Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-02-15

President Mckinley sent . mes.
sage to the lower house of Congress.
last Friday calling attention to the
necessity Of constructing telegraph
line through the Pacific ocean to the
Philippines.
The Thermometer at degrees be-
low zero. and a wind blowing made
last Thursday morning feel like the
coldest of the year There has been
more zero weather this winter than in
many years.
All the trains from the east were
delayed on Monday by the storn
The morning mails did not come
till evening. Trains from the west
kept On time pretty well, compari
lively speaking till Monday night
when the whole line from Pittsburo
TO Philadelphia became snow bound
All lines of railroads from Peunsyl.
wanna to Canada, were closed. Hum
dreds OF trains were fast in the snow.
Men were employed to shovel ont
the stuck trains. By Tuesday even.
ing trains again began to move.
The individual suffering aud loss of
property will be weeks in reportino.
DIR. Kings New Discovery.
The hot weather last week knock
ed ont more American ao,diers in
the battles that took place srouud
Man Ia than the Philippine. bullets.
There We're many cases of sun stroke
in the American army.
1t is said that carriage makers.
blacksmiths and men who can run
saw mills, can make fortunes in
Manila. There are no tradesmen
of that kind there, and no tools
and machinery for those trades.
Mans ingenious inventions and
machinery do well under favorable
conditions, but littls Whit of the
power of nature as exempIifed in the
winter weather of this week shows
how Insignificant the power of man is.
Ii :he Philippine Islander Can
comprehend that all he has to do is
to recognz ze tie authority of the
United States of America, and adopt
bis system of civilization then it vii,
be better for him, from this time on.
The Klondike gold field is again
extensively talked about. A re-
turned miner put up at the Murry
house last Thursday, and had
many eager listeners to his nara
tives of that far away cold gold
land.
The cold VAS SO interse that the
ears ct hogs Gu stock cars were
frozen as brittle as pipe sienna and
many ears Of hogs in the Pitts burg
stock yards were knocked off when
the stock was taken out of the cars
last Saturday.
Mr. Carnegie has offered to give
s. 90, 900 for the erection of q
4 library building for the use of the
Pennsylvania State College, upOr
the condition that the State shall
provide a sufficient sum for its an
tnual maintenance.
, DR.. Kings New Life Pills.
, Dr. RJbert c. Stewart, Of Ship
lpsrshurg, Pa, YVES found dead IL
his bed chsmber last Friday morn
ing havirg be smotkered by gel
from p stcvs. His two pet dog
were de d by h;s SIDE. The doctor
s wss an unmarried man.
The LISTERS unc.iled for IN -,
NJ film town post office at the close Q
S busineB<, Saturday evening, t bru
e airy II, 1889. Mr. Will Garter, d n
isl S. Shel enberger, r. 3. Thomas
Robt V. Massig. Esq, Joshua II Il
irger, Frsd T. Duaopt.
Howard Nelly was crushed t
! death by a falling tree in Littl
o Mountain, near Mercersburg. II
4 saw the tree falling, but in tryin
to get away tripped and fell di
e rectly under it. Woodchopper
t near at hand were too late to say
him.
% The loss in the late battle befor
Manila, from the 4th to the 9th G
February, according to Genera
Il Otis, the American general in CON
Ii mand aggregated 26S of which
are officers killed, and Sc enliste
Z men killed, and S officers and %
l. men wounded.
DIR. Kings New Discovery.
9 Ex Saeriff John Spas gler, of Cent?
If cattle on iiis farm .enated by Willial
Msrtz, near Tusseyviils. few daS
ago The cattle were in ths BAR
yard, when the strawstsck fell, cove
l, ipg Them. and before they were du
It out they had suffocstcd
Officer Albert Hackenbergt
- went to Harrisburg recently an
~ brought negro to town and 1Ods
, ed him in Jail, on the charge {
merchant NJ. Z. Schlegel, of Thoml
sontown. The negro had stole
20 goods from Schlegel's store and wa
D. selling the goods in Harrisburg.
At the Musical College, FreebHr:
Snyder county, Pa, none but the he
40 methods are used, SO that to-day it
- recognized as one of the foremost schoo
2 of music in the country. S33 will pa
for a term of six weeks, instruction sn
10 hoard Snrino Term will hegin Nav