Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1881-11-30
STATE ITEMS.


lady, had her pocket picked of $2o IN
the cars going to Pottstown the other
day.
A walnut tree on the farm of John
W oolston, at Middletown, Dauph'n
county, was planted in l72S, and is ~
feet in circumference.
Charles Thompson was arrested at
Chester yesterday upon suspicion oil
having stolen horse and buggy found
in his possession. lie attempted sui
eide almost as soon as arrested, aud at
ter being committed TO Jail for trial he
again attempted to kill himself.
The largest tannery in the world Is
just being completed at Norris, Tioga
county. Three engines and ten thirty.
two feet boilers will furnish steam and
force the machinery. 1t will grind one
hundred cords of bark day.
Cora Meyer, 10 year old child, of
Chapman's Station, Lehieh county.
while engaged at play with a comPan-
ion, on Fiday last, fell upon her head
and was instantly killed.
The Centre County Democrat says
that on the farm of S. NJ. Spangler, in
Miles township, that county, there Is
natural bridge of rock IL feet high and
so feet long.
George Hoff, having the small pox,
walked fifteen miles in Somerset county
from a farm house, where they would
not keep him. to his home, where he
arrived in drizzllng rain storm IN
dellrous condition.
Andrew Mahafy, miner, cut his
throat at Snow Shoe, Clearheld county
because his wife is confirmed drunk
ard So he said in note found IL his
pocket.
In the Luzerne county court Frank
lin Monroe has just been awarded a
verdict in damages of $4,000 against
the Delaware, Lackawanna and West
ere railroad. The plaintiff was riding
on a return, ticket, which the conduc-
tor took up, and, subsequently demand
ing fare, it was refused. He was put
off the train at an unsheltered point, in
a storm, and the exposure injured his
health. The trial attracted considera-
BILE interest.
Horace King, laborer, shot him
self near Sbippensburg a day or two
since, fearing that he would starve
this winter. His clumsy handling of
the weapon showed that he will not die
of powder and tall
ii. A. Trout, Burgess of Girard ,
Erie county, was stamped to death re-
Gently By vicious colt.
The newly oil we'll at
Warren flowed 700 barrels during the
first "a hours.
Detective Lyon has taken UrIah
Mover, one of the Kinizler murderers,
to Snyder county for trial. He captur-
ed him in Michigan.
Two brothers, John and Andrew
Murphy of Plttsburg, had a quarrel
near Cresson, while hunting, when John
shot Andrew in the back, wounding
him severely.
Large quantities of counterfeit silver
coin is in circulation in Pi:tsburg.
The boiler of stationary engine al
Stroudsburg exploded Saturday week
destroyed the building in which it was
located and killed two cows in an ad-
jacent lot, but did not injure the engi
neer, who was absent taking glass o.
beer.
A citizen of Frackville found
fish four inches in length il
the water-spout of three-story build
ing few days ago and the people o'
the town are excited over tie question
as to how it found its way TO its lofty
perch. A solution of the problem ha'
not yet been reached.
John g. Bates; sixty years of age
a resident Of Lower Merton township
Montgomery county, has been place'
in the Insane Hospital at Norristowu
His insanity is said to be due to tn
excitement over the assassination o
President Garfield.
Samuel Sickman, of California, Of
the Monongahela River, who suddenl
disappeared in 1868, reapeared equal
as suddenly few days ago, and rea
the inscription that had been place
upon a monument to his memory.
Ten miles a day was the time mad
By drove of 800 turkeys that wer
driven recently from Freedsburg, ClaI
ion county, to Bradford.
The Press, of Greensburg, has dis
patch from Tarr, Westmoreland count
saying that smallpox prevails anon
the dogs in that place and many I
: them have been killed.
: Tobias Reese was recently browne
in Tionesta Creek near TiOues;a-
Mss. W. NJ. Evans, Of Pottstowl
claims TO have the tOmsbsYk used b
Sitting Bull in the CusteE massacr
1t was given to her by Lieutenant Ogl
to whom it was surrendered.
Chester county is sending hickol
nuts TO Brazil aud receives Brazil Du
: in return.
An unknown old woman was four
; dead in the streets of Pittsburg. Sta
vation was the cause of death.
John Altman, of Uniontown, Fayet
county, was robbed of SlG0 in Pitt
. burg saloon by waiter girl.
! The Greensburg .4rgus says tb
Westmoreland county is overrun wi
confidence men and that many farme
have been badly swindled.