Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-05-23

scotch stone coal ownors
!lnS ready to ship coal to New WI 5ri
LIN II tae event of the coal strikes in tbl
snon n,,ed otates not coming to a close
rlfteen acres of the city of Boston
we're destroyed by fire last Wednes
oay' and in the 1000 families bnrn,
missing. 'aoies are
| Inc moving of the smallpox pa.
tients on Sunday from the fooded
dlstrIct IN Lewistown TO b;obo,
Sround was a more exciting incident
The bugs that were sittino ~
clods longing for the potatoes to
come Gome up We're made happy by the
iste ram bringing out the tops for
them to feed on. "
The letters remaining uucslled fo,
IN the Mifflintown post Office for the
week ending Nay i9, were for Mrs
Nate =. Byers, Mrs. Mamie NJ Dnnn
z. F. Rumberger.
Mr.. Jacob Miller at stenersto,vr
bedford county, was drowned on
Sanday while trying to take some
household goods out of his house
out OF the reach of the food.
The National Encampment of the
urand Army of the Republic will pa.
rade IN Pittsburg. September IL.
next. It is certain that over 80 OOn
veterans will march in the parade.
The exchange of pulpits between
lev. ). B. Polsgrove and Rev. NJ. L.
Drum, which had been advertised for
Sunday, failed on account of the
smallpox epidemic in Lswistown.
1t is believed in Lewistown that
dogs, that scavenged among the
bones and offal of the Lawistown
poor house, carried the disease to
the families in town that now have it.
One ounce of cream of tarter dis
solved IN a pint of boiling water, TAX
en- cold, IN small quantities, taken two
or three times day, is said to be
both preventive and a cure for
smallpox.
Rev. Mr.. Reighard has been ten
dered a unanimous coil by the Luth.
eraI congregation OF 8IcAlisterville,
Center and Thompsontowa. Mr..
Reighard now breaches in .Nilrov,
Nitflin county.
The Christian Eadeavor Societies
of this place and of Arch Rock and
the Epworth League will be repro
sented in the Christian Endeavor
Union at McCulloch's Mills on Tues
day of next week.
In consequence of being driven
out OF his house 10y the food, James
Groninger, candidate for sheriff will
not be able to make as close can.
vass as he had intended 1t is hard
to be chased out by flood.
The 100000 railroad lies that Man
beck & Nelson have in their mill yard
had narrow escape from tho flood
The water began to float them when
the river stopped rising Only 25C
of the 10000 foated away.
There was q walking match of I7C
miles il Germany last week between
a meat cater ard a vegetarian. The
meat eater won the race. He walk
ed the distance in 4G hours and 50
minutes, and in that time took L
hours rest.
The Levisburg Chronicle of thc
18th inst, saws: Mrs. Mary, wife OF
Solomon Rudy, of Mechanicsville
MOntour county, committed suicide
last Sunday night about u o'clock
by jumping into well in the rear oi
her residence.
Lewistown Free Press: - Never
drink hydrant water without exam
ming it. Mrs. Frank Pollock show
ed US a collection of curlosities
drawn from her bydrant yesterday
that was enough to make ones stom
ach turn inside out.
Five new cases ofsmall-pox in Lew
istown ia one day last week. caused
a great scare among the people o
that place, and induced the school di
rectOrs to close the public schools
The disease was brought 10 the place
by a tramp some time since.
The U. S. Senate is talking abouI
instituting an investigation into the
charges that money was offered tl
Senator's TO vote against the tariff bill
It is reported that Senator Hunter
of Virginia and Senator Kyle of
South Dakota were offered each S25.
900 to vote against the tariff bill.
The way to get rid of English spar.
rows is to make them drunk. Take
wheat, soak it in sweetened whisky,
scatter the wheat in the feeding or
frequenting places of the sparrows.
The birds soon get drunk and NAV
be gathered in bag for pot-pie.
1. Marcellus Drum who has COM
pleted his End years course at Hahn
emann Medical College, and has
been visiting his parents at the VI.
E. Parsonage, has gone to Wilkes
barre in the employ of the L. V. r.
r., as an operator for the balanca of
the season.
Elk Prothonotary Hibbs in order
to save bis store from the flood had
the goods moved to the Miffiintown
side on Sunday. The flood did rot
reach his business place in Patterson,
but Mr. Hibbs was all the more COM
Portable while the waters were rising