The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-08-04
State Notes.


The physicians of Wilkesbarre
vacci mate free of cost.
-Pennsylvania timber fields yield
800, 900 feet annually.
.-Hydrophoba Is very common in
the western part of the State
ALI efforts to discover the Valley
Forge murderer continues unavailing.
Three persons were burned to death
in Pittsburg by kerosene OH Tuesday.
Farmers in Chester county are
greatly troubled by dogs killing
chickens.
The Pittsburg poor board gives
notice that it will not take care of
foreigners
The Lehigh county commission
ers have refunded 100000 of the
county debt at four per cent.
Hay is so plenty in Centre county
that farmers are offering it as low as
four dollars ton.
The bequests of James E. Brown,
of Kittanning, for various church
purposes aggregate 81 ,6S0,0O0.
An English penny of the coinage
of l75l was found by man plowing
on farm in Washington county.
-McNeytown is the most afflicted
borough in this State. Diphtheria
has literally depopulated it of chill
dren.
Over four hundred saloon keepers
in Allegheny county have been re-
turned for violation of the license
law.
Mrs. Stochpolc, of Crawford
county, was poisoned the other day
by partalSing of what she supposed to
be mushrooms.
Josephine Bertrand, pretty brun-
cite of Milford, Pike county, eloped
with George r.. Rose, aged 10, on
Wednesday night.
A man seVcnty-two years of age,
named Treat, committed suicide last
week near Wellsboro by shooting
himself under the chin.
Deaths in Pttsburg and Alle-
gheny last week footed up two hun
dred and fifty, nearly all children.
diphtheria being the scourge.
One of the stone cutters at work
on the new county buildings at Wells
boro was for two years employed on
the Cologne cathedral.
"A German signing himself
"Schremhardt" on u scrap of paper.
committed suicide near Grcensburg,
Westmoreand county, on Saturday
night.
THE plans for the new under
ground telegraph line at Philadelphia
have been finished, and the work of
laying the wires will be commenced
at an early date.
A number of very destructive
fires have lately taken place in Indi-
ANA county, involving saw aud grist
mills, which were supposed To be the
work of inccndaries.
1t is estimated that the average
annual admissions To the bar OF Penn
sylVMnia reaches one hundrcd-or a
thousand in a decade, leaving IL sur
plue for expectation.
Fresh flowers have been placed ON
the grave of the late Thomas y. Scott
every morning, and will continue to
he laid there until cold weather, by
direction of Mrs. Scott.
The Hazleton Sentinel says the
story going the rounds of the papers
about Hungarians being poisoned by
facturcd by some enterprising repOr-
ter.
Mrs. Joseph Murphy, of Oliver
township, Dauphin county, was BIT
ten on the arm by Il house snake the
other day. The bite caused the arm
to swell fearfully and was very pain
ful for some hours.
"A number of deaths having oc
CURED from lockjaw in the lower part
of York county, on the Maryland
line, there is Il feeling among the
people in both Pennsylvania and
Maryland that the disease is conta-
giOus.
Ella Stevenson, an insane girl
who was kept at home, in McCandless
! township, near Pittsburg, killed hel
father, aged IS years, by kicking him
in the stomach on Monday, during q
| fit of maniacal excitement.
Elizabeth McCabe has brought
suit against the Pittsburg owners Of
| the Bengal Tiger, a steamboat which
| exploded on the 28th of January last,
| killing among others the plaintiffs
| husband, Milton McCabe. Damages
are laid at $4,000.
soon have telephone line. The rates
for messages will he twenty-five cents
| for each three minutes conversation
to subscribers and thirty-tive cents tc
non-subscribers.
The strike of the cigar makers a
Allentown has continued one week
and from present appearances it is
difficult to say when it will come tC
an end. The strikers receive money
daily from cigar makers unions
all over the country.
Residents of Dunbar, Fayett,
county, confidently believe that there
is an organized band of Mollie Ma
guires, under the name of the Ancien
Order of Hibernians, existing at tina
place, and it is generally believed anC
feared that Others will meet the fat,
of Healy who was mysteriously muir
dered IL short time ago.
The Pennsylvania State Colleg
has determined to establish tifty-thre
scholarships in that institution, on
for each Senatorial District in til
State. All tuition free. These schol
arships will entitle the holders +
exemption from payment of othe
college charges for incidentals, room
rent, fuel, and use of furniture. On
free scholarship is accorded to eac
Senatorial District and is to b
awarded by the Senator under certai
conditions, which include competitiv
examinations by board selected b
the Senator for that purpose.
In Tioga county objection wa
} made to the issue of u commission
Mr.. Cass, the Supt. of schools, upo
the ground that he had bought til