Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1897-01-27
SHORTLOCALS.
Ice houses are being filed.

Tho ice crop foot thick is being
harvested.
Miss Maud Wilson is visiting
friends in Lewistown.
The zero blizzard Of Sunday and
Monday was spread.
Wm. Maxwell is recovering from q
severe stroke Of appoplexy.
Horselsss carriages are now run in
New York by compressed air.
Some people never appear humor-
Gus until they become serious.
JP. Knox of Allegheny, is Wis
iting acquaintances in this place.
Mrs Wilberforcs Schweyer is Wis
iting friends in Washington, d. G.
Saturday Was one of the most blus-
terry unpleasant days of the winter
10 far.
Mrs. Rothrock wife Of Mr. Joseph
Rotnrock is seriously i'll with heart
trouble.
The communication fragments of
Love" from Richfsld will appear
next week.
I fMr. Henry Berger visited relatives
4 in Schuylkill county over Saturday
and Sunday.
q The Republican State League of
Clubs, will meet. next September at
4 Willismsport.
Tho Thermometer registered 81
degrees below zero at Chicago on
Monday morning.
Ths thermometer registered 10 de-
Srees below zero at Pittsburg on
Monday moraing.
Victoria Lodge of Odd Fellows
held q banquet in Patterson last
Saturday evening.
Having failed to find the North
\ Pole, restless explorers will try and
hnG. the South Pole.
Alabama iron workers are making
iron to-day cheaper in Alabama than
they make it in England.
1t costs the people of the United
States, one hundred million dollars q
year to keep criminals in Jail.
Snow drifts in the Allegheny
mountains, delayed all the trains
from newest on Monday forenoon.
Misses Margaret and Mary Laird,
spent Saturday and Sunday in Har-
risburg among relatives and friends.
Judge Bucher was in town on
Tuesday on business relative to the
estate of;Jerome Thompson, deceas.
cd
There were fifteen cases of typhoid
fever in Lewistown last week, all Of
which Lswistown blames on bad
water.
! Alton Scholl, Esq, after a sojourn
of several years in the..States on the
Pacific coast, has come home to see
his parents.
The zero weather on Monday and
Tuesday froxe many water pipes.
Among them are the pipes in the
Court House.
Twenty-Five hundred people per.
ished in an earth quake on the island
Of Kishm, in the Persian Gulf on tine
1lth of January.
It is said that dried potatoe peel
lngs when burned in a stove viii
keep SCOT from accommodating in
4 .ipe and chimney.
"Dey amt no use feelin' sorry 70 {
/. tsnle," says Brother Watkins, "kass
de fus' charncs he get he gwine kick
de teelin' out O yo'."
The Island of st. John in the
South Sea is inhabited by women
Men who want a wife can get one
there without trouble.
The Newport Bank officials last
week were all indicted by tho Perry
county grand jury, but their case
was not reached for trial
There is bill in the Pennsylvania
Legislature to prevent the game ci
football. The penalty for the viola.
ton of the law is $40 to 800 fine.
Howard Scott, the colored music
ian of New York city, who killed his
wife, will be killed by electricity al
Sing, Sing Prison, March II, next"
Congressman Mahsn is working like
. beaver to put what is known as the
border raid claims through Congress
The claims amount to $3,450, ,565.45.
There waS stiff breeze blowing
on Sunday night, which made Mon
day morning seem cold with the
thermometer at 2 degrees above zero
1t costs the Queen of England fif
teen thousand dollars to keep hGI
\ pack of deer-hounds every year, fol-
the edifeation of her hunting friends
Y kThs summer of 1896 has gone into
VSo local history Of many localities as
the rag weed summer, owing to the
general growth of rag weeds On sthe
farms.
There is bill in the Legislature
that provides that female teachers in
the common schools shall receive the
same pay as male teachers for like
service.
"It is estimated that over 10 per
cent. Of the potatoe crop of south
western Michigan, was left in the
ground by reason Of the low price in
the fall"
"a gang of White Caps near Adair
vile, KY, while on msrauding e1