Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-08

Inc funeral OF Matthew Clark,
aged q years, took place at East
waterford on the 5th of March.
lnterment in AcWilliams grave yard,
west Of Waterford.
Mr.. Pollard Breckinridge has
again announced himself as candi
date for Congress and again the
women in the district are organizing
to prevent the nomination.
Noah Raby celebrated his 124th
birthday at the Piscatawnsy Poor
Farm, New Jersey on the LIST of Ap-
I'll. he has been . pauper in the
poor house the past 80 years.
The funaral Of Mrs: David Sieser
took place On Sunday afternoon.
1nterment in Union Cemetery. Mrs.
Sieber was daughter of Mr.. James
Kyle, late Of Walker township.
~The past winter has been record
breaker in furnishing green holidays.
Thanksgiving dayswas gres., Christ
mas and New Years were green
dsys, and last Sunday, Easter, was
green.
Last Friday two negroes INDUCED
in fight over dog fight. Ono of
the negroes was killed, the other one
is not expected to 1.-Two. Tbs dogs
in NewsYork are not much the worss
for the fight
On tie 18th inst +, next Monday,
tho PencsyIvauia roiIroo6 x-;lI bo SO
yssrs old. If 13 is an unlucky num-
bar, it has not Shown itself such IN
the Pennsylvapia railroad. It has
been lucky concern for many pso-
pie.
Mics Ellie Pannebaksr is now in
tho city buying q stock of new mil
llnery goods for her store in Patter-
son. By the last of this week she
will be ready to serve her numerous
customers with the latest and hsnd-
soonest styles.
The commissioners in thirty-seven
couotiss in this State have refused
to pay assessors for registering
children under the compulsory sdn-
cation act. There is no provision in
the act for the payment of assessors
for the new work.
Ex-Ccngrs.smsu l.. E. Atkinson
was pretty we'll shaken up in q wreck
Of passenger train that was coming
down the Perry county Railroad from
Bloomfield to Dunearnen on the 2nd
of April. No one was seriously hurt.
The wreck WAS caused by the rails
spreading.
On the 2nd day of April in the
Methodist Episcopal Conference in
New York the following resolution
was introduced:
"Resolv.d, That we recommend
the General Conference to take un-
der consideration the advisability and
expediency Of putting colored man
on the bench of Bishops." Tho res
elution failed to pass.
The Chambarsburg Repository Of
April 1st says: - Fifteen hundred
Tunksrs from Pennsylvania. Virginif,
West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and
Illinois have gone to North Dakots.
where they will permanently locsts
There were twenty colonies in the
party that went Weat on Wednesday
and all will locate near each other.
They will be sn industrious addition
for the nsw State.
Recently, while dance ves going
on in a school house in Oklahoma, q
drunken Osass Indian, rode his herss
into tie building. Several young
ladies faintsd. Three young man
were hurt in an effort to put the IT.
dian out of the building. Ons young
lady was fatally hurt by the Indians
horse. Three other young ladies were
hurt. The Indian was bseten and
kicked into inssnsibility.
Thomas Wharton. one of the sai-
torial staff Of the Philadelphia Times,
fell from fourth story windov Of
his boarding houss last Friday, April
Sd, at $50 o'clock in the morning.
He had Just come in from editorial
work On the Times Il is ccaiec-
TIRED that he enensd the window for
fresh air and fell in faint, or fell!
by a misbsp. He fell on his hesd
and was instantly killed.
The veterans of Faye!te held q
nesting in the Office of Esquire
Davis in NcAlistsrvills, for the pur-
pose OF organizing Soldiers Club.
VIM. Splitter was elected president
pro tenn, and T. T. Davis, secretary.
A public meeting will be held on
Tuesday evening, April 14th, in the
school house, when permanent Off
GERS will be elected and resolutions
adopted. All soldiers are cordially
invited to join and the general pub.
lie are assured of hearty welcome.
Last Saturday when Squire Gron.
niger was on bis way hone from
attending to the duties of clerk of
the board of county commissioners,
he mot on the path along tbs railroad
between this place and Port RovaJ,
a man who caught hin by the lapel
of the coat aud wildly asked him to
save him from being kidnapped.
Three strange men were on the path
not far away and the squire not
knowing but that the man who held
him by the coat was playing with
him to detain him till the cthsrs
came up and then all four overpower
him and take his pocket book, which
at the time, in all probability, wss
lean enough, as most pocket books
are after the first of April, hs bade
the stranger begone. The man how