The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-01-15
State Notes.

nus hlduc It's dppCuldhCS dihOiiS holSSS
in some parts of the state.
"A corner clock, 200 years old,
ornament the Judges chamber in the
court house at Williansport.
John Casey, bachelor of Erie,
left an estate of $500, 600, on which the
state will collect collateral inheritance
tax of S25, 900.
The semi-annual encampmento of the
Grand Army of the Republic Depart
ment of Pennsylvania, will be held at
Reading, Jan. 20.
Capt. G.. l.. Pierce, a young law
yer of Erie city, tormely clerk of the
court, was cholled to death last Sun
day at dinner while trying to swallow
IA large mouthful of meat. A bottle
of b'andy was found in his pocket and
| it is supposed he had been drinking.
-Pottsvile, Pa, Jan. 16.-The new
| Republican county standing commit
tee met and organized here this morn
ing. After hot contest General J.
X. Sigfreid was elected chairman.
a resolution was unanimously passed
endorsing J. A. NJ. Passmore for audi
tor general, and instructing the
Schuylkill delegates at the state con-
vention to demand his nomination.
The Republican county committee
of Beaver county have elected j. r.
| Hannah senatorial and II. G. Patter-
son and Silas WarriclI representative
delegates to the State convention.
They go uninstructed, but support
Judge Green for Supreme Judge and
Senator Lemon for Auditor General.
Grant is probably the first choice for
president and Blaine second. In Bea-
yer county the committee always
elects the delegates.
Saturday morning at Williams
port the Jury in the case against Peter
Hcrdic and Horace Z. Taylor brought
in a verdict of guilty. The charge
was conspiracy to dcfraud creditors in
connection with the operations of the
banking house of II. f. Taylor & Co.,
which suspended Il couple of years ago.
Motion was made for new trial, bail
given and the hearing on the motion
! put down lor March. Judge Mayer, of
Clinton county, presided at the trial,
which continued several days and has
attracted great deal of attention.
The ease of the AlIeghany Valley
Railroad Company VS.. 4. b. McLain,
error 10 the Common Pleas of Jellcr-
son county, was decided in the Su-
premc Conrt in session at Philadelphia
| the lower court being reversed and the
J case sent back for second trial. 1t
will be remembered that this was Il
silt brought against the railroad by
Mr.. McLain for DAMAGES, the COM
! plaint being his election from the
train between Du BOis and Rcyn-
oldsvillc, the conductor refusing to
honor a rouud-trip ticket and AIcLain
resisting other payment of fair. The
jury gave the plaintiff an award of
S!1t damages, from Which the rail.
road took an appeal to the Supreme
Court--Brookvillc RcpuLhcan.
A few days AGO George Barr, a
tinsmith aged Gj years, living at
StrauSbnrg Lancaster county, met with
a strange accident, which caused his
| death. Barr was very eccentric and
was troubled by Il gang of boys, who
| loitercd around his house, and to ret
rid OF them Barr took hub of q
carriage wheel plugged one end up
and filled it with powder. He then
! laid train Of powder to the place
! where the boys usually came, and con-
ccalcd himself. When the bows ap-
pcared he applied a match to the DOW
der, which crused an explosion of the
machine, but instead of the boys the
old man was himself the victim. Hi.
legs ana body were terribly manglcd.
lie was CARED to the county hospital.
! where he died. Public sentiment is
with the boys.
| There was considerable of n breeze
created on Pickering and Main streets
Monday evening between eight and
nine o'clock. The commotion was
caused by a shooting afiray indulged
in by party Of men who pcppered at
one another and resulted in the
wounding of two of them, John Watt
and George Taylor. 1t seems that
Watt and Beach met Gideon and Geo.
Taylor on Pickering st. and for some
reason or other II runpus was in
auguratcd and terminated in Watt
receiving bullet in his hip and Tay-
lor getting an ugly scalp wound.
After the parties had separated and
Beach was standing in front of Mill &
Means store window talking to Frank
Doubles, Gid Taylor approached him
with Il revolver in his hand and with
the remark "Billy Beach, you are II
dead mani" fired, but Beach iumped
and the bullet missed him and went
through the window. Beach then got
out of the shooters way who tried to
ret another shot at him Arrests
have been made.-Broollville Je6er-
SORidn
Frank Leslie Dead.