The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-04-26
State Notes.

| ton on 1nursuay.
There are seventy prisoners in the
Dauphin county Jail.
The Warren street railroad is to be
taken up. 1t didn't pay.
The state Sunday School Conven-
ton will meet in Harrisburg in June.
A fatal disease has broken out
among the COWS in some portions OF
Bucks county.
A Bucks county young man, named
William Allen, was recently bitten by
a mad dog.
The Reading police take the corner
loafers off the street and put theff in
the lookup.
Albert Schaeffer, Of Reading, was
assaulted and robbed of $3.50 on Mon
day afternoon.
A new post office building is being
erected in Media. 1t will be ready on
the first Of July.
The Farmers and Mechanics Bank
of Shippensburg will fix up its affairs
at fifty cents on the dollar.
A little daughter of Moses Krook,
aged two years, was drowned in a box
sewer at Titusville on Monday.
The capital stock of the First Ma
tional Bank ofHanover, York county,
is to be increased to S200000.
On Sunday, the 18th, a large un-
occupied residence at Meadville was
destroyed by fire. Owners name is
not given.
Belle Lee expected TO meet her lover
IA barkeeper) at the Union depot,
Pittsburg. He disappointed her, and
she swallowed a fatal dose of NOR
phine.
Leonard Falktnstein, woolen-
mill employee, Mt Chambersburg,
committed suicide on Sunday, taking
laudanum.
Colonel Samuel R. Dicks residence,
Meadville, was entered by burglars on
Sunday and quantity of silverware
carried away.
There are six prisoners in the
Schuylkill County Jail who have
been sentenced to the penitentiary,
but could not be received there for
want of accommodations.
4 delegation of Indiana county
farmers lately went to west Virginia
for the purpose of looking up locality
to whiclI to emigrate. They returned
better satisfied with Pennsylvania.
4 call signed by nearly 100 minis
ters in Allegheny county has been
issued for convention OF friends to
secure concert of action in reference
to the re.enactn.eht of the local option
law.
The majority of the glass gatherers,
on astrike in Pittsburg, have obtained
temporary employment at Wheeling
and elsewhere, and it is probable that
the strike will continue in the smoky
NIiC
\ school teacher at Sutor's station,
on the Conneilsville railroad who has
wife and two children, is reported to
have eIrped the other day with one of
his pupils, IL young lady ofgood family
and prcpOsscssing appearance.
Some time ago in Reading, ON Il
dark night when the street lamps
were not burning, Mr.. Dechert walked
into the river and was drowned.
His widow now sues the city for
50, 200, which is cheap enough for al
most any kind Of a husband.
The city of Philadelphia has in
stitu,ed suit in Centre county against
Smith, Rhoads & Smith, for the pos
session of a large tract of land in
Burnside township, in that county.
Some of the best legal talent in the
State is employed on each side.
One ofthe poor directors of Schuyl-
kill county visited family recently
whose children lived on dogs meat.
When the director entered the house
of the destitute the father of the child
rem was cooking dead dog for them,
they having grown used to the bor-
rible dish.
The Johnstown people are at a loss
to account for the strange actions of a
man who, while visiting the place
frequently during the past year, pre-
tended to be deaf mute, but who got
on tear the other day and struck up
conversation with hotel clerk.
The stranger always had plenty OF
money with him and always paid his
bills.
Jacob Kendall, aged 20 years, resid-
ing at Seventh and Dick streets Read
ing, left home at half past six O'Clock
in the morning and walked to Ad-
amstown, from there to Reamans-
town, from there to Robisonia and
other places, and returned home by
half past three O'clock in the after
noon of the same day, after walking a
distance of Al miles. Mr.. Kendall
was noted walker in his younger
days.
The financial statement of the bor-
ough of York for 1877 has been
printed. The total receipts amount to
COO nGe 20 aud tl,o actual currant nv