Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-10-14


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bottles, 154. Sold by L. Banks &
Co. Nav l4-1y.
The disease that carried off so
many cattle in Huntingdon county,
this autumn is not a disease from
Texas, but according to DR.. Edge of
the State Beard of Agriculture is
fatal ailment caused by worms lodg-
ing in the brain of the animal.
The Lewistown Sentinel saws:
Some time ago the First National
Bank of Selinsgrove, brought suit
against r. B. Wigton, president of
the Glamorgan Iron Company to re-
cover $4,000 on promissory note.
Mr.. Wigton claims that note to be
forgery; that as originally issued; it
was paid and returned to the secre-
tary and treasurer and that after
wards the number and date were
fraudulently altered and the note
sold to the Seiinsgrove bank. = = X
Mrs. William Harshberger who re-
sided in Porter township. Hunting
don county, near Alexandria, died
suddenly, Tuesday OF last week, be-
iug found dead in bed that afternoon.
Her remains were brought to Nc
Veytown for interment, Wednesday
afternoon. Deceased was aged about
35 years, and leaves husband and
several children.
David Sieber a prominent citizen
of Walker township, died at his home
near Mexico last Wednesday night.
He retired on Wednesday evening
in his usual state of health and was
found dead In bed on Thursday
morning DIR. Banks of this place
and DR. Willard of Mexico were called
in by the family to learn if possible
the cause of their fathers death.
The doctors found no indications of
apoplexy, but indications of heart
clot or paralysis Mr.. Sieber is a
brother of Rev. Solomon Sieber of
Thompsontown, and brother of JOS
eph Sieber of Ackron, Ohio. His
sudden death was a great shock 10
his sons and daughter S. Mrs Sieber
proceeded her husband into the 9th
er world months ago. The funeral
took place on Sunday at 10 O'Clock
Interment in the Mennonite grave
yard near Oakland Mills
Bloomfield Democrat t:--Wm. Smith
caught pike in She1 mans creek
which measured 33 inchc rs and weigh
3 pounds. " j. J. ' Volt and Ben
keu have caught six &C ons so far,
but one evening last We elk Mr. Kell
accompanied by his bro sher Walter.
caught the old boss himself. He
was so old that his teeth were worn
halfway down and had turned. quite
yellow. = Five IA ccoons We're
brought to bay on one 5ree by c. W.
/ Huggins' dogs, Buffalo township, ons
night recently AIr. fuggins cap
tUred three of the coon s. = Har-
ry II. Umberger,=a bra keman on the
p r. r., had one of hi legs cut of
at the knee, eastDf B sily's station,
while making a coUplin 2, on Wednes-
day. = r. S. Mills !, the man who
we stated last week was going to
START an establishment for the manu-
facture of corrugated IRON near Mil
erstown, has turned out to be 8
fraud He is eyider tly denented
and is entirely wittout means p
Henry Bentzel, the exl 'ert pike fish
ernan of this borough, captured q
nFsmber of very large specimens of
gaIny fish last weel-, on which meas
ured twenty three e.inchas and weigh
ed four pounds
A keen witted vie saved Perry
county man from falling a victim 10
party of confidence swindlers which
! Is Belated as follows by the Liverpool
Sun-Last Thursday, Oct. list, tive
well dressed strangers came to Isaac
Troutman, of PfoEtz Valley, and
made themselves sery agreeable.
Thes got to playing cards and got
sIr. Iroutman interested, who plain
" saw through their manipulation,
and he won SIS from Item on several
bets They said their business was
to bug a good farm. that their sister
had sene loose mOnev-that she want
ed TO invest in real estate, and seem
ed to lake fancy to Nj. Troutman' s
farm. After some dickeriug they
agreed 20 pay Mr.. TroRtman $4,000
for his,farm, which he agreed to ac
cept. They had a cheek Of $4,000,
but being strangers, they could draw
no money on It. so they said Mr..
Troutman would have to go with
them toENewpert to draw the money
On the check which they would make
payable 70 his order, then he was TO
pay themsthe balance of $4,000 He
agreed to go TO Newport wi5h them
aud just SIS they were about starting
the three being on one buggy, Mrs.
Troutman who was just returning
from n visit to a neighbor, met them
and induced her husband not 10 go
She suspected that they might be
rogues. Solfr. Troutman lost moth
4 ing, and the gamer of SO good
b<nOney-
Huntingdon Journal:-On We'd
nesday last during the progress of
tie Bedford County Fair. coupIeoof
fakirs opened up their satchels and
endeavored to ''sL;n few of Bedford
couaty's greenies." They talked
louS and long, and finally drew
around large crowd of curiosity
seekers who wanted to be relieved of
their money. They were open for
business only a short time when the
police ordered themto pack up their
traps and leave. From what we can
learn there must haze been some
person badly "taken in, for when
the fakirs got into the Broad Top
cars en- rante for Huntington, an