Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-05-04
STATE ITEMS.

Mayor Lyon, of Pittsburg, has five
colored men on his police force.
The people of Bellefonte are ar
ranging for a grand demonstration
on the Fourth of July.
The streets of Easton are kept
clean by every householder scraping
in front of his own door, the borough
removing the dirt heaps.
Westmoreland county has fifty-one
convicts in the Western Penitentiary
one to every one thousand OF Its
inhabitants.
Mrs. James Mounts, of Buffalo town
ship, Washington Co., gathered twenty
Eve dozen of eggs in FIVE days from SIX
ty mems, exclusive of what was used in
the faulty.
The Harrisburg Patriot says that it
is a notorious fact that boys sent
from that city to the House of Refuge
at Philadelphia always return as well
trained thieves.
Johnstown, Cambria county, man
in going home late the other night
found a stranger under the family
lounge. He was burglar and made
his escape with several articles OF
value.
A pair of horses belonging to Geo.
Merrill, worth $500, fell over log
bank in Clearfield county seventy
feet high, and were instantly killed
A horse thief named J. G. Riddle,
escaped from the Clarion county jail.
a few days ago, by crawling through
the hot-pipe of the heater to the eel
lar, and thence out of the 1oal win
dow.
A Philadelphia boy aged eleven
years has made complaint to the po-
lice that his father has frequently
knocked him down and kicked him,
after beating him severely. He says
his father compelled him to take off
all his clothing and lie on bed while
he was beaten severely with a COW
hide. The Society for the Proven
ton of Cruelty to Children has taken
charge of the case.
Thomas Phillips, who was watch
man at the railroad bridge over the
Juniata at Lewistown some years ago,
died at Selinsgrove on the 18th of
April, aged about 20 years. He had
been in the service of the Pennsylva-
MIA Railroad in various capacities on
the line above for perhaps 80 years,
received an injury on a hand-car which
partly disabled him and has since
then been employed as watchman at
Manayunk, Selinsgrove bridge, Lew
istown bridge, and lastly again at
Selinsgrove- He vas really unfit for
night watchman and could have done
little more than give an alarm in case
of accident He was a native OF
England and was much esteemed as
an exemplary and Christian man He
was step-father so I. NJ. Uttley, Esq,
of Lewistown, and leaves two chill
dren by his first wife who reside at
Cincinnati.
The Harrisburg Telegraph of April
2Sth last says: On Sunday night of
the 14th of November, 1880, at Union
town. Dauphin county, an old man
named Ds.niel Troutman and his wife
were awakened from their slumbers
by two men who stood by their bed
side. The men ordered the old man
to get up, and after he had complied
he asked them what they wanted.
They told him they knew he had been
settling up an estate and had large
sum of money in the house, and they
wanted him to hand over the funds.
The old man seemingly agreed to
give them what they wanted, and pre-
tended to make search for it. While
doing so, and when the robbers were
off their guard, he seized shotgun
and prepared to defend himself. The
seeing this action, ran out
Of the house, followed by the cour-
ageous veteran. They ran around
corner of the house, the old man in
pursuit, and disappeared in the dark
hess. Troutman returned to the door
md as he was about to enter the
louse he turned and looked back,
When one of the williams fired, the
Dall striking the old man in the left
breast, making a fatal wound. He
dropped in The doorway and was as
sisted into the house by his wife, who
gave the alarm. = NTroutman lived but
half an hour, and WAS conscious part
OF the time. In tfnat time he re-
peatediy declared that\ the man who
hred the shot was named Romberger.
and that he lived at Tower CITY,
'uyikll county. In nurs.,anoa of