The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-08-09
state Notes.


mill is to be sold al sheriff's sale next court.
A School Controller was among those ar
rested for riot in Reading.
The oil refneries which suspended OH ac-
count of the strike on the railroads ate re-
suming operations.
The number Of idle nieh In the anthra-
cite coal regions is estimated at over 40,-
600.
DR.. j. D. Bryant, prominent citizen of
Ph hiladelphia and we'll known author, Is
dead.
The Carbondaie authorities have substi-
tuted gasolin for gas in lighting the Streets
and the people are dissusted.
The rowahda Fire Department has or
ganised fire police, Joseph Ouhs is cap
tain and Thomas Meredith lieutenant.
Hired men are paid 30 to $40 per month
and day labortre scvtn,y-h Ave cents Gay
in Berks county.
About six hundred citizens of Reading
have been suihmohed and cworh in by
Sheriff Yorgey, to serve on the posse
comitatus.
Spits dogs are the terror of Recalling, a
great many of them infesting that city.
Several persons have been bitten during
the past week,
The notorious Xingo Park, turned up in
Pittsburgh one day last week rs chaifman
of miners convention, demanding fiiore
pay.
The Bradford County Commissioners are
going to patchasg two hundred and seventy
acres for poor-house farm. II will cost
$4,000,
The Whole force of the Cunneautville
Courier uf'ice, two editors, printers and
the ''dsti,' shut up shop and marched o If
with the militia last week,
The Baldwin works at Philadelphia are
turning out from three to four locomotives
Il week. About /, 100 men are employed in
the shops.
A part of a barb ih Northaniptoi county
In which 4 militia company is supposed to
have been quartcred u century ago is still
standing.
1t is expeotui that the new depot at
Pittsburgh will be Completed by next
Saturday. The pay roll of the workmen
engaged upon it is $4,000 per day.
Anna Rentz was arrested in Reading on
Thursday charged with riot, in having ss-
sisted TO stone the troops. She was held
in 81 900 bail to answer.
Coal shipment wa, resumed OH the te-
high Valley railroad ON Wednesday the lst.
Three hundred and eighty-o -one cars were
brought down the road $50 of which were
distributed to the furnaces.
1t is said to be a fact that at the pla ce in
Pittsburgh where the greatest number Of
rioters were killed is a sign painted by the
Young Mems Christian Association. .Pre-
pare to Meet your Cod"
William Hassler, of Obey township,
Berks county, died of old agc, -on The 24th
ul. and his wife followed him 10 the grave
one week later. He was seventy nine and
she was eighty-four years old.
a resident Of Huntington couuty, while
enienvoring to capture two cubs, was dis
covered By the mother bear and dr. ivcn
down mountain ami finally comr clled to
climb tree for safety.
The Republican says that he sus pension
of the Lock Haven National Bank has in
nowlse affected the other banks in that
city. They are doing business as usual.
The diily loss to the workmen of AL
toona, says the Mirror, has been about
$4,000 per day, divided among trainmen,
shop hands and laborers, or about 500, 900
per week.
The Pennsylvania Anthracite oompaLy's
store at Greenwood, Luserue county, was
robbed on Friday morning of about 81, 900
worth of goods There is no clue to the
robbers.
Scranton, August "a force of $50
United States regulars commanded by
Lieutenant Col. Brannon arrived to-day to
relieve the Seventh Division National
guard, who have been here since Saturday
night.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company
has just finished at the Altoona shops a
handsome observation car. 1t is intended
to give travellers a better view Of the Horse
Shoe Curve and its grand scenery. 1t is
built like other cars, only that the side is
all open and has comfortable arm chairs.
Rev. 0. H. Ashenfelter. of this
state, Is to be tried for hercsy by the Re-
formed church. He Is charged with deny
ing the inspiration of the Old Testament
and the eternal punishment of those who
live and die impenitent.
The effort has failed to secure a new
trial for Emory Hess, who was convicted
and sentenced to fifteen years imprison-
ment on the charge CT being concerned in
the outrage on Clara Baughuan in Phila-
delphia.
The guests who accompanied Governor
Hartranft on his excursion TO California
have returned home, reaching Norrstown
yesterday. They had reached Salt Lake
City when the news came of the riots, and
the Governor started home a, once.
The last strike reported is on the Pitts
burgb, Allegheny and Manchester street
rnln nj