Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-26

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On the night Of the 10th inst
Mrs. Annie Kline, was burned te
death in her home near Granville,
Mlffiin county. She and her hus.
band Rudolph Kline were lifting q
kettle of apple butter off a fire.
Mrs. Kline's dress took fire and
she was burned to death. Mr..
Alne was seriously burned while
attempting to extinguish the
flames in his wife's clothing.
VThe Port Royal Times of Sen.
tember 20 gets off the following
snake story: Some time ago as Mrs.
Ut. Long of this place was in the
{act OF throwing the shutters open
In an upstairs room, she discover
ed a large house snake lying be-
tween the window sash and shut
ters on the window sill. The rep
tile showed fight right away. 1t
got away without being killed. To
say she was very much frightened
is saying the least.
The Puritans came to Massachu
sets to expand.
The Dutch came to New York to
expand.
| The Dutch, the Swedes, the Eng.
lish, the Quakers, the Menuonites,
the Lutherans, the Presbyterians,
the Irish, the Scotch Irish came to
1Pennsylvania to expand.
The Catholics came to Maryland
to expand.
The Cavaliers came to Maryland
to expand.
The MOravians came to Georgia
first and afterwards to Pennsylva-
MIA to expand.
'~Some days ago Mrs. Sarah Moy-
er, wife of Emanuel Meyer, de-
ceased, narrowly escaped death.
She left her home on Main street
about dusk to visit her son John
Meyer on their farm mile north
of town. In the dusk of the even
ing she became confused, missed
her way ard as is always the case
with people who get lost, she wan
dered about the place she wanted
to go to, but never got there. The
hours went by. At 1 o'clock in
the morning she found herself at
the buildings of the Patterson hen
merry, which she recognized. The
hennery is not far from her sons
house, but she again lost her way,
came from the farm to the pike,
thence across to the old canal lock
/ into which she fell. She heard
the clock strike 2 when she lay in
the lock. MIR. Depew lives in the
lock house. He came out early on
Thursday morning to prepare for
the days work. Mrs. Meyer called
and his surprise was great to find
! SO aged a person at the bottom of
the lock, and still more surprised
when he learned that it was Mrs.
Meyer. He hastily assisted her
out of the lock and took her to his
house where she was cared till her
family were informed ofher where
abOuts. Mrs Meyer is aged about
IS years and has lived in Juniata
and Miffiintown long time, and is
highly respected by everyone with
whom she is acquainted. a
The partial wreck of two trains
of cars on Monday morning in the
Long Narrows between this place
and Lewistown resulted III the
death of the conductor of the
freight train and the injury of the
engineer and fireman of the first
section Of Atlantic express. The
disaster took place near what used
to be called Bixler's water trough.
A freight train was running east at
the rate of Is miles an hour and
Atlantic express was following at
the rate of 80 miles an hour. At
Lewistown for some reason or by
some mistake Atlantic express was
allowed to pass on before the
freight train had cleared the block.
The freight train conductor was in
the cabin at the rear end of the
train Oblivious of what was rush
ing upon him and the conductor of
the passenger train was oblivious
of what he was rushing into. To
make it worse fog hung over the
river and railroad, and that pre-
vented the rapidly running pas
senger engineer from seeing the
freight ahead till he was upon it.
The engineer L. n. Jones and his
fireman B. III. Miller, both of Har-
risburg, jumped from the train and
both were injured. The cOnduc-
tor of the freight train J. II.
Thompson of Altoona was sitting
in his cabOOse and did not see
Atlantic until his cabin was flying
in the air to both sides of the road
He was fatally hurt and was taken
to his home in Altoona where he
died on Monday evening. The en-
gine Of the passenger train plowed
its way through box car in front
of the cabin and demolished sever
al coal cars and wound up by fall
ing off the track ON its side. 1t
was brought to Mifflin station shops
and while there was the object of
the attentian of a good many peO-
pie J. II. Martin mail route
agent living in this town was on
the mail car attached to Atlantic
express and had just stepped into
a rearward car when the wreck
took place and that saved his life.
Everything in the car that he had
;..at Loft 1ailod i.,fo midas