Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-18
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ceedings against the directors of that
institution.
Isreal Burkholder was run over by
a wagon near Farmersville, Lancas-
ter county, last Wednesday and in
stantly killed.
The work of winning Mormon con.
verts still goes on. The Arizona
brought 27O immigrants, the fruit OF
proselyting tour of twelve mission
aries, who accompanied their charges
A genuine Chinese lady, the first
one to come to New York who car
lay claim to having had her feet
bandaged, arrived in the Chinese
quarter in that city on Monday night
a week
A wealthy Long Island widower
so years old, has broken his engage.
ment with a woman of 35, on the nov
el plea that she is too young. She
considers her affections damaged SIS,
600 worth.
The Chambersblrg, Franklin Co,
Repository says: when Elk Sheriff
Gable was in Office he sold out Sher
iff kurtZ. On Saturday Sheriff
Kurtz returned the compliment by
selling out Ex-Sheriff Gable"
At a recent wedding out west the
bride was a young lady who had been
great fiirt. When the clergyman
asked the question: "Who gives
this woman away?" a young man
present replied: Il can, but won't
New Orleans Item.
The body Of a dead infant was
found in Trout Run, near the small
town of Oysterberg, in Bedford coun-
ty, on Sunday afternoon a week ago.
The child was fully developed, and a
coroners jury came to the conclusion
that it had been foully dealt with.
Texas forty years ago was practi-
cally desert, and the handful of set
tiers lived pretty much on game. To
day there are more than 100000
cattle, sheep horses, mules and swine
in the state, and the cotton crop last
year was worth more than the cotton
crop of the entire United States in
1913.
A Methodist clergyman who re
ports the proceedings Of the Gener-
al Conference to a Western paper
makes a point for non-smokers in
this way: Fourteen hotels accomo
date ninety of the delegates, presum
ably the smokers, whom decent
housewives would object to recsiv-
ing"
A dispatch dated june 4, from the
City of Mexico, says: Locusts are
causing much damage in the State of
Vera Cruz, and the coffee, tobacco
and sugar crops are threatened. They
come from Yucatan, and they will
probably extend north through the
State of Tamauiipas, into Texas, or
as far as the heat of the climate per
mits.
A lady in Glendive, Mont, hearing
her pet dog screaming frantically in
the back yard one morning, rushed
to the door just in time to see an i'm
mense eagle soar away with the
squirming little black and tan in his
talons. Selling a shot gun she let
fly both barrels. She saved the rem
nants of the dog, while the eagle got
away with the loss of but two feath-
ers.
A London paper states, a won
derful feat in telegraphy was lately
achieved. London was put into di-
rect communication with Teheran,
the capital of Persia, a distance of
$500 miles. Then Kurrachee was
called and good signals obtained, at
fifteen words minute. Then Aga
WAS switched on, and finally Calcutta,
and direct conversation maintained
through 1000 miles of wire. At first
the operator in Calcutta could not
believe it, and asked: "Are you real
ly London The speed was twelve
or fom teen words a minute
Peter Tatro, notorious pension
swindler, of Philadelphia, who had
eleven wives and a dozen different
names, was sentenced to two years
Imprisonment in the eastern peniten-
tiary. The Philadelphia Record, of
May 2S, 1884, particularizes on his
case as follows: Eleven wives is the
number of women that Peter Tatro
claims he was married to, and of these
five have been found living and well,
each mourning the loss of the hus-
band. The other half dozen will nc
doubt be found within a short time.
Tatro was sentenced in the United
States District Court on Monday un-
der the name of John A. Moore, and
sent to the Eastern Penitentiary for
two years, and fined $500. He was
charged with having personated q
pension agent and forging pension
er's name to a voucher The man is
53 years of age, and a native Of
Franklin county, New York He is
agreeable in manners, and his ways
were so enhancing that within ter
years five women consented to be-
come his wife after brief courtships
This gay deceiver appeared at Brock
port, n, Y, in 1873, and after briei
wooing made Miss Ella Webb his wife
giving his name as j. Stone. The
honeymoon was not over before the
man began desperate Irritation with
widow named Parsons, of Candor
n. Y, and in a month he deserted
the Brockport wife and made Mrs
Parsons Mrs Sheldon Burleigh. In
few months he tired of this female
and early one morning took a train
for the West He concluded to stoI
off at South Bend, Ind, and, under
the name of H. G. Pomeroy, pro
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