Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-10-26
STATE ITEMS.

The apple crop of Bradford count!
is the largest gathered in the past twen
ty years.
The schools Of Wiliamsport are no
half full of pupils owing to diptheri'
and scarlet fever.
Hog cholera has been and still j!
raging in parts of Chester county.
During last harvest four men in Y en-
ango county lost legs by reapers.
Henry Craig, of Chester, has q dof
that drinks beer.
Mrs. Michael McGratb, of Los,
Greek, Schuylkill county, committed
suicide by banging on Tuesday. She
was in i'll health.
James Brown died in the Erie coun-
ty almsbouse on Tuesday. He was
once very wealthy, but was impoverish-
ed through tad investments.
The new Presbyterian church al
E5ensburg will be ready for congre-
cation by Jhe lst Of December.
Over a thousand horses have been
sent from Somerset and Fulton counties
within the last year, to Baltimore, to
supply orders for the Southern market.
A nest containing sixty rattlesnakes
Was discovered within a uile of Cress-
on last week, and all of them killed
with stones and guns.
John Heeter, who murdered Jacob
Shank at Carrick Furnace, Cumber-
land county, several weeks ago, has
been captured and committed for trial.
John Benedict, of Lancaster, 1t is
feared will lose the use of his legs
by poison communicated from colored
stockings.
Charles Buckxal'er bad hard bat
tie with a young buck near Ebensburg,
on Tuesday last, and succeeded in kill
ing the beast only after severe strug-
gle. He cut its-tbroat with q large
knife with which he was topping corn
The Indiana National says: 1.-TWO
thousand and Fifty dozen of eggs, and
three thousand and four hundred and
forty eight pounds of chickens we're
shipped from this place on Wednesday
evening week, making a total weight
of about four tons"
Mr.. Fred Gilbert, of Somerset, who
is over seventy years of age, has not
tasted meat of any kind but once since
he was boy. He is butcher, still
following his occupation, and says that
the taste of meat would make him
deathly sick.
Two men travelled through Washing
ton county recently, demanding so
much per acre from farmers using Q
certain patented gate. 1t is understood
that they collected nearly $1,000 in
this way.
Abram Ehrgood, of Reading, mys-
teriously disappeared on Tuesday last.
lie bad Sll00 with him at the time.
Sylvester o. Fretz. of Pottstown,
put two bullets in his head over
month ago with suicidal intent, and he
is still alive.
A farm near Rohrerstowu. Lancaster
county. belonging to Tobias Denlipgsr,
was recently sold for S264 per acre.
At Pine Pitch City, Clarion county,
On Wednesday, Willie Barclay, aged
years. was accidentally shot and kill
I'd BY his l0-year-old brother.
Mrs. Overhold:, an old lady, of
Dawson, Fayette, county, was instantly
killed on Saturday by fall down stairs.
The woods around Clearfeld are
warming with partridges and rabbits.
Mrs. Kroppe, of Bradford, accident
lily took an overdose of morphine and
lied from its effects.
An attempt was made BY tramps to
Ittack country school house in Centre
county last week, which the boys
md girls so stoutly resisted that the
lomads were glad to retreat in disorder
Mrs. Emanuel Hawk, about two
niles from Millersburg, had some
rouble in lighting the fire in the bake
wen aud tried the virtues of coal oil.
She poured the oil on the fire from
AN, the eau exploded. and BY I O'Clock
It night she was corpse. She suffer-
d terribly as nothing would relieve
'er pam. She vas in her Goth year of
ge.
John Batman, a carpenter, aged so
'ung himself 10 Norristown. He bad
'een q sufferer from malarial fever and
'ecsme despondent.
William Laird, an aged citizen of
lurraysville, Westmorelaud county,
Eas kicked to death By a horse on Sat-
urday a week.
Silas Stackhouse, aged 81 years ac-
identally fell into watering trough at
Kennel Square and was drowned on
'londay a week.
David Kibbell, of Greensburg aged IL |
ears, died on Sunday a week from the |
fleets Of spiders bite.
Harry Clark and George Smith,
ramps. who we're arrested near Easton
few days since are believed to have
een the perpetrators of thirteen ssfe
obberies that have been committed in
be neighborhood of Phillipsburg. N. j.,
'ithin year