The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-11-15

be found intoxicated on the streets of that
place.
For the five weeks ending November 3
there we're 374 deaths in Pittsburgh. OF
these 122 we're from diphtheria.
The Philadelphia and Reading coal and
iron company has purchased two large col
leries in the Shamoking region.
One firm in Montgomery county shipped
over seven hundred bushels Of shellbarks
this season.
Alexander Fulton. city editor of the
Allegheny Mail, was assaulted the other
day by person named H. X. Tyler who
thought he could wipe out some grievance
with cowhide.
| Last July Gotleib Wetzel, aged eighty
one years, strayed from his home in Butler
county. A few days ago the body was
found in the woods between two logs in
Allegheny county. 1t is supposed the old
man had lost himself.
| Eight of the persons who tarred, fea.h-
cred and rode on q rail, Mrs. Estis, dis
reputable woman, at Waterford, Erie
county, have been arrested. Their virtu.
Gus indignation will probably cost them
dear.
Between 1000. 900 and 5000, 900 feet of
lumber were burned in the lumber yard of
weisler d Bender, q miles from Phillips.
burg, Centre county, on Sunday morning
last. Loss about $4,000. Insurance
$25,000
The recent rafting freshet in the Della
ware ended the liter part of last week,
and was one of the best on the river in
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passed down was $50, each averaging So
| 900 feet of lumber, which would give the
total of over 100000 feet.
The Keystone hotel company, Of Phila-
delphia, has brought suit for $35, 900 dam
ages against Allegheny county for loses
sustained in the destruction of the Union
depot hotel last July during the riots. The
Pennsylvania railroad company, which
owned the building, will bring separate
suit on their losses.
Francis M. Dowlin, of East Brandywi,e g
Chester county, while working in his ctrn
field, cooked his gun aud leaned it up
against q shock Shortly af;erward, for
getting his gun, he went TO strike the
shock with his corn knife, when be hit the
trigger Of the gun and the contents en-
tered his breast, killing him almost in.
stantly.
Before Judge Ross, at Norristown, on
Saturday argument was made and testi
mony heard on the motion for q new trial
for Heinrich Wahlen, csnvicted of the mur-
der of Max Hoehne at Elm station. Ad.
diti oAal testimony is to be received until
the 23d inst, at which time Judge Ross will
commence the preparation of his decision,
which will be given on December 8.
The Pittsburgh Dispatch speaks of law,
yers in that city who visit the penitentiary.
who, after Iais.ng hopes Of pardon In the
minds of convicts, get money from them
to prosecute cases anu theu abandon them.
The board of officials who manage the in
stitution have in consequence decided to
refuse the admission of attorneys on er-
rands referring TO attempts for the getting
Of pardons.
Levi Swartz, who was shot by mistake
while hunting in Perry county, some days
ago, died the following day. Judge Jun
KIN. in charging the grand jury at, New
Bloomfield, on Monday, took occasion to
advert to The frequency of careless shoot
ing in the woods, and said the '.negligent
killing of person in mistake for game was
crme.' 1t was manslaughter, and if the
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lowed by severe punishment.
Darius Prutzman and Kate Mory. of
Boyeftown, were marie / at Reading Sat-
urday afternoon, at the residence of the
brides parents. Prutzman, who was an
engineer at the Warwick Iron Company's
mills, sprained his back quite severely a
lew days since, and in The evening, at the
wedding reception, he was taken suddenly
Ill. lie gradually grew worse and died at
three O'Clock Sunday moraing, leaving
Mrs. Pr'ltzman widow within twelve
hours OF her marriage ceremony.
At Titusville, last Friday evening engi-
neer B. Van Dressler, while Fl ling his
lantern on the rear end of his ocom olive,
in the Pittsburgh, Tuusvlle d: Buffalo
Railfoad yard, was startled by the backing
OF his locomotive. and the Simultaneous cry
OF the fireman, who, in crawling under the
locomotive to clean the ash pan, had acci-
dentally touched throttle which started
the tram. Dressler, with lightning rapi l.
ity jumped for the lever and turned off the
steam, thus saving ;he fremans life. The
engineer applied such force, however, that
his already injured shoulder was severely
sprained and clavicle dislocated.
The Scranton Republican says: .Pbilip
Wisner and his son, of Tobyhanna, engaged
for some time past in cutting wood for
Isaac Case, some distance from the village
had erected a shanty or cabin to live in
when not at work. On Thursday morning
some parties passing through the woods
found the cabin in ashes, and appearances
indicated that it had been burned the nigh,
before. Upon examing the place more
closely, the chared bodies of father and
son were tonnd among the debris, the for.
mer near the partition which divided the
cabin into two rooms, the latter near where
the bed stood. The stove and door were both
at the opposite end OF the cabin from where
the bed was, aud it is thought the elder
"isner awoke, found the cabin on fire, tried
10 reach the door, but fell exhausted before
he could do so. The son was doubtless
smotbered ty the smoke and never awoke
MIR. Wisner leaves a wife and two children
living at Tobyhanna. 1t is supposed tha,
the cabin TOOK fire from the stove, though
in what manner will of course never BE-
known.
SLEIGH BELLS AND WHIPS