Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-08-01

i Col Stewart of Pittsburg spent
Sunday and Monday with his. friend
Gen. VIM Bell.
Rev. j. II. Maice, Blind Evangel
ist, will preach in the Evangelical
Church, Patterson, Pa, Aug. 5th,
morning and evening. All are cord
tally invited to be present. tt.
Sam Small says: AIn ChicagoI saw
marching a body of men $4,000
strong, carrying banner inscribed:
Our children cry for bread Aud
they marched straight to a picnic
ground and drank 1,40O kegs of
beer"
In another column read a letter
from Ben Nox from Jersey City.
The letter was received sometime
since, but found its way into a pig
con hole till this time, but it has not
lost its fragrance. It is just as en-
tertaining as the day on which it was
written.
The coal miners strike in the vi
cinity of Punxsutawney, jefferson
| Co.. Pa, cost the State 1926, $685.
How would it do to pass q law to
hold the secret organizations, who
order the strikes responsible for re
ducing the rioters to lawful conduct.
Put the cost Of the case on the rioters.
Squire c. B. Horning has bought
the George Wilson farm, at Denholm,
Milford township, for $500; two
hundred and five acres, one hundred
and thirty acres clear with a large
brick house on it. It used to be call
ed the Heikes farm, and before
Heikes, it was known as the James
Hardy farm.
Mrs. Annie Fries of Philadelphia
went with her family last Friday to
see the animals in the geological gar
den, in the park. While there she
fed black bear peanuts, and then
reached through the bars and patted
the bear on the head. When the
peanuts were all, the bear caught her
arm, and SO lacerated it that ampu-
tation at the elbow became necessary
"a check for ss,SsO.O7, the largest
ever passed through the Pittsburg
lpension agency, has been given to H
s. Mccall mont in trust for Thomas
L. Hurst, who is confined in the
Warren, Pa, Insane Asylum. Here
after Hurst will get $50 month.
The money was back pay, dating
from 1863, during the greatest part
of which time Hurst has been pau.
per"
The Knox stables at B and second
streets. Washington. d. c., and 9th
er buildings in that block were de-
stroyed by fire early last Thursday
morning. Three fremen were killed
and six injured. Over 200 heavy ex-
press draft horses perished in the fire.
The fire was discovered at $50 in the
morning. How it originated is not
known. Loss about a half million
dollars.
Some time ago Mrs. Caroline
Watts. of Newport, Perry county,
had Ed. Dravo and wife, of Allegheny
county, arrested on the charge OF
stealing 800 from her. bravo den
led the charge, but, in order to set
tie the matter, paid the above stated
sum and all costs. Now Lewis Pot
ter, Drayo's counsel, has had Mrs.
Watts arrested on the charge of eop
ipaund'ng felony.
! The Bloomfield Advocate of July
25, says:-Our Sheaffer's Vallcy cor.
respondent writes us that on Non
day afternoon of last week, while out
playing, two-year oil child of Jesse
A. Kiner, of Sheaffer's Valley, was
bitten three times by snake. The
little one was alone when bitten, and
came into the house sobbing, but un
able to make known what was the
matter. Soon after swelling began.
and the cause was determined. The
child fingered in agony until Wed
nesday morning when it died.
THE Bureau of education held Sc
cret sessions in Harrisburg last week
to devise plan by which a compul
sorry education law may be enacted
by the Legislature at its next ses
sion. 1t was proper that men who
urge compulsory education should
hold secret sessions to work thoil
plans for compulsory education fol
secret sessions are nearkin principles
but they are not related in any way
: to the common school system of Free
! men. Free education and compul
sorry education are two different
principles. The one is liberty, anG
the other is despotism.
The late troubles in the west that
required United States troops to set
r tie were clearly corporation troubles
1t was fight between the head
body and tail of corporations. 1
was the head managers of the con
Germs in fight with men in the low
,, er branch of the corporations. L
was fight among the men who &c
the earnings of concerns. The mel
who own the bonds and stocks ge
:. little or nothing for their investments
,, The upper mill-stones and the lowe
mill-stones have been grinding tn
revenues into the pockets of the EN-
ployees while the stock and bond
= holders get-well you know how it i
Y if you own bonds and stocks of sccl
S concerns.
At II o'clock Monday night w. Fl
Mcclellan shot at a supposed burg
g lar, who was in the act of burstin
y. the window of his tin shop and she
+ his son Clinton through the arm.
was very dark and recognition wa
4 impossible. The son went to th