Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-06-15
STATE ITEMS.

STATE ITEMS.
Pbilsdelphia's two public baths are
we'll patronized.
Mr.. George o. Hensel, of Lancaster
has 10, 900 silk worms at work.
Five thousand young trout have been
placed in streams in Chester county.
Employees in Reading breweries
will each average forty glasses of beer
. day.
A mercantile firm in CIearfeld payr
from fifty cents to 81 so per head for
live foxes.
The Sportsman's club Of Washing
ton county rsy 81 so for Information
concerning every squirrel shot out Of
season.
Rachel Lester died in Allegheny
City while laughing.
A number of furnaces have gone into
blast in Chester county since the 6rst
of the month.
There is an eye disease in Pike
county that effects the optics Of man
and beast alike.
Hannah John, . domestic living IN
West Bradford township, Chester coun-
ty, attempted suicide BY cutting her
throat with razor.
A Scranton stepmother who had not
seen her stepdaughter, Anna Morgan,
for several weeks suddenly met her on
the stteet and shook her SO violently
that she fell in fit.
Mrs. j. p. Harsen, wife Of the Pres
byterian clergyman at Nanticoke is i'll
With smallpox contracted by nursing
q female servant who had it.
The following counties in this State
are free from county debt; Adams,
Butler, Cambria, Fsyette, Fulton,
Greene, Lycoming, Northampton, Sny-
der, Susquebsnns, Union, Washington,
Westmorelsnd and Wyoming.
John b. Hoffman and John H.
Feltz killed black snake near Mifflin
Station, Lebanon county . few days ago
that measued l3 feet in length.
Cut worms have made their appear
arance in the tobacco patches of Ches-
ter county.
Andrew C. Crozier of Millerstown, +,
Vensngo county, has been held for
Court, for indecent assault upon Miss
Kate Gilbert of that place.
James Dickson was accidentally
drowned in Rsystown Branch, Hunting
don county on Friday.
The body of Marshall Irwin, . boy,
who disappeared from Allegheny City
FIVE weeks ago, was found In the Allie
gheny River on Wednesday.
Fossil bones, apparently of human
origin, were dug up last week in East
Franklin colliery, Schuylkill county,
1000 feet below the surface Of the earth.
There we're no marriages in the Sec-
ond Presbyterian congregation at
Scranton during the past year.
John Smith, livingin in Plymouth town
ship, Montgomery county, was attack
ed BY highwaymen on Thursday, who
shot him dangerously and then robbed
him of clothing and SIT in money.
A washout occurred on Thursday
night on the Philadelphia, WHINING
ton and Baltimore Railroad, near
Aberdeen, about thirty three miles
east Of Baltimore, which put . stop to
all trains.
On the night of the 9Th inst, Mrs.
Jennie Ducy, wife of a prominent citi-
zen Of Wapella, Illinois committed sui
eide in an appalling manner. She burn
ed herself to death by turning coal oil
on bef cio.he, snd igniting them with
fire. In few minutes she was burned
to crisp. For some time past she
bad been suffering from a slight insani
ty. She was woman quite we'll known
in Central Illinois for her literary cul-
ture.
That Miss BIand:ng Elting of Port
Jervis New York is q brave woman Is
proven by what she did on the afternoon
of the Sth inst She captured burglar
named Charles |. Wright. "Miss EIt-
ing was at the barn. Hearing the dog
barking at the house she went out and
discovered man on the roof She or
dered him down and when be came she
collared him. The burglar fought and
struggled desperately, and tried to
throw Miss Eltlng into the Neversink
river. She finally threw him down,
and, placing her knees on him, held
hiu until the help summoned by bcr
cries arrived"
William Murphy, the divorced hus-
band Of Mrs. Newton MoClsrran, visit
ed the home Of that lady, at Edgewood,
near Pittsburg On the afternoon of the
9TH inst, and requested an interview.
When Mrs. NlcClarran appeared, Mur
ply threw his aIEs around her mech,
and while thus embracing her drew a
revolver and shot her in the back. He
hred q second shot, which entered her
breast, and then placed the revolver
against bis forehead and fired, the bull
let crashing through his brain, killing
him instantly. 1t is thought that Mrs.
McClarran will recover. She obtained
divorce from Murphy on account of
i'll treatment, and subsequently married
Colonel William Campbell, who died