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

GENERAL ITEMS
A,welve-vear-old girl of Mt. G!
cad. Ohio, has just died fron 1ne o.
fects of oYer-exertion In jumping
rope. ,rz..t;r.
(Ohio) wedding put on bis nat nm
mediately after the ceremony sale :
..Good by" to his wife, explained y
the guests that he had no intention
Of living With her, and cody de
parted. -, rhursdo,
afternoon. during a storm OF hail ano
l;ghtping four boys, ranging In years
from IL to IA, were struck by llght
ming and killed. They were engaged
in playing base bali, during recess 81
school. at the time of the sad accl
dent.
Three masked men forcibly enter.
ed the dwelling of John Baker, an old
man. near Warrington, W. Va, Oh
Tuesday night a week. beat Baker Se
severely and robbed him OF S5Oo'
with which they escaped
William Drummond, aged 5o q
curbstone broker, was burned to death
on the morning of the 2Sth ilt., In a
room of a building on Sixth Avenue
New York, which he occupied as
sleeping apartment. The fire was
caused by Drummond smoking while
in bed.
Forty robbers, mostly Mexicans
have raided settlement near Farm
ington. New Mexico, plundering
houses and driving the people away
A hot fire was kept up during the
raid. Four settlers were killed and
the robbers carried off one hundred
head of cattle.
A terrible case of sickness is re
ported from Cresco, Mich. A desh
tute family named Weaver, eight IN
number, living on an island in the
center of large marsh, were found
nearly all down with q malignant
form of scarlet fever. Three of the
children died in twenty-four hours.
A horse of William Strader fell
into mine hole forty feet deep, neal
Washington, Warren county, N. D.
on Saturday a week. A derrick was
rugged and he was extricated few
hours afterward apparently but Little
hurt.
A Cincinnati dispatch states thai
on Sunday night a week, the wife Of
ex-representative ]. D. Thompson, OF
Lewis county, Ky, was drowned by
the upsetting of row-boat in a swol
len stream. Mr.. Thompson, a deli
cate man, supported his wife fol-
nearly half an hour, but when help
arrived and they were brought ashore
the lady was dead and Mr.. Thomp
son SO much exhausted that his re
covery is deemed doubtful.
A woman named Blynn called on a
dentist in North Vineland, N. j., re
Gently, for the purpose Of having
some teeth extracted, and fearing to
take chloroform, resolved to test the
anesthetic properties of whisky and
applejack- She drank half-pint OF
each of the beverages and became
unconscious. She never recovered
from the effect of the liquor, and died
in few hours.
Owing to the severity of the past
winter in Japan, the deer have in some
parts descended from the mountains
to the neighborhood of the seashore,
where they have been slaughtered by
thousands, without any apparent
effect upon their number. Venison
is, of course, at discount under such
circumstances, and a deer's carcass,
worth from twelve to fifteen yen as
ordinary rule, may now be purchased
in Hakodate for yen and half
equal to S1.56.
Royal S. Carr, convicted of muir
dering w. W. Murcommock on the
11th of December, 1878, was hanged
on the 29th of April, at Windsor, Vt,
in the State Prison. Carr wished to
marry Murcommock's wife, and In
duced the former to go hunting with
him, when lie deliberately shot him
from behind. He had served a ten
years term for killing Mary E. Loomis
at Worcester. He was brutal, ig
norant fellow, and manifested nc
concern after receiving his sentence.
A striking example of canine fidel
ity and sagacity was witnessed IL
Boston few days ago. Attention
was attracted to a dog who was
making some singular demonstrations
and on approaching him, man wa:
found lying dead in the road Or
attempting to make closer examina
ton, the dog grew furious and would
allow no one to touch his dead mas
ter. He was lassoed, and the maj
was removed to an undertaker's, bui
the dog slipped the moose and fol
lowed. On forcing his way into the
room, he lay down by the body, moan
ing as if in the deepest anguish, oc
casionally trying to rouse the deaG
man by putting his paw on the body
The mans residence was discovered
and the body was taken home, thu
dog following closely.
A wedding took place in Connect
cut few evenings ago under pecu
liar circumstances, showing the ex
tent to which parties matrimonially
inclined will submit to Inconvenience
rather than be disappointed TIL,
happy couple, unaequainted with tn,
marriage laws, had obtained a certifi
cate in one county and engaged ,
parson to perform the ceremony who
resided in another. On making theil
appearance at the appointed hour
the reverend gentleman informed
them that they could not be married
there. and proposed to accOmnan,