The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-11-09
STATL NOTES.

D1Al ~ ~ A.'s
OIL strikes are reportel q. gtaay'r se.d
and near PetroiiG
A bed Of lie ga mar>'o a.s been die.
covered near Il rome. 'amare county
The Buck m'ul,ain Coal csapary Aaa
declared a div deni OF three pc cc4.
The Nest,ngh house lir- bg,1e Eonpauy'a
works N Pittsburs, are crowded with
orders.
D I. Horner, of 6ohuylhi!l eounty.
raised this year 432 bushels Of corn 1u q
acres of ground.
Jesse Browpmiler was Killed 1T um-
burg, Berks county, ny bans OF b:ieh
clay falling upon him.
A salmon vas recently caught in tle
Susquehanna, near Harrisburg weighing
ten and q half pounds.
A young man near Northumberland
county named iesher, recently husked
| 100 bushels Of corn in ten hours.
| This is good season for bears. Six
were recently killed in Tioga county one
of them weighing over FIVE hundred pounds
Jacob Donaldson, of washi ngton county,
while gathering nuts few days ago fell
from tree distance of forty feet, and es.
| capped with only trifiing injury.
The Reading Eagle tells an unlikely
story about two young ladies of that city
| who csrelsssly spent all their money aod
| then cod their hair 10 get money to 60
home with.
George Cook, clerk in drug store in
Wiliainsport, was recently so dreadfully
burned in The face while experimenting
| with nitric acid and mercury that it ID
feared be will lose the sight of his eyes.
Six hundred tons of rock we're recently
| displaced by single blast at the quaries
| Of school Bros. in Lehigh county, near
| the East Penn junction. II will require
| from three to four weeks to remove the
rock that has betn loosened.
Pottsvile, October 40 On Saturday
evening an sllercatiou took place between
party Of men at Locustdule, and subse.
quently one Of the party named J0bn
aoshen, was wavlaid aud shot dead. Three
men, named Laughlin, Lennen and Callcgen.
have been arrested as the assassins.
The valuable horse Montgomery, the
| favorite animal of Governor Hartrantt, and
the finest Of his stud, died Thursday
morning, At the stables rear ofthe Executive
Mansion, Harrisburg OF lung fever, after u
ten days sickness Montgomery was
sired by Alexanders Addallah (sire of
Goldsmith Maid, and WAS valued at be-
tween 81, 800 and $500.
The Polande-e employed at Shoemakcr's
colilery, in LuEerne county, have such uu-
pronouncable names that the paymaster
has given eoch tin ticket with number
on 1t and keeps an account in his books TO
correspond, SO now when payday comes
The Pole takes his ticket and draws his
wages They have been warned not to ex-
change tickets or they will lose their
money.
Po.'seil'e. Pa, November 3-Ths morn
ing at seven O'CLOCK, at Mahauoy City, o
servant employed by Matthew Ellis left IL
coal oil lamp on d trunk. A little son of
MIR. Ellis, aged three years, blew down the
chimney to put it out, when it exploded,
the flames catching the child's clothing, and
burning him in horrible manner. Mrs.
Ellis and son, hvs years old, we're also
burned badly in trying 10 eItinguish the
iames. The youngest child cannot live.
Johu Mcmahon was killed recently near
Bloody Run. in Venango county, by the DC.
| cidental discharge of his pistol THIS
makes the fifth person who has been shot
In this locality. Six years ago David q.
gard was killed not far from the scene of
The late accident; three years after Jacob
Wipgard ana Lew Wallace. a colored man
gave up the ghost; last year, the 18th of
September John Wingsrd was added to the
list Of victims, while McMahon ended the
sad catalogue Of casualties for the present.
Tho place IL apTvpiiHtriJ A-asa.
pottsville, October 3I-Last night about
eleven o'clock, a fesrfui explosion OF fire
damp occurred at the Vaudeville shaft
| col.iery; about three miles from this city,
by which j. Welsh, Matthew Dornsdy
and Peter Reilly we're horribly burned.
They had fred blast, and Reilly had en-
tered the shaft with an open lamp which
ignited the gus, and an explosion eteued
VI elsh and Dormsdy ore not expected to
live, and il is doubtful whether Reilly will
live. None Of the men were relieved until
three o'clock this morning, having suffered
untold agcnies. This was one Of the most
terrific explosions that ever occurred ia
that col!iery.