Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-05-27

county. was destroyed by fire. ~
origin OF which is not known last
Saturday evening. Two hsrsss anJ I
Two cattle perished in the fire. The
Wilson and Nettie Mckinley of
burnham; William Saylor. Academic.
Mrs. Calvin Green, Lewistown. Tam.
nei Mckinley, McCoysville; Lemuel
RRipper, New Cumberland, and Miss
Ireso, Oakland Mills, were com.
mencement visitors at Mrs. Crsm.r
Powell's.
Ex United States Senator William
A. Wallace, died in New York on tbe
morning of the 22nd inst. The fun.
erai took place on Tuesday at Clear.
neid town. He was So wears old
he held the Office of District Attor:
ney. State Senator, United States
senator, and was often spoken of as a
candidate for the Presidency. He
was an able public speaker and a
good lawyer.
Harry Moore had a number sf
sheep killed by dogs on his farm in
Eayette township, few nights age.
fhe dogs were followed to a saw mill
where they were in the act of killing
a sheep when the pursuers came.
The dogs We're so fierce when they
were overtaken that they turned on
the men; and it was with difficulty
that the men kept the brutes from
biting them. Two dogs were killed
there. The third dog escaped.
The Cleveland administration man
agement this month of MAJ has paid
out million dollars more than it re.
ceived. II you wont to smash and
wreck affairs for 20 years to CONS,
vote tho Democratic ticket at the
next election, and you will got more
wreck than you have ever imagined.
If you are conspiring with the ene-
my, coaaiy, State or Mt On to elect
members of the Democratic party,
you arc indirectly conspiring to
bring harder and more difficult times
The County Commissioners had
public notices placed on the river
bridge for the purpose of preventing
loahpg on the side walk and in that
way obstructing the highway. The
notices were put up under general
complaint that is made against The
loa6ng of lily behaved men and boys
on the sidewalk of the bridge where
they make themselves offensive to
ladies and well disposed passers by.
The notices were up about three
days. Tie penalty for pulling down
notice Of that kind from county
property is not light one.
The average woman looks under
her bed every evening, expecting to
see n man. When Mrs. S. A. Ben
son of Norristown, Pa, was about to
retire the other evening, she looked
under her bed. There was a man
there and he came out and blew out
her light and choked her. She
fought him like heroine and scream
ed as loud as she could. The william
ran out of the house and she was SO
badly scared that she could not des-
scribe him. The man who gets IN
der woman's bed is not the kind of
a man that women want to meet.
Another murderer of the Holmes
kind has turned up. This time it is
preacher and bis name is Francis
Hermann. He is foreigner, and
his latest crimes are the murder Of
two women, members of his copgre-
CATION. He murdered them in the
church aud cremated their bodies in
the furnace of the church in Salt Lake
City, Utah, where he has been
preaching. II is charged that he is
guilty of seven murders. He escap-
cd arrest. His motive for murder,
was lust Whenever he tired cf his
victims, he murdered them. He is
Methodist preacher and was gener-
ally liked.
S. Boyd Murray with other young
men, on Sunday morning rode from
this placs to Shade mountain and
partly through the long narrows be-
tween this and SGffiin county.
On THAR return all the bicyclists
safely wheeled around buggy NOV
ing in tke same direction, except
Boyd, who turning to far ont was
thrown from his bicycle upon the
rocks and stones. He was badly
scratched on the right side of the
face and lip and sustains severe
bruise On left knee, which he has
bandaged. Besides scratches receiv-
ed his clothing was considerably torn,
requiring attention as we'll as wounds
received Despite the accident Boyd
can be found at his place as proprie.
tor of the National House in town.
Last Thursday night fire bugs at
tempted to burn Lewistown. Fire
was started in five different places in
the town, all of which were extin-
guished without doing much damage,
excepting the fire that was started i'll
the f'ranciscus warehouse among
pine timber, window sash, &c. Oil
was in store, near where the fire
started and soon the flames reached
the oil, and then it was clear that
great copfagration could not be pre-
vented. The fire started there about
half past ten O'Clock. Lack of water
and the breaking of the fire engine,
alarmed the whole town. The only
home help then was the bucket brig
ade and the railroad engines that
were rugged with hose 10 Eght the
FIRE, but the engines could not get
nearer than the track of the Selins-
grove & Sunbury railroad. A des-
patch was sent to Huntingdon and
this town for help. Here the re-
spopse was prompt. TIE FIRE whistle