The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-08-24
STATE NOTES.

About two hundred men are at work
ON the State Hospital for the Insane
mt Warren, and 20 briclllayers are at
work on their new Court House.
Sixty Crawford county men, with
seven moving machines, five horse
ra<cs, and eleven teams for hauling
hay, met, cut and put up, on farm
near Guys mills, over fifty tons of
hay, from thirty acres of meadow.
On Wednesday night of last week
the well owned by Messrs. Cook K
Knight, on the farm of Mr.. VIM. NJ.
Lorah, at Monroeville, Beaver town
ship, after being tubed, commenced
flowing and the gas ignited, burning
the pumper, Mr.. Thomas Klingen-
smith, so severely that the flesh peeled
Off different parts of his body. AT
latest accounts, he was considered to
be out of fdanger.-Udrjon Jdcksoniun.
David Baxter and James Gordon
colorcd individuals, of Uniontown,
fought duel with pepper boxes" in
Nicholson township, Fayette county,
. II few days ago. Gordon snapped
twice, but his weapon did not go off.
He then took up Il stone struck the
hammer with it, discharging two bar
rcls at his antagonist, but without cf-
feet, and then wheeled and took to his
heels, passing through a brier field,
leaving the greaterportion of his clothes
on the bushes. Baxter fired three
shots after his retrcating enemy, but
he too missed his mark.
Cleveland, Ohio, August 16.-Thc
New York Express which left Cleye-
land about 10 O'Clock last night, on
the Lake Shore Railroad, was thrown
from tha tponl, n1nitt C', L.;
morning, near North East, Pa. A.
NJ. Clemens, of Cleveland, had both
legs broken and some other passengcrs
were injured slightly. The train was
badly wrecked. Investigation shows
that the accident was deliberate at
tempt to wreck the train, as the spikes
from one of the rails had been drawn.
1t is supposed to be the work OF
tramps, as Il number were seen in the
neighbOrhOOd at the time.
AT Hellertown, Pa, Miss Fannie
Riegel, aged fifteen years. of Philadel-
phia, saved the life of Il young lady
friend at great personal risk. The
young lady had got into a row boat on
the mill-pOnd and pushed out until
she was in the current and was being
carried toward the dam, when Miss
Ricgcl came from the house, dressed
for making a call and, seeing the dam
gerof her friend, hurried to the pond,
jumped in, regardless of her own
safety, and swan to the assistance OF
the imperilled girl. Taking hold OF
the boat with one hand she swan
with the other and pulled it out OF
danger.
The consolidation of certain revenue
districts under the legislative bill has
been ordered by the President. The
following are the changes in Pennsyl-
vania: Part of the Nineteenth, con-
tanning the counties of Erie, Warren,
Mexican, Elk and Cameron is called
the Nineteenth, and Charles NJ.
Lynch retained. Crawford, Venango,
Mercer, Clarion, Lawrence and Forest
compose the Twentieth district OF
Pennsylvania, of which James G.,
Brown is retained as collector. The
county of Allegheny south of the
Ohio river and the counties of Wash
ington, Greene, Westmoreland and
Fayette compose the Twenty-second
district, and Thomas w. Davis is re-
tanned. Beaver. Butler, Armstrong,
Indiana, Jefferson, Clearfeld and
Allegheny north of the Ohio river are
consolidated into the Twenty-third
Pennsylvania district, and John NJ.
Sullivan retained.