Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1884-06-04
Items.

The knights Templar will hold
their next annual conclave at Allen
town.
Lightning caused forest fire, near
Allenville, Miff1in county, in the early
part of last week
Mrs. Aramintha Brobson died near
Oxford, Chester county, on Friday
last, aged 102 years.
All the stock for the proposed
crematory to be built in Lancaster
has been subscribed.
John Kinney has eloped from
Guthsville, Lehigh county, with Miss
Lizzie Guth, young sister of his
wife
Carrie Billinger, a young lady re-
siding in Allegheny city, had finger
taken off by the cog wheel of o clothes
wringer.
Mrs. Priscilla McAteer, of Cambria
borough, has been granted pension
of $50 per month, dating from 1869,
and has been given S3500 OF it.
The foolish parents of an Alleghe-
ny county child that had been pro-
vided by nature with six toes have
had the surplus members amputated.
The president and cashier of the
defunct Erie county bank are inmates
of prison cells, and it is said regard
for their lives makes it gladstone
thing for them to stay there.
Atkinson, Me, has a blacksmith
who keeps a dentists chair in one
corner of his shop and pulls occasion
al aching teeth. He is also a good
cabinet maker, and when he can't get
anything else to do he practices law.
Mrs Sarah Van Dorm. an eccentric
old lady living at Franklin. has had
six or seven hundred dollars in gold
buried in a jar in the cellar Of her
home ever since the 10-40 bonds were
called in. She had her cellar dug out
few days ago and has since been
unable to find her money.
FARGO, Oak. May 2S.-A number
of heavy wheatgrowers from all parts
of Northern Dakota were here yester-
day to witness an experiment in
plowing by steam, and they express
themselves pleased with the result.
A traction engine drew eight plows,
turning sod four inches thick as
evenly and well as could be done by
horse power, and at a rate of over
twenty five acres a day. This will
mark a new era in wheat growing, as
it will enable farmers to plow at O
cost of not moro than 81 per acre.
On Wednesday morning week be
tween 8 and 10 o'clock, west bound
freight trair collided with the gravel
train on the Baltimore and Ohio rail
road one mile east of Connelville.
Between II and 20 men were injur
ed and killed The freight train was
heavily ladened with ore. The camp
train consisted of six cars. 1t con
tanned about fifty men who had Just
boen transferred from the Pittsburgh
| Southern road and were on their way
to Ohio Pyle Falls to work on the
grading for a double tack on the
east end of the division. Both trains
were going at high rate OF speed
and came together with a terrific
crash. The engines remained on the
track and telescoped each other intc
the smokestacks, but the heavy ten
d.rs Jumped into the air and fell, tn,
the freight tender upon its engine
and the gravel train tender back up
on the first car in the of rear 1t
Here was the scene OF death. 81.
men were killed outright in this ca
and four others fastened down b.
the broken timbers we're roasted II
, death, the car catching fire from th'
overturned stove and burning up be
fore the stupefied survivors coul'
comprehend the awful situation o
their shrieking companions Three
men escaped from the car, and ont
of them assured the correspondent
that the fire could have been e1tin
! guished had water been applied II
time. The wreck itself was q ghastl,
1 sight. The tender of the freight en-
CINE stood thirty feet in the air a
! the side of the iron car that wa
burned and could be seen settling, O
! ! mid the glowing embers, twisted irol
/ rods and dead ashes three GRIMM;
skeletons, one sitting bolt upright
b apparently peering into the flame
+ that had smothered out his life a