Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-08
GENERAL ITEMS.


eye and IN an abrasion In his sisters
face. Since then both father and
daughter have been attacked with .
peculiar form Of rabies called lysopho'
bia, and little hope is entertained Of
saving their lives.
The Missouri farmer who attempted
to wreck special train on which MIR.
Jay Gould and party were passing
north towards Sedalia says that be vas
prompted by revenge on accoun, of his
stock having been destroyed.
The action brought by DIR. Edward
Small, of Brooklyn, N. Y. to recover
$25, 900 from Mr.. Bullenkamp, gro
Ger in Montague street, for estranging
his wife from her home and children,
resulted in a verdict for $4,000 for the
plaintiff.
In Yosemite Valley this winter there
are 6fty-nine residents. Also more
visitors are in the valley than is usual
at this time of year. The ice at the
base of Yosemite Falls has formed in
a cone that extends upwarsd some two
hundred fee. and with the falling wa
ter forms . scene of surprising brill
fancy.
Miss High, a teacher in a public
school three miles from West Jefferson,
Ohio, on Thursday called in John But
Ter, one of the directors, TO assist her
in quelling a disturbance among the
pupils instigated by boy named George
Scott, l9 years of age Mr. Butler so
enraged Scott that the latter struck
him on the head with a piece OF coal,
crushing his skull and inficting injuries
from which be cannot recover. Scott
escaped.
Mrs. Ellen Bergen, charged with Kill
ling her ten-montbs-old child by sleep
ing on it while intoxicated on Decem
ber 9 last, was at New York convicted
of man-slaughter 10 the second degree.
The District Attorney stated that
she has killed two other children in =
similar manner.
A number of cattle are dying in Mills
county. Iowa, from what is supposed to
be anthrax. A farmer named Jos eph
Boggs skinned one Of his ard threw the
carcass to bis fsttening hogs, and next
morning every hog IN the pen was dead
nine 10 number.
Nearly ali OF the agricultural work
in Prussia Is done By women, and the
custom Is now as it has always been:
the men are considered far too brave
aud strong to engage in anything less
important than war.
J. r. Hefir, residing at Wspello,
Iowa, on Thursday fatally shot his wife
aud then blew out his own brains. The
couple bad lived unhappily together
Edward Fox, colored, aged 10 years,
who was arrested at Flushing, Il. L., on
Thursday, for robbing , club room, has
confessed that a lad named Parker and
himself have burned several buildings
in the village lately.
A Norristown barber has bcen fined
for working on Sunday.
Captain Clarke, of Cassville, Hunt
ingdon county, is l0l years old. He
served in the war of 1912.
The Peruvian Chilian war promises
to be transferred to this country.
Polygamy must 60 is the prevailing
sentiment.
Queen Victoria will visit tb. CONT
nent next summer.
Il. NJ. Phillips, prominent young
farmer of Jeffer.onville, Ill. and Rich
ard Milford schoolboy Of l6 years,
fought last Friday about the collection
of money for Sunday school library.
Milford stabbed Phillip. with a pocket
knife, killing him Instantly. Milford
has surrendered himself.
Tuesday forenoon a week stranger
named john Srreicher was found lying
in woods near Scottdale, in Westmors-
land county. There was a CHASTITY bull
let hole in his left breast, but lite wa.
not extinct. Near him lay handsome
revolver, stained all over with blood.
The man was removed to the county
home, near Greensburg, where be died
the next night. The only words he
spoke were "Follow them up! follow
them up" He was apparently fifty
years Of age. The only clue to his
identity was obtained from a paper
bearing the words, "John Streicber,
Bloomfield" A small sum of money
was also found on his person. The
theory Is that be was murdered for bis
money, and that the amount found was
left in order to th'ow of suspicion.
Tie following interesting story comes
from Richburg, New York: Last July
this was village of less than 200 in
habitants. 1t was a pious nsighbor-
hood, peopled by community of Sew
enth Day Baptists. In July a man
named Boyle struck $50 barrel oil
we'll near the village. Land went from
ten dollars to three hundred dollars.
There are now $50 oil wells in the
neighborhood producing 100000 bar
rels of oil day. Richburg has 5 1000
1t had three murders
within six weeks. There are several
hotels, an opera house, banks faro and
nationally Chinese laundries, bagnIos
and rum hotels. Four railroads have
been built within three months. The
Seventh day Baptists have all sold
their lands and become rich. Six oil
wells are completed daily, yielding
from Is to $50 barrels each On start
Every door yard has It's derrick, and
one man has taken bis front porch for a
boiler house. A short distance away
a village Of 5000 inhabitants, known
as Bolivar, has sprung up from a coll
ection of farms.-Four railroads centre
st that place. The oil production of
this district at the present rate of in
crease will be $1,000 barrels day BY
February. No district in the history
of the trade was ever developed so rap
idly. notwithstanding that crude oil is