Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1891-05-13
NEWS IN BR EFF.

Mercury soEGijes at forty degree,
below zero.
"A sharp earthquake shock was
felt at different points in California.
Congressman NJ. II. Ford died OF
apopexy at his home in q and Rapids,
Mich.
In a quarrel Lee Jenkins shot and
killed Washington Ramsey, at Lexing-
ton, Kentucky.
The Russian Government is taking
an interest in the developm ant of the
mineral springs in the Caucasus
Electric motors are being applied
by the French Government to train
heavy guns for armoI- plated vessels.
"A tablespoonful of powdered alum
sprinkled IN barrel of water will pre-
cipitate all impure matter to the bot
tom.
Cheap tinware is said to he very
da lgerous, the coating of the iron con-
tanning poisonous materials, generally
antimOny.
The race difficulty at Char lotte, n.
G., has been greatly exaggerated.
Brandham, the negro, will not be
lynched.
Mrs. Myrtle Swim and George
Hardy, were drowned while boating in
the aqueduct at Brighton Beach, near
Ind Annapolis.
The strike of the Burlington
swItchmen in Denver, has been q com.
plete failure, and business is going on
as if the men had never stopped work.
Jesse Lockwood, aged 20, of White
Plains, n. y, while insane from grip,
beat his wife to death with club,
saying the Lord had commanded him
60 do so.
AT Evansville, Indiana, the whole
sale drug house of Charles LEIGH i
Co., was totally destroyed by fire, in
yolving a loss of S9O,0OJ; insurance,
500, COO.
Ihe proportion of cotton lint to seed
is repor! ed at thiriy-two to thirty.three
per cent, the best results being In the
Atlantic States, In Louisiana and In
Texas.
The Governor of New York has
signed a bill amending the collateral in
her tauce law, which taxes direct in
heritances of $4,000 and over in
value.
Professor Young says that the
great Lick telescope in California has
revealed the fact that there are lOO,-
O0O,OOO suns giving light and heat to
their l.anets.
The telegraph people III California
are troubled with the green wood
pecker. which bores holes In the red
cedar telegraph poles for the purpose Of
building its nests.
One Of the largest dynamos in the
world is said TO he IN use in an alumi-
nun works in Switzerland. The com.
mutator is made of copper, and weighs
over six tons. The machine has the
capacity of developing Ii, 900 amperes
at thirty volts.
The Bureau of Statistics reports
that the exports of breadstuffs from
the United States during March last
were sl2, ,3S2, I3O, against SI5,77S, 229
during the same month of the proceed
ing year.
The Winner Investment Company,
Kansas City, Mo, through its PresI-
dent, Willard e. Winner, made an
assignment. No schedule of the assets
and liabilities has been filed.
A Chatheld, Mimi, family named
Marsden ate wha. they supposed to be
artIchOkes. The food turned out to he
poisonous wild parsnips. Mrs. Mars
den died, while two others are In a
critical condition.
While workmen were engaged near
NorriStOwn, Pa, in removing an ex-
ploded charge which had been prepared
for b'ast in a stone quarry, 1t explod-
ed, killing two Italians and dangerous
ly woundirg another.
Albert SGooks and his bride, who.
with the other guests at their wedding
IN Lyndon, Ky, were poisoned, are
stIll at the Burnet House, Cincinnati.
Mr.. Snooks' cOnditian Is very critical.
with the chances against him. His
wife Is in a fair way TO recovery.
The Federal grand jury at Chicago
has returned true bill against George
J. Gibson, Secretary Of the Whisky
Trust, on the charge OF attempting to
bride a Government officer to blow up
Shufeldt's distillery. A capias for
Gibson's arrest was at once issued.
a commission of six medical men
Of Spain appointed 10 investigate the
X och system OF treating consumptives.
has reported In favor of the total sus-
pension OF that form of treatment, to
having been found. according to the
committees report, that not a single
cure has heen effect d in Spain by the
use of the method in question
Attention is being given to length
ening tie life OF incandescent lamps.
Discolored lamps can now be opened
and cleaned without interfering with
filaments or mountings. When the
lamp is re-exhausted and sealed 1t Is as
durable as when new.
The jury at Muncie, Iud. found for
the plaintiff in the 81, 600 damage suit
against the Lake Erie and Western
railway company, instituted by Frank
Mayo, an Indianapolis travelling sales
man, who was eJrcted from a train for
refusing to pay 10 cents more tlan the
usual fare because of not having a
ticket.
The heat produced from the light Of
a freely is only one per cent. of an
equal amount Of candle light. Tho
bugs light is produced 10y a chem cal
action, as IL is increased by putting the
fly in oxygen and diminished IN An at
mosphere of nitrogen.
"A new electric lamp globe is made
Of eight pieces OF plate glass holted to
a brass collar, the advantages claimed
being that il IS easily clesned aud
trimmed, while in case ~ .. ,cIdent TO 1t
single plate is less expensive to re-
nlapt than "a Wbolp plsshs
1t IA alwa's been snlpc'e ed that
there We're no coal veins IN California,
the geographical formation not being
favorable, but soft coal and liguita
lave beea found and are uew 70 ned IN
large Quantities.