The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-03-21
Pennsylvania Notes.

seventeen of whom are women.
Arthur Killen was found dead in
the Herdic park ticket Office, William
sport, on Friday. He had been dead
several lays.
I ne Supreme Court has decided
that Col. Barber, Republican, is en-
titled to the office of Prothonotary of
Luzerne county. His right had been
contested by DR.. Trimmer.
There are twenty firms in Pitts
burg engaged in the production of
table ware and lamp goods whose ag-
gregate annual production is S5, ,199,-
$50 dozen pieces.
Three men were arrested in Frank.
lin county last week on suspicion of
having murdered March Dixie, a tin
polish pepdler, who has mysteriously
disappeared.
Judge Cadwallader on Friday SEN
fenced John Rawlings, route mail
agent on the Reading railroad, con-
victed of stealing q registered letter
and other mail matter from the mails,
to five years imprisonment.
Francis S. Fisher, of Williamsport,
has filed voluntary petition in bank
ruptcy in the United States district
court. He is said to he another one
knocked over by Peter Herdic's fail
ure. His liabilities are over 500, 1000.
The body of Joseph r. Lacey,
aged 27, at Birdsboro', was found
standing erect and lifeless in sink
hole in the rear of his residence Friday
night. He had been ill with fever,
and while temporarily deranged jump
ed out of his bedroom and thence into
the hole.
Mr.. Joseph Walker, q widower,
aged about fifty-six years, residing
about a mile from Mansfield, Alle-
gheny county, committed suicide on
Thursday. He first flattened two bull
lets on his head and afterward hanged
himself. The supposed cause was the
loss of $4,000 through Gill, the miss
ing Pittsburg defaulter.
"A negro named Toogood, who be-
longs to gang of desperadoes in Lam
caster county, resisted arrest on Fri
day, seizing an axe and swinging it in
n threatening manner. Before he
could use the implement man accom-
panying the constable deputed to make
the arrest shot the negro in the rear.
The desperate dropped to the floor,
but the wound is not dangerous.
1t is stated that the New York
Central railroad company and the
Standard oil company are cooperating
in the effort to induce the Legislature
Of New York to grant the power of
procuring the right of way for free
pipes in that state. The object to be
is to secure the monopoly of
oil transportation from the Bradford
region.
The citizens of Beaver and Butler
have been considerably an
noyed during the past few weeks by
the operations of gang of robbers,
whose detection and arrest seemed inn
possible. Their work was chiefly in
the towns of New Brighton, Roches-
ter, Baden and Freedom, in Beaver
county, and in zelienople, in Butler
county. The last and boldest and
most wholesale operation was in Eel
ienople, one night last week, when
they went through no less than eleven
houses, in each of which they OBJ
tained goods to q greater or less value.
The discovery of the gang, which is
supposed to be responsible for all these
depredations, was made by the merest
accident last week. A little girl was
passing the house of family named
Gordon, living about two miles back
of Rochester, soon after the Zelienople
robberies, when she saw some of the
family secreting in a newly dug well,
a mysterious package, wrapped up in
some bed ticking. She told the
what she had seen, and this
circumstance, together with the gen.
eral reputation of the family, at once
fastened strong suspicion upon them.
Living with the family was a man
named Jack Wiles, who is, or pretends
to be, married to one of the Gordon
girls, named Emma. Areward of fifty
dollars was offered for his arrest as he
was supposed to be the moving spirit
in these iniquities, and soon afterwards
q farmer named Beard, determined to
bring this man to justice, and at the
same time secure the reward, saw
Wiles short distance from the house.
Attempting to capture him, NViles ran
and Beard gave chase. AS the thief
was climbing a fence Beard threw a
stone at him, striking him on the
back of the head, and knocking him
down. Surprising that he had him
within his grasp, Beard confidently
and was much surprised
to see Wiles spring to his feet and beat
4 hasty retreat, firing two shots at his
pursuer as he ran. Beard concluded
that further attempts to secure his
capture were useless, so long as the ad-
in arms were thus against
him, called at a near farmhouse, pro-
cured double-harrelled shotgun, and