Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-05-02

f1intovr %. A0' ocnwcyer, M1f-
The Mifiintown high scboo, III,
nolo commencement exercises in
May. ~ LON oi
Miss Grace Treaster Of M;,rov
Miniln county was the guest this
week Of Miss Mary Hoops at Judge
Hon: VIM. c. Pomeroy repre-
sents the republicans of Juniata
county on the State central com.
mittee. ~
Mrs. Albert Henley and family
left on Tuesday morning for Tren.
Ton, NJ, which place they ex-
pect to make their home.
Fulton county people are reioic-
ed over the prospective building
OF a railroad from Hancock to Nc.
Co9pelsburg by the Baltimore &
lDnlo railroad. The distance he.
tween the two places is TWENTY-FIVE
miles.
The fire on Shade mountain
burnt Jacob Wolfgang's saw-mill
last Friday. The loss is about fif.
teen hundred dollars. This is the
Ind fire that Mr.. Wolfgang has
suffered in mill property by
fire within two years time.
J.H. Fry of Mcveytown, Mif-
filn county, spent from Saturday
ihntil " ednesday at his home in
Fermanagh township. He is car
rying his left arm in a sling, hav-
ing fractured it recently while
working an elevator at the sand
bank of G. p. Dull at McVeytown.
Major John D. Howell, died at
his home in Spruce Hill township,
on Monday, April 80, 1900. He
was born in Juniata county in 1919.
(de was an active business man in
his day. One of the bravest of the
brave soldiers against the slave
holders rebellion. He is survived
by sons and daughters, who honor
his memory. He died of pneu-
mOnia. Interment in Academia
cemetery on May 2, 1900.
Miss Mamie Wilson living in
Chester, Pa, is member of the
Christian Endeavor Association.
She lives half mile from the
Presbyterian church. She was not
able to attend services last Sunday
on account of illness. A telephone
was placed at her bed. A roll OF
the members present in the church
was given her. She took charge
of the meeting and conducted it
successfully through the 'phone al
her bed.
The men who are expressing
their sympathy for the warning
Filipinos forget how the Indians OF
North America have been made tC
submit to the rule of the white
man from Europe A large per
| centage of the Filipinos are desir-
f Gus for America to give them an
order preserving government and
do cooperate with American auth
. ority for the establishment of q
government after the fashion o.
that of the United States
. Last Thursday was Memorial
- day in the south. The graves o.
the dead of the Lost cause were
strewn with flowers and speeches
were made. The spirit of the los
K cause is not dead as is evidenced
t in the speeches of the speakers
For example, Governor Chandler
of Georgia made speech in At
n lanta in which he told the listen
f.. ing confederate veterans that tht
cause they re5elled for was aims
the rule of a sectional political par
tfy that their fight was for the righ
of self government.
4 One report regarding the fire OF
Shade mountain is that it original
ed from spark from an engine OF
{ the Sunbury & LewistOwn rail
d road. 1t is said the spark arrest
|, er was off. However the fir
u originated; great damage wa
><done to the young growth upol
t which coming generations must de
!. pend for tim er. The pre2en
V generation in active life and tn
9 generation that preceded it cleare
the mountains of marketable tim
Der upon which the generations t
{, come must depend for lumber.
I A bank at Strasburg. Virginia
, was robbed of $4,000 about
O'Clock last Friday morning. Th
robbers opened the bank rOoI
3 doors with keys. The vault an
ia safe were exploded by nitrogly
,e cerine. A number of the rObbin
,e gang were stationed thrOughOu
T. the town and when people cam
out of their houses the gang fire
pistol shots and the people ran il
r doors. The thieves left the plat
,r on a hand car. The bank built
as ing and fixtures and vaultand sa1
l. were damaged to the extent
D. about one thousand dollars.
G.
= The talk OF the B. & 0. railrOa
coming to Port Royal by way oftf
Tuscarora Valley Railroad contiI
,e ues. The old saying: "where thel
N is smoke there is fire" may be trr
,e in this case. If it proves to
r true the road will be extended
" the Susquehanna. The grade isa
9 easy one and the road can be bui