Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-03-07

,..: rev days ago looking after his -.
Rev; r. A. Mckinley Of stenhe,-
VILE, o., will preach in the Presh.
!erlan church next Sunday mon.
ing and evening. o"
Unclaimed letters in Poe. omo.
at Patterson, Pa, March 1st 1e00.
MISS Ethyl A. Daniel, Mis- Ew
cline Frambes, Mr.. C. Fra.k Kar
eker. A ner-
Inc Beers having been compel-
led to VII i'hdraw their armies from
Kimberly and Lsdysmith are fall.
ing back on Boreland. The war is
not over. ""' 20
When democratic orators .o
Oh antl-expansion, just think ofthe
ruth, that the American people
nave been expanding ever since
they first landed in America
The town is dull these days. II
misses the large percentage of men
VINO attend the farm stock and
farm implement sales at the h;o
oarns on the farms in the county.
The iron boom seems TO show
signs of subsiding and the leather
Doom has declined 9per cent. since
december, wheat remains low.
|huctuating between 6S and 7Octs
fhere IS gang of house burg
fars that enter windows that omen
ON pOrches. They are operating in
Harrisburg. Keep windows fast
that open on pOrches and keep the
shot gun handy.
Lost creek was high last week
James j. HOrning and brothers
have their saw-mill located on the
William mclaughlin tract and
the water came up high enough to
float awaya good many saw logs.
Patrick Ryan was troubled with
large numbers of rats at mis- barn.
He soaked corn with whisky. Put
it in a barrel. So rats went into
the barrel, ate corn and got drunk,
couldn't get out and Ryan killed
them.
Ladysmith was almost starved
to surrender when Buffers army
drove the Beers from the siege of
the town. The soldiers were living
On horse and mule meat, short al
f1Owance and Il half pound of meal
per day.
The candidates are circulating
among the people The people
like to see them and their talk of
Kissing the dogs on them is all talk.
The truth is the most of men don't
like it if a candidate fails to call
AMI say, how are you.
The British are rejoiced over the
fact that the Beers picked them
selves up and left Ladysmith. The
praises of Butler are sounded by
bells, music and bands and orators.
He is proclaimed great General
! for having driven the Beers away
ON Ladysmith.
1t was a big undertaking for the
Beers to try and capture in one
campaign, three British armies.
They surrounded British army
at Ladysmith, Oneat Kimberly and
one at Mafeking, and demanded
their surrender. That was an H.
lustratiOn of nerve and cheek that
is hard to equal.
J. Porter Harris, a prominent
business man in Harrisburg was
found dead in his bed on Tuesday
morning, Feb'y p. 1t is believed
he died of heart failure. His wife
and son survive him. Mrs. Harris,
his wife, was a daughter of James
Thompson, deceased, late of Della
ware township, Juniata county.
7 A Glasgow surgeon says that ap-
pendicitis is common, because of
the habit of sitting with one leg
crossed over the other. The sur
geon argues that by crossing the
legs, and it is generally the right
leg that is put upon the stretch ,
food passes into the vermifOrm ap-
pendix, and sets up an inflamma
ton.
Senator Hertzler has recently
placed the following citizens III
hospitals George Parker OF
Walker township in the Med,
leo Chi Hospital, Philadelphia:
George Rannals of Port Royal in
the Hahneman Hospital, Philadel.
phia; David Weaver of Milford
township in the Jefferson Hospital.
Philadelphia
Leonard Thress of Philadelphia,
cured himself of drOpsy and asth
ma by the starvation cure. He
tasted so days. In that time he
drank one glass of mineral water
every morning and that was all
that he put into his stomach. He
weighed 21O pounds when he be
gan to fast and when he broke the
fast at the end of 80 days he weigh
ed 129 pounds.
Mrs. Laura McGregOr of Hunt
ingdon, Pa, has sued the railroad
company to get $4,000 for th'
death of her husband, who was
freight train brakeman on asectloI
of cars that was run on a tracl
and collided with Il locomotive b!
which means the bottom of a Goa
car was opened and the coal RAJ
with on fh(