Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-02-16
STATE ITEMS.

STATE III EMSs
Real estate in Philadelphia is rising
in price.
There are 9,5l6 more females than
males in Pennsylvania.
James Russell, of West Coatesville,
recently found a live chicken under a
drift of snow, where it had been for
FIVE weeks.
Sentence was pronounced at Middle
burg Snyder county on the 9Th inst,
upon Emanuel Ettinger Israel Erb
aud Jonathan Mover, for the murder
Of Gretchen Kintzier in 1877.
Frank Desmond died at Pottsville on
the 9th inst from the effects of injuries
received BY q coasting accident on the
9th oe January.
A little daughter Of B. E. Morrison,
of Newton Hamilton, recently drank q
quantity of laudanum. By the prompt
administration Of proper remedies her
life was saved.
Tie residence Of Thomas N. Stevens.
Woodland, Clear6eld county, with
nearly all lis contents, we're destroyed
by FIRE at an early hour on Friday
morning a week. The family were OBJ
| liged to leave with scant ceremony,
Mrs. s. going out barefooted and 10
her night clothes, with her babe in her
arms, and the thermometer down to 20
degrees below zero.
The ice gorge in the Schuylkill river
at Manayunk, Philadelphia, was very
disastrous to property, many mills and
dwellings being inundated, and losses
estimated at 100000 to stock and
machinery inflicted. The mill owners
are indignant, ard threaten to bold the
city responsible for their losses, basing
their claims for damages upon the ac-
tiou of the Park Commissioners
in refusing to allow the ice in
the Schuy ylkill above Paramount dam
to be cut, and asserting that if it had
been loosened from the shore and the
piers of the bridges the lower ice'would
have moved out and afforded no OBJ
struction to the mass above.
About forty tramps in the Jail at
Lancaster tried to escape about 2 o.
clock on Saturday morning A watch
man fired into the crowd, wounding
three of them slightly. Only one es-
capped.
While two little girls were coasting
at Bridgeport Montgomery county, last
week as their sled approached the rail-
road they saw train approaching and
we're unable to check their sleds. Both
threw themselves off and escaped un-
hurt, while the sled ran on the track
and was struck and crushed by the en-
grne.
At Granville, Mifflin county, a little
daughter of Il. Aurand was so badly
poisoned by chewing carpet chain that
for time her life was despaired o..
From all parts of the region along
the Dorth branch of the Susquebanua
reports of damage By food and ice in
dicate destruction of property greater
than recorded for years.
All saloons and liquor bars of Ven
ango county are compelled by the court
vi. 'ch gives them lisenee to close at 10: |
30 NJ.
IL wlllrecuire eight years to complete
the Middle Pen;tentiary.
Gentlemen who keep fox hounds in
Chester county have discovered that
some of the dogs, alter running Rey-
nard, delight in secret re aasts on chick
en-. Large numbers of valus bic chick
ems are destroyed by the hounds.
Peter and Paul StrIttmat.er are twin !
brothers residing in Carroll township, /,
Cambria county, and are fifty years of
age. The former is the father of sew
enteeu children and the latter of twelve
Benjamin Seidel, resident of Shoe
Berks county ruptured
blood vessel on Wednesday evening,
while coughing, and died almost in
stsntly.
On Sunday afternoon a week the
body of MIS-. Frank Carroll, of Prospect
borough, near Johnstown, was found in
a spring which does not contain over
six inches Of water. As a coating Of
Ice bad formed on the margin it is sup
posed that her feet slipped from under
her and she fell with head and body
into the opening, which is not over three
feet IN diameter. Her left arm caught
on the outside and her right was dou-
bled up in such manner that she
could not save herself.