Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-18
STATE ITEMS.

Willie Houtz, of Jackson township
Huntingdon county, was killed las
Friday by falling tree.
The Etna Salt Works ct Sharps
burg, Allegheny county, are manufac
turing 100 barrels of salt per day.
! Mr.. Jesse Vingert has sued the Har
risburg Independent for associatine
him unpleasantly with speculative
insurance.
A log house on the farm of Isaa'
Bohn, in Lower Heidelberg, Berki
county, said to be LA years old, was
torn down a few days ago. Tht
flooring, made of yellow pine, wal
found to be in o sound condition.
Twenty-one cannon balls, weighing
seventy-five pounds each, were re
Gently unearthed on the peninsula o.
Erie harbor. There was a bioci
house at this point during the war o.
1872.
The Lutheran congregation Of Ship
pensburg will build . new church.
Pennsylvania has more notaries pub
lie than any other state ir the Union.
1t is stated that more maple sugar
was made in Somerset county this yeaI
than ever before.
Lead and silver ores have been dis
covered in Conenaugh township, In
drama county.
Miss Clara Seiders, Millersb1rg,
Dauphin county, was recently seized
with fit in a spring house, and, fall
ing face downward In four inches OF
water, was drowned.
Every rowboat out in the evening
in the bay at Erie is required to carry
lantern under a penalty of $500 for
non compliance.
A Philadelphia lawyer has sued q
client for libel, for writing letter
threatening that unless be 1.-THE lawyerl
did certain things the writer would
have him disbarred.
Charles X. Taylor, member of the
Schuylkill County Bar, who was arrest
ed recently on the charge of embzzle-
mert and forgery, was tried and convict
ed at Pottsville on Friday.
Robbers entered the room Of Father
Douohue, a priests at Plymouth, Luzerne
county, on Wednesday night a week,
and after drugging him made of with
a gold watch and $40 in money.
Titusville saw a heavy wedding one
day last week. John Dolan, the
groom, weighed 260 pounds and the
weight of the fair bride, Miss Mary
OBrien, was 236 pounds.
Mrs. Jonathan PETER, of Jackson
township, Lebanon county, was called
upon by brother a few days ago
whom she had not seen for forty-five
years. The brother lives at Carlisle
Each thought the other dead.
The residence of Rev. Father Don
ohue, of st. Vincent's Catholic church,
at Plymouth, was entered by bur-
glars the other night Chloroform
was administered to the priest, after
which he was robbed of money and
jewelry to the value of $500.
John Miller, an ex-constable of Ian
caster, aged so years, was arrested at
Lebanon a few days ago, where he
was quietly domiciled with Miss Mat
tie Dull, whom he had taken from
Lancaster Miller has q wife and
grown children.
The body of W. W. Wilson, tobac
co merchant Of Sunbury, was found in
the river below the dam on Friday
morning. He disappeared on the night
of March l9, and was supposed to have
been murdered, but as his watch and
one hundred dollars in money were
found on his person, the Coroner's jury
returned q verdict Of accidental drown
ing.
Morris Tucker, school teacher Of
Shamokin, was tiled in court at Sun
bury for assault and battery, the
offense consisting in taking Jane Straw
a twelve year old girl, over bis knee
and padding her with q heavy ruler
until she was black and blue. He was
sentenced to pay q fine of ten dollars
and costs Of prosecution.
A little boy of Mr. Joseph Suotts
Jr., residing in Fulton county fell
down we'll q few days ago. The
mother missing the child ran out and
found a board off the top of the we'll
and Immediately gave the alarm. Hel
husband and several other men who
we're working in field near BY heard
her cries AID came to the rescue. A
rope and tin bucket was procured and
Mr.. SnOtts was lowered into the vel
just rs the child came to the surface
He grasped bis little one and with BIZ
precious burden was carried safely Il
the top. The child was apparentl,
dead, but after the proper restorative
had been applied was soon recuscitated
A lively game of fsticuffs tool
place in Lebanon one night last weel
between two women, who both claim
ed to be the wife of Lancastel
county man who was stopping at /,
hotel near the scene of the encoun
ter. The man, whosis about ffty
years Of age, was accompanied in hi.
visit to Lebanon by young woman
about twenty years of age, whom h,
represented as his second wife. Or
the evening in question wife number
one put in an appearance, having
traced her truant lord to his stoppins
place, and after a fierce fight, lasting
several minutes, drove the Younger
claimant to the affections of the ga,
old deceiver from the field. The wife
claims that $500 of her own none,
disappeared with her husband, and q
series of lawsuits is threatened.
Several weeks ago, says a Washing.
ton correspondent, a remarkably beau.
tiful model was rosing before the "life
n. soO g Skn