Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-10-27

The double-barrelled muzzle load
ing rife used with such deadly effect
by the Modoc Chief Captain Jack of
a few years ago, has just been found.
The name of the maker of the rife, |
John Shuler of Liverpool, Pa, is en-.
graved on the barrel.
Huntingdon Journal, October 81:
IA large bear has been committing
havoc among the Centre and Hunt
ingdon county farmers on both sides
of Tussey mountain near Monroe
furnace. Last week it killed a large
calf that was among a lot of cattle
herded by Wm. Harbster.
Rev. P. s. Gibson of Mt. Gibson
Baptist church, N. j., was sued by
Miss Lucy Swan of his congregation
for some serious offense. He was re.
quired to give three hundred dollars
to answer at court. The preacher
turned the tables and sued the young
woman for slander and wants a thou
sand dollars damage.
Jacob Stoner and VIM. Lauver cit
liens of Fermanagh township were
out coon hunting to Shade mountain
one night last week. Their dog
treed two coons, both of which they
succeeded in getting S. Boyd Muir
ray of the National House bought
one of the savory animals to make it
the central dish of feast The coon
when dressed for the table weighed
IL pounds.
The world is no better if the ac-
counts of murders, suicides, thievery,
J and other depraved acts are to be
taken into consideration, and they
l must be taken into consideration for
they are here present every day. If
the people have so loosened their
views on the old time doctrine of the
personality of dsvil will look about
them they can be convinced in a
short time of the personal influence
of devil.
It is queer beyond comprehension,
that convicts in the Pittsburg peni-
tentiary should be able to make coun-
, terfeit silver coins and circulate them
in the city of Pittaburg. How can
, such things be? Who can explain it.
There is grim humor in the revela-
, ton Of the fact that the western pen
itentiary has been converted in a
measure into a coNnterfeiters' den by
convicts who are serving q term of
imprisonment there.
Bloomfield Democrat, October 20
Herry Kraft, prominent citizen Of
| Howe township, suddenly passed
, from life to death on las. Friday af-
ternoon. AS school director he
had just returned from visit to one
Of the schools, and was sitting OF the
porch of bis residence and seemed to
be IN his usual condition of health,
but his head was seen to drop and he
fell forward dead. He was aged
about 55 years. A wife survives S
him.
Halloween, the time when many a
beau and lassie will stand by the
stove and place two Grains Of corn on
l a lot griddie, naming one grain for
the beau and one grain for the lassie,
and if the heat drives the grains TO
!, squirt in opposite directions separ
| alton between the parties is to follow
sooner or later, buS if the heat drives
= the grains so that they bump against
i each other it is takeo TO mean that
5 they are 10 be married Fanny ro-
} ,ion that has come down from form
5 er generations.
Luetgart the Chicago sausage max.
= er, who lives or the north side IN Chi.
: cago, which is The money aristocracy
part Of Chicago, was released from
S prison last Friday on the verdict of
5 the disagreement Of the jury that
S tried him for the murder Of his wife
2 He vas charged with having dispos
ed of her by boiling il sausage
! boiler. Sausage eating III Chics 60
has not b5on 80 freely INDUCED in,
3 since the charge against Laetgart for
} numbering his wife. The jusy lis.
agreed, Nine favored n verdict OF
guilty, and three favored verdict OF
: not guilty. After the verdict or rGst.
er the disagreement of the jury, Lieut.
gart made a sworn statement tn fs-
porters of Chicago newspapers in
which he SAYS be is an Innocent mar.
Taat he did not kill his wife cad does
; not know where she is, and feels sure
she will return.