Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-07-11

Miss Edna Mcdonald is visiting in
Phillipsburg.
Harry Leo is visiting relatives in
Punxsutawney.
Miss Mamie Doyle is spending
this week in Harrisburg.
The hay crop this year is uncom-
Ysnly light in Juniata county.
Mr.. Harry Luck and wife of Low.
istowD. spent the 4th of July in town
with Harry's parents.
Mrs.. Brewer, sister of Mrs. Thom-
as McClellan's is visiting at the Nc
Clellsn home at the East End.
Lii Hung Chang the viceroy or gov
ernor of one Of the states or districts
ip China, had 100 rioters beheaded
the other day. Foreigners are safe
in his district.
It is not long since European ns-
tions held a peace conference. Now
the same nations are for war with
China for the psrtitioning of that ma
ton and the dividing of it among
themselves.
At Gravesend Bay summer resort,
thirty ladies gave luncheon in hon
or of the fourth birthday of poo
die dog. Certainly ladies can do as
they please with their own money,
but that was queer thing to do.
A man.who had gone out into the
fields to pick berries came in and ex.
citedly declared, he had seen snake
rs feet long and as thick as barrel.
"Now be bonest!" asked q friend.
"Did'nt you look at the spigot of q
barrel before you went out to pick
berries" He promptly answered,
Il did"
o. the last day of June about four
o'clock in the afternoon a match or
cigarette tossed into bale of cotton
on the North American Lloyds' pier
in HOboken started a fire that des
troyed four large ocean going steam.
ships and three piers and caused the
death of over 200 people by drown
ing and fire and injured over 400
people. People were imprisoned by
the fire in the burning ships and
we're consumed before the eyes of
thousands of people, who could not
help them and drowned before the
face Of people who wers frantic to
help them, but could not. the mon
ey loss is put at ten million dollars.
"By the skin of their teeth" several
parties down i'm Greenwood township
escaped a tragedy on the Fry farm
The farm is tenanted by a man named
Swartz, who had taken as boarders a
man named Bay and son. Some dis
tance down the valley lives a man NAM
Dressler, who has son that reported
to his father that Bay and son had
abused him, called him vile names and
chased him when he was walking on
the highway. The boys recital of grew
ance aroused his father and he picked
and went to the Fry farm
and asked Mr.. Swartz for the Bay peo-
pie. He was directed to their room up
stairs. Dressler was not long upstairs
till the Swartz family down stairs heard
a thump and then the crack of a gun
and then Dressler came down stairs at
double quick and fled down the road
whence he came. He evidently was
not hurt and the Bays appearing soon
it was clearly revealed that
whatever took place upstairs, all par
ties escaped injury. Dressler, however
did not remain quiet. He went to a |
Justice of the Peace and wanted to |
bring an action against Bay and son.
He had gone to see Bay and son SO he |
said to have them refrain from molest- |
ing his son. Their conversation was
not as agreeable as some other CONVEX
sations. 1t was full of friction and the
climax was reached when young Bay
pulled out revolver and aimed it. |
Dressler as quick as cat rushed at the |
boy, pulled the pistol from him and
threw it across the room into a corner.
Then pap Bay came with the Bay re-
serve force and Dressler thought his
last moment had come without even a
chance to say goodbye or make a pray
er. Bays long gun was leveled and
Dressier lodged his head just as the
went off. If it had hit
him on the head he would have been
almost decapitated. Dressler executed
a mastery retreat from the Swartz farm,
and Bay and son looked out for a new
place.