Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1899-01-18


cubs, 70 Squire kaufman on Thursda,
anu making affidavit that he had kill
ed the former, thereof laid cl,in
70 the bounty Of 81 per scalp. He sal,
ne mad sent them to the happy huntin,
grounds in August, September and Oc
toper last but lacking proof of the fac
.iiat ne Killed them in this county tn,
Commissioners have not vet Maid hi,
the s4S for exterminated Reynards
Henry Sulouff died at his how.
about miles north of Mifiintown a,
p. M, January IA, 1899, aged 70 wear,
less l month and | week. He wo,
oorn In Tuscarora Valley, and lived
most OF his days in Juniata county
ne was a soldier in the Mexican war,
Win Col. VIM Irwin's company. He
owned farm ON the foot hills of Shade
mountain where he lived in comfort
ana enjoyed himself WITH Il; family
up TO the time when gangrene set in
one of his feet, and from that time on
IL was but the beginning of the end.
"hich came as stated above. Inter-
ment in Union cemetery on Tuesdsv
afternoon.
HARD on General Eagan's beef. r
Harvey Scott, OF Pittsburg, was con-
nected with Battery B. Pennsvlvsnia
Volunteers at Porto Rico, saws the beef
sent to Porto Rico was bad. "I only
ATE the beef for three days, rs il turned
my stomach, but from what I saw of
II l don't think it was very good T
saw the cook throw piece to his dog
one day and the dog took one Whit of
IL and then threw up its head and ran
away. L remember one day was de-
tailed to help bury mule which we
mad to shoot, and at the same time we
buried a lot of beef, and must say that
the beef smell was more offensive than
the dead mu!e.D
Catpain A. Wilson Norris, Assistant
Adlutant General, of General Gobin,s
brigade, died unexpectedly about s
p. M, on the 18th inst, after eating
dinner at the Harrisburg club house.
He had came the day before from the
camp of the End Army Corps at Au-
gusta, Ga, to attend the Governor
Stone Inauguration. Immediately after
dinner he was taken sick. One doctor
after another was summoned, but all
Were of no avail. He was son OF DR..
John {. Norris, of Clinton county.
When his parents died, he was adopted
by his uncle the late Colonel \. Wilson
Norris. He was lawyer by proies-
sion, but when the war with Spain
broke out he dropped his law books and
became soldier. He was an able pub
lie speaker. He was IS years old. He
died Of heart failure, caused by acute
indigestion.
Howard Smith. of Se,insgrove. Sny-
der county, is i'll the 10th United States
Infantry III Havana, Cuba. The young
soldier wrote home TO his father in
oeiinsgrove about their arrival in Ha-
vana the day before Christmas. Among
other things he said in the SeIinsgrove
Tribune was this.-We had TO march
through Havana in order to reach our
camp ana such q reception as we got,
never seen before, the streets We're al
most covered with flowers which the
pretty girls threw at US.
Such class of people ! never seen
before, the aristocrats are dressed in
silks and the streets are full of poor
naked children.
| wish you could see this place at
mess time, the poor Ca5.ins come by
the scores, TO gather up the refuse.-At
dinner time to-day small boy was
standing by my side watching me eat,
be did not have a stitch of clothes OF.
| gave him few hard-tack.
Bloomfield Times, January 12.-One
night this week, DR.. E. Z. Moore, of
this place, was startled about II O'Clock
by the jsngling of an electric burglar
alarm, which connects the doctors
house with the stable lie hastcned
Dut to investigate, and saw TO his
alarm that the stable was blaze of
light. He Immediately concluded that
the building was on fire, and that one
Of the back doors had fallen from its
hinges thus springing the alarm. He
rushed to the barn, only 10 find every
thing quiet. The electric light, how
ever, was turned on and the switch
was twisted entirely off and was lying
Oh the floor This was rather remark
able. The doctor began AN investiga-
ton, his dog assisting. Zip" sprang
into the hay-mow and soon caught on
to the situation. The situation evident
ly didn't like it-you could tell that
from the general trend of its remarks.
The doctor sliced a pitchfOrk and got
up on the NOV. He found man there.
The fellow wore rather good clothes
and dog or one of his legs. He must
have been 4 lover of animals for the
dog and he were already strongly at
tached to each other. The doctor sug-
gested that he come out of that. The
man objected. The doctor backed up
his suggestion with the fork.
The man saw the point of argument,
and came down. The doctor persuad-
I'd, the dog pulled and the man swore
and at last they all got out in the open
air. "You can go and sleep in the Jail,
,aid the doctor. "Or come back and
sleep on the pitchfork." He left, and
whether he went to jail or not, 'he
never came back"