Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1889-03-20
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS.

spent life, and they cannot possibly
add honor to well spent one
The body of Jacob Sorg, of Al
leghany, missing since February %,
has been found in the river at that
place with the limbs bound with
cords.
John Pippin, wood-chopper of
Lewis Run, near Bradford, stole a
bottle of wood alcohol, drank it, and
died in fearful agony.
A Dubuque, Iowa, man has Just
shipped eleven hundred cats and
two hundred dogs to Dakota, where
the animals are wanted to exterminate
ground mice.
Peach stones find ready sale at Sc
per ton III Vaca Valley, Cal They
are used rs fuel, burning as long as
coal and giving more heat Apricot
I stones are also burned
When there IS n tendency III po-
/ tatoes to rot after storing, freely
sprinkling with slalled lime is the
best corrective, particularly when the
| trouble is what is called dry rot.
A Hungarian wedding at South
Bethlehem has been indefinitely post
poned because the father of the bride
refused TO give his prospective SON
in-law 5000 for taking her off his
hands.
A Maryland fisherman has invent
ed self working fishing pole, which
by the aid of stout spiral springs,
yanks out the unwary fish of the
streams while the fisherman smokes
and reads in peace.
A negro boy near Camden, s. c.,
lost a dollar that belonged to his
mother. He felt SO badly about ii
that he began crying bitterly, and
did not stop for "a hours, and then
he died from exhaustion
The opening of an oil well which
flows forty barrels day on the Rynd
farm, i'll Venango county, on Oil
Creeks territory thought to have
been exhausted twenty years ago
has caused rush for leases.
GETTYSBURG, Pa, March 12.-L. c.
ByuIm, of this country, was TODAY
arrested, and in default of $1,000 bail
was held to answer the charge of
sending letters to two farmers
threatening to burn their barns.
Mildred Maddox, of Brewton, Ala,
dressed up as tramp and attempted
to frighten her mother The disguise
was perfect, and Mrs. Maddox
emptied the contents of shotgun
into her daughters body. The girl
will recover.
A pony is being daily sent up in n
balloon and being let down by n
parachute, Ia Baldwin, in London,
and the Society for the Prevention of
Cruelty to Animals is being agitated
by anxiety to know whether the pony
Is scared or not.
Last week one night somebody
made himself bold enough to steal n
load of railroad ties from Henry
Keisling, at Knoustown. The ties
were found at Alillerstown, but the
thief escaped. The same week some
body opened the lock of John Rhodes
granary, and helped themselves TO a
lot of wheat and oats and about fifty
bAs1l1tAo VI AtlI. WHICH, lAfiS llpN
found vet Bad luck to the thieves
anyhow
The ministers in attendance upon
the Juniata Lutheran Conference at
Liverpool, Perry county last week
were. j. c. Mumma, Adamsburg /;
II. W. Fullmer, Yeagertown S. l..
Smith, Newport @. ". Leisher, Me
Alisterville l. z. Neff, Biain c. L..
Mcconnell, Belleville; j. b. Focht,
Lewistown Philip Graft, IIiffiin-
town; NJ ). Komig, Liverpool S. VI.
MountZ, Thompsontown. Delegates
l-Rarick, Adamsburg; Samuel Reen,
Newport Uriah Shuman, Thompson
town VIM. Gross, Belleville; Rev. A.
5. Fichthorn, Lewistown Jonathan
Vert, Millerstown.
The ubiquitous swindler has evolv-
ed a new plan by which to swindle
the honest farmer A chap in clerical
broadcloth and white choker enters q
farm house and asks for lodging or
dinner, as the case may be. During
his stay he announces himself to be a
travelling Bible distributor, in the ser
vice of a religious institution, and he
does so far as to present the family
with Bible from n well filed valise.
He is careful to say that his society
requires its distributing members to
pay their own, way, and exhibit
, vouchers thereof. After partakine
of the good folks hospitality he pre-
? pares to leave and asks for his bill.
He is generally told no charge is
made, but he calls their attention to
''the rules and insists on paying
=. twenty-five cents per meal Then
he mildly requires a receipt on his
blank form, "a voucher YOU know,
!. and gets the farmer to sign it. In
80 DAYS there Is n notice from a
neighboring bank to the pious farm
er to call and pay the note for s162
so, which it bought and bears the
farmers signature.-Ex.
AT the session of the general con
ference of the railroad commission
u ers OF the several states, with til.
members of the Interstate commerc.
> commission, March 9th, at Washing
ton d. c., ex-railroad COMMISSIONS
coffin of Iowa, now representing tn,
> brotherhood of brakemen made NJ
address in the course of which h
said" ''Our Commission IN Iowa ha
caused law to be made effectiv
: that has been on the statute book
ten years, to the effect that the raj
! roads shall report to the commissio
the accidents occurring along thei
y lines, and 1t shown that in ten wear
we have killed and manned 2.42
men III the state of Iowa by the pi1
le and link coupler and the hand breaI