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

causes uishgftdUlc ocuSttou ouooH
members Of Congress here. The
amount of l,S47 ,65l ,593 is consider
ed frightful aud the way out of the
dilemma is being generally discussed.
The report will, it is thought, create q
Congressional breeze.
STATE ITEMS. 9E3
Joseph Pegley was run over and in
stantiy killed at Reading Pa, on the
lst by q sleigh. The driver and an
other occupant of the sleigh we're ar
rested.
A Chester county msn identified his
chicken which a neighbor refused to
give up BY taking the bird on the wit
ness stand and saying, "Annie sing
for corn." whereupon, according to the
vivacious serbs OF the Village Record
the chicken produced . noise which
was not . cackle nor q crow, but an
evident improvisation intended as Q
supplication for edible favors.
James Simmons, Of Washington
county, set steel trap upon dead
chicken and caught q redtsiled buz
sard which measured four feet and four
inches across the wings. On Saturday
he caught another IN the same manner
which measured only one inch less than
the bird csught the day previous.
These are rare birds in that vicinity.
The residence of Moses Greenwald.
at Chsmbersburg, was entered by
burglars On Friday night and robbed
of $400 in money and yaluables
Washington county has Sl6,976,06
in her treasury and has no debts.
Four children Of Wrigbter Shay, of
Jessup township, Susquehanna county,
have died of diphtheria within the past
two weeks.
4 table was overturned containing q
lamp at the residence of p. Wisemau,
in Edenboro, Erie county, last week
and the faues from the bursted lamp
in few minutes enveloped a small
child near by, burning it to q crisp.
At the January term of court in
Scbuylkill county one hundred and
seventy-six licenses to sell liquor we're
issued.
Masked men entered the house of
Squire SomervIlIe, at Catfish, Butler
county, on Friday night, and COMPEL
ing the family to silence at the points
of revolvers, took $4,000 10 money and
bonds.
Web Russell, aged fifty years, was
killed at Big Shanty, Mexican county,
by log falling on him which he was
removing from 3 car.
Frank Rumberger, the youngest of
the Harrisburg murderers, made a new
confession. He admits the murder,
but alleges his brother fired the shot.
The confession is disbelieved.
An unknown man, evidently tramp
was found on Friday morning a week,
at Wister's furnace, near Harrisburg,
burned to crisp. He went to sleep
beside the ovens, and fell off during
the night upon some red hot plates.
Charles Hotan, of Prospect, Cam
bria county, was killed by cars near
that place on Thursday.
There are several cases of small pox
in Plymouth, i.azerne county, and the
schools have been closed. At Dsttor-
wood one family of ten are all afflicted.
In Wilkesbarre there are FIVE cases.
An unknown man, apparently Ger
man about tbirty-fve years old, was
found on Thursday a week in the woods
near Linden frozen stiff. He was sit
ting on the ground leaning against a
chestnut sapling, with a rope loosely
entwined around his neck and banging
slack from a twig incapable of support
ing bis weight. There is a suspicion
that he was murdered and put in that
position to mislead.
Mary White q colored married wo-
man, while walking on the evening of
Feb, lst at Harrisburg with a man
named George Tolbert, was dangerous
ly shot in the left breast by q person
unknown, who was secreted in an alley
way. The bullet passed through the
right hand OF Tolbert and then struck
the woman. No cause has been discov-
cred for the act. The woman's husband
was st home at the time of the shooting.
John Lytle, of Utica, Venango couu-
y was caught under falling tree, a
few days since, and fatally injured.
William Ray, q welLto- do farmer re-
siding near Indiana, while despondent
committed suicide on Thursday night
by hanging.
A store was destroyed by fire at
Uniondale, Luzern county, on Saturday
and the owner was said to have been
burned alive. The building was fred BY
tramps, with whom that part of the
State is infested.
The bullet has been extracted from
the back Of William Root, a prisoner
in the Lebanon county Jail, who was
shot short time ago while attempting
to commit burglary in Lebanon. 1t
was found few inches below the sur.
face, where it had encvsted.
The Titusville Herald says that Mr..
A. K Williams, of Minneapolis, Mimi,
is IN that city looking after machinery
that will give current of air moving
from IS to 100 miles an hour. Mr..
Williams has invented pipes by which
ha nponoooI 80 -o-. a.