Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1882-02-15
GENERAL ITEMS.

other day to Cleveland. Ohio, man
for $4,000 The horse has q record
of 2.19, made last summer.
Robbers got in mail car that runs
between Pittsburg and Cincinnati, or
the morning of the 7th inst, and
stole pouch that is said contained
so to IS packages of letters
A dispatch from Iowa City on Tues
day a week says: An infants body,
naked, yet warm, was found yeSter
day morning near the cemetery, hor
ribly mangled by dogs. The flesh
had been torn from one leg and com
pletely eaten off from the head and
face. The child was undoubtedly
born the night before
There is young woman at Chico
pee Falls, Mass, Miss Ida Ferry, who
can boast head of hair which prob.
ably e1cels in abundance and length
anything which has ever been on pub
lie exhibition. In these cases the
hair rarely more than touches the
ground, but full length photograph
of Miss Ferry just taken shows her
hair trailing for half yard along the
floor, though she is of full average
height. But SO much HAIR is after all
3 burden and soon the photograph
will be the only evidence OF it.
Charles Miiier, who was sentenced
on Monday a week to be hanged at
Benton, Scott county, Mo, on March
10 for the murder of Franklin Ham
ilton, committed suicide in his cell on
Tuesday night BY hanging himself
with blanket which he had torn into
strips for the purpose
On Monday night a week a. George
town, Col, Peter Chialero and Do
minique Massey, Italians, were Sc
verely injured by an explosion of
giant powder in a cook stove, placed
there maliciously by another italian,
whom the Sheriff is now in pursuit of.
1t WAS intended for Massey, but Chi
alero received the most severe injur-
les Both men Will probably die
A widow of Shelbyville, Ind, aged
So, induced her drughter to discard
3 lover aged n, and then wooed him
herself, and with such success that
the wedding day is fixed.
A Baptist minister immersed eleven
person in i've minutes at Ciarinda,
Iowa, wading in and out of the stream
with each 1t was a freezing day,
and he had good reasons for haste
Two lives were not lost, but saved,
by railroad accident at Newcomers
town, Ohio. A freight car was
smashed by collision, AMI in it were
found two men insensibie from cold.
They had sneaked III for a free ride,
the door had been locked, and as they
lay near the roof on some cotton
bales without room to move their
limbs, a night at zero would have
killed them if they had not by chance
been discovered.
Counterfeit silver dollars, bearing
the date 1S43, have been discovered
by Chicago bank. They are well
executed, and are made in Central
Illinois.
Major Washburn, engineer and su-
perintendent OF part of the Missouri
Pacific Railroad OF Texas, and the
wife of W. Stoll, the head contractor
of construction, were killed in hand
car accident near Waco, Texas, on
Monday night week.
For some time past Durango, Cal,
has been flooded with counterfeit dol
lars. On Monday evening a week
the Sheriff captured Jim Bush, for
mer member of the notorious Allison
gang, Jack Mcintosh, w. T. Everetts,
a prominent merchant, and two gam
blers, together with their moulds and
stolen bullion from which the bogus
money was made.
From the Buena Vista (Ga.) Argus.
When Joe Rodgers was making svr-
up be left barrel Of the skIm lnings
near the mill A day or two after a
drove OF thirty Eve fine hogs vent for
the skimmings and the whole crowd
got drunk. They cut up all manner OF
d'dos, and foally the entire gang Law
down and went TO sleep. This alarmed
Joe little, and for a while he was iu
doubt whether to administer sweet
milk or strong c0ff.e or send for doc
tor. They got over ;heir spree after
and went around for day or two with
red eyes and the headache.
Senator Pendlefon's house is said to
be the most beautiful in Washington.
Ii is wholly American iu material, all
the wood being pine, maple aud poplar,
polished a3d oiled So as to show the
the beautiful grains. There is Not "a
marble nautei, nothing heavier than
wood simply carved in light, graceful
designs. In spite Of all thus 1t Is init
mated that Mr. Pendlercn would like
TO move into the ~ bite House.
Charles McKil!op. being bsffied in
an attempt TO commit suicide. BY throw
ing himself IN front OF train, ut Win |
nipeg, Manitoba, on Saturday, climbed |
a derrick, and fastening chain around
bis throat. jumped off aud broke his
neck. Domestic unhsppiuess was the
cause.
Lynching is not SO popular in Otta-
va County, Mich, rs in many parts Of
The west Seven men led a mob into
the jail. last summer, for rhe purpose
If hanging a murderer. The sher,ff's
wife locked them in, thus frustrating
Ihrir de-'g'.; aud now they have been
fined SlUU each. on pleading guilty to
of assault. O"e was village
ph, s,c,an, aud ali were men Of good
standing.
Que of the wealthy and fashionable
women OF Z,nesviIle, o.. astonished a
arge company Of keno gamblers by
Taiking cvolly into the room where
hey were at play, accompanied by
policeman. She was in quest of a
'oung brother, who had become poss