The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-06-20
State Notes.

weigh $50 pounds.
| A little girl named Mary O'Leary,
while gathering coal on the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad, near Pitts
burg, on Friday, was struck by the
Cincinnati express west and instantly
killed.
President Gowen, of the Philadel-
phia and Reading railroad, announces
that the miners in the employ of the
company will receive an advance of
six per cent in their wages next
month.
| Extensive preparations are being
made by the Grand Army of the Re
public of Philadelphia for the encamp-
ment at Gettysburg on July 20. All
the posts will send delegates to go in a
body.
John J. Tracy, convicted of en-
bezzling 1854, the property of Greble
post No. 10, q. A. r., of Philadelphia,
while acting as quartermaster of the
post, was sentenced to Imprisonment
of one year and three months.
Seven boys in cigar mandatory
at Lebanon jumped on an elevator OH
the third floor, and while descending
the brake broke, and they were sent
to the bottom with lightning rapidity.
The were rebounded about four feet,
but none were seriously injured.
"A few days ago the remains of a
child were found in a sink hole near
Pottsville. Katie Yeager, the mother,
who has been arrested, confessed to
having killed it last March, but says
she was instigated to the act by a man
in the Catawissa valley, whom she
wants arrested.
1T has been decided by Judge jerks
of Jefferson county that this thing of
serenading" newly-married couple
by means of tin horns, pans, horse
fiddles, cracked accordeons and such,
is an indictable offense, as the partici-
pants in all performances of the kind
are guilty of riot.
Frank Lynch, convicted of MUIR
der in the second degree, was sentenced
in the Allegheny county court on Sat
urday to twelve years imprisonment
in the western penitentiary. Lynch
made confession some months since
that he threw his child, four years of
age, from the railroad bridge into the
Allegheny river.
The freight business has never
been so heavy on the Philadelphia
and Erie railroad as at present. Dur
ing the past eleven days 1850 loaded
cars have passed over The road, large
increase over any other eleven days in
the history of the road. Of this num-
ber 4,732 were for the east with grain
from the west:
| More captures of illicit distillers
have been made in the wilds of Fay
ette county. The young man,
Jacob Gary, taken "a few days ago, says
that he discovered the still while pass
ing the vicinity and went in on tour
of discovery shortly before the officers
arrested him. He alleges that he
thought the officers to be the proprie
tors of the place.
Little more than a year ago the
village of Bradford, Mexican county,
had an idle population of about five
hundred. 1t now contains something
like ten thousand, and they are pro-
posing an opera house, of course.
Stores rent from 81 500 to 81 800 upon
its business streets, and building lots
bring fancy prices. Its oil wells are
safe and profitable, yielding from
$4,000 to 10000 barrels day, and a
railroad is now in construction which
Bradford relies on to make it the great
est railroad centre in the whole oil re-
geon.
1T was thought the Herdic house,
Williamsport, and the Minnequa
Springs would be sold on Friday, but
both, after bid of S2l 900 and $500,
respectively, were withdrawn. The
Herdic House, with the grounds, cost
$500, 900, and is now appraised at $780,
600. sum that will not cover the
mortgage held by gentleman in
Philadelphia. A number of farms in
Bradford county, and timber tracts in
Centre and Cameron aggregating about
1900 acres, and a number OF proper
ties in Williamsport were also sold.
The total amount of bids represented
about $50, 900.
The Richtell flying machine seems
to be a success. The Philadelphia
Times says the ninety-six pound opera
tor continues to sail daily, just as he
pleases-up and down, forward, back
ward and sidewise-through the at
mosphere of Concert Hall on the won
derful flying machine. He says that
the sensation caused in him by hiserial
flights is indescribably pleasant, and
that this combined with the effect
which the plaudits of the spectators
from below have upon him, counter
act in great measure the results of
the exertion required to keep the ma
chine in motion almost continually
throughout the day.