The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-06-28
State Notes.

Patrick Golden has been brutally murdered
in his own home at Nicholson. He>was
sitting with his wife when q masked man
entered the house with double barreled
gun and fred two shots at Golden. Ihe
latter, who was so years old, died shortly
afterwards. The murderer made his escape.
There seems TO be no cause for the fearful
crime.
On Monday afternoon Mrs. Julia Ann
Juul, a widow lady, residing In YORK com
mitted suicide by hanging herself with
| clock cord to a rafter in the garret OF her
house. She had become greatly depressed
| by the death of her husband. The day she
| hanged herself was the time fixed for the
| payment of the amount of an insurance
policy on her husbands life.
Thomas Morrow, mail agent on the
Pennsylvania railroad, fell off his tram
near Pittsburgh the other day while it was
running forty miles an hour. He was
severely but not dangerously hurt He was
unable to give the particulars of the acci-
dent stating that he rccollected nothing
until he found physician stan ding over
him treating his wounds.
Tie exchange bank, Titusville, has
closed its doors and will probably go into
liquidation. The Courier says "Thc
liabilities amount to nearly $150,00O. The
bank has 100000 i'll assets Immediately
available, and other assets which can be
realized on in time. Mr.. r. W. Mackey,
ex-state treasurer, is a stockholder in the
bank. Mr.. Wm. II, Kemble, of Philadel-
phia, was one of the original stockholders.
He has never published his withdrawal
from the partnership. Both these men are
wealthy, and they will be required to pro-
tect the depositors-"
Joseph Keener who had been sentenced
to twenty lone years tn the western peni-
tentiary for killing an old man and par
doned afte serving eleven, was discovered
on Sunday last with over $500 worth of
silver ware which he stole from the resi-
dence of Simpson Horner, of Allegheny.
Keener got out of the penitentiary last
March, the governor having pardoned him
on the recommendation of the board of
pardons. His accomplice (who is at large)
is discharged convict, who served seven
years for killing policeman of Johns
town.
A tramp persuaded Peter Helm, residing
at selinsgrove, that $4,000 had been
buried on Helms farm during the re-
L. ra1 n
silver watch and $35 to unearth the money,
and the ignorant farmer complied with his
I demand. The tramp pretended TO have
+ locked the watch in chest and cautioned
: Helm not to open it until nine days had
y passed, as there might be death in the
e family, After the farmer had been G iven
C certain instructions rs to the finding of the
money, the implicit, and Mrs. Helm be-
lug less superstitious than her husband, ex-
amined the chest into which it was sup
posed the watch had been placed and
. found stone wrapped in a woolen cloth.
The buried treasure has not yet been found.
7 Almond Tuttle, son of Hiram b. Tuttle
. living about two miles south of Mansfield,
T committed suicide last week by shooting
! himself through the heart with II shotgun.
:, He had been afflicted several years with
fever-sores from which he suffered severely
One afternoon last week he told his mother
that he had never suffered SO much in all
! his life, and he woull stand 1t no longer.
She asked him how he could help it, and he
l;ol hat bo |, ,alf
- wards he went up stairs, and soon report
of gun was heard, and he was found ly-
ing on his bed. 1t is supposed he sat on
the bed with the breech of the gun on the
70 floor and the muzzle at his heart, and fired
" the weapon with the ramrod. He was
"a about sixteen years old.
Of The devices of the confidence man and
= swIdlers are multifarious. The latest
,r gentleman of this kidney of whom we have
heard is one White, hailng from New York
city, This operator is in the habit of send
ing innocent country gentlemen by express
packages of stuff that he calls medicine,
N heir to. At the same time he sends the
70 victim letter telling him, he has been Sc
u lected as agent to sell the medicine, giving
10 him prices tor each particular kind, and
stating the generous commission he is tC
10 receive for his trouble. If the victim is
foolish enough to take the package from
the express office Mr.. Sharper soon pre-
sents his "little bill' and generally en-
forces its collection. Even in some case
k where men have refused TO receive thu
y ''medicine" they have been harassed BY
o.. law suits sci on foot by the swindlers unde
4 the pretense that they had ordered tn,
III goods. AS a matter Of course the medicin,
Is worthless if not harmful, and it is hardly
L. to be regretted if all those who undartak,
lie to peddle it out to their neighbors do ge
u bitten. The only wise and safe course il
,d all such cases is to let the rascals and thei
he little traps entirely alone. If there wer
le not so many men in the country ready t.
,e bite at the gilded bait, the race of cit,
" sharpers would soon die out -Wellsbor
TX Agitator.
+ Cincinnati, June 20.-Reports hay
y been received here of bloody figh
that took place on Monday in tn
Kinniconic Mountains, between tw