Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1883-10-03
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! A daughter OF William Crane, o!
Scotia, Centre county fell out of bed
recently and broke her neck.
A young man who only weighed
120 pounds has taken him to wife
a New York damsel who weighs SIT
pounds.
A good straw bed was found in a
front door yard at Zumbro, Mimi,
the morning after the Rochester cy-
clone. 1t had been carried by the
blast 13 miles. Straws showed
which way the wind blew
Five cows, belonging to a farmer
near Bedford, wandered into a de
sorted building and pushed the
door shut after them. They were
/ found in an almost furnished con
dition, after II days Imprisonment.
Thoe. Bean, of Winslow township,
Jefferson county, cut down a tree on
Wednesday week, when one of the
limbs struck him with such force in
the neck rs to effect a decapitation.
When the man was found his head
had rolled ut least thirty feet from
where the body lay.
Mercersburg has one brave WON
an A few nights ago Mrs. Van
Horn was awakened by noise pro
ceeding from her chicken coop -
Going to the window she discovered
several thieves at the hen house.
She procured revolver and fired 1
shots, all missing their mark. but
frightening the intruders away.
John Pollett's two daughters. of
F;ankford, Pa, had saved $500 from
their earnings of some years in a
mill, and, having determined to buy
n home. sent there father to the bank
to draw the money. Late that ev-
ening he was found helplessly drunk
IN 2 bar-room, with only S65 of the
$500. He could not tell whether ne
had lost the money or been robbed.
KANSAS CIrY, No, September 81.
At Maryville, Mo, yesterday, the
second day of the Soldiers Reunion
of Southwest Iowa and Northwest
Missouri, a sham battle was fought,
during which Captain p Archer's 5
company charged battery, suppos-
ing that the guns were unloaded.-
Unfortunately one was loaded, and
Private John Small, of Pickering,
forged ahead of the line Just as the
gun was discharged. The wad pass
ed through his body. and his right
arm and shoulder were torn off
He died last evening.
On the 9th of last September, a
sad shooting affair took place at
Mcclure, a station on the Lewistown
and Sunbury railroad in which the
the principals We're son aged Il
years, and daughter aged 9 years
of John Kahley. The Lewistown
Free Press says of il:
Mrs. Kahley was IN the kitchen
attending to her housework whilst
some of the children were in the
stairway playing, which terminated
in their teasing each other. The
boy Charles WIS handling q rifle
while he and his only sister, Cora,
were playing, when the mother re
marked that he should put the gun
away that it was loaded, whereupon
he replied that it wasn't, and needed
not the parental orders. Cora ran
to the top of the stairs, and hiding
under table behind some flour bags,
remarked that he could not hit her.
The reckless lad leveled the rifle,
not thinking it was loaded, and fired,
the ball entering the left breast and
lodging in the opposite side, caus-
ing almost instand death. Upon
seeing what he had done, the boy
ran to his sister, picked her up and
carried her down stairs, where the
mother was Mrs. Kahley, who was
afraid something terrible had taken
place, was about going to see what
was the matter, when she was
met by Cora walking across the
room staggering and gasping for
breath, and upon being asked what
was the matter, replied in German
Der Charles hut mich gerchossa,'
at the same time falling dead
These were her last words. Cora
was aged 6 years, 5 month and "a
days