Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-01-12
STATE ITEMS.

Oll has Deen struck III UreenS couu'
ty.
Diptheria Is frlghtfully prevalent in
Jefferson county.
John Babo, on industrious mechanic
of Erie, and his wife have lost their
reason through the loss OF their home
in real estate transaction.
The ice on some portions of the Sus
quehanDa averages sixteen inches IN
thickness.
The body of the Bethlehem murder
er, Snyder, was taken out of the grave
by some unknown parties.
The gown has been adopted in the
Lutheran churches of Allentown.
One thousand partridges are to be
imported from Missouri to Washington
county for stocking purposes.
The wife of George Wave, who was
recently killed By a railroad train at
Bristol, is not insane, as has been stat
ed and remains at her home. Wave
had been eight years married.
A live tape worm, with head the
whole eighty feet long, was removed
from the body of James Callahan,
young son Of VIM. Callahan of
South Bethlehem.
A car passed through Erie on Tues
day week loaded with cargo of silk
worms, valued at 800, 600, bound from
California to England, aud was accom-
panied By nineteen attendants, whose
only duty was to see that they We're
properly cared for.
The body of George Ware, who was
killed by the cars at Bristol on the II
st of December, IS being embalmed at
that place to be semitic Ensland He
bad been married but three weeks, and
his wife has been sent to au asylum a
hopeless lunatic.
The trunk of an unknown man, with
the arms and legs cut off and only the
neck and lower jaw left with it, was
found under the COnestoga railroad
bridge. near Lancaster, on the 4th inst.
Bits of flesh, clothing .and bones were
strewn along the track Tor miles.
A monster gorilla is reported to have
made its appearance on Jimmy Brunt's
farm, Valley township Armstrong coun
ty. The other night the animal visited
the house of John Emory and captured
a dog, which he carried away into the
woods. Subsequently, 1t is said, the
animal attacked and badly wounded a
gigantic hound belonging to Mr.. Con
Nultou. \ party is organizing to effect
his capture
Mrs. Robert M'Laughlin, of Mercer
county, raised one hundred and thirty
two turkeys this season, and sold one
hundred aud thirteen, weighing one
thousand SIX hundred and forty two and
one-balf pounds, a. eight cents per
pound, amounting to Si3l 40.
Anton KIoefel, New York bakery
clerk shot and killed his wife near
Weissport Carbon county, on Saturday
the lst inst. They were spending the
holidays at the home of her parents,
and we're engaged in singing songs on
the night in question. Kloefel ordered
his wife TO sing certain song. which
she refused to do, when be took a gun
aud shot her dead. There we're threats
to lynch Kloefel, but be was lodged
safely in the Mauch Chunk Jail. The
couple had only been married four
months and the wife was but 10. A
later dispatch says; The people of
WiesspOrt and vicinity, near which
place Anton X efel, New York bak-
er, shot and killed bis young wife on
Monday evening, are now of the opin-
ion that the homicide was purely acct
dental. There seems to be good rea-
son for believing that Klefel did not
know the gun was loaded when he
pointed it at his wife after she had re-
fused to sing for him. 1t is stated
that he bad borrowed the gun from a
person in Mauch Chunk and had clean
ed it and set it aside, intending to re-
turn it soon. During his absence
young brother of Mrs. Klesel loaded
the weapon. Klesel is still in the
Mauch Chunk Jail and is almost insane
with grief.