The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-05-01
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state Notes.

cities, Bradford being the last one in
corporated.
"A proposition is before the Coun-
ellis of Erie for the utter extermina-
tion of the feline tribe.
"A catamount measuring four feet
was killed on the mountains near Hol-
lidaysburg recently.
"A flash of lightning was not
afraid to tackle and destroy n Limbur-
ger cheese factory at Great Bend.
Mrs. John Weber of South Pitts
burgh is lying at the point of death
from picking sore with pin.
"A citizen of Tamaqua has invented
a steam carriage in which he proposes
to travel to the Pacific coast.
A valuable parrot interferred i'm a
hen fight in North Chester, and was
picked to death by the two biddies.
"A boy of seventeen has been united
in marriage at Mt. Nebo, Lancaster
county, to buxom widow of thirty.
A band of gypsies travelling
through Northumberland county last
week, stole little child named Celia
Hoary.
The Millerstown Iron Co., at Ma
cungie, Lehigh county, suspended
Monday morning. The liabilities are
about $4,000.
A spring of water in Upper
Uwchlan township, Chester county,
has Just been measured and found to
be five hundred feet deep.
james A. Gordon, eighty years of
age and the oldest member of the
Lackawanna county bar. frequently
walks twenty miles II day.
Last winter it cost the Pennsyl-
vania Railroad Company $4,000 10
have the SNOW sboveled off the tracks
of the western division.
"A party of Mormons from Russia
passed over the Pennsylvania Railroad
Il few days ago bound to Salt Lake and
polyganIy. They wore wooden bro
gans.
- Pennsylvania manufactured no
fewer than 627, 1888 cigars during
the past year, and New York alone
exceeds her in the extent of this
industry.
AS the elk belonging to the Wal
nut Street Theatre "EXiles" Company
was being taken from the car at
Easton, on Tuesday, its antlers were
broken off.
"A ninc-year-old boy, in Harris
burg. who has committed ten rob-
berries in very short space of time,
has been caught and sent to the House
of Refuge.
"A donation party to a departing
Methodist minister in Clearfield
county, among good things, allowed
the pastors wife to cut Il cake contain
ing thirty-six silver dollars.
A new railroad, twenty-five miles
long, is chartered, and will be imme-
diately built from Kane i'm the oil re-
gions to Alton, where it will strike the
bradford branch of the Erie road.
Mrs. Jane Young, Chester county,
has died from the effects of ether adj
ministered by a dentist, who, on ac-
| count of the womans weak aud ner
rous condition, only gave it when
much pressed.
james Bonnell, 65 years old, a re-
spectacle farmer in comfortable circun-
stances, living near Stroudsburg, Pa =,
hung himself Monday morning. He
leaves a large family of grown up
children.
A Bucks county swill tub by the
name of Lutz, challenges any man to
meet him in a match to swallow ! 900
| glasses of beer in as many hours. He
once drank sixty glasses of beer in
| two hours.
Eli Bickel, while practicing with
another member of the Norristown
Rifle Club at their range on Barbadoes
Island Il few days ago, made ten
straight bulls eyes at distance of one
hundred yards.
j. w. Hammel, the old Pitts
burgher who was injured 10y having a
stool pulled from under him as he was
painting the front of store on Penn,
avenue, is rapidly getting worse and
! the doctors fear he will die.
David Kline, a stone mason, resid-
| ing near Molltown, lost the sight of
one eye several years ago by piece of
stone striking the pupil. Recently Il
rebounding nail struck his other eye,
and he is now entirely blind.
George Einsig, convicted at York,
Pa, of murder in the first degree for
killing his wife, committed suicide in
his cell Sunday morning by cutting
his throat with razor and then hang
ing himselfwith piece Of rope aud a
| towel.
In Media there is will admitted
to probate which is probably the
shortest on record. 1t is written on an
envelope, as follows: my wife,
Louisa III. Lyons, to be my sole heir
and executor. James Gilbourne Ly-