Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-02-15

the county has become a centre for
all that region around for the pur.
chase of railroad ties The tie dealer
for half of Tuscarora Valley, will have
his headquarters at Waterford.
The nominations in Milford Twp,
for the election to be held next Tues
day, were made by ballot. The
names of the candidates were writ
ten on the blackboard in Locust Run
school house where the elections for
that district are held, and as the
voters came in to vote, they selected
names from the list on the black
board, then wrote them on q slip of
paper and deposited the ballot
there made with the election board
that was present in the school house.
The Stockholders of the Juniata
Valley Canning Company met in the
Court House on Monday, and elect
ed Joseph Rothrock, Wellington
Smith, W. n. Sterrett, William
Puf1enberger, Emil Schott, B. F.
Burchield and w. B. McCahan,
board of directors, and G. b. Horn
ing, Treasurer. The capital stock
was authorized to be increased from
$4,000 to $4,000 for the purpose of
enlarg ng the plant to a capacity of
1000 cans a day. The Superintend
ent c. g. McCahan read statement
of the business of the past season
which was satisfactory to the stock
holders.
a number of people came into the
SENTINEL AND REPUBLICAN Office, one
day last week, ami reported what
they called Grain Of chaff." Chat,
they say, fell with rain and sleet,
on the morning of the 9Th inst,
The McVeytown Journal Of the 9th,
speaks as follows on the rain Of ehafI.
"A curious phenomia, in connnec-
tion with the late storm of Snow and
s.eet, was the chrff that fell with the
same. Where it came from, is a
query. But that it fell can be vouch
by several Of our citizens who nOiic-
ed It. It was an interesting topic
for discussion, aud several theories
were advanced, but it is one of those
mysteries of nature, which cannot
be satisfactorily explained.
Huntingdon Reformatory people
are hunting for prisoners that escap-
ed from the Reformatory, abont 3
o'clock on the morning of the 9th, by
scaling the walls. Following are the
names and descriptions of the runa-
ways: John Brown, aged % years.
weight $50 lbs, heights feet, 6 inches,
black hair. two scars on the back of
his head, and two scars on left ear,
initials, j. b" on arm. John o.
Bryan, aged 2l years, weight 140 lbs,
) feet, 6 inches, light hair, scar and
mole on right arm, and Warren Er-
niger, aged 10 years, weight 130 lbs,
. feet 3 inches, light hsir, left arm
vaccinnated, bracelet maIk in ink
around his wrist.
A reward of $25 is offered for the
capture of each of the prisoners.
The February Freshet as it is call
ed, did not carry the ice out Of the
Jnuiata river, excepting about IS
miles Of it, that which lay between
MillerstOwu and Duncan on at the
mouth Of the JuSiat,. The ice on
that stretch cf the river passed off
into the Susquehanna river. The
ice between Lewist0wn aad Millers
town, distance Of Is miles is pi ed
in the river a. Millerstown, and viii
melt there unless another freshet
rushes it out The ice from Lewis
town to Tyrone, lies in a three mi g
hsorge at Lewistown, and will lie
there to melt out unless q sudden
rise in the river raises it and floats It
down, and thus it will be seen that
} the ice in the Juniata river about
40 miles long is showed together in
to two places, at Miilerstown, nd at
J Lawistown, with the exception of the
13 miles first stated above.
TIE Altoona Tribune OF the Sth
says:-Over at Philipsburg a double
frame tenement, one side occupied
by a widow named Herring viz h Eve
= children, and the other side by Jacob
Schneider and his family, was acci-
IDENTIFY SET on fire by one of the chill
dren of the widow, who had gone in
to one of tie bed rooms to secure q
, night dress, and before the fire was
discovered It had made such head
way that the entire block was con
sumed together with the year o,C
a daughter of Mrs. Herring. The
daughter and little brother, aged 7
years, occupied small bed room ad
| Joining the larger room in which the
fire started The little boy aged {
, years by some means made his escape
out-of the room a1d down stars.
The remains of the little one were
found about midnight uDderreath s
lot OF bed clothing. Its body wa,
$ charred to a crisp. From the posi-
r ton IN which it wse found, it j.
Z thought the child had its head GOV
: cred and was fast asleep, and that il
r was dead from suffocation before IL,
flames reached it. Mrs. Herring
w4s carried from the scene of tn,
I FIRE, as were also two or three of the
children and taken to The homes O
l. n,ighbors where they were kindly
cared for.
Says the Liverpool Sun: The two
reyiyals are in successful progress
The results Of the Evangelical reviv
al up to Monday were 70 conyer
: siops and Is seekers K 3 The barr
= OF jacob Hoffman on the old DAME
= Wagner farm, about two miles cas-
Z, of Reward, was burned to the GROUND
9 o Monday evening of last week
about seven o'clock. There was a lo
\ of hoy strhr fnAdar and oats hr1rn