Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-03-15
STATE ITEMS.


A dispatch from Lancaster, Pa,
last Wednesday narrates the follow
ing terrible affray: James Shaw. hv-
ing at secluded spot near the village
of Bartville in the southeastern sec
ton of this county, shot and instant
ly killed his wife this morning. The
pair had not been living happily to-
gether. and for some time there had
been bitter contention between them
on account of the refusal of Mrs.
Shaw to reconyey to her husband the
title to the farm on which they re-
sided and which Shaw had decided to
her when in financial difficulty. This
morning Shaw began packing up
some of his traps with a view of
leaving home. Mrs. Shaw objected
to his taking a double-barreled gun,
which she claimed belonged to their
son. He insisted on taking it, how
ever, and she followed him out to the
barn, where she attempted to regain
possession of it. The little children
saw the alteration, and thirteen
yer-old daughter says her father
stepped back few steps, took aim
and fired at her mother. The load
took effec. in the left side, just below
the shoulder blade, and the woman
fell dead in a pool of blood. Shaw
Immediately took to the woods. A
pursuing party was at once organized
and are securing the country for the
murderer. The murderer is about
fifty years old and the father of five
children, the oldest married and the
youngest girl of four years. One
son lives in Philadelphia.
Indiana county has dwarf in the
person of Miss Cassidy, of Smicks-
burg, who will be ID years old in
April. She is only thirty-two and
one half inches high, and weighs
twenty-one and one fourth pounds /;
is well developed and has never had
any sickness in her life. She has not
grown one-half inch since she was
three years of age, and is well pro-
portioned with the exception that Ter
head is perhaps somewhat larger than
it should be in proportion to the rest
of her person, and she runs around
the house and enjoys herself as much
as any one could.
Edward Worth, residing at Wawa,
Delaware county, sold his Jersey cow,
Bertha Morgan, few days ago for
$500. The purchaser is Velancy V.
Fuller, of Canada, who also paid Mr..
Worth 500 for two heifers, one a
yearling and the other two years old.
John G. Burrowes and Horace b.
Zahm, of Lancaster, have purchased
the Cypress Islands, in the Susque-
hanna River, and will devote them
exclusively to poultry-raising for the
Philadelphia and Baltimore markets.
The insurance company of Ian
caster county, started a little over a
year ago, TO insure tobacco crops
against damage by hail paid out in
msurances last season over S91, 900.
Lumbermen state that the high
waters this year will bring down more
lumber than has reached the market
in that way for years.
A gale overturned a tree at Misery
Bay, near Erie, on Wednesday a week.
This exposed two skulls, supposed to
be those of James Bird and Edward
Rankin, deserters from Niagara in
1913. Bird was at the time made the
subject of a well-known ballad.
Eighty members of the Evangel-
ical Mission Church in Reading have
refused to use the building in which
the congregation worships. They
claim to be dissatisfied with the site
of the church and Will build one upon
another location.
Tobacco growers in York county
will increase their acreage this year.
The Reading .Neus publishes the
death-bed confession of Mrs. George
Metz, who died recently at that place.
Her husband was proprietor of
large farm in Berks county in 1862,
and employed young married man
at that time named John Rauch.
Rauch suspected Metz of intimacy
with his wife, and during a fight in
the barn over the matter Rauch was
killed. Metz set fire to the barn,
consuming the body of Rauch, and
before his death a few years ago con-
fessed the deed to his wife. She, un-
willing to carry the secret to the
grave, communicated it to her friends
while on her death-bed.
All the druggists in Washington,
Pa, with single exception, will be ar
raigned at Court, for selling liquor
without license.
William Luiz and Henry Greeninger,
of Denver, Lancaster county, have
signed articles to fight for a prize of
$500. Both men are said to be of