Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-03-22
GENERAL NEWS ITEMS

| NlCe grapes eEe sellluS AL NeW
York for - per pound.
A Philipsburg. Pa, woman gave
birth to triplets last week. The lit
tie ones are all girls.
BEAUSA VISTA, Ga, March 10
Mrs. Lot Erving, aged 25, to-day
gave birth to her 18th child.
Allegheny county will profit to the
! extent of 100000 by the oleomsrg-
crime fines recently imposed there.
E1-State Senator Horatia Gates
Jones, died ct his homo near Phila.
delphia on the 18th inst, aged ~
years.
The lower section of Borks county
is infested with q gang of thieves,
and robberies are being committed
almost nightly.
There was large fire in Toxic,
Japan, on the last Sunday in Febru-
sry which destroyed $50 houses. No
lives were lost.
A Delaware democrat rejoices over
the birth of four boys in one lot,
whom be has named Grover, Walter q.
John and Daniel.
Delaware county commissioners are
being attacked because they gave a
bridge contract to firm whose bid
WAS $4,000 higher than the lowest.
1t is believed that Pinkerton De-
tectivs Ford, who unraveled the
Homestead poison plot, WAS also
poisoned by beer which he drank
there.
There are ir Berks county 13 DEM
ocratic candidates for Register of
Wills and twice ss many more who
want to be Recorder of Deeds or
County Treasurer.
Physically the biggest monarch in
the world is the King Of the Gilbert
Islands, who weighs 800 pounds.
The Crown Prince is still heavier,
and his 8 year old daughter weighs
ITO pounds.
For selling his vote, = resident Of
Wolfe county, Kentucky, WAS sem
fenced to disfranchissment for life.
If this penalty WAS always carried
out, all election expenses in New
York could be saved.
The Legislature adopted the ma
jority report to allow Andrews to re-
tain his scat. The vote on the re-
port stood III yeas to n nays. II.
L. Wilson the Representative from
this county voted against seating
Andrews.
READING, Pa, March 16- Dipthe-
ria is raging in tue vicinity Of Pike
vile, this county, with fatal result.
Of 20 cases In the town, 10 have
been fatal. The schools have been
closed. Within q radius OF one mile
there are 60 cases.
The oldest ash trse in Bucks Co.,
which stsod on the farm Of Andrew
Shaffer, in Bristol township, has
been cut down. Under it the Bris-
tol reserves held . picnic just before
they marched to the bsttlefields of
the civil war. The tree was cut
down because the owner Calculates
that he will get ton cords Of frs-wood
out Of it." In the heart of the tree,
WAS found q copper-pointed Indian
arrowhead.
TAs saiy psvhss tzsses sssapasA. 10 shs,s,s.
ks ~ ~ bssasss 4 ssFsa Tsks - stbss. soess.
A writer in the West Chester Rec
ord says that Washington people are
down on the Pennsylvanis National
Guard because it comes from Q Re.
publican State. He says that he saw
men with I'D. c." District of Colum-
bia) riding down brick sidewalks to
the terror Of women and children,
the men drunk in uniform. He says
had these drunken militiamen been
Psnnsylvadians instead Of District
Columbia militia the Washington pa
psrs would have gone wild over their
actions.
The hardware store of T. q. Nor
gan & Co., at Clayville. Jefferson Co.,
was broken into recently and q lot Of