Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-04-04
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operating in estuoreiand county.
/ Several houses along the country roads
have been broken into and robbed
within the past few days.
Herman Neumad, prominent mer-
ohaut of st. CLAIR, Schoolkili county,
committed suicide bv hanging himself
B 10 his stable March 81. He was wio
over, and the opposition of his daugh
Ter to his marryng ard the commence
ment of proceedings for a breach of
promise melted him to self destruction.
-Ffeterick Londen, of, College Point,
Long Island, dropped dead in New
/ York the other day while drinking 4
glass of beer. The undertaken at COL
lege Poiat who received the body
packed 1t in ice aud drove up to
Londen's door with it When the dody
vas set down roughly in the room
shere Mrs. Londen' was sitting it was
tho first ;ntima,ion to Ler that her hus.
band was dead. The shock was too vi
oleDt, and she has become insane.
Prince Leopold of HoheDzollern,
brother of Duchess of Connaught, has
been apprentice to learn the trade OF
a locksmitb, in rcoordance wIth the
custom of the royal family of Prussia.
At I'll Dorado, Kan, some drunken
inmates set FIRE to the jail. The build
ing was destroyed and one of the pris-
eaers burned to death
Cbambersburg is also talking about
a beer sugar factory.
Frank Mile, said TO have the inveu-
tor of shoe backing, died at Warsaw,
New York He vas born IN Waliingford
Three persons in Lancaster were re
Gently relieved of annoying diseases by
the faith-cure process.
Several young mea broke into a
church near LeBoeuf, Erie cOunty, and
stole the bread and VINE which had
} been placed upon the altar preparatory
10 a celebration of the Lords supper
Dan Tsior, OF Gresnsburg, has been
teamster for thirty-two consecutive
years The local paper estimates thai
in that time be has drawen ll2,32C
tone. aud travelled $3.50 miles viii
his wagon, or twice around the world
4 gambler living IN Bradford re
Gently broke three faro banks at plal
in Syracuse. He lost his winnings ucxt
day by an unfortunate speculation il
+ oil.
Tho people of DIncannon. Perr'
county. have concluded to purchas
stream FIRE engine.
In the little town OF Grsencas.ls, il
/ franklin county. there are seventy
four persons above sixty years of age
, OF this number fifteen are more thai
| eighty years old and more than ninetl
e years old.
I The Pennsylvania Railroad Uompan'
! isercting a handsome new station 4
Johnstown.
4 A factory at Williamsport has .
r standing order TO make four carload
I of kindling wood day for Philadelphia
A law student had just been sdmite,
to the Boston bar. and had opened a
office io5 practice. when the death O
his father left him 100000. He was i,
!, such haste to get aud spent the none,
that he left the Office without stoppin,
to lock the door, abandoning bis fin
library aud furniture TO his creditor:
lie wasted his fortune so wantoul,
that i. only lasted year. Now be i
, poioteJ out at Lewistown, Ne, bro
. ken-d down drunkard. living On th
6 charity of old acquain ances.
MrJsmes Alexander of Holiday
burg, few davs ago discovered sol
place on the fore of bis cellar. and o.
DIGGING down a considerable depth
= he exunied the skeleton of a child
e which had been buried there before )
it occupied the premises. Who put th
e body therea whether the child was fou
S ly dealt With, or whether is was hi
S away TO conceal woiDans shame al
n mysteries, and will in all probabiiit
d remain So
MY husband had drunken habits he codl
not overcome until Parker's Ginger Ton
took away his thirst for stimulants, restoi
: ed his energy Of mind and gave him streng,
Il 10 attend to business.-Cincinnsti Lady.
q ST Lewis, March 26. Perhaps the lar
gest transaction in cattle ever made i
n this eountry was effected at Fort Worth
Texas last Saturday, the sale being O
: $4,000 head of full-grown cattle by th
a lizards aud Harold Brothers to to
n Franklin Land and cattle Company, {
r New YoIk, composed Of Charles
Franklin, Frank G. Brown, presider
Of toe Bassick Mines. Colorado, an
o b B. Groom & Son, of Lexington. Ker
, tucky, extensive breeders and impor
? tsrs of short horned cattle. She pic
paid is kept private, but the 6gure
;, A New Hampshire man mailed
= letter in July, 1873, to bis son. VII
: was then in Siberia. Three years after
wards it was returned to him, bis 50,
having gone from there TO china. Fl
, then sent 1t to Hong Kong, where it ar
rived week after his sons ship had
sailed Last week the letter again re
, turned aud he remsiled it to Aiaski
where the ship will tcuch during th
: summer The letter contains the notic
Of bis mothers death snd lsck Of be
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