Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-16
STATE ITEMS.
a creamery is to be started at Cam
hris Chester county

bria, Chester county.
Tue railroad shops at Blossburg
Tioga county, are crowded with orders
Mrs. Cstharins Giberson, of Lancas.
ter, aged 73 years, has requested tha
bsr body be cremated after death.
Large numbers of fowl have recently
been stolen in the neighborhood Of W es
Goshen, chester county. The THE
has been discovered to be hound.
The Bethlehem Times reports an ex-
trsordiuary demand for soapstone, found
in large quantities in that section Ii
is said 10 be used in candies and oleo
margarine.
One thousand cars are being com
pleted at the Harrisburg shops for the
New York Central Railroad, and l5OC
more are to be built soon after these
ale finished for the same road.
Snow drifts in Pike county contained
the carcasses of many dead cows and
horses caught in storms and frozen te
death.
Mr.. John Kotz, of Bethlehem, has
a pen-knife that is 121 years old
John Mawhinney, q well-known
business man of the oil regions and
Treasurer of the Oil City Oil Elk
change, died in that city ON Monday
a week.
1t is estimated that eight years
more will be consumed in building
the Middle Penitentiary at Hunting
don. 1t was commenced in 1879.
Mrs. Henry TIitchler, of Allen
town, has a Bible that was printed
$50 years ago in Cologne.
Mrs. Van Buskirk, very old lady
who lived at Forty Fort, Luzerne
county, was accidentally burned to
death on Saturday week.
Daniel Hoffman, of East Nant-
meal, Chester county, has been az
rested for attempting to strangle to
death Joseph Haldeman and wife, his
father and mother in-law.
James Grouped, employed at Ram
sey's mill, Osceola, fell FROM trestle
and broke his meek. Strange to relate
be is fast recovering.
George b. u harton's taDnery, at
Huntingdon, was destroyed by fire on
Monday night a week. Loss $4,000;
insurance, $4,000. The stock was
owned by Mr. Robinson, of New York.
A small girl named Ida Bash slipped
on the ice in Lancaster on Monday a
week, aud striking Der head upon the
pavement was almost instantly killed.
Addison Rowland. mIser, died in a
miserable howell in Meadville on Sat
urday a week. Among his effects were
SI5G ID gold, 1882 IN silver and
S26iO III greenbacks. Besides these
there was a tox of fractional currency,
a bushei of penui>s. large sums of cOun-
ty orders, six gold watches and large
amount of sllverware ana jawelry. lie
was cobbler
The Lehigb Car, Wheel and Axle
Works, at Fullerton, have secured cob
tracts TO buiN 1000 coal cars for the
Lebigh Valley Railroad, 800 gopdolas
fur the New York, Pennsylvania and
Ohio Company, aud 200 box cars for
he Commercial Express Company.
An explosion occurred at the Al |
.oona Iron Works, located ON the !,
q Holiidaysburg Branch Railroad, near
Allegheny Furnace, on Monday
week, caused by placing large piece
If red-hot cinder on a cake of ice.
number of the hands were serious
Y hurt.
Five prisoners in the Northumber-
ard county prison attacked the keep |
r last Wednesday morning, beat him
,adly and effected their escape. |
rheir names are John Morris, Thos.
Johnson, James Keenan,, William |
Duffy and George Hunt. They were |
ii in for burglary. A large force
vent in pursuit. A reward of S125
$ offered for their arrest.
Mrs. Boggs, of Baskerville, Ches-
er county, lost child with small
,ox- The grave was made too small,
md the coffin containing the body
vas allowed to remain In the Gene
cry unburied for three days, the un-
lertakers and grave-diggers being
afraid to go near it.
The Lancaster knitting Company,
4 new enterprise started in Lancas-
Ter recently. is said to have met with
great success. The proprietors have
already found it necessary to increase
the number of machines i'll use to en-
able them to fill their orders.
An employe at one of the furnaces
in Johnstown met with a serious ac-
cident on Saturday week. Shortly
after run of metal had been made
he attempted to walk across the hot
bed, when the thin crust which had
formed on the iron broke, and he
sank into the molten mass, which
filed his shoes, burning him fear
fully before he could be relieved
The survey recently made to decide
the boundary line between Wyoming
and Lackawanna counties has not
been approved, and lawsuit is in
progress to determine which county
is entitled to the tax from the dis
puted territory.
The Perry county Freeman has
been informed OF the death of Ben
iamin Kline, In Saville township. that
in his Slst year, and that pol
cies were held on ms life by specu
ators for Sl00,000 One policy was
taken out an hour before his death.
There is steam saw mill mt Arnot
which cuts an average CT 10000 feet
Of lumber each day. They will start
their business in the spring with
stock of 3,000,00O feet of logs in the
yard.
Jonas George, a resident of Tinni-
cum township, Bucks county, the other
night filled hImself with whisky aud
took nap on the public highway, down
near bis hcme. Somehow or other the
night air didn't sgree with Jonas, en-,