Juniata sentinel and Republican. [volume] (Mifflintown, Juniata County, Pa.) 1873-1955, 1900-01-17

ICY OF the Mckinley administration
are giving encouragement to the Fill
ipinos and in that way helpino 10
prolong the war.
Mrs. Southard Parker and dauob.
ter Miss Belle Of Washington, D. C.,
passed through this place on Tues
day en- route for Pittsburg where
they will spend some time visiting
relatives.
The Beers are slave dealers. They
capture Africans and sell them into
slavery; sell them with as little re.
gret OF conscience as when selling
chicken or a horse or any other mark
etable article of traffic or merchan
disc.
"Dnring the past year North Da-
ko.a farmers have raised flax to the
value of about $4,000, COO; and a
large mill has been erected at Fargo
for the reduction ct flax straw before
shipment to Niagara Falls for man.
ufacture into manila paper. A fax
mill with capital of $3.50, coo is pro-
jeoted at Taunton"
Last Sunday after preaching the
Presbyterian congregation by un-
animous vote dissolved the pastoral
relations of Rev. A. N. Raven, Ph. b.
upon his own request, he having re-
celved an unanimous call from a
Presbyterian congregation in Seattle,
Washington State and thus the Mif-
f1intown Presbyterians lose an able
Fininiste-.
1t is said lightning kills brown
trout more frequently in mountain
streams than the common trout for
the reason the brown trout swims
close to the bottom of the stream
and are killed by electricity or light
ming that passes through the rocks
under the stream, The common
trout swims higher in the water and
IS not affected by the electricity.
Bellwood Bulletin, January 12:-
Twenty-seven years ago Harry Pim-
pie left his home in Newry and dur
ing all these years he has been a
traveller in this and foreign lands.
Recently he returned home and was
met in Altoona by his brother
Charles Pimple. 1t was their first
meeting, Charles having been born
soon after his brothers sdeparture
from home"
The war in the Filipinos goes on
Colonel Billiard with the 39th infan-
try. had battle with 10 companies
of Filipinos on the Santa Thomas
road. They were entrenched. The
Americans rushed the entertainments
The Americans rushed the entrench
ments. Sixty prisoners we're taken
and twenty of the insurgents killed
One American was killed and two
officers slightly wounded.
One night last week while party
played cards IN house at Eckville
Berks county, Satan appeared among
them. BE carried heavy clankine
chain and dragged long tail behind
him. He opened a book that he had
with him and motioued for the par
ties to sign their names. The card
players were not long in getting ou.
of the house. An Investigation i;
: in progress to find out whether il
was a trick or the real satan.
Electric street car lines have done
away with omnibus travel and thai
put out of use hundreds of thou
sands Of horses and reduced the de
mand for corn and oats and with s
| lessened demand for such grain the
price as a matter of course mus
needs decline and now comes ths
: horseiess carriage and that mus
needs reduce the demand for horse:
and corn and oats. If it were no
for the increased demand for corr
and oats in othor directions the pric'
/ Of those grains would go lower.
1t is always a pleasure to note th'
success of Juniata county people
both at home and abroad, and there
) fore it is pleasure to mention tha
at regular meeting of the Board o
Directors of the Chase National Banl
of New York City held o. Tuesday
January 9, 1900 Samuel II. Mile
> was appointed as cashier in the bapl
Just named MIR. Miller was borl
: and brought up at Oriental, Juniat
Co, Pa. He is son of the lat
Simon Miller and son-in-law o
S MIR. Harrison Minium of Beale town
ship.
Lewisburg News:-Nesrly all th
leaf tobacco raised in Northum5el
/. land county in portions of which it
, quite extensively cultivated has bee
sold to buyers The '99 crop W.
purchased on the poles beft
8 it was stripped by the producer.
! The raising of tue weed will n
2 doubt be profitable pursuit durin
;, the next four or five yesrs, an
d growers will increase their acreage
This is due evidently to the Spanist
American war in Cuba and Porto Il
) CO, where it had been quite extel
4 sively raised.
Since tue shooting accidents Las
, week we have heard of half a doze
D. narrow escapes from being shot wit
target guns. In one csse the ba
l. passed through a mans hat. In al
Is oth.r woman's head was graze
and the ball struck her dish pan.
, the third case ball fattsned again
- wall beside a woman. In Il
" fourth case the bnllet passed throue
a mans clothing and in two 9TH
t. cases men made very narrow escap
as from being hit. Isn't it time to e
force the ordinance against the
at dangerous playthings! - Lewiston