The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-07
Pennsylvania Notes.
There were l9l fires in Pittsburgh
last year.


Washington and Greene counties left
for Kansas and Nebraska few days
ago.
Anthony A. Laws, deputy sheriff
of Philadelphia, was attacked with
cramps on the street on Tuesday and
on Wednesday died.
Young Calender, arrested for the
murder of his father, in Luzerne
county, has been discharged for want
of evidence to hold him for the crime.
The Miners journal gives an ac-
count of an alleged attempt by Patrick
Collins, one of the county commits
sioners of Schuylkill county, to rob
the county treasury.
In blasting rock along thu line
of the Pittsburgh and Lake Erie rail.
road 175 pounds of powder were used.
A mass of rock containing 500 cubic
ward, w 3 moved four feet.
The Allegheny Valley railroad
paid its employees in silver last week.
1t is said some two hundred pounds
| of the shining metal were distributed
between Pittsburgh and Brookville.
The authorities at the Philadel-
phia arsenal have received orders to
manufacture 80, 900 shirts, $4,000 pairs
of pants, 5000 blouses, 1000 great
coats, 1000 uniform dress coats, ETC.,
which will give employm ent to about
600 women.
-Wahlen, the condemned muir
derer who committed suicide on
Saturday evening, was buried in the
potter's field at Norristown. His
brain weighed sixty-four ounces, one
ounce more than that of Daniel Web
ster.
Near Freeport, Westmoreland
county, Sylvester Woods cut his
father with razor in dangerous
manner few days ago. The assail-
ants brother-in-law procured a gun
and fired The load bird shot into Syl-
westerns body, producing severe in
juries.
The Philadelphia branch Of the
universal peace union has sent a
petition, twenty feet in length, to
congress, praying that a commission
may be appointed to negotiate with
foreign powers for the establishment
of system of international arbitra-
ton.
John H. Miller, of Butler. has APP
peared at New Castle in company
with Mr.. M'Farland, the newly APP
pointed receiver in the great oil case,
Messrs. Walker, Avery and other
prominent men of the oil region, and
filed bond IN the sum of $500, ,0UU Tor
the faithful performance of the re
ceiver's duties. The court approved
the bond.
The brick moulders, wheelers
temperers and laborers of Pittsburgh
and Allegheny will demand an in
crease of wages on May l, as follows
Moulders who now receive l.50 pei
day, will ask for 81. Wbeelers tenn
perers and laborers who are getting 81
will demand $3.50. They will also
ask that 5000 brick constitute a days
work, instead of 3,400, the present
figure.
Coal mining operations have beer
resumed in the Schuylkili region and
t will continue until March 8, when
, another cessation until the 9th viii
ensue. The arrangements for thu
subsequent period have not yet beel
determined on, but the policy of thu
coal and iron company and thu
Schuylkill individual operators i.
I settled not to exceed the allotment o
, the combination.
In an ancient sepulchre, near tn
shaft of the Millwuod Coal Company
in Westmoreiand county, DR.. Franl
ekcowen, of Greensburg, few day
since discovered, along with the bone
> of two human beings, u number q
arrow points aud the tusk Ola walrus
! which is supposed to ha formed tn
' barb of an acknowledgements spear
The tusk Is abort a foot in length
!, slightly curved, tapering, and per
forated transversely near the base
Through this perforation the rivet o
ligature passed 10y which the barb wa
secured to the shaft. Whether thi
/, relic is of Indian or mould .builde
origin is not determined. The humal
bones with which it was found disin
= tergrated into dust after an exposure q
an hours duration.
p The late oil strike by the LAX
| Erie Oil Co., at Stoneham, Pa, fiv
a miles East of Warren, on the Bugbe
tract, opens up new territory that i
likely to be very extensive. 1t show
\ a very superb quality of oil bearing
f rock to any ever found east of Tidiout
a and equal to any in that locality. TIL
b company are making preparations t
/ put down several more wells on thi
d territory, of which they have abou
A 800 acres leased. The company ar
d composed of Dunkirk and Sherida
A men. Victor Rider, President; Jaco
: Shaler, Treasurer; G. E. Griswolc
Il Secretary; Samuel Tolles, Supt.-
r Du,akirk Journal.
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