Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-09-05

People in this drought afflicted
.ecuon Of country are satisfied that
y taxes more than the plowine and
crop.
feter Brown, agad 40 years and
Mrs. Martha Jane Painter. aged
~ years of Greensburg, Pa, were
married on the 29th day of Aug
ust 1900.
Says a close observer of men and
things: "The man who is to un-
learned or stingy TO take his home
paper ought not to expect a long
obituary notice."
The army is in China and the
chinese cannot fight the white man
and is at the mercy of the white
race and that is about the only re-
liable information from China.
w. H. Thompson of Watts town.
snip, Perry county, lost three COWS
Dy the bite of mad dog. The
cattle got mad without their own
er knowing that they had been bit
ten.
A democratic convention of the
Al Senatorial district-in Pitts
burg-unanimOusly endorsed C. L.
Magee for reelection to the SEN
ate and recommend him for United
States Senate.
The physical wants of man are
proven by his inclination and prac-
tice of hunting game 1t takes but
little to arouse in the best people of
the human race, the propensity to
hunt and fish.
Keep away from wire fences in
time of lightning storm. A wire
fence is little more liable to struck
by lightning than other fences; but
when struck the lightning inclines
to run along the wire till itswitches
itself off.
A Gypsey camp in Cumberland
county was struck by lightning
one day last week and one of the
company was killed. There have
been more lightning disasters re-
ported this summer than in any
previous season.
A few drops of coal oil, dropped
in rain water barrels or pools Of
stagnant water where mosquitoes
are bred destroys the germs and
stops the mosquito making bust
ness. The next thing the proprie
tors of summer resorts about
marches, will sprinkle the marches
and get rid of the mosquito.
Edwin B. ellison of Spruce Hill,
is extensively engaged in cutting
and shipping walnut timber
throughout the county. Recently
he bought and cut and shipped the
walnut trees ON the StOuffer land
in the vicinity of Cedar Springs.
Persons having trees to sell may
find it to their advantage by con-
municating with him.
The fish department at Harris
burg is urging the destruction of
fish dams that have been built in
the river in violation of law. But
who ever heard of the department
ever sending officers into the valley
of the Schulkill and the valley of
the SusQuehanna to enforce the law
there and keep those streams from
fish depopulation by the pollution
of the waters!
A son of Rev. Geiger was fish
ing in the Susquehanna river at
McKees Half Falls, when thun-
der storm came. He pulled the
anchor of his boat, took a pole and
pushed for the shore. Friends on
the shore were looking at him. A
bolt of lightning struck him and
he fell into the river. The canoe
drifted with the c"r-ent. His
friends stepped into boat and !
pushed out to rescue his body. At
ter four hours search they found it.
1t is believed the stroke killed him
instantly. The lightning had dis
embOwled him.
On Saturday morning about six
o'clock, a special excursion train of
ten passenger cars filled with plea
Sure seekers bound for Atlantic
City, ran into the rear end of a
milk train that was standing on the
track at Hatfield on the Reading
railroad. The milk train consist
ed of five cars. The special was
YInning at the rate of 40 miles an
hour and plOwed its way through
two of the milk train cars in which
were dozen people. The cars
were split apart as if by mighty
wedge. The locomotive was turn
ed completely around and the ten
der was pitched into the air and
fell on the LIST passenger car of the
special, carrying under it a half
dozen passengers The car was set
on fire by the flying Goals from the
demolished engine: The hose at
the station put out the fire and
thereby saved many lives. Four
teen persons were killed and thir-
ty some injured. There were some
six hundred people on the excur-
sion train. Almost ALI the iDjur-
les and deaths occurred on the two
rear cars of the milk train and the
first car of the excursion train.
HTNIATA COUNTY FAIR.