The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-29
State Notes.

Some Erie parties are trying to
raise 1000 to bore test well for oil
near that city.
WIN. Phares, aged ninety-fve
years, died in Bucks county recently.
Three years ago he went on cunning
expedition.
johnny Steel, Goal Oil Johnny
at one time millionaire of the oil re-
gions, is now clerking in grocery
store in Dennison, la.
Mary Ann Bradley, aged seven
years, was burned to death at Pothole
Saturday afternoon, by the explosion
of an oil can, while trying to kindle a
fire.
The property of the Messrs. Boas,
of the late Reading savings bank, is
pledged for the $4,000 note given by
them and fifty-five per cent. divi'
dend.
AT Pittsburg on Saturday James
Egan, an ex-policeman, shot himself
accidentally through the heart while
cleaning his revolver, and died in
stantly.
"A wooden canal is to run through
the Pittsburgh exposition building in
order that the various models for i'm
proving the Ohio river may be advan-
tageously displayed.
The farmers of Somerset ,county
are complaining of tramp outrages.
Reapers and mowers are the chief OBJ
jects of attack, and number have al
ready been destroyed.
David f. Caldwell, of Tyrone, for
merly of the firm of Lloyd, Caldwell
s. Co., bankers, filed q voluntary PEE
tition in bankruptcy recently. His
liabilities are $4,000 and his assets
nominal. His creditors number $50.
Milton Allen, an old farmer of
Canton township, Bradford county,
recently left the country, and his
whereabouts are unknown. His wife
has been bed-ridden for thirteen years,
and it is thought he left in order to
avoid supporting her.
Twenty persons filed petitions in
bankruptcy at Pittsburgh on Thurs
day. This is the last month for going
into bankruptcy. The repeating act
passed at the last session of Congress
goes into effect on the 1st of Septem-
Der, and then the petition mill will
cease to grind.
Hugh p. Shelter, cashier of the
bank in Lewisburg, Union county, for
fifteen years, was arrested recently at
Mount JOY, on charge of embezzling
between $4,000 and 100000. In de-
fault of $50, 900 bail he was committed.
He had been residing for some time at
Charleston, West Virginia.
The Standard oil company are lay
ing pipe line from the Cosmos oil
works along the Allegheny Valley
railroad to the Standard works, in
, Pittsburg, a distance of nearly three
miles. This line is to draw the refined
oil of nine refineries to the Standard
ard works. where it will be barreled for
shipment.
james E. Brown, of Kittanning,
is the fortunate purchaser of one of the
most elegant mansions in the west
that of S. Dune Karns. The sheriff OF
Greensburg sold on Monday this resi-
dence, which is stated to have cost
something like 500, 900, for $40 OILS.
Thursday last Peter McMannus, q
Mollie Mcguire on trial at Sunbury OH
! charge of numbering Frederick Hess.
er, at Coal Run, Dec. 18th, 1875, was
found guilty of murder in the first de
gree. He is the twenty first Mollie
Mcguire convicted, and will doubtless
suffer the extreme penalty Of the law.
VIM. H. M'Fadden, Philadelphia
water department, charges six clerks
with systematic robbery by making
false entries. Fifteen thousand dol.
lars have been traced. Chief M'Fad-
den says the amount will probably
reach hundreds of thousands, and that
the robbery has extended over q period
of tehyears. The clerks have been ar
rested.
Mr.. j. E. Hawker is going to fight
the department of public instruction
with a mandamus for refusing his
commission as superintendent OF
schools of Hyde Park. His examina-
tion has been written, and will be
printed for the information of the
public. Hawker's orthography is said
to be very defective.
On Wednesday night while DIR.
w. B. Dewess, of Myerstown, was on
his way home from trip to Shaeffers-
town, his team was stopped, and a
dastardly attempt made on his life by
q masked man. The doctor spurred
his horse forward and escaped, the
highwayman firing several shots at
him as he retreated. This is the sec.
ond attempt made on the Doctors life.
Mrs. Margaret Graham, of West
Chester, aged l02 years, went to Oak.
land cemetery the other day and spent
several hours in cleaning up the tomb
stones marking the graves of her de-
parted friends. After securing and
cleaning them thoroughly the old lady
picked up her implements and wended
| her Way back to West Chester at n