Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-22
GENERAL ITEMS.

can also fall into such a bad habit is
fairly set forth in the following despatch
from Bradford this state under date of
the l2n inst.-Wm. Barr is . welLto-
do farmer living in Crawford county.
In 1879 his daughter Cora was l6 years
old and very handsome. A young oil
operator named Wm. Hastings, who
had made considerable money, fell in
love with her. Her parents said she was
too young to marry. In September,
1879, she ran away with Hastings.
They went to Oil City and we're mar
ried. The new life the girl entered
upon turned her head, and she became
a noted flirt. Early in 1880 she and
her husband we're in New York. They
stopped at the St. Nicholas Hotel.
One day friend of Hastings, bis wife,
and So 1000 of his money disappeared.
He could get no trace Of the runswsys.
In the spring of 1880 q Miss Barr
opened a milliner shop In Buffalo. Her
beauty attracted great attention. Lew
Storms, clerk in q railroad office, fell
in love with the yourg milliner, and
they were married. They lived hap
PLY for three month. One day Storms
told his wife that be was expecting
visit from bis, friend "Billy" Hastings
of the oil regions. This led to earnest
inquiry on the part of Mrs. Storms.
The next day she disappeared. Hast
ings went to Buffalo. He was satisfied
that the rusawsy wife of his friend
Storms was bis runaway wife also. He
put Detective c. c. Halstesd on her
track. Two months afterxard she was
traced to Chicago. She had been mar
ried three weeks to . clerk in Field &
Letters dry goods house. The young
woman learned that she vas discovered,
for on the day that her FIRST husband
arrived in Chicago with the officer she
again disappeared. She took with her
Si0o. Ell the money her later: husband
had. A few weeks ago a gentleman
from Bradford met Mrs. Hastings in
San Francisco. He telegraphed the
fact TO her husband, who is friend of
his. Detective Halstead, armed with
a requisition for MIS-. Hastings, and a
warrant for her arrest OF the charge of
bigsmy, has started for California to
bring the farmers daughter bsckio her
native State.
The following Is from the Little
Rock Arkansas Gasetie of the 18th inst,
at III o'clock last night the north and
south bound stages running between
Fayetteville and Alma we're stopped
by two armed men and the mall and
passengers robbed. When the north
bound stage was about twenty miles
from Alma, and IN one of the loneilest
places on the road, between two noun
the driver was commanded
to halt. The driver, on looking ahead,
discovered two armed men ON either
side of the road, about ten yards ahead
with drawn pistols. After the stage
stopped the robbers commanded the
passengers and driver to get down on
the ground. TLey then made the dri
yer turn his back to them while they
tied and blindfolded the passengers.
Then they tied aud bllndfolded the dri
yer and placed kim in front cf the tesn
telling him that If be moved hand or
foot be would be dead man. After
this they took all the money the pass
engers had amounting to about thirty
dollars. The driver asked them to
loosen the straps on his wrists as it was
hurting him, end one of the robbers re-
piled that be would as soon as they
had robbed the south bound stage,
which was then besrd approaching. AS
soon as the south. bound stage arrived,
the driver was ordered to halt The
stage contained only one passenger,
MIR. Gray, of Fayetteville, from whom
the robbers took FIVE dollars IN money
aud gold watch and chain. They
took the mail from both stages, cutting
open both sacks aud taking all the reg
istered letters and packages which ap
peared valuable. The robbers then
united one of the passengers, telling
him :ha. if be moved before they told
him they you'd kill him. They then
took to the woods.
An incident occurred il Baltimore
8 few days ago which goes to show to
ubst extremes g wife's devotion will
lead her. A young man was arrested
and locked up in a police station on
charge of disorderly conduct, when bis
wife, with baby 10 her arms, appear
ed before the magistrate and pleaded
for mercy. 1t was not the FIRST tiue
be had been arrested, and the officer
was unwilling to release him without
6ne aud requiring bail for
his future good behavior. The woman
then begged for delay of half an hour
before be was sent to Jail, ard on the
stay of proceedings being granted, she
buried out, secured the necessary
bond from an acquaintance, and pledg-
ed her baby for Sl.75, the amount of
the fine and costa, and led her husband
away IN triumph.
Ii seems that the attempt to natural
ize camels in Texas and New Mexico
was not, after all, an utter failure. The
camels used for carrying freight across
the California desert did not, for some
reason, prove profitable, and they we're
turned loose on the Gils and Salt Riv-
er bottoms. There they lived and bred,
until now, it is said, they roam the low
er Gila plains in large numbers, giving |
The Louisiana Citizen ground for the |
belief thst they "will continue to in
crease in numbers, until drove Of ca
mels will become as common on the |
western plains of A.iz z,ns as buffalo |
now are OD the plains east of the Rock |
Michael j. Houston and his son |
Michael a. we're suffocated in q we'll
in Frederick City Md, few days ago. |