The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-10-04
State Notes.


The type is mild.
Rachel Meredith, aged I02 years died in
philadelphia last week.
Michael Harden, of Tioga county, cut
his throat with a razor In barn.
A Crawford county farmer raised twelve
bushels of potatoes from one pound of seed.
A child was born in Clearfeld county re.
Gently whose great great-grandmo'her is
living.
David M'Bride, q grand juror Of Ale
gheny county has been held in $4,000 to
answer the charge Of riot.
Thirty new buildings are going up in
Gilmer City, the lively oil town in the
Bradford region.
The Titusvlle Herald estimates the
daily yield Of the new oil wells in the
neigb gbborhood of that city at 800 barrels.
Twenty-seven children have died of diph.
iberia in Covington and Karthaus town
ships, Clearfeld county.
The wife of tavern keeper in Allegheny
| eloped with a drover and took Si00 of her
husbands money.
There will be wailin' among the taxpay.
ers of Montgomery county. The trial of
the murderer Wahlen will cost them about
$4,000.
The contractor for the grading Of the
Foxburg and st. Petersburg railroad in
the oil regions is missing ,and his creditors
are solicitous for his welfare.
There are two hundred waits in the Pitts.
burgh and Allegheny orphan asylum, on
Ridge avenue Allegheny, who are provided
for at an annual expense of Sl2, 1896, ,45.
Sheriff Pentz, of Ciearfeld county, last
week destroyed eleven fish dams which had
been erected in his bailiwick in violation of
law.
The commissioners appointed to inquire
into the mental condition of Allen G. Laros
visited the JAIL at Easton, while the mur
derer had one of his fits. They will make
their reports in few days.
There is a woman at Eureka, California
who dozen years ago was married in a
dress costing $1,000. Now she takes in
washing to support drunken husband and
three pairs of twins.
The skeleton found in the mountains
near Lock Haven is supposed to be that Of
au old scissors grinder by the:name Of Ma
thaniel Kepner, who disappeared from
| Sugar valley some time ago and has not
been seen or heard Of since.
At Mount Pleasant, Westmorela nd
county, horse attached to a wagon con.
tanning five children became unmanageable
and dashing against bridge all were
thrown out. Three sustained dangerou:
injuries, one having his skull broken.
Tie colonization scheme still agitates
the workingmen of Montgomery county
A colony that left that county in March
last for northern Michigan reports very
favorable condition of affairs with it, and
this inspires others.
Investigations are being thoroughly
made at several points on the Pennsylva.
MIA railroad main line with view Of devel-
oping the discovery Of petroleum. Very
favorable indications are reported in con.
formty with the state geological survey il
Cambria and other places.
Bishop NJ. Simpson and Rev. James
Long, the executors of the estate Of
! Thomas G. Duncan, deceased of Philadel-
| phia, offer premium of $3.50 for the best
| plan of monument, to be approved by
| them, if presented on or before the 10Th OF
October, 1877. The monument for which
the plan is desired is to be of granite and
to cost from twenty y-eght to thirty thousand
dollars. This is in conformity with the will
CT the deceased, which caused much itiga-
| tion in the supreme court of Pennsylvania
some years ago.
A strange story comes from Oil City tc
the effect that in a lonely part of the road
from Titusville to Pleasantvlle, Hermon
Levy was hanged by Leopold Loeb, well
another man, unknown at this time Here
tofore Loeb has borne good reputation,
and when the story was bruited about that
he had, with the help Of desperate
strung Levy to the limb of tree AID left
him hanging there until compelled by O
traveller, who happened along, to cut him
| down, there was intense excitement. The
alleged cause for the atrocity is that Loci
wanted to compel Levy to give up some pa