Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-08-10
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
A boy in Tioga county mashed .
number of potato bugs with stone, IN
the act of which q portion of the mat
ter of the crushed bugs flew into his
eyes, destroying one entirely and
seriously injuring the other.
Jacob Hervest, of Lancaster county
lost his sense of smell from the effects
of a shock while in barn which Was
struck by lightning.
A severe storm swept through Min
nesota on Thursday, and extended to
Msnomonee, Wis. The city OF MINI
neapolis suffered severely. In addition
to the destruction by the violent wind,
the lightning fred barn, which was
totally consumed. The hay and gram
stacks, fences and small grain in the
fields were blown down and scattered.
The wires are down in every direction.
The Sheriff of Chester county sold
the Urited Brethren's Church a:
PheuixviIle the other day for S5OO.
He told the crowd that a church was
something no family should be without
and that this was the only one be had
for sale.
Stealing rides on the railroads must
amount to a mania Lately the Read
ing Railroad detectives arrested two
men in Montgomery county who were
completely buried up in the coal with
which the car was loaded, their black
heads only protruding, resembling two
Jumps of coal. ,
Mrs. Georgiana Ricksecker, aged
thirty five years, died from the effects
of the heat at her home at Litiz, War
wick township, on Thursday. She had
Just finished the family wash, when she
complained of feeling ill. A physician
was summohed, but the woman was
dead in few minutes.
A Pittsburg man, after labor OF
several years, has perfected steam
plow or cultivator which be claims will
work revolution in farming on the
large plantations in the south and west.
He estimates that one machine is capa-
Die of plowing, narrowing and seeding
twenty acres in one day. 1t is also de-
signed for use as road wagon and can
be used on any land, whether hill or
level.
"Vinous, spitithous or malt liquors" I"
as the temperance pledge expresses
them, are not the only things one can
get drunk on. There is benzine tank
in the barrel works at Oil City, to which
the wayward small boys of the neigh
borhood often 60 to get drunk, or dizzy,
from the gases arising. One of them
got little to drunk the other day, fell
in head foremost and vas drowned.
A Sunday school picnic at Cold Point
Plymouth, on Wednesday had some
draw backs. About the time of start
ing from the church in the morning a
horse ran away. The wagon to which
the animal was hitched contained an
organ and a quantity of crockery ware.
The musicalinstrument and dishes were
badly demolished and the runaway
horse created no little furry. One of
the picnickers who had imbibed rather
freely grew Jealous because be thought
some other person was too attentive to
bis wife. A fight was finally prevent
ed and the picnic went on.
On Sunday afternoon, tie 24th ult.,
about 3 o'clock, the farm lately owned
by Jacob Brandt, deceased, in Monroe
township, Cumberland county, and now
in the occupancy of George W. Strock,
was entered by some person or persons,
who, after ransacking ell the rooms in
the hnnss but one, left With quantity
of clothing, silvernars, a revolver and
money, amounting in all to the value Of
S75. Mrs. Strock loses some of her
bridal presents, aad Mr.. St1ock his
wedding suit. The members of the
family Sere absent at the time. The
house was entered through a second
story window, which was reached By
means of q ladder and vacated through
window on the ground floor. No doors
we're opened, excepting that of the wash
house, from which nothing was taken.
No clue has been obtained as to whom
the perpetrators were.
On Tuesday, July 26th, Jacob G..
Ulrich living in the vicinity of Kratz-
ervllle lost horse as follows: The
horses broke into the yard at the house,
in which is we'll SO feet deep; and
when Mr.. Ulrich attempted to drive
the horses out of the yard, one of them
standing near the we'll made leap and
lit with his forefeet on the middle of
the floor of the we'll, which immediate
ly gave way under him He made few
efforts to extricate himself, and sue
ceeded in getting out with his fore feet
but got in with his hind feet. Mr.. Ul-
rich went to his assistance and took
hold of the halter and pulled, but this
was of no avail for as soon as Mr.. u
rich pulled at the halter the horse
threw back his head, overbalanced
himself, and went to the bottom of the
we'll from which be was taken dead.