Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1890-09-03

ing his i've year old SON followed
nim 70 the barn, AID while his faith
er harnessed the horses. the little
fellow played with matches and in TIE
play set the stack on fire.
Ihe Compound Lard bill in Con-
gress, created general disturbance
on the 9th Of August, and one REQ.
ular tight between Consressn,en
Beckwith and Wilson. The bill nm
der consideration proposes to tax
wnat Is called compound lard" a
mixture OF lard and cotton-seed oil
Cotton seed oil is entirely product
Oh the southern States, and it can be
used IN cooking and baking, while
hogs lard is a product of the whole
country Within the last couple of
years product known as compound
lard has been placed on the market
Dy the great pork packers of the
west 1t is said that this compound
is made of 30 per cent of cotton seed
OH and ~ per cent. of lard. 1t ia
said that Chicago alone places So
ooo,ooo pounds of this compound on
the market There is now a bill he.
fore Congress to tax this compound
article and to require license to be
taken out to sell it This is lecisla-
ton similar to that passed in the in
terest OF pure butter and to tax oleo
margarine. The opponents of the
bill contend that the fight is merely
between two industries"
Huntington county republicans
have lately had q halcyon and vocifer-
GUS tlme-a wet and dry time.
A Judge who had refused with his
associate on the Bench to grant tav-
ern licenses under any circumstances,
came up for denomination. He failed
to secure IT; but wsther the man who
has been nominated, is pronounced
wet or dry candidate we do not know
A Judge ought to bs governed by the
law as he finds it, or resign. The
man who saws he believes in the
higher law doctrine. and attempts
to enforce 1t against the written law
of the land, even as the Anarchist
and Mormon do, is an unsafe man. If
he has the power to enforce his views
In any community. When and where
cranks are innocent and are not dis
posed to do any violence to person.
property or reputation, they may be
tolerated But there are lines be-
yond which disregard of law cannot
and ought not to be pushed by either
religious or any other kind of fana-
tics The common senes ofmankind
IN this age IN this country as for
mulated IN the laws OF this common
wealth must be respected until le-
gally repeated Or modified.
Freeman.
From the Bloomfield Times of last
week.-Hon. b. F. Junkin and Mrs.
Laura McClurkin, of this town, were
married at Trenton, N J., last week.
3 Bower and Darlington, of
this place. have purchased Judge
Woods famous running horse, oval
ter A The price paid was S27O
The Reformed congregation of
Newport, this county, will dedicate,
a S15, 900 church in that town, on
Sunday. September Z, 1890. 1t is
one OF the finest church editices in
the county. Mr.. James McCul-
ly, track walker ON the p. r. r., met
with very serious and painful acci-
dent on the 10th inst, below the
Aqueduct narrows. He was walk
ing alongside the track when Allan
tic Express dashed along. As the
train passed him at full speed n stone
was caught up which struck him on
the head with great force. :
Hench kingsborc, son OF Robert
kinGsboro, of SaviIle township, came
near losing his life on the 18th lust.
on the farm OF ]. L. Ricedorf, where
he was assisting to thresh. He at
tempted to throw q fast revolving
belt on to a pully, and was caught
by the belt, and would have been
killed, had not q fellow workmen
caught him As 1t was, he had an
arm broken, and was pretty badly
skinned up.
The fine house of ". VI. Pannabak
er, at Lewistown, was destroyed by
fire on the 21st of August. Mr.. Pan-
nabsker bad left home on the 18th
and his son Howard was ut Port Roy
al, Juniata county, attending GIN
Spring picnic. There was no one at
home but Mrs. Panpabaker and her
two daughters. Mrs. Pannabaker
WAS aroused by what seemed to her
like rain upon the house roof, and
upon investigation she discovered
fire in the wood and coal Eroom ad-
joining the ice house, both of which
were in the rear of the living de-
partment of the house. There is
good water power on the premise s
capable of throwing hydrant stream
over the house, supplied bv spring
near the ridge, but the FIRE making it
impossible to reach the hose cut off
this valuable mode of protection
Tue Lewistown engine and hose
were run out aud the suction drop
ped into a we'll on the Stratford lot.
but III few minutes the water WAS
exhausted and nothing moro could
be done. This served the purpose,
however, of checking the flames un.
til the furniture WIS all removed in a
very careful manner without injury.
The loss is heavy, the building and
grounds costing $4,000. The in
surance is $4,000 The fire seems to
have been of incendiaIy origin.
There had been no fire in the house
since about ) o'clock, then it was u
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