The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-12
State Notes.

There are ,043 signers to the Muir
ply pledge at Washington, Pa.
Steel axes are now being made by
the Bethlehem iron works.
A large maple sugar crop has already
been secured in Cambria and Somerset
counties.
The smallpox has broken out with
considerable violence at Unionville
Berks county.
The Scranton Times says the steel
works at that place are running tn
their full capacity, employing LOO
men i'm the bloom and rail depart
ment.
Since the 1st of January 1915, 1929
gallons of petroleum have been ex-
ported from Philadelphia to foreign
ports. One bark took out, last week,
2S5, 1872 gallons.
In Berks county there are 90 post
offices Lancaster, 129; Lebanon 30 /:
Lehigh, Sc; Chester, 1874; Montgom-
cry, 81; Northampton, As; Dauphin.
80; Schuykill, 81; Delaware, 4O-a
total in ten counties of ia.
Austin Sheldon, Pike county her.
NIT, who has lived in cave for forty
years, was found dead last Friday on
top of the mountain, near his habita-
ton, in ten-feet snow bank.
A new cattle disease is carrying con-
sternation among the farmers in
Montgomery county. The oxen and
cows attacked swell up and exhibit
many of the symptoms ofdistemper in
horses.
One hundred citizens of Pittsburg
have organized themselves into a
special force to bring about municipal
reform. The good wishes of the
country are behind them to boost
them along.
A cabinet of "Jndian relics" has
been secured for the Edinboro Nor
NAL School. Additions are being
made to the collection of minerals and
fossils.
A man named Hart, employed in
the Pennsylvania railroad shop at Al
toona, died few days ago of tetanus,
caused by Il small pimple on one of his
fingers.
The Philadelphia North Amcrican
says every steamer sailing from Phila-
delphia to Liverpool now carries out
shipments Of Philadelphia made
drugs.
a Holly Tree Inn has been started
at Chester and one is soon to be
opened at Titusville. The Holly Tree
Inn is intended to popularize ho cof-
fee in place of hot whisky.
d. B. Baynon, a rolling mill en-
ployee at Tamaqua, had the clothing
entirely stripped from his body re-
Gently in consequence of his coat tail
becoming caught upon Il fly wheel.
There appeared last week in the
obituary columns ofthe Philadelphia
Ledger notices of the deaths of seven
teen persons-five men and twelve
women-who had lived to or beyond
the advanced age of 50 years.
Henry S. Rathbun undertook to kill
himself at Pctrolia on Tuesday. He
cut his throat with razor, in the first
instance, and afterward undertook tc
accelerate the job by hamnieriDg his
head with an iron hammer. He will
probably die.
Judge Josiah Hall, of Warren, aged
81, died on Sunday. Deceased was tho
first lawyer admitted to the Warren
bar. He was a leading democratic
politician, and served as associate
judge and member of assembly.
Conductors on the Lehigh Valley
railroad have received orders from the
train dispatcher to put away their own
trains, and also make them up. Thi.
work has heretofore been done by the
baggage masters. Retrenchment is
the order of the day.
Pittsburg, April 6-The miners al
Connellsville, Bradford and along the
lines of the branch roads in Fayette
county, have struck for higher wages
They were getting 70 cents per wagon
load and now demand 81 cents. They
are opposed to company stores and
want their pay in cash instead of part
store orders as heretofore. Through,
out this region all the coal mined is
used for coking. In the Youghiogh
eny district the miners are still al
work but q strike is anticipated,
There will be u meeting of miners al
Bradford this afternoon.
The Beaver argus says; The act
for the gradual abolition of slavery in
Pennsylvania was passed finally on
the lst of March, 1850, and among
other things provided "that no child
born hereafter of slave parents shall be
held slave, but servant, until the
age of twenty-eight years, when all
claims for further service shall cease
At the organization of Beaver county
in 1903 there were four slaves held
within its limits. When the census
was taken in 1910 there were eight in
the county; in 1920 there were five.
When the census was again taken in
1880 there were nOne-all having in