Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1896-04-15

The next meeting Of the Juniata
Medical Society, will be held ON the
End Wednesday Of next July.
e33 will pay for six weeks, board
and thorough instruction in music
At the Musical College, Freeburg,
Pa Special instruction will be Civ
On to these desiring to teach vocal
music in the Public Schools. Spring
Term begins, Nay 4. For catalogues
address, HrssY B. NoyS.
March 4, SO.
The act of the Congress Of the
United States of America in its rsso-
luton recognizing the Cubans as
having bslligersnt rights and favor
ing their independence Of Spain has
aroused the bittsrest feeling and mur-
derous acts on the part Of the Span
ish government people in Cuba as
may be learned from q despatch from
Havana last Friday, WHICH says:-
/ "a few days eg, a. Casiguss, Is
miles from the capital, band Of vol
untssrs, infuriated at the resolutions
OF the American Congress, went to 3
farm belonging to an American citi.
zen and shot his six sons, the elder,
agsd l9, surviving to tell the tale"
The peculiar features of the late
wedding boom in Harrisburg, reads
that during the month of March a
dozen Harrisburg widows took out
marriage licenses. No less than 8
brides we're older than their grooms,
as much as eight years in two in
stances. An actress was in this cate
CORY. Thrse couples were of the
same age, fourteen were but year
apart, three but two years and twelvi
but three years. Three brides were
but sweet 16 and four but a year
older. Oae of the .'sixtseners" we'd
ded man just twice her age. The
oldest groom was 20. He came from
York Springs, Adams county, and hi,
!ady'love was As. The oldest bride
was So. Five brides were over 40.
The Sslinsgrovs Tribune of tn,
10Th inst, says:-On Monday morn
ing OF last week, while shifter crew
was lying at the west end of the Ca
nal bridge, with train, one of th,
train hands saw three men approach
the cinder bank and dig three hole.
into the same, after this was complet
ed, they put something into the OK
cavations and then covered th.m up
and left. After they had disappear
ed the emp loyss went to the banl
and found where the holes had beer
dug. He removed from one of then
a 32 caliber revolver; from the othel
sons dynamite, caps, drills, fus,
and slow match, and in the sthel
hs found bottle in which he though
was liquor, and which he left. Whc
they were and why they hid th,
things there is question that is no
easily solved.
Jcseph Jamss, Sr, Of Fermenagl
township, disd last Thursday hight
His health had been poor quite
while, but he was not considered a
being in critical condition and wa
cut on Thursday. That night, how
ever, sudden attack OF heart failar
Carried him off A singular coirci
dence in the case is found in the fac
that when his neighbor, Simon Ulsh
went to The station and ssnt tne tele
gram to Joseph James, Jr., in Mich
gan, that his father had died, Ulsh'
message ives not gone ten minute
till ke received telegram fer Josepl
james, Sr., that his son, Josspl
James. Jr., had died in Michiga,
IL lumber camp where he cut hi
foot With an tx and bled to death
The elder James was buried in Unio1
cemetery on Saturday ard ON Hon
day the body Of the younger Jane
was brought here from Michigan, an,
then to the James home ia Fermsn
ash township. about four miles nortl
of Aifflintown. His funeral tool
lplace on Tuesday. Iztsrment OF
Tussday in Union cemetery.