The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-01-31
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Agnew's Mills, Clarion county, mas
been in office forty-five years.
The daily production of the Brad
| ford oil district is only about 9,o0o bar
rels. The Derrick intended to be un-
derstood as saying that $4,000 barrels
could be produced if the price went up
enough to encourage 1T.
Nearly six million cigars were made
at Wrightsville, York county, last
year. The amount paid by the manu-
facturers of these cigars for. stamps
alone was $35, $4,000.
Eddie Smalley, a boy aged seven
teen, was accidently shot in the head
and killed, at Erie, last week, by the
careless handling of pistol in the
hands of q playmate.
The ousted Sheriff of Butler county,
on Thursday of last week delivered up
the office to the Coroner. VIM. Conn,
ESQ, who will execute the duties of
the office until Governor Hartranft ap-
points man to take his place.
A four-year-old daughter of John b.
Schaefler Of Mount Airy, several miles
west of Pottstown, Pa, died from the
effects of illness produced by the bite
of a rabid dog last December Her
sufferings have been terrible forseveral
weeks past.
In Erie county, during the past
year, warrants to the amount of $S,-
99S. 35 were issued in payment of sheep
killed by dogs. The tax on dogs at
the rate of so cents per head, yielded
81 913.50-ieaving S2,0S4.s5 to be paid
out of the surplus fund on hand.
BY arrangement of the Franklin
County Commissioners, and under
the new Jail administration, Justices
of the Peace commit tramps or va
grants idly wandering about, for
; thirty days, and they are required to
break stone in the Jail yard during
their incarceration.
Mr.. John e. Lentz, of Allentown,
, some years ago had the front of his
property Oh Hamilton street, that
city, badly damaged by imperfect
v drainage. He demanded 81 400 DANA
t ges. The city refused to pay them.
: A jury OH Friday gave verdict
f against the city for 81, ,10l.96.
The daughter of b. +. Wilson-then
of Towanda, but now of Lock Haven
: -strayed or was kidnapped from her
d home on the 1lth of December. Her
d name is Matte. She is thirteen years
a old, small fer her age, dark eyes, hair,
y and complexion, spare face, and was
6 dressed thinly in everyday clothes
when she left.
n John Carroll, in the right of the
It widow and children of William Car
It roll, who was killed by an explosion
i of fire-damp at the Pine Ridge collery
d in 1878. instituted a suit at Wilkes
o barre to recover damages for the death
of the latter against the D. and H. G.
!. Company, and the case was tried and
" u verdict obtained recently for 81, ,Oeo.
d Bradford, Pa, January PA
e company has been organized in the oil
/. towns in western New York and in
= this vicinity to ship oil in bulk, via
the Genesee Valley and Erie Canals,
If to Buffalo, Rochester and New York.
If This movement will doubtless revolu-
o tionize the oil transportation, which
; hitherto has been monopolized by rail
r ways.
G DR.. Richard a. Robertson, of Titus
n ville,- went to Scotland last year to
claim some property said to have been
IS LETT him by relative, since when
l. nothing has been heard from him. a
It few weeks ago Mrs Robertson went
Is abroad, and she has endeavored to
$. trace her husband, but as yet without
re any result. When DIR. Robertson left
,e home he was in possession of a con-
siderable sum Of money and large
q. quantity ofjewelry
l. Says the Williamsport Gazette !:
r, Chief Mexican married couple on
r. Thursday night at police headquarters,
id and read to them their duties toward
le each other from copy Of the Wallace
N law. After he had concluded, it was
ID discovered that the wrong woman had
10 been wedded-that it was the brides.
maid instead of the bride. Samuel
informed them that it was too late to
- make correction, and they left,
VI threatening to go somewhere else and
get unmarried.
II Reading, January 23.-Henry Diff
n fenbach, William Malloy, James Kel-
le ley, Charles Banks and Frank Heise-
# man pleaded guilty this afternoon to
v rioting in July last and were SEN
!. fenced to pay fine of one dollar and
v costs and to an imprisonment of six
a months, to be computed from the time
n they entered prison. The prisoners
" have been in confinement since July
and will consequently be released in a
few days. The Court said light sem
y fences would be imposed in conse-
quence of the defendants having
a pleaded guilty and having already
}, served considerable time IN Jail
: awaiting trial. There are still about
;, twenty-five to be tried. A jury was
:. empaneled this afternoon.