The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-17
State Notes.

Truckers ut the Plttsurgh markets
who in good times sold $500 worth of
vegetables day cannot realize more
than S2j day.
Mrs. Catharine Nallin, of Minooka,
Luzerne county, was killed on the
railroad on Friday. She was aged
sixty years and deaf.
Miss Laura Pierce, aged sixteen, is
in the Union county Jail, having con-
fessed that she fired farmers barn
which was burned some weeks ago.
Burke Bownes, boatman, at
tempted to jump on a train near
Mauch Chunk while drunk last week.
He fell under the cars and was fatally
injured.
In view of the presence of mad dogs
on the streets of Shenandoah the bur-
CESS of that town has issued procla-
nation notifying owners of dogs to
muzzlc them until August 81, 1877.
Two daughters of the late John d.
Lee, of Mountain Meadow, notcriety,
have been living near Mill Run, Fay
cite county, until quite recently,
when they removed to Somerset
county.
At Bradford, M'Kcan county, boy
named Thaddcus Smith was killed by
unconciously inhaling gas while lying
| OH the cover of an oil tank, looking
into it while the well was pumping.
The body of Rodcricll Frazier was
| exhumed at Mcadville the other day,
after having been in the earth l6l
years The bones were found to be in
good state preservation.
The Christian railroad men of Ale
gheny and Pittsburgh are about organ
izng Railway Young Mems Chris
tian association, having for its object
the improvement of the spiritual,
moral and social condition of the rail-
road men of the two cities.
A Monongahcla city ghost in an old
mill turns out to be lot ofyoung men
who consumed the nights in making
merry over sundry barrels of hard
cider stored in the mill. The ghost
vanished with the disappearance of
the cider.
The jury in the case of Bott Phila-
delphia preacher involved in an ugly
scandal, disagreed on Saturday, one
Juror refusing to join the others in q
verdict of guilty. Subsequently he
| Il ii, l,ot ~
stated that it mattered not what the
evidence was he would not convict
Bot. A. II. Hodgson, the juror, was
held III 81 800 bail.
John Mitchell, a highly respected
citizen of New Castle, Lawrence
county, attempted to commit suicide
last week. He had been laboring un-
der the hallucinatiOn that he had per-
petrated IL murder and that justice was
on his track, and while in that condi-
ton he stabbed himself several times i'll
the neck and cut himself across the
throat, almost severing the windpipe.
He was in dangerous condition at
last accounts. His insanity is attribu-
ted TO failure in business.
Ellen Croft, domestic employed at
the residence of n. G. Barclay, editor
of the Altoona San, committed suicide
on Saturday by taking strychpine.
The following note was found in the
room where she died:
II want you folks to send my
things home. | have a silver dollar,
that is lUr Lottie Croft. | want to be
) laid side mother. Lottie, don't want
you to think hard Of me.
| ELLEN CROFT.
81 am going home to die no more.
| hope to meet my friends in Heaven.
Goodbye, sister and brother"
The Shenango Valley Ncrs says ::
in 1875 the iron product in the
Shenango Valley was 137, OPS, and the
product of the Mahoning Valley 115,-
J93 tons, total 253, ,0lS tons. In 1876
the product of the Shenango Valley is
estimated to have been 10000 tons,
and the product of the Mahoning Val
ley 1874 1000 tons total 2S5, 900 tons.
This gives the Shenango Valley an in
. crease of IL, ,975 tons. and the Mahon-
ing Valley an increase of lS,OO7 tons ;
total increase for the two valleys 80
9S2 tons. The total capacity of the
two sections is 5Sl, 600 tons. OF 81
stacks in the Shenango Valley, are
in blast, and of % in the Mahoning
= Valley, II are in blast"