The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-05-31
State Notes.

Bellefonte temperance union.
-Four thousand people in Delaware
county have signed the Murphy
pledge.
The decrease in the valuation of
taxable property in Allegheny county
this year as compared with last is over
SSl, ,000,00
The Beaver planning mill, William
sport, was destroyed by fire on Thurs
day night. Loss between $4,000 and
$50, 900.
a Lancaster county cigar maker
has just completed the feat of working
ninety-siX hours without rest or sleep.
Elias CRUDE, of Chester county, took
Il dose of boraX and saltpetre by mis-
take and died twenty-four hours after
ward. His wife had procured the
fatal compound to eXterninate bugs.
james Acklcy, aged seventy-seven
years, was run over and killed the
other day OH the railroad in Allegheny
city. He was picking coal OH the
track when struck.
A Scranton negro caught Il white
man in his wife's bed the other night
and beat him so severely that fatal
result is not IMPROBABLE.
Mrs. Phoebe Suppler, of Montgom-
cry county, committed suicide by
hanging on Friday last. She had re-
Gently lost the sight of an eye, and
the fear that she would become totally
blind disordered her mind.
On Friday morning Alexander Dob
bins, of Gaysport, Blair county, lost
two year old son by drowning in the
Juniata river. Twelve years ago to
the day the same gentleman lost a
little boy in the same manner and in
the same place.
Johnny Britten is the name of an
eight year old Pittsburgh pickpocket.
He has been in the habit of ingen-
iously slipping up behind ladies and
inserting his hand into their pockets
and removing all the valuables there
from. He is under arrest for the last
offcnse.
Barney M1Calmont, one of the Muir
phy temperance speakers and con-
verts, of Pittsburgh, has brought suit
for libel against the Rev. Mr.. Moore,
publisher of the Millerstown, Butler
county, ReUicp, and the latter has
given 500 bail for trial An article
appeared in the paper charging NJ Cal
mont with debauching.
Three card monte men beat G.. w.
Wheelock, of Oil City, out of 1900
in checks and drafts while en- route to
Chicagothe other day. Wheelock was
detained at a Chicago hotel while one
of the operators FASTENED to New York
and had the checks cashed. Two of
the swindlers have been arrested.
\ little daughter of Noah G. Her
shey "a farmer, residing near Maytown,
Lancaster county, was burned to
death recently. Her mother had been
engaged killing caterpillars, with
burning rags. The fire not being suf-
ficient, she sent the girl for OIL which
the latter poured on some rags Oh fire.
The oil burst into a flame, and the fire
was communicated to the child's dress.
Death followed in few minutes.
Horace Milburn, who is credited
with having stolen nearly all the
chickens in the Tioga valley, has been
sent to the peniten tiary. He and
another party stole thirty from Judge
Bently and the next morning bor-
rowed his wagon to take them to mar
ket. When the wagon was returned
two of the chickens were found under
the seat.
About one o'clock on Thursday
morning a fire at Houtzdale, Clearfield
county, destroyed the dwelling houses
p. Tankey and Charles Kinney, Glib
bons, Bros store, Mrs. j. ID. Sprouts
dwelling and store, George Hagerty's
dwelling house and bakery a lot
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man; A. b. Ashton's bakery, house
hold goods and stock. The merchan-
disc was insured. The probable loss
is $25, 900, with no insurance, except
on Ashton's property.
AT Scranton on Friday night a
meeting of workingmen was held at
which the action of President Gowen,
of the Philadelphia and Reading rail-
road, in connection with the Brother
hood of Locomotive Engineers, was
denounced. The following resolution
was adopted: 1--WE notify our store
keepers and business men in general
that we will not patronize them as
long as they continue to order their
goods over the Reading railroad or its
branches, and until said company re-
verse their tyrannical orders"
Recently the residence of an aged
couple named Foley, in Cambria
county, was visited by two men who
represented themselves as United
States detectives in search of counter
felt money. Foley denied having any
money, but his visitors insisted that
| he had and ranSocl<inp the house