Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1894-09-12
SHORT LOCALS.


The town schools we're opened OF
Monday.
Liquid camphor and gun-powde
will kill felon.
Connecticut rolled up a Republi
can majority of 10000.
Peach pickers in Juniata county
are being paid cents an hour.
There are 1l2 hogs kept in pens il
Huntingdon, so says the Globe.
There will be partial eclipse O
the moon at midnight on Friday.
A teaspoonful of glycerine in ho'
milk will relieve paroxysm of cough
ing.
Grant Kaufman is digging the
foundation for dwelling house on
his lot on North street
A large delegation of Juniata vet
erans are at Pittsburg attending the
Soldiers National Re union.
Mrs. Browand, wife of Jacob
Browand, fell down stairs few
nights ago and was seriously hurt
Ex-Governor Sprague of Rhode
Island, is discharging the duties OF
Chief of Police of Naragansett Pier.
The Mif1in nine and Reedsvllle
nine, played a game at Reedsville last
Friday. The score stood Z to 6 in ia
vor of Reedsviile.
The one letter remaining upcalled
for in the Mifflintown postt Office for
the week ending September sth. was
for Miss Millie Stoner.
The H. l.. W's played the Mexico
base ball club last Thursday after
noon at Mexico Score, 16 to 6 in
favor of the H. L. Wagner club.
"The increase in the public debt
between January l, 1898 and Aug
uat l, 1894, was SS0.000,000. So
much for the fear of Free Trade"
"The smallest woman living to-day
is said to be Mile. Pauline of Hol-
land, of respectable family, who is
IS years old, weighs 10 pounds and
is one foot nine inchas tall
The drought was broken by show
ers of rain on SATURDAY. and SATURDAY.
night. and Sunday morning dawned
clear of smoke. 1t was the first day
that was clear of smoke in three
weeks.
According to statistics by the Bur
eau of Labor between the year 1889
and 1892, twenty thousand people in
the United States were murdered,
and only 331 of the mnrderers were
executed.
The Louisiana Sugar Growers
have declared their purpose to leave
the democratic party, because nv its
late tariff act. they struck off the
bounty that government paid to su-
gar manufacturers in the United
States.
Squire Thomas Creighton. GEORGE
Conn and VIM. Doughertv with 9th
er citizens visited the Commissioners
office. last week. and urged the
board to offer reward for the arrest
of robbers who have been terroriz'ng
people in Juniata county.
A large percentage of the demo-
cratic party is on the fence. and don t
know who they are for, whether for
the President and Wilson and Catch
ings. or for German or for Hill.
This wav. gentlemen. and walk into
the Republican fold for protection.
The House of Representatives in
Vermont contains 242 members. At
the late election last week - two
hundred and thirty-three republicans
were elected, leaving only nine DEM
ocrats in the Assembly. Carry the
news to the tariff reform President.
Peach growers pay cent for the
making of peach box. There are
women in Juniata county who can
make and do make one hundred
boxes a day OF course the material
has all been cut into proper sizes,
and all they have to do is to nail the
pieces together into boxes.
A number of men came to the
house of Samuel Lawson in TuscarO.
IA township, some nights ago and
acted quietly and queerly about the
premises. They were watched from
within the house, and if they had at
tempted burglary, there is no tell
ing what weuld have happened.
On the 4th inst, ship with emf
grants landed in New York. On the
9th a number of them took the Bal
timore q Ohio cars for the west
Before the train reached Cumberland,
MARYLAND, one of the passengers took
cholera. He was taken off at that
place and died within a couple of
hours. 1t has not been determined
in the mind of the doctors of that vi
cinity whether it was a case of spor-
adic cholera or Asiatic cholera.
The Odd Fellows Reunion at
Adamsburg, Snyder county, las' Sat-
urday, was attended by many people
despite the rain. The attendance
from this county was large, and the
people from this town speak in the