Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-02-08

oarulng house keeper. w r
was before the court
on that charge. The defendant
IL was testified, had no baggage in
ms possession when he became a
Doarder at the establishment
Judge Simonton decided that as hs
nad no baggage when he became a
Doarder. his offense was not a
criminal one and had no right to
be brought up in a criminal court
The Judge instructed the iury to
the effect that to come into a Grim.
ina court, a boarding house keen.
er must have evidence that a de.
frauding patron had baggage and
it away from the house
Exchange.
DIR. Kings New Discovery
Government reports that deaths
among troops in Philippines since
arrival to February l, seven months.
22O, of which Al were due to wounds
and accidents. OF the remaining
179, 65 died of typhoid 43 of small
pOx, % Ofdysentery and S of ma.
larial fever. The remaining deaths
were due to many various diseases.
smallpox causes apprehension.
The entire command has been vac
cinated several times. Twelve
physicians have been engaged for
several weeks vaccinating natives.
The more sickly season is during
the hot months, March, April,
May, when fevers, smallpox and
dysentery are more frequent. Nine
per cent. of the command are now
reported sick. A great majority
of the cases are slight ailments" )"
The Bloomfield Freeman of the
list inst, relates tho following
Mrs. Isaiah Hartzell, of near Dell.
vile, was arrested last week and
brought before Squire Hair, on
information of VIM. Reich, charged
with selling and Offering for sale,
i'll this place, on or about the first
day Of last December, certain wild
game, consisting Of several pheas-
ants, partridges and a wild turkey.
Twelve OF moro witnesses had been
subpOenaed from the town, but all
refused to give any testimony that
would have helped to convict the
defendant all. without execution.
pleading their constitutional right
not being compelled to give any
testimony that might tend to in
criminate themselves. The prose
cution also failed to show that the
game, which the Indictment charg-
cd was offered for sale and was
sold, had been killed within the
confines of this Commonwealth, as
is required by law. Under the
testimony, the justice discharged
the defendant and put the costs on
the county. The only fact brought
out by this trial was that it shows
how difficult it is to convict any
one offending in that way.
The funeral of Rv. A. Fl. Parker.
took place on Saturday, Feb. 4, from
the Presbyterian parsonage at Reeds
vile, Mifh county, where he died
on the 1st inst, aged 81 years. He
had bsen i'll some days with a cold
but his case III no way seemed dan
gerous. To all ap earancs his cold
was gradually breaking when un-
expectedly inflammation Of the bowels
set in end within three days he pass
ed away. His death was a sad ahock
to that community for he wss q
greatly esteemed man. He wes born
in Mifiiintown, Juniata county, in
lS45. He vas graduate vf Prince.
ton College. and grad uated from
Princeton Theological Seminary in
April 1869, and was ordained and
installed pastor of the East Kisha.
ccquillas, Mifflin county, Presby Ter
ian church, in December 1869. 1t
was his first and only coDgrega ion
1t has been flourishing congrega.
ton, more than a century, and that
he should 20 there in his early man.
aood days and preach for them year
in and year out almost the third Of O
century, to the end of bis days
provss the sterling man bs Was. He
loved the congregation aud they we're
RESPONSIVE to his intensely earnest
gentle minis tration. He loved the
congregation with the ardor of ,
man whose whole soul was in the
work of the gospel ministry and the
moral and social and religious up.
building of himself and tho people
he served. He was no time server
He was born a preacher. He va,
about six years the junior of the
writer of this brief obituary. When
the writer was youth attending
Rev. Matthew Allison's academy in
Mifflintown, in the Presby terian
church at the north end of town,
Andrew H. Parker was boy preach
er. 1t wrs q common sight for the
Academy pupils to see Andy in the
Presbyterian grave yard, standing
on a slab grave stone for q pulpit,
and from there hear him deliver q
sermon to q boy or two with whom
he had sufficient fellowship to con.
stitute an audience. Sometimes his
audience oons,sted Of only one boy
nut all the same, he sang. he prayed,
he read from the Bible and he
preached. Yes he WAS born q priest
and he died a highly honored priest.
Under certain circumstances and
certain conditions OF society he
would h We been q famous man at
the head of the church. He was
none the less great because such
cir umstances and conditions of SO
ciety did not surround him OF exist