Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-02-03

S8iOC aio1tuS MT iudtCueS Sct uI<
to an insurance agents Office in Sc.
Inns grove one night last week.
"Who was Ananias, pat"
"I believe he was the leader of the
opposition to George Washington.
Truth.
Harry Ellis and Van Pannebake,
caught 81 fish from hole in the les
in the river on Monday. They used
bait, hook and line.
There are over 10 million men in
the United States fit for military du
ty. So the Secretary of war told the
Senate of the United States on Non
day.
The House at Harrisburg unani.
mously passed the resolution provid.
ing for an investigation Of the offices
of Auditor General and State Treas.
ursr.
The Christian Endeavor Society
was I6 years old on the 2ud of Feb
ruary and numbers q membership of
over two million people.
Tuesday was ground hog day and
the animal did not see its shadow in
this part of the country. Now see
how the weather will turn out in the
six weeks to olme
A marriage license was issued
from the Recorders Office in the
Court Houss on Monday, the pros
pective groom of which is 70 years
old and the prospective bIide 60
years old.
About 3 o'clock A. M, on Tuesday
an attempt was made to wreck the
Gardner, Morrow & Co. bank build
ing ia Hoilidaysburg. An explosive
material of some kind was put
under the door. The result did
damage, smashing doors
breaking win lows and SCATTERING,
windows in neighboring houses.
Windows were shattered in the
houses of Charles Vowinekle, Frank
Mrs. Gertrude Christy, S.
S. Barr, Miss Elizabeth Stiffier, B.
Goldman, j. r. Humes, e Melvin az
Co, John T. Leet.
The Republican ticket nominated
by popular vote for the February
election and the Democratic ticket
nominated by a Democratic caucus
for Fermanagh township, did not sat
isfv ell the citizens in the township,
and number thought they could
best further their desires and inter
ests of friends by putting another
ticket in the field by nomination pa
pers, which they did on Saturday,
January so. 1897 The citizens who
signed and filed the nomination pa
pers ticket are: Samuel Warner, B.
Heller, John Ballentine, ". w. Il.
Longaere, James Longacre, g. y.
Diffenderfer, E. J. Warner. Tie
ticket they nominated is: For Judge
of election, Geo. ". Horning; inspec
tor, Charles Dunn; school directors,
J. c. Hover, David Wolfgang; road
supervisors, VIM. B. Lauver, Il. G.
Penny; overseer of poor, Jacob B.
Stouer; auditor, JOHN b Bslleutine;
township clerk, Elmer j. Warner.
The funeral Of George B. Roberts
Of the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany, took place on Tuesday after
noor, February 2, 1897. Interment
IN the West Laurel Hill Cemetery at
Philadelphia, and thus passed away
AR. Roberts, President of one OF the
greatest transportation lines in the
world, He wSs man of great exec
utiva ability and immeasureable is
the difference excepting in form, be-
tween such man and the man who
cannot manage or cortrol himself.
but now dust to dust just as the in
capable pauper dust to dust, and We
are ali alike 50 we ere told, bat who
ever ex plaiNed the phenomena Of the
moral, business and Intellectual diff
fersncas of men hsre, and who can
explain the greater mystery OF tbeir
being made equal il the world t.
come. The man who can explain
thai, can explain the phenomena Of
life and death, and that man has no;
yet been born. The funeral of M
Roberts was attended by people from
every pursuit in life.
The r1sin Capital Building erected
in 1919 at Harrisburg. was destroy
ed by fire on Tuesday in the middle
of the day. It was brick building
$50 feet by so, two stories high
built in what architects are PLEASED
to call the Eiizabethisn style OF arch
itecture. It is believed the fire was
started by an improperly protected
electric wire that furnishes light fol
the Lieutenant Governors depart
ment above the Senate chamber aaC
for tbs Public School department
just across the hall from the Lieu
tenant Governors room. But as fal
as positive Information goes it ia no
known just when and where the fire
started for the first information taa
the occupants of The building had o
FIRE was smell that diffnsed itseli
through corridors upstairs in the de
pGrtments mentioned Some OF tb,
Senstors smelt FIRE as carly as. [;
o'clock in the forenoon. Search Il,
stairs was not begun for the cause 0
the fire smell till about noan anC
when wash board in the Lieuten
ant Governors room was pried Of
fire showed Itself. 1t was quickly re
s5zed that fire WAS raging between
studdiDg of The wall; between foo
and Getting over q considerable por
ton Of the upstairs OF hat part O
the building. TIE School Depart
me4t had the hose ia that Part OF IT,,
bli' ding soon IN play, bu. thei
efforts coming at such . late hour af
ter the start OF the fire were of n,