Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-04-11

The lot on which the old time
Drlck hotel stood in McAlisteryille.
was sold to DIR. j. G. Heading by
w. w. Sharon for 1886. The no.
0el was destroyed by fire some
years ago.
The Chairman of the late demo-
cratic state convention at Harris
burg, recognized only those who
suited him. Whomsoever did not
suit him, he did not hear or see.
He ruled only for his friends.
A chicken incubator in the back
office of the Banks drug store on
Main street took fire on Sunday
morning. Boyd Bergy a clerk in
the store smelled the fire and ran
back in time to extinguish the
flame that was just spreading itself
in such way that bi fire would
have soon been the result. The for
ty eggs of choice fOwles in the in
cubatOr were rescued and are now
nesting under clucks of old time
Matching proclivities and if the
eggs were not to well cooked in the
fire, a brood of nice chickens will
be chick, chick, chicking in DIR.
Lucian Banks hennery before
many weeks have gone by.
On Monday evening DR.. Willard
Of MoyioO Uas in tnwn uyhop fo1o
phone messengers were sent out to
look him up on sudden call from
David Sieber living on the Sieber
farm east of the town mentioned.
Sieber had been severely hurt. He
had gone to the barn to see to the
live stock. His long absence made
his wife uneasy and she went to
the stable and~found her husband
lying helpless in the COW stable.
He had been kicked by a cow on
his right knee and so seriously
hurt that he could not walk. He
was taken to the house. 1t was
believed by himself and family
that his leg was broken and SO the
telephone informed the doctor, but
when the doctor arrived with Sam
uel Richenbach as surgeon assist
ant, he found the limb unbrOken,
but the knee joint SO injured that the
leg is in a worse condition than a
straight break of bone would be.
When last heard from the patient
was doing as well as could be ex-
pected.
Lewistown Sentinel, April =
Henry Hassinger, Decatur town.
ship farmer, residing along the
State road about two miles east of
Alfarata, met with horrible
death yesterday afternoon about
one o'clock. He was engaged dur
ing the day in burning some brush,
when the fire started in the dry
grass of the field and began spread
ing rapidly. To prevent it from
reaching his buildings he started
to plOw up the ground, when the
fire came upon him setting his
clothing on fire and burning all his
clothing off except his boots, even
burning off his hair and whiskers,
causing his death in few minutes
and burning his entire body to a
crisp. Deceased was about IS
years old and leaves a family. The
team of horses were burned to
death. There was nothing left of
the harness and the plOw, but the
irons belonging thereto. His hir
ed man, Robert Lepley, was also
severely burned about the arms
and neck. The fire spread over
nearly the entire farm, but no
buildings were burned. The above
facts were received from our AL
farata correspondent by telephone
message.
An oil stove caused a blaze In
the First National Bank on Mon
day morning. The weather that
morning was cool and the janitor
Charles Cox put fire in the oil
stove to take the chill out of the
room, and then after all other mat
tiers for him to attend to at that
time, half past six O'Clock, he left
the place to attend some affairs
elsewhere. While he was away
something got wrong with the oil
stove and when Boyd Bergy came
by he saw smoke about the win
dOws and looking through a win
dow saw fire. Boyd Parker and
William Harley came just then,
and they burst open the front door.
Boyd ran to the Banks drug store
and brought a bucket of water and
that was the first water thrown on
the flames Other buckets were
obtained and the fountain being
near, the flames were soon extin
guiShed. There was little of
combustible material near the stove
and to that is owing the fact that
the fire had little to work on. 1t
would have taken some time be-
fore a big fire could have started
there A chair, desk and type
writer and the oil stove were the
articles damaged, some of them al
most beyond repair. If the fire
had progressed till it found its way
between the floors of the building
a big fire would have been the re-
suit. The fire department was not
notified. Those who first saw the
flames helped to extinguish the fire
and forget all about turning in a
general alarm.
NEW BOOKLETS.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & ST.
Paul Railway is issuing a series of