Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-05-30

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Mr.. and Mrs. Gavender, of Logan
Ohio, hsvs logged through life to
| gether for II years.
Dukes was recently employed q
Uniontown in case involving S:2.62
Counsel ON the other side refused ID
appear when he learned Dukes was in
the case, but his client appeared in biz
own behalf and won the case.
Senator Mitchell is said to be assist
ing bis SOD to farm in the Red river
district, Dakota They have put out
600 acres of wheat and oats. When
the Senator returns to Washington
next winter he can justly claim to be q
horny-handed son of toll.
Elisha Bentley, of Turtle Point, Nc
Kean county, accidently discharged q
gun, q few days since while showing it
to q friend, and the charge taking eff
feet in the stomach of bis mother, kill
ed her almost instantly. Bentley is
frantic with grief.
George Currant, q rich old iuhsbi-
tant of Sparta, N. j., sued DR.. Lewis,
bis family physician, for $3.50, for his
time and trouble ia going after him
once when he could not come. The
doctor carried the case to court, where
the old man was nonsuited and had q
big bill Of costs to pay.
Jacob Gonoway, Lancaster county
boy, threw railroad tie on the track
of the Reading & Columbia road, for
"fun, just to see the train jump" A
freight tram came along and ran into
the obstruction. The engine and a
dozen or more of cars we're wrecked
and the master mechanic of the road
was killed. The lad confessed and
has been lodged in the Lancaster Jail.
Mss S P. Sales, of Muskingum Co.,
o, sues for q divorce on the novel
ground that her Husband, who conducts
family worship three times day, Sc
lects passages denouncing all manner of
sins, and then applies them to her with
bitterest denunciation, while the entire
family is compelled to listen.
Before Justice Duffy, 10 New York,
Mrs. Martin disputed with Mrs. New
man the ownership of a gilded clock.
Ten witnesses swore that the time
piece belonged to Mrs. Martin, and 13
that Mrs. Newman owned it. The
puzzled Justice left the clock where
the Court found it.
While G.. L. Stakemire, of " ash
ington county, was burning brush a
few days ago log started rolling
down the hillside toward him. He
tried to jump over it, but the log struck
him, threw him into the burning brush,
and held him fast in the fire; where be
would have burned to death had not
neighbor heard his cries and FASTENED
to his rescue
A dispatch from Muscle Shoals, Al
ALBANIA, gives details of the lynching of
George Ware, colored, who murdered
a white boy, aged IL, to secure Sl2
which had just beon psid to the boy.
After robbing his victim be threw the
10y s times into the river, but the boy
swan back to shore. After thus
amusing himself by throwing the boy
into the river he tied him, beat out his
brains with stone and again threw
him ill., a man on the opposite shore
witnessed the murder, but the river
was too wide for him to make his pres
ence known. A description of the negro
was given to the jaller, who arr, sted
him. The same night large crowd of
workmen employed on the river i'm
provements visited the Jail and deman-
ded the prisoner. Owing to the del
icate condition of the jaller's vile at
the time, the mob was persuaded to
disperse. All this occurred on the 20
tn of April. On Saturday night April
2S the mob revisited the Jail, carried
the jaller's wife to another house, then
took the prisoner and hung him to the
beam in the depot building and rid
died his body with bullet holes. The
negro confessed.
Hal Homes, who was being tried for mur-
der at Osange, Texas, one day last week,
was allowed TO go to his brother.in-lsw'
house in charge of deputy sheriff, for
breakfast. After breakfast he went into
another room TO write a letter. aud on re-
turning seized Winchester rifle from IN
der a table and dashing out escaped on
horseback. The court went on with the
trial, dispensing with the presense of the
accused.
A desperate named Coyote Bill got
drunk and disorderly recently in q Dakota
town. He feared an arrest, and concluded
that his only safety lay in disabling the
only Justice in the place, he broke into the
residence and pounded him
until he was insensible. The Judge recog-
cred conscio usness in time to send Coy
ote Bill to prison for l year the next morn
ing.
f. L. Duffee, proprietor of the Wa
ter works at Kendall, Mexican county,
was hanged in efigy Tuesday night for
refusing to supply the town with water
while several buildings were on FIRE
last Friday. He has offered reward
for the arrest of the persons that made
the eaigy.
Thirty boys constitute q church
choir in Williamsport Pa,
Duchess Junctson, N. Y. May 10.
A freight train going south on the
New York Central and Hudson River
Railroad last night broke il two near
the Highlands Station aud the rear
part was run into by another freight
train following In the caboose Of the
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