Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-04-05
STATE ITEMS.

STATE HI EMS
Charles Livergood, prominent
business man of Scottdsle " Westmore-
land county, has suddenly disappeared.
Adam Rauch, Mennonite preacher
of Bird in-hand, Lancaster county, fell
down q fight of stairs on Tuesday .
week and received fatal injuries.
jesse B. Strait, farmer, living
near EdiDboro, Erie county, was killed
. few days ago by the fall Of tree.
Andrew Mayo dropped dead in Erie
on Tuesday night week Of starvation.
Reuben LoDgaker, aged about GO
years, resident Of Plymouth township
Montgomery county, committed suicide
on Wednesday morning week b.
drowning in bis own we'll.
Robert Bartell, while attending the
funeral of bis father in-law, D. S. Baue
in Lancaster on Monday . week sud-
denly expired.
A raft left Clear6eld some days ago
which was 342 feet long, 2Si feet vide
and measured 1908 cubic feet.
A Pottsville dog, after suffering sew
eral days with toothache and driving
the whole neighborbood mad by howl
ing, has just been relieved of the ma
lady BY having the tooth pulled.
A Lycomlpg county maE named Pc
ter Hoover, while trimming apple trees
was struck on the Lead By the spring
of bent limb With such force rs to
crush his skull.
William H. Deibert, of Leadingville
is wonderfully deliberate and imper-
turable. After eating . dinner in his
usual slow manner, be pushed bis chair
back from the table and remarked:
"Uncle Abe is hanging in the barn."
The family rushed out and found that
Abraham Deibert had indeed commit
ed suicide. William said be bad not
thought it best to spoil the meal for
them, considering that the man was
already past help when discovered.
There we're severe hail storms in
Washington county on Sunday . week.
c. F. Spencer, Jr., Of Erie, is one
week old, and weighs . pound and
three quarters.
Mrs. Patterson, young married
woman, was instantly killed on the
railroad at Shenandoah last Wednesday
while picking coal.
A tramp who had been kindly cared
for BY Mlfflin county farmer showed
bis gratitude BY destroying = valuable
set of harness belonging to his beuefac-
tor.
Thirty-6ve of the young Indians At
Carlisle have become church members.
Mr.. Garner Wilson, of Cowley Run,
Potter county, was startled few days
since by seeing doe running past him
with . wildcat mounted on her back
She ran but a short distance and fell
dead. Mr.. Wilson shot the wildcat
Wah Lin, Cblnsman, at Bradford,
recently committed suicide because
Kittie Lee, likly mulatto, would not
encourage bis attentions.
Warrants have been issued at War
rem Pa, for sixty persons for illegal
fishing.
James Reese, of Warren twp,
Franklin county, fell into Ere . few
days since, while drunk, and was fatal
ly burned.
A number Of Jobnstown lads have
been fined one dollar and costs for
shooting rats on Sunday.
Miss Nellie Barton, q young and at
tractive lady of Harbor Creek Erie
county, has eloped with Clark Dumars,
who leaves behind q wife and three
children. They have been heard from
in California.
The newspapers of Forest couoty say
that the wild pigeons are coming to
roost in that county in great numbers.
The beech nuts which attract the birds
are reported very abundant this year.
Twenty-six hundred and seventy six
sheep we're killed by dogs in Lycouing
county during the past two years.
During a storm in Venssgo county
on Monday hsil-stones fell that were Is
large as walnuts.
An unknown man was killed BY cars
at Portland. Northampton county, on
Friday. He bad q kit of burglars
tools, including powder and fuse.
The Williamsport Banner says that
Johnny Steele, better known as "CoAl
Oil johnny" is . common laborer on
the Tide water Pipe Line.
Barbara Hacker, an aged lady Of
Lancaster, committed suicide on FRI
day morning by hanging herself to a
bed post. She had been suffering for
some time with melancholia.