The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-26
State Notes.


The eighth victim of the boiler explosion
near Allentown has died. Two more are
| in a critical condition.
Jimmy Kerrigan, the notorious Molly
Mcguire "squealer," has gone to work in
| the mines after protracted idleness.
Boys who bathe In daylight in the public
places of Reading are being taken in by the
police.
The fire at the Roaring Brook mine,
| near Scranton, was got under control on
Tuesday night.
A tramp endeavored to burn down the
barn on the Dauphin Poor Farm the other
day.
Joseph Lippincott, an old citizen Of
wilkesbarre, died on Wednesday, the 10th
anniversary of his birth.
The Mayor of Williamsport has given
notice that all places of business in that
city must be closed on Sunday.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch rejoices over
the fact that the Allegheny county Jail has
The Reading school debt is about eighty
| thousand dollars and bears six per cent.
interest The Eagle wants it funded OF
| four.
Samuel r. Miller, of Washington town
ship, Snyder county, committed suicide on
Sunday, the 18th, hanging himself. He
was unmarried, and 3S years old.
A small son of Henry Yeager, of Womels-
dorf Berks county, fell into boiler of hot
water and was fatally scalded few days
ago.
The members Of the Western Pennsylva-
MIA sport smen's asso ociation are vigorously
enforcing the law for the protection of
game.
The republican county committees of
Luzerne county has recommended a reduc-
tion of the number of delegates to the next
county convention.
Jonathan Ulmer. of Lycoming county
walked or fell from hay NOW a few days
ago and received fatal injuries. He had
| Deen uTiHhluB W eACess'
Jack Kehoe, the Molie Mcguire, under
sentence of death for a murder committed
fourteen years ago, says he can eat more
now than ever he could.
The coopers of Allegheny city held q
meeting recently and prepared an address
to be presented to the joint legislative com.
mittee on convict labor, in which they state
their grievances in detail.
VIM. A. Stewart, q colored barber about
fifty years Of age, is a candidate for asso-
ciate judge of Lawrence county. He has
lived twenty years in New Castle, and was
originally q printer.
Several weeks ago Major wetter. of
Clarion, purchased 5000 barrels of oil at
$1.8O per barrel, which was considered by
many of his friends great venture. But
on the 10th inst. he sold the whole lot at
$2.123, clearing $8,
Two Kittanning youths of fifteen years,
stimulated by the reading of Dime novels,
borrowed skiff and an old shotgun and
started for the Black Hills the other day.
They were overhauled at Sharpsburg and
sent back to their parents.
Judge Handley, of Luzerne county, has
decided that the city treasurer of Scranton
is the proper person to collect the mercan.
tile taxes of the city. The county treas
urer had assumed that business under in
structions from the attorney general.
Alta meeting of the citizens of Chelten-
ham and Arlington townships, Montgomery
county, on Wednesday, resolutions were
passed favoring the organization of an anti
tramp association, and committee was ap-
pointed for that purpose.
On Monday the wives of Job Adams and
Alfred Terry, of Pittsburg, with three
children, one a girl of nine, suddenly dis
appeared. On Wednesday they were all
found at a house of ill-fame, on the South
Side, drugged with liquor, and the little
girl had been terribly outraged.
!, Last Thursday morning when the cashier
of the Peoples Bank of Newport, Perry
county, opened the bank safe, it was dis
! covered that the cash drawer had been
robbed of about $5, 600 in money and ST.
500 " orth of bonds. The blnk presented
the same appearance as when closed the
, previous night.
A. W. Pingrey, with his wife and eight
children, passed through Harrisburg the
other day with all their household goods, in
two wagons, bound from the Eastern
Shore, Maryland, to Michigan. Mr.. Ping
rey is Methodist preacher, and travels
> this way because it is more healthy. The
distance, seven hundred miles, will be
made in about month.
|. Charles NJ. Atkins, of Pottsvllle, was Of
fered Chillian contract for 80, 900 tons Of
rails provided he could get down the prices
as low as the British competitors. The
, Pottsville Chronicle says: "Mr. Atkins did
some of the closest calculating he ever did
in his life, but found it impossible to get
his proposal down lower than within SO
per ton Of the proI 'ition put in by certain
English ironmasters."
A few weeks ago resident of Orwigs-
. burg visited the Schuylkill county aims.
o house and selected two of the best looking
oir1a in ba .loI L