The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-03-09
A serious flood prevails in the vicin-
ity of La Crosse, Michigan.

A serious flood prevails in the vicin-
ity of La Crosse, Michigan.
In the Senate the bill to appoint Il
commission for the Investigation ofin
sect raVagCs was passed. The Pinch
back question was discussed, without
action.
The bills making appropriations for
an educational display, transporting
militia to the Exhibition, etc, have
finally passed the lower House of the
Legislature.
John Larkins, late Treasurer of Mid
land county, Michigan, has detaulted
for So, 600 and is under arrest.
A bill has been introduced in the
New jersey House providing for Il
Constitutional Convention to be held
| this summer.
! 1t is estimated that not over l5G ,000,
600 feet of lumber have been cut in
the up river district this WINTER
| HiYidH7$Dort gazette.
The old paper mill building in Erie
is being fitted up into a chemical
works, for the manufacture of acids,
salts and essential oils OF all kinds.
"a tramp was recently sentenced to
two years in the house OF correction for
refusing to saw wood at the North
Andover, Mass, aims house, in pay
mcnt for lodging and breakfast" "
Why don't some OF our Pennsylvania
people get the bulge" on tramps i'll
this way.
Eleven persons were kille1 by au acc-
dent on the Baltimore ami Ohio railroad.
Twenty persons we're burned to death by
a fire in u Charity Home in New \ ork.
The Inspectors Of the Eastern Penten-
tiary have presented their annual report to
the Legislature.
Kit Carson's body, according to L. A.
Allen, of Kansas City, does moi lie in ne
elected grave in Southern Kansas. Mr.
Allen claims to have been present when
Carson was buried with Masonic honors at
Taos n. NJ.
The Sheriff of Brooklyn says frequent
ttempts have been made of late by friends
Of the marderer Rubens,ein 10 convey
poison to him, by means Of presents and
letters; but they are uniformly destroyed
by the jailor.
The model for the bust of Mr.. Greeley
ordered by the Greeley Memorial Com
mittee is completed, and the work will
soon be in the founders hands. The bust
will probably be unveiled IN the latter part
of the coming summer
Iowa is following Wisconsin in repeating
the unwise railroad laws passed during the
"granger' excitement. "A bill has passed
its second reading in the Senate repeating
almost all of the old railroad law and
amending in important particulars the part
which remains.
The New York Tribune publishes q
table showing the stock Indebtedness of the
gas companies of that city, as we'll as the
dividends declared for the year 1875. The
capital represented by the various com
panies is $40, 75O. 900 Last year the
lowest dividend paid was 8 per cent.
Boston, March 3.-In Charlestown to-
day, Spencer Decker, twelve years old, was
held in $4,000 bonds, charged with caus
ing the death of Charles H. Pressy, a play
mate, nine years old.
Rutland, Vt, March 3.-Mrs. Plumb,
who has been working in the hotel at
: Bridgeport, gave her little seven-y year old
son dJse of corrosive sublimate early
Wednesday morning, from the effects of
which he died, She then attempted sui
eide by taking dose of the same poison,
, but the efforts of physicians will probably
save her life. Desertion by her husband
was the cause.