The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-07-18

| out of bed in Lancaster county and
received fatal injuries.
There are on deposit in the slx ma.
tiohal banks in Williamsport nearly
ST 100000.
Reuben Snyder, of Allentown, fell
through the opening in barn, dis
tafice of twenty-five feet, and was
killed.
Miss Nettie Sayer, MKean
county damsel, earns SlCO per month,
figuring off tank gauges for the United
pipe line.
The beer-drinkers in Harrisburg
threaten to go on a strike for three
cents glass. It has come down to
that in some places.
"A Texas colony Is organizing in
Butler county. 1t is proposed to take
up ninety Thousand acres of land in
Tarrant county, Texas.
-Clearfeld county has been perfect
ly inundated by rain storms this sum-
mer, those of the past two weeks being
unprecedented in violence.
"A Titusville man who had suffered
from domestic infelicity dashed on o
passing locomotive and was caught on
the driving wheels and fatally mangled.
"A daughter of Dennis White, of
Westmoreland county, aged II, was
found downed few days ago. She
was piqued because she had been left
out of picnic party.
"A wretch chained horse to the
track of the Pennsylvania railroad
near Johnstown, a day or two since,
which was released just in time to es-
cape a passing express train.
"A man named Ludwig, aged
sixty-six years, rolled out of bed
through second story widow on the
pavement below, in Pittsburg, and
sustained dangerous injuries.
Bass fishing in the Susquehanna
improves as the season approaches, but
it is difficult to find market for the
fish. They are dull of sale at ten
cents per pound in York and Harris
burg.
Adam BOwersox, of Dover, York
county, has two pigs grown together,
having two backbones, one set of in
testines, two hind legs and two tails.
The heads, forelegs and shoulders are
perfectly formed.
The Lebanon papers state that in
order to give employment to idle hands
the manager of the Coleman estate at
Cornwall, Lebanon county, has aban-
doned moving machines and reapers
this year.
Fred Lauer, of Reading, the king
of the brewers, who has been in the
business since 1926, says that pure bar
ley malt beer cannot be sold at less
than SO per barrel, or five cents pei
glass.
Miss Mamie Kilgore, of Greens
burg, is in possession of highly
priced souvenir of the early history o
that county, in the shape of IA cope
cent bearing date 1875, and stamped
upon which is the bust of George III
The body of dead man wa!
found in an unoccupied house in Phila
delphia on Sunday. 1t was eviden
that it was there several days, the fac'
and hands being eaten nearly ava,
by the rats, and the body being very
much decomposed.
"A terrific storm visited Edenbur.
on Wednesday. Thirty large mapl'
trees in Fees S. Lloyd's sugar CAM
were blown down, and some boys VIII
had taken refuge in ashed in the CAM
| narrowly escaped death by one of tn
, trees falling upon and crushing it.
5 Because Joseph Greiser, of Scran
ton, refused to furnish liquor to gan
1 of ruffians for nothing, one of tn
/ number shot at him through the win
S dow. The bullet pierced his ves
striking a little below the breast an
infiicting slight wound, after whic
it fell harmless on the floor.
f Mrs. Barney Kost. of Alleghen
D county, was the victim of an indecen
:. assault few days ago, and the affai
having been witnessed by neighbors
e she was so greatly mortified that sh
: took several grains of morphine
: Early medical aid saved her life.
d Near Ardmore station, on til
Pennsylvania railroad, man wh
f evidently had been dead several week
# was found on Sunday. By his sid
e was found six barreled revolver wit
one chamber empty. A bullet hole
e plainly discernlble in the centre of h
d forehead, and it is thought to be a cas-
of suicide.
y Jacob Brungess, of Tuhkhannocl
: was accidentally shot by his son, age
e twelve years. The lad, with some {
: his playmates, was shooting bullets {
e target close to a field lii which Nj
0 Brungess was at work. One of til
g bullets took effect in the back of M
0 Brungess' head, and he died six houl
q later.
S Mrs. Haynes, wife of Corneliu
o Haynes, of M'Kean county, was foun
i in an insensible condition in a fiel
e recently. She had separated from h,
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