The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-13
STATE NOTES.

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Among other things, Scranton boasts
OF 100000 residences.
Unhappy Mercer couuty' 1t hasn't
a single Grange Of Patrons OF Hus-
bandry.
Porcelain clay is said to have been
discovered in Nippenose township, Ly-
coming county.
Two men will stand trial for murder
next week in Sunbury, each for killing
his brother-in-law
Oil City is about opening the Collins
House, new brick hotel l40xll0 and
four stories high.
John Fairburn has been appointed
Postmaster at Pithole, in place Of Whit
ney Briggs, resigned.
People are being chased by bears in
Cameron county. No one masticated, 4,
so far as heard from.
Dunmore, Luzerne couaty,has two re-
markable men. One weighs three hun.
dred and thirteen pounds; the other
sixty-tour pounds.
On Monday evening last the wife of
Judge Barrett, cf Cearfeld, fell from
her chair, while sitting in her parlor,
and instantly expired.
The largest oil still in the world is in
the refinery of Porter, Moreland & Co..
Titusville. 1t is forty-fvo feet in diane
ter, niue feet high, and holds $500 bar
rels of oil.
The Peoples Fire Insurance Com
pany, of Philadelphia, has suspended
The notice on the door says that infor-
nation having been received that the
managers and treasurer of this company
had left for parts unknown, 1t is deemed
advisable to suspend until further notice
G. S. Russell sunk an artesian well
on his farm in Shcshcquin, Bradford
county, last Spring, and volume of
water large CROUCH to supply good
sized town now flows from it, and, what
is better, the water is said to be strongly
imprognated with minerals, and pos
sesses remarkable properties.
The Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkes
barre last week decided on reducing
their mems wages ten per cent. and go
announced it. The employees at once
quit work, and on Monday they received
notice that if they did not resume work
before Wednesday night they would be
paid the wages due to them aud be dis
charged. On Tuesday they held a
meeting aud resolved not to 90 to work
as long as the reduction was insisted on.
About dozen OF the men refused to
quit work, but they have been in no
manner molested by the strikers.
Ernest Orwein, the murderer of the
Hammett family, who is now in Jail at
Pittsburg awaiting the signing of his
Geath-warrant by Governor Haftranft,
has made another confession. In his
first confession he said his object was to
get some money supposed to be in the
house, but now he says he attempted to
outrage the oldest girl, aged eight years.
Her screams alarmed the other two,
which so alarmed him that he killed
them, and when Mr. and Mrs. Hammett
returned he also killed them, and then
set fire to the house, hoping to cover all
traces of his crime.
Waynesburg, Pa, August s, 1874.
1t is confidently believed here that the
stolen boy Charley Ross and his abduc-
tors were here about the eleven tn day
of July. The circumstances attending
the coming and going of three men and
a very small boy, answering the descrip-
of the boy and his captors, are strongly
corroborated by published facts in rela-
lation to their movements. The parties
separated here-one man and the boy
remaining a day or two, and the other
two men disappearing. The man and
child were lost sight of to persons here
at Rice's La Landing on the Monongahela
river, he taking the child on a tow boat
up the river.
The total amount subscribed in Pitts
burgh for the flood sufferers now reaches
about $4,000. The total loss of life
so far as known foots up 1873 persons
drowned. The Pennsylvania Railroad
have rendered the services OF one hun
dred laborers for duty to help in clearing
away the ruins. The people are
speedily recovering from the effects of
the disaster. Houses that had been re-
moved from their foundations are being
placed in position again. The masons
and carpenters are busy with trowel and
saw making repairs were needed, and
the good housewives are scrubbing the
mud from their floors and getting the
kitchen things in order again. The
people seem to take but one view of the
affair, and that is, that bad as the dis
0ster was; they must recover from it as
soon as possible.
Out in Wisconsin horse kicked and
killed book agent, whereupon the citi-
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