Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1893-08-30


on Friday next in the First Luther.
an church, at Altoona
On Saturday the biggest coal-oil
strike was made at Warrington, w.
Va. The well flows oil at the rate OF
200 barrels per hour.
Mrs. Richard Eply and two chill.
dren of Jobnstown, Cambria Co.,
and sister-in law Mrs Frank Moist OF
Lewistown are visiting d. s. Richen.
baugh's family in Patterson.
Last Friday night horse thieves
stole horse and wagon from D.
Bonds barn near Media, and then
hired the barn. If the thieves are
caught they will likely be lynched.
The closing of THE manufacturing
establishments throughout the coun-
try has stopped the demand for
peaches and prices are correspond
ingly low.
Captain Litzenberg and daughter
Mrs. Cox, and granddaughter of
Camden, n. j., and Miss Helen Dlmm
OF Lewistown are the guests of Cap
tain Mcclellan.
1t is perfectly shocking how un-
equally things are distributed in this
world. One husband and wife have
dozen children; another husband
and wife have not child.
September 7th, 1898. will be Penn
sylvania Day at the Worlds Fair,
Chicago, on which occasion Pennsyl-
vania State Building, will be the TO-
cal point for all Pennsylvanians
In Cumberland county, an enraged
hog several days ago attacked Joseph
Byers, on the farm of Sheriff Dixon
in Silver Spring, and tore the cloth
ing on his back and the sole off his
shoes.
No details are at hand of the great
storm on Monday night that swept
the coast from Georgia to Washing
ton. Savannah was almost destroy
ed by the storm. Many people were
killed
CLEVELAND BAY COLT David Hack
enberger of the Jacob heirs farm
one half mile from town, offers a g.
months old colt for sale. Call on
Hackenberger if you have any notion
of investing.
The big fire in Chicago last week,
was started by girl with a lamp
that she waf using TO heat her curl
ing iron to curl her bangs. She up
set the lamp. The other big fire in
Chic7go in 1872 was caused by wo-
man upsetting a lantern in a stable
in which she was milding COW.
We have received n supplement to
the Carthage Collegian a college pa
per. IL addition to interesting in,
formation concerning Carthage Col
lege, it contains the pictures Of the
Faculty of this institution AMONG
which are the pictures of two Juni
atians, namely President of the in
stitution Holmes Dysinger, and Prof
VIM. S. Dysinger, principal of the
Normal Department.
The times look better as Is showl
by the lessening of bank failures a:
is reported by the Comptroller o.
Currency, Z .l,les. He says for the
week ending August 2G only 3 Nat
ioual Banks suspended The week
previous s suspended; the week prev
ious 7 suspended; the week previou.
Is suspended, and during July Z:
National Banks suspended Up tc
the close of last week, August 90
Seventeen banks resumed.
On Saturday evening the wires o
the Lewistown electric light plan
were struck by lightning and all tht
electric lights in the place wer'
knocked ont. People ran out o
their business places and shouted
fire without knowing that fire haC
been started by fiery ball Of elec
tricity leaping off 4 telephone or tel
egraph wire into the hay-mow OF tn,
stable of Sheriff Rhine, and while tn
people were shouting fire the flames
burst out of the stable.
Mrs. John Cibulka died at the
home of her husband IN Coalport
Clearfeld county, last Thursday even
ing of inflammation of the bowls, as
ed about u years Her HUSBAND
and two children survive. Her re
mains were brou ght TO this place ol
Saturday. She was a daughter o
John Doyle citizen of Patterson
Funeral services We're conducted b.
Rev. NJ. L. Drumm in the NJ, Z
Church on Sunday afternoon. Inter
meut in Union Cemetery.
Perry Comfy Freeman:-The bar
on the Wagner farm in Spring town
ship, owned by Rev. Samuel Wagner
was destroyed by fire on Saturday
with all its crops, colts, 3 calve
and farm implements. The farm /
tenanted by r. Eby, who had smaI
insurance on the crops. The fire OIL
Tginated from one cf his boys builG
ing a fire in the barn-yard from wher
it caught to a straw stack thence t
the barn The building was consun
cd in about two hours. Rev Was
ner, the owner of the barn resides i
the western part of the State.
A correspondent of tho lewiston
Gazette discourses on the fish que'
ton thus:-The river is still line
with campers. outlines and otht
contrivances for destroying fisl
When bass were first put in the ri
er end protected they grew and mu
tiplied so that almost anyone coul
catch a mess, but soon fellows
lazy to do honest work began to s.
outlines, raised and baited for bas
throw metz and seines increased, u
til every mile had its missel for de