The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-12-16
Penn. State Notes.

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damages.
An extensive sauer kraut manu-
featuring firm in Pittsburgh is
buying up all the cut cabbage it can
get in Berks county.
The convicts in the eastern peni-
tentiary are treated to oyster soup on
| Fridays 1t costs seven cents a meal
for each prisoner.
All the cars used on the Reading
railroad for the transportation of vege-
tables, such as potatoes, apples, etc.,
have been furnished with stoves to
| prevent freezing.
| The increase of students i'm the
Girard college, Philadelphia, together
with the growing demand for more
accommodations has necessitated the
erection of more buildings within the
walls of that institution.
The Bradford police recently made
several arrests of suspected safe
thieves. Safe robberies have become
30 frequent that the local papers say
that money is more secure almost any.
where than when locked up in q bur-
glar proof.
"A number of the hotel proprietors
| of Sharon have been indicted at the
instigatiOn of the Law and Order So
ciety for selling liquor to minors and
keeping their places open on Sunday.
and considerable feeling is being shown
on both sides.
| Mrs. Kate Garrett, the widow and
John R.Scheetz the brother-in-law of
William A Garrett, who died i'm Read
ing on the 7th of November last, have
requested Coroner Kelly to exhume the
remains of the deceased inferred at
Leesport, and hold post-mortem eX-
animation to ascertain the cause of his
death. The friends of the unfortunate
man claim that his death did not re-
suit from natural causes, but from
wounds received in a brawl.
There is no doubt but that oil has
been found on the Blue Jay in Forest
county, the only quendary now being
the quantity of the fluid developed.
The well is eight miles from any place
in the forest, and it will require a
pretty large production of even zone
dollar oil' to make bonanza for the
owners. There is little doubt, how
ever, but that at an early day Forest
county will prove itself a good paying
oil territory.
The rear brakeman on all passen.
ger trains on the Allegheny Valley
Railroad now wear belts in which are
enclosed flag and a number of tor
pedoes. The belt is the invention of
Assistant Superintendent King, and
the object is to have the brakeman
always prepared with those articles to
be used in case of necessity, as under
the old system it was always mecca
sary to look these articles up after they
were needed, which frequently caused
disasterous delays.
DIR. Philip A. Bissell, of Mahanoy
City, was on Friday night found
guilty in the United States district
| court in depositing in the mail letter
. addressed to John Norris containing
} scurrilous and obscene writing. Bis
sells defense was that he had scrib
bled the matter complained of with
some friends in a joking way, with nc
intentions of mailing it, but that the
office was moved the day before tn.
. alleged mailing took place and prona
| bly, 1T got put in an envelope lying on
e the desk already addressed and taker
to the post office by mistake. A new
trial was asked for.
Q Some time since number of tn,
8 people who own properties along th,
Pennsylvania Railroad purchased ter
miles of the old Lancaster Turnpik,
for SIC, 900 and propose making it tn,
i, finest driving road in the country
Inc purchasers are now engaged il
fixing the old pike up, buying from
the Pennsylvania Railroad COmpan,
the pulveriZed stone sifted at the ston
breakers from the ballast. This fin
: stuff is being placed several inche
. thick on the road and rolled with
heavy roller drawn by a steam roa,
machine, In time it will be magni
3 ficent thoroughtare.
Q Lancaster, December 12.-Lewi
8 Sewers, convicted few days ago 70
killing Christian Hershey OF Noun
Joy on June 26, 1879, by hurting hin
r from a warehouse down the railroa
a track and featuring his skull, was sen
= fenced on Saturday morning to pay
+ fine of $lOO, and undergo ali imprison
# ment Of ten years in the Eastern Pen
r ientary, pay cost of prosecution, an
s stand committed until the sentence
d complied with. In eXtenuation G
e the offense Sewers stated that on tn
+ day of the fatal occurrence he ha
s been asked to raise boiler at Brandt
!, Mill, and observed that Hershey wa
l. under the influence of liquor, an
e fearing he might let the boiler dro
on some of the workmen, he ha
pushed him out of the building, littl
Is thinking he would kill him, and tha
IA after learning his condition to be ser
4 Gus he had offered to Mrs Hershey a
3 the reparation possible, He receive
his sentence very cody, his wife, wh
o was present, being much more visibl
s. affected.
y -Meaddville, December II. - Tht
community was startled this evenin
e by rumor that James Larkins, Co
II lector of City and County Taxes, Ina
shot himself, and investigation prove
the rumor true. He was found abo,
II one mile west of the city by a teamstt
bleeding profusely, and was brougl
to town, where he walked thre
i squares to his house He told h
= friends and the physicians that he ha
i fallen. DR. Laskells, on making a
. examination, prounced the injury
Il gun-shot wound, and Larkin, who
y , still conscious, acknowledged that /
u had shot himself. The surgeon or,
u nounced the wound a mortal one, I'll
y bullet entering the centre of the for
!. head and taking an upward cours
a Larkln has been in arrears in cole
!. tions and has been urged by city of
J cials and his bondsmen to mal
, greater efforts. Yesterday the count
e. made levy on his property, and
D. special meeting of City Council w.
I; held tonight, at the request of b
bondsmen, to make a settlemen
! There is no doubt Larkins is a d