Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-11-08

OI tue mousse IrOntlnS Oh M61n St.,
was saved. The cause or origin of
the fire is net known. The land
lord and family have moved to
Richfield.
Only six weeks to the shortest day.
The streams and springs are full
enough for winter.
The most people one meets SYM
pathize With the Bosrs.
The British are using balloons
from which to locate the Boer posi-.
ton.
Over nine million dollars gold was
shipped out of the Klondyke gold
field the past year. I
James Banks aud Charles Adams,
were successful in bagging three
wild turkeys on election day.
Miss Mary Hopes, of .Mllroy, has
been q recent visitor at the home Of
her uncle, Judge Jeremiah Lyons in
this town.
The gallant 10th Pennsylvania Vol
unteeas are holding their reunion at
Tyrone this Wednesday and to-mor-
row, Thursday at Tyrone.
Colonel Demmipg of Harrisburg
believes that copper in paying quar-
titles may be found in Pennsylvania.
If the Colonel would just say where.
At the Coney Island Athletic club
quarters, fist fighters j. j. Jefferies
and T. Sharkey, fought battle for
the heavy weight championship.
Jefferies won the fight on the twenty
fifth round.
"a divine healer and impersonator
of Christ who said his name was
Schrader and who wore q flowing
robe and scarf of royal purple was
about the depot Saturday" Lewis
town Free Press.
A startling despatch from the Pa
ci6c coast on Sunday announced that
Rev. A. Gillies Presbyterian miss
ionary in the New Hebridea bad been
roasted and eaten by cannibsls. His
wife's fate is unknown.
Miss Marian Bowman, aged Is was
fatally burned at the home of her
father in Harrisburg on Sunday. She
was heating a curling iron over a coal
oil lamp. The lamp exploded and
set her clothing on fire.
The question of how many people
are there in and about Lewistowni
is engaging nearly all the talk dur
ing the spare minutes that Lewis.
town people have. Some guess
6.OOO people; others guess 5000 peo-
pie.
David Craig q citizen of this town
was taken to the poles in a carriage
on Tuesday and after voting was tax.
en- to the railroad and to the Meth
dist hospital in Philadelphia for
treatment for rheumatism with which
he has been sufferer many years.
John Bower a IL year old boy died
from nervous shock at the home of
his father at Mid Valley, Pa, on
Monday. He was driving the mail
wagon for his father when one of the
horses stumbled and fell which 80
frightened him that he sickened and
died from the shock.
Frank b. Rine of near Lewistown
this season from an acre of ground
marketed TIC bushels of tomatoes;
from four acres he had ds crop Of 1000
bushels of beets; eighty barrels Of
pepper from three-quarters of an
acre, and fifty-two bushels of red
raspberries from half an acre.
The letters uncalled for in the
Mifflintown post Office at the close Of
the Office on Saturday evening. No
vember 4, 1899 were for James
Smith. Sam Richards, Mrs. Lou Rice,
Mrs. Jennie Miller. D. P. Gotshall,
Mrs. Lizzie BrainsoD, Mrs. Mary
Brown, G w. Anderson, Concrela
Company, Mrs. Kate NJ. Buensey.
Newspapers from adjoining coun-
ties report Is and 30 and as high
as As bushels apples gathered
from . single tree. But not one tells
of large apples, 80 it is reserved for
Rufus r. Rice of Spruce Hill town
ship, Juniata county, to beat them all
with large fine apples. His best tree
produced 40 bushels Tulchocken sp.
Piles. They are an apple among sp
pies.
There is more gold IN circulation
now than at any lime since the days
before rebellion. Rebellion drove
gold ont of general circulation in
1851 and it has taken the country
since then-3S years-to get back to
q general gold circulation. The driv-
ing of gold out of circulation must be
charged to the democratic party, be-
cause NO one but democratic lead.
ers started rebellion.
TEACHERS INSTITUTE.
The Teachers' Institute will con
vene in Mimintown in the Court
on Monday, November ~ and con-
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