the mother giving birth to trip
lets. The family now numbers thirteen,
father, mother, grandmother and ten
girls and five boys-the
oldest being scarcely twelve years old.
a band Of outlaws raided the town
Of Bullion, in Idaho, some days ago,
aud held undisputed possession Of the
whole place for several hours. One of
the first places that Bill Kearney, the |
leader Of the gang, estered Was the |
Office Of the Sold and Silver Mining
Company, where he ordered II. Steven
son, the book-keeper, at the muzzle of
! revolver, TO- draw a check for 81, 900 |
in h,s favor. Stevenson o5eyej, but
when Kearney laid his pistol down and
began to fold up the check, Stevenson
seized the pistol qnick as Fash, level.
led it at Kearney ordered him to- re-
turn the check. Kearney had no 81.
tentative bat to comply, and left the
place very crestfallen. nor was Steven.
'on disturbed again.
An American Jew at St. Petersburg
in circus, has received or
iers to quit the capitsI, simply On &C.
count Of protesting the Hebrew faith.
BE has protested
There were severe gales snd heavy
aims throughout Eogland on Saturday
Ind Sunday. Many houses we're un-
'oofed and partly demolished, rivers
,verfIowed and trees were nrostrated.