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

George Funk, Esq, wife and chill
of Logansport, Indiana, paid Juniat'
his native county a visit last weel
Mr.. Funk is son of Joseph Funl
who used to live in Fermanagh town
ship.
The veterans and their friends
have been crowding into Pittsbur
in such numbers that the railroa
stations in the city have been taxe'
to their utmost to handle the travel
ers and visitors.
The Newport News, of September
says.-The horse sale on Monday dit
not draw as large . crowd IS forme
sales, and korsss sold accordingly. Th
lowest sale was $16. SO and the higbea
$75. A good cow would bring NOR
money than many of the horses. No
that they were not fine animals, for the
were all good stock. Horse flesh
poor sale.
1.-TWO Elizabethville girls becam
infatuated with the idea of havins
their pictures taken with their head
coquettishly stuck through q tori
newspaper, and visited LykeDs pho
tographer for that purpose. How
ever, when the pictures we're finished
they were horrified to see what the,
before had failed to notice-the pa
per they stuck their heads through
was a Harrisburg sheet, and just be
meath their smiling faces was big ad
vertisment of clothing firm which
announced: "Our pants are lined il
the seat"
The engine on the Perry County
Railroad ran over a bull near Bern
heisers mill on last Thursday e = ming
The engine, tender and box-car pass
ed safely over the PROSTATE animal
but the trucks of the first passenger
car were thrown from the track. The
king bolt of the car was forced up.
ward through the floor, but no otht I
damage was done. Two bulls had
locked horns, and as the train came
along one had pushed the other on
the track just ahead of the engine.
That was bull fight that would have
delighted the hearts of bull-fighting
Spapiards.-Bloomf Democrat.
From the Bloomfield Perry county
Times: the sale of DR.. Hurley
last Saturday in Sheaffer's Valley,
twenty one bee hives were sold,
bringing from thirty to seventy cents
per skep. Mr.. G. V. Caldwell,
bought two hives at thirty cents a
piece: after the sale he took the hen
ey from them and weighed it and
had sixty five pounds of honey at less
than a penny a pound-cheap honey.
A few nights since three
men were seen prowling around the
of Ephriam Clouser, in
Center township. They had tried to
force open the window before they
were seen. They ran away when
they found they were discovered and
a charge of shot was sent after them,
which wounded one so badly that his
comrades had to help him away,
Blood was found on the ground next
morning, but no further trace of the
would be thieves was found.
x Some few nights since Kaffen'
berger's spring house at .Marysville
was robbed of butter, crooks and
some other property. A search war
rant was obtained the next day and
the property was found at a shanty
occupied by 'Jim'' Givens, near Per
dix station. The constable and his
deputy found Givens at fish house
near 10y and at his request took him
back to the shanty where he said his
two little children We're alone. When
they reached the shanty, Givens took
down pistol that looked to the of
fcers to be as big as cannon, and
refused to be again arrested All the
e ,axing of the officers could not ir.
duee tn. chap 10 Tut up his "gun,
and he finally backed away till he
reached the brush and then made
good his escape. Since then the at
tempt to make the arrest has been a
failure. The people in To
boyne are excited over the many rob
berries committed in this and Juniats
counties. About a week ago Mrs
George Kern had about sixteen dol
lars worth of silverware taken from
her house. Mr.. E. A. Mclaughlin
had about seventy-five dollars of pa
70, of h., -
loon pockets. The pantaloons wer,
hanging up in one of the rooms Of
his house, and what is curious abou
it is that between four and five dol
lars of silver was in same pocket
book from which the bills were takel
and yet this silver was left untoueh
ed. On Saturday night last, Martir
Bousum, If Horse Valley, had ever,
ear from two rows of corn in hi
field taken. Previous to this som,
of the people had noticed lights a.
different places along the side o
Tuscarora mountain near the Water
ford narrows, and on Sunday aftel
the corn was taken B. F. Middleton
James F. Hockenberry, Martin Bous
um and Josiah Eby went out to the
mountain in the direction in which
the lights were seen. They soor
came across kind of shanty put uE
by the robbers
This shanty was put up will
stumps piled up on each other. ant
covered over. A large pile Of ashe'
was outside of the shsnty, in which
were found large lot of CHECKER
bones. A large pot was found in th.
shanty. This pot had been stoler
from Nrs. Rough of Waterford, il
last June, showing that thu robbers
had been making this place theil
rendezvous for some time. The citi