Clearfield Republican. [volume] (Clearfield, Pa.) 1851-1937, 1874-04-15
NEWS ITEMS.


to Fallen Timber.
"A hotel is to be erected at the depot, nea
BroOkyille The depot is about mile from towr
The fret shipment Of leather from White
Sons tannery, 0sceola, was made last Wednesday
The potato bugs are reported to be as thick a
''three in bed" in westmoreland county.
Two thousand salmon trout were placed Il
the reservoir near Hollidaysburg a few days ago
The Enterprise says that Lock Haven want
few more rolling mills, and not so many gil
mills.
Three young otters were trapped in a net SO
to catch catfish by Mr. Bloom, at Spruce Creek
a few days ago.
The eastern extension Of the Allegheny Val
ley Railroad will be opened for travel its cntir,
length about the first Of May.
The Bulletin says that large number o
saloon keepers in williamsport have abandoned
the traffic in drink.
Tho Brady's Bend Iron Works, which sus
pended operations last December, have beer
purchased by tho Allegheny Valley Railroad
Company.
-Kemmerer's Touring mill, near Milton, wa,
burned on Saturday nighta week. Loss, s22, 900
partially insured. About 5000 bushels Of grain
and 200 barrels Of -four we're consumed.
There are seventeen collieries In operation
along the line of the Tyrone and clearfeld Rail.
road and its branches, producing two thousand
hrcbundrcd tons Of coal per day.
--Jcre. McKibbcn, Esq, formerly of the Mer-
chants Hotel Philadelphia, has gone west and
become one of the proprietors of the Nicoet
House, at Minneapolis. Minnesota.
One hundred and fifty salmon trout we're de-
posted in sieiners and Munson's dams, on the
Moshannon creek, last week, through the instru-
mentality Of few citizens of Philipsburg.
The latest style Of ladies' hair is to comb II
over the ears. This will prevent those blessed
with large acoustic accommodations from cooling
themselves by Topping thcm.-Er.
Owing to the railway fight now in progress
between several Of the competing through lines,
emigrants are now being carried over tho Penn
sylvania Railroad from New York to Chicago at
the rate Of four dollars per passenger.
The uohoning Valley SpIii, published at
Punxsutawney, Jefferson county, quotes butter
selling in that place at flee cents per pound. In
clearfcld the same article is forty cents, and
Is mighty scarce at that.
Gov. Curtin and wife spent last Sunday q
week at st. Louis. From there he goes to Chicago
and thence will journey homeward reaching
Bellefohte about the goth Of this month.--Beiie-
Jonte Republican.
The East Broad Top Railroad win be graded
In few days to scottsvilc, and the rails will be
at once laid down, and by the first Of June 1t is
expected to run to that point.
AN old resident Of Hollidaysburg, named
Jacob Snyder fell dead on the street in that place,
on Sunday week ago. lie was SO years of age,
and had been engaged in the drug business for
a number Of years.
The Bcllcfontc Republican says that zone of
the greatest inducements offered to capitalists aud
others to to BelIefonte to live is the fact that
they can get COW pasture free in the park, which
also contains good sized spring.
"A passenger going down on the cars from
Snow Shoe to Bcllefontc, fell into deep sleep
from which he was awakened by the shrill footing
efthe whistle, when he Immediately exclaimed (;
"The train has caught up with those cattle again %
Tho Tiiusyille Courier, Of the 3oth ult, says
"Twenty-eight wells in the vicinity Of Greece
City, Butler county, which, when first started
yielded an aggregate production Of over four
thousand barrels per day, are now yielding daily
only about Eve hundred barrels.
Mrs Costello n widow, about thirty years Of
age, was burned to dealh in Titusville, on the
evening Of the 27th ult. Shc was addicted to
drink, and, II is supposed, was intoxicated at the
time. sho had laid down on the bed, and her
clothes caught ERE from lamp left standing
near by.
ID. D. Williams, Cashier Of the Conneautyillc
National Bank, was rc-arrosted on Friday, the
Sd inst, by S. d. Benson, Government detective,
and lodged In Jail, his bail having surrendered
him. Recent examination Of the bank books
show dcfaIcation Of $4,000, in addition to tho
reported robbery OF $4,000, which caused sus-
pcion, of Williams guilt.
There Is talk Of starting paper at Houtrdale,
In this county, to be specially devoted to the in
crests Of tho miners Of that region, and to be
'alled the "Workingman's Friend" The propre-
ors Of the enterprise will rave money and do the
working men more good by presenting the amount
" money intended to be invested In the affair to
uch Of tho working men as arc In need of assist
lnce.