Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1898-12-21


William Beward, assistant conductor
of Miffiin local is suffering with a bad
ly crushed right hand which happened
to him recently in the Lewistown
Junction yard. The hand was caught
between the switch leaver and the car
that he was braking.
The question of whether the coal
mine near Beavertown, Snyder county,
was salted or not salted, is agitatinp
that community. Some several win
tiers ago, wag dropped a few pieces OF
first rate coal into Isaac Etka's mine at
Van Vert, this county
Colonel Bryan, when his regiment
the Third Nebraska, was ordered to
Cuba, resigned, and now the Colonel is
grooming himself to again run for the
presidency, on the platform of opposi.
ton to the United States acquiring ter.
ritory outside or beyond the American
continent.
A breeder of sheep who has lost some
of his animals from the dogs of his
neighborhood believes that instead OF
putting bells on the sheep, every dog
should have bell or be destroyed. II
is an idea worthy of consideration by
those interested in protecting sheer
from dogs.
Major Patton, of Lewistown, holding
"a in 1a
officein New York, with his daughter
Mss Pidge Patton, paid his daughter
Mrs. Wilberforce Schweyer, a visit on
Wednesday, and Will be in this place on
several more occasions before his vaca-
ton expires.
Aunt Maria-I hope you will be hap.
py with Mr.. Brenley
The Engaged One-I'm sure / think
| ought to be, auntie his parents never
kept house, but always boarded. II
will be impossible for him to talk about
his mothers cooking, you know.-Bos.
ton Transcript.
Mr.. Ravens illustrated lecture on
the Spanish-American War, delivered
in the Presbyterian church last Satur.
evening, was highly appreciated by the
audience. After the lecture ice cream
and cake was served in the lecture
room by ladies of the congregation, pro
ceeds for the home missions.
\ new road maker, or rather a man
with new idea on road making says
When road has been banked up, il
should be treated to oil, a barrel of oi
for a strip of 100 feet long and II fee
wide. He says the road dries quickly
after a rain, but he didn't say that h,
is engaged in specializing in oil.
-FoR SALE.-Tha Board of d.
rectors If the Farmers Mercantile A
sociation in Patterson, limited, ffef,
for sale, or rent, their Store IL Pa.
terson- Terms eas!-For particulars
irqu.re oi II. n. Steiref', on ths
premises. b order Of 3 ard,
Au-. II, ct. LEWIS DEoAS. Sec.
y defective fiue in David Huffman
house, on Water street, set the building
on fire one day last week, and caused
great excitement in that part OF tn
town. The fire department was 500,
at the scene of the conhagration, ant
drenched the house with water, ant
completely extirguished the fire.
| The Calhoun (Ga.) Times has this t
say about Oglethorpe's big fsFmer
Colonel Jim Smith started az c-schoC
teacher in Middle Georgia wAhout
cent. He now owns $1,000 acres c
land, works $50 hands and is worth
on the poor sandy soil of Oglethorp
county.
a good many people are getting
believe cold weather is not healthy
They say it is good TO stop malaria, an
diseases of that kind, but it produce
other diseases, and is discomfort
all but those who are to young to fe.
the discomforts of cold. a boy wi
stay out in the cold till his feet freeZt
because he doesn't know better.
\ horse owned by T. Dunn {; Co
Cuba Nillers, broke from the post
which it was tied in Patterson, and IA
through a number of streets and ale
ways. The wagon to which he W.
hitched was a good thing to catch o!
jects along the route Of the runawa,
be Travelled the pavement on raiiroa
avenue and knocked Off the show vii
Id af I
other breaks winding up with con
plete demolition of the wagon.
The seats in the new hall at Harri
burg for members of the Legislatul
are TO be chosen by lot. So there is u
end of the setting up of job for Il
best seats. AristOcrats III a church col
gregation want to crowd into the NIT
die block, bat there is difference
opinion among members of the Legi
+, lature as to which is the locality in
Legislative hall.
One hundred and three is majori1
) in the lower house at Harrisburg. IL
| democrats have seventy-fOur, and Il
) question is, twill the "A democra
e come to 20 republicans to elect repu
lican speaker and republican Unit
States Senator. The probability Is tn
when the time comes, the republican
will be unite on their caucus mol
= inees. and the democrats will be q uni
on their caucus nominees.
Harrison Funk, who was killed by
fall from the front part of his engi
which he was oiling, on its run ju
;. east of McVeytown, was known
u most of men in railroad circles i'll II