Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-07-25

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Citizens of Milford township are
interesting themselves in the hold
ing of cake walks to raise money to
buy a bell for Muddy Run school
house.
Within the past six months there
have been 1876 births in Juniata
county and 116 deaths. Seventy
nine more births than deaths This
from the assessors reports.
The Chambersburg News OfJuly
20 says:-FOur of a flock of sheep
belonging to Amos Fry, who lives
in Green township, ate rifle pow
der few days ago and died. 1t
appears that on July 4th a party
of fishermen, who went to the creek
in the vicinity of Mr. Fry's place,
left four cans of rifle powder in the
creek. The cans were taken out
and opened and the powder scat
tered with the result that the sheep
ate a portion of it and died.
A dead man was found on a
street in Danville, Pa, last Friday
morning. The Coroner called a
jury and they found the dead
to be William Davis and that
he died from an over dose of laud-
anum. An hour after the finding
Of the verdict Davis appe ared upon
the scene. Then the jury was re-
called and found q verdict that
Davis is not dead and that the
dead man is US. Tobias, and Dan
vile people are talking.
On Friday evening a fire in a tall
tree at the north end of the island
in the river at this place attracted
considerable attention. When the
fire was seen from the river bridge
it was not known to be tree ablaze.
The appearance was like long
stretch of fire across field. Dun's
oats field on the Cuba Mills farm,
showed up in the back ground, and
the expression of the people who
saw the fire was: GA fire has run
across Dunn's oats field and has
burned the oats.
Ex- Register & Recorder Joshua
Beale met with a painful accident
a few days since while coming off a
straw stack at his barn near East
Waterford. In coming off the
stack he balanced himself with the
handle of a fork. He lost his bal.
ance and slid down. The fork han
die struck him in the lower abdo-
men and passed up between the
outer skin and the abdomen prop
er to the depth of about six inches.
He was bruised on the side of the
body, but from last accounts is do
ing as well as can be expected.
An excursion party at Johns
town, Pa was run into by a
freight train. Editor Begley of
the Windber Journal and his wife
were among the injured. Mrs.
Begley had a leg amputated at the
hospital After she recovered con-
sciOusness, she told the surgeon
that she had one hundred dollars
concealed in the stocking of the leg
that was cut off. The leg was am
putated at the railroad station and
lay on the platform some time.
While it lay there, it was examin-
ed by two brOthers-boys. They
found the money and kept it.
They were put under arrest before
they gave up the money.
A congregational meeting was
held in the Presbyterian church
ON the 18th inst, to determine
whether the way was clear for the
election of pastor. One vote was
taken to learn whether a unanimi-
ty on the question of a call existed
in the congregation. The vote
stood for Rev. Mccormick 6; for
Rev. Brucklacker Z; for Rev.
Helm Z; for Rev. DrummOnd Z; for
Rev. Hatch Z, for Rev. Sharpless z;
for Rev. Hatches two votes were
cast, but as there was no name
Batches before the congregation it
is conjectured the persons whOvot-
ed Hatches intended to vote for
Rev. Hatch, OF course that is on
ly conjecture and without some
thing more definite is OfnO account.