The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1877-07-12
state Notes.

In q Titusville store wildcat was killed
the other night.
Mrs. Neubel, q Pittsburgh abortionist,
has been sentenced to the penitentiary for
FIVE years.
Randolph township, Crawford county,
boosts of bottomless spring of pure water,
about thirty feet square.
Judge Harding has decided the prothono.
tary case in Luzerne county in favor OF
Barber, the Republican incumbent.
A Luzerne county man claims to have
picked 25s quarts of strawberries from less
than one third as many plants.
Over 500 newsboys partook Of the din
ner in Philadelphia rendered them by Mr.
George W. Childs, of the Ledger.
The oil production in the region was 3d.
600 barrels day and the shipment $4,000
barrels daily during the last quarter
The legislative committee, appointed last
session to examine aud report regarding
| the convict labor system in prisons in this
state is in session at Pittsburgh.
The Oldest prisoner III service in the
western penitentiary was released on the
4th. He had served eleven years and one
month.
There Is to be centennial celebration
next year in Luzerne county of the battle
or massacre of Wyoming. Committees
have already been appointed to that end.
Mrs. Jones, the wife of John p. Jones
who was murdered at Lansford by Kelly
and Doyle, denies that she ever asked the
privilege of springing the lever that would
hang her husbands murderers.
| A young man named Hicks, residing
opposite Connellsville, Fayette county, was
fatally injured on the Attn by the bursting
of cannon which he had charged with too
heavy load.
In Armstrong county on Saturday night
such immense quantities Of hail fell that
the ground had an ice covering long after
daylight on Sunday morning. A number
of cattle were killed by the hail.
Joseph Kinsler, a coal miner of Baldwin
township, Allegheny county, deliberately
committed suicide near the Stone House,
on the Castle Shannon railroad, Saturday
morning, by hanging himself to tree,
The funeral of Miss Mary Hess, buried
in York county on Saturday. was attended
by nearly 400 people in III carriages,
Miss Hess, who committed suicide by
drowning, was to have been married soon.
The firm of Lyon, Shorb s. Co., of Pitts
burg, succumbed to the panic three years
ago under an Indebtedness of $500, 900, and
on Tuesday they paid the last installment
to their creditors. They have paid dollar
for dollar with interest.
Judge Harding, of Luzerne county,
recently sentenced a man who had been
found "not guilty" to eighteen months I'M
prisonmeut. He promptly revoked the
sentence when informed by the clerk of the
courts that he had incorrectly announced
the verdict Of the jury.
The Cambria iron company is importing
iron ore from Spain at a cost not exceed
ing eight dollars per ton. 1t yields about
sixty per cent. of pure mental. 1t costs
less to import from Spain than to bring it
direct from the Lake Superior region.
Miss Norah Toothman, eighteen years of
age, engaged as hired help in the family of
Hon. John II. Ewing, of Washington, Pa,
committed suicide on Friday by poisoning
herself. No cause is given for the act.
The supposition is it was love affair.
In the great coal mining case, on trial at
:. Pittsburgh since the 22d of May, verdict
: was rendered on Saturday in favor of
Grayson NJ. Provost, of New Jersey, for
SIPS, S,SOS,41. the full amount claimed.
The jury deliberated only little over two
hours.
At Ltis, Lancaster county, committee
has been appointed to collect funds to pay
for the arrest and prosecution of the vaga-
bonds with which Warwick township has
been so long overrun. Quite sum of
money has been already subscribed to rid
the neighborhood of the tramps.
Earnest Kohler, vestryman of Zion's
Lutheran church, Lancaster, on Sunday
, night was gagged and robbed of about
Sl2G by three highwaymen. The money
8 was collected in the Sunday school Of the
church. Mr.. Kohler was on the way to
9 pay the money to the secretary of tba Sun
day school when robbed.
S Last Wednesday Louis Waters, of Ale
, gheny, left home depressed in spirits. On
: Saturday several boys found his dead body
in the Allegheny river. His legs were tied
| together, and thus pinioned it is supposed
t he threw himself into the river from raft.
D The suicide was the result of brooding
over the prospective loss of property pur-
chased by him to which the title was
worthless.
II. Y. Arnold, deputy collector of GUS
toms at Chester, having refused to resign
q at the request of Collector Tuition, Captain
WIN Frick has been sworn in, and ON
. Saturday there were two deputies on duty.
, The attempted removal of Arnold has not
, been approved by the treasury department
at Washington, and Secretary Sherman on
, Saturday telegraphed to Tuition to delay
, action in the matter
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