Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-25
STATE ITEMS.

Eighteen hundred hats are made in
Reading daily.
A white rabbit with only one ear,
, and that located in the center of its
forehead, is Titusville curiosity.
Jacob Fondersmith died in the Lam
caster County Almshouse on Thurs
day, aged so years. He was born
and raised in that institution.
W. S. Quigley, tax-collector in
East Nottingham township, Chester
county, was robbed of S454 by high
waymen on Friday night.
Albert Myers, of Culbertson's Row,
Franklin county, was dragged around
and kicked to death by vicious mule
on Monday week.
George H. Lang has been SEN
fenced to pay fine of 5000 and un-
dergo an Imprisonment of three
months for selling liquor without a
license.
The ny is damaging the wheat crop
in Berks county considerably.
An eel weighing six pounds and
three ounces recently stopped a water
wheel at Towanda.
On the 18th inst, as David Bred
hender, Charles Knauss, Frank Bred
hender and a man named Eciouls,
repairmen on the Sunbury, Hazleton
and Wilkesbarre Railroad, were cross
ing the trestlework at Mainville Oh a
truck-car, they were overtaken by a
freight train and hurled distance of
fifty feet. Knauss and one of the
Bredhenders were instantly killed,
and the other two are not expected
to live. They were all married, hay-
ing families.
Farmers in Washington county are
very much troubled by foxes carrying
off young lambs, the depredations
extending over wide country. All
efforts to detect Reynard in these
exploits are unavailing.
A thir:een-year old son of butcher
named WhIteside, in Lancaster, had
bis left hand torn of by a chopplug
machine on Wednesday.
A horse belonging to John Malone,
living near Loudon, Franklin county,
was shot ID field adjoining the house
on Monday night week.
Farmer Price Saylor ploughed up q
cannon ball at Valley Forge recently.
Farmers of Chester county are bad
ly frightened by the appearance of the
cut worm.
John Herbert Weld, small boy,
living in Beccaria township, Clear6eld
county was kicked to death by horse
on Tuesday.
There are twenty-five persons in the
Washington county Jail, ranging from
nine months to eighty years old.
Cyrus Chambers, of Keunett bor-
ougb, Chester county, who is eighty
five years old: plowed and narrowed the
ground and planted his corn crop of
several acres without any assistance
whatever.
The body Of child partially decom-
posed, was recently found in a cup.
board in Pittsburg where it had been
placed BY parents too poor bury it.
On account of unrequited love Miss
Fannie Bennett, residing with her moth
er, widow in the village of Montours.
vile, Lycoming county, attempted to
commit suicide by taking dose of ar
senic. While trying to swallow the
poison she was detected BY her brother
who seized and choked her to make her
desist. Antidotes alone saved her.
Judge Orvis and j. l.. Spaneler, an
attorney at the Centre county bar, had
fierce encounter last week, the at
torney bursting with rage and applying
many vile epithets to the judge. A
rule was served on the ira.e attorney
to show cause why be should not be
stricken from the roll of attorneys.
He apologized sweetIy and was allowed
to remain in court.