Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1892-06-29

Commission met at Harrisburg and
formulated Legislative bill provid-
ing for manual training schools for
soldiers orphans
Miss Louie Jackman has returned
from years course in tho Boston
Music School and is making prelim-
mary arrangements for the organiza.
ton of class in town.
Mrs. Robert McMeen has been
elected to represent the 18th Con-
gressional district to state conven-
ton of the Woman's Worlds Fair
Managers of Pennsylvania.
James Mathers, Boyd Parker and
Samuel Stoner, students in Hunting
don Normal School are spending the
summer vacation at their respective
homes in this town and vicinity.
The letters remaining in the Mif-
fintown postoffice for the week end
ing June 25, were for j. Brown, J.
81. Howard, Franklin Joll, Jacob
Leister, David S. Reynolds, E. NJ.
Singer, John Bower.
The MifAintown School Board
elected the following teachers:
Second school, Miss Kate Dipple.
Third school, Miss Emma n Rob
ison.
Fourth school, Miss Maggie Marks.
The Democratic National Conven.
ton in Chicago last week passed
resolution of sympathy for James G..
Blaine in the afiiiction of the death
of his son. TIE resolution brought
out the widest cheers for the states
man.
Lewistown Scntin et:-Farmer
hereabouts have discovered the pros
cree of weavil in the wheat, aud this
fact blights the prospects for an ex-
traordinary yield. These little pests
are said to be very numerous in the
wheat fields.
Philadelphia Inquirer The Re
publican National Convention was
only divided on the question of can
didate. There wGsn no division on prin-
ciples The Democratic Convention
was divided as to both persons and
and principles.
Mrs. Adam j. Grier, of Altoona,
visited friends in town last week.
Years ago Mrs. Grior was known to
all Miffiintown people, but absence
from Juniala the past 20 years has
made her q stranger excepting to the
IoAg resident peopls.
Two unknown men were killed on
the railroad last Thursday afternoon.
One was struck by Day Express at
Duncannon, the other WAS run over
by Limited Express near cars.
There was nothing about the persons
Of either to indicate tkei- Indemnity.
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The fire alarm whistle turned q
people out of bed about ,
o'clock last Saturday morning. The
alarm was caused by 2 fire that
broke out in q box freight car on T.
siding IN the railroad yard at this
station. Before the fire was exiting
uished four freight box cars were
one of the cara was load
ed with bar iron tie others were
empty. The origin Of the fire is
not known.
Lest Sunday afternoon the Key
stone Limited, coming cast from
Chicago, was thrown off the track by
a defective rail not far from Valpa-
raise, Ind. The locomotive and cars
plunged over an embankment. Tho
fireman was killed, and the engineer
and a score OF the one hundred pass
engers were injured. DR.. David NJ.
Crawford of this place was on the
train. He arrived home safely on
Monday afternoon.
For The first time in the history
of political national conventions in
the United States the Republican
national convention at Minneapolis
contained q full bloodsd Indian, and
he was a delegate from Oklahoma.
He is white Turkey" chief Of the
ShaNnees, and is q lireal descendant
OF that old war chief, Tecumsah, who
was defeated long ago by William
Henry Harrison, the ancestor Of the
man he now helped to re nominate.
Thomas Woodward was shocked
by bolt OF lightning that struck
his house not far from McCulloch' S
Mills, several evenings ago. He was
sitting on q chair at the time the
mysterious fluid entered the house.
He fell to the floor unconscious but
has recovered from the shock. The
lightning in its passage through the
the building encountered nothing OF
sufficient inhamsbility to fire the
house.
If the railroad telegraph towe,
rules had been observed the awful
wreck in Harrisburg last Saturday
morning could not have taken place
The railroad company can make
rules but it is the employee who
must carry out the rule. The com.
pany Will in all probability give
more attention to the kind OF men
that apply for responsible positions
whether they are the kind of people
who have proper appreciation Of
the duties and responsibilities 0.
their position.
The 4th of July Eagle is getting