The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-09-08

John Skae was arrested in San Fran
cisco. drunk, the other night, and has
gone to Jail because he couldn't pay the
s5 fine imposed by the court for the
offense. In 1876 he could have sold
his mining stocks for $40, 900, 900 butre
fused, and they slid out from under him
SO completely that $5 is beyond his CALL
The total amount of United States
registered bonds is 81, ,173, 100000. All
are held in the United States except
1927, 1874, 900. 1914, $4,000 about half,
are in the hands of seventy-three thou
sand corporations and individuals, not
including national banks or foreign
holders. Two-thirds, about $400, ,0O0,-
900, are held in amounts of over $780,
600. Seven millions are held in sums
of less than five hundred dollars.
A London paper says that "the
queen has no wish to have her name
associated with whisky. An enterpris-
ing American whisky manufacturer, it
appears, recently sent the queen "A
beautiful barrel of the best distilled
waters of Kentucky which he called
Victoria whisky. He hoped thus to OBJ
tain an advertisement out OF her
majesty, but the queen showed her good
sense by simply declining to receive it."
1t isn't best to bring in verdict until
all the gidence is in. Deacon Gray, of
Palmerston, Wis, detected one of his
clerks in dishonesty. The young man
was not prosecuted, and after q week of
seclusion in his own room was allowed
to depart from the town. In prayer
meeting at the deacon's church he was
warmly praised by the pastor for his
supposed forbearance toward the sinner.
This brought him to his feet with con-
fession that he deserved no credit The
fact was that he had whipped the clerk
numerically, hurting him so severely
that he had spent the week Of retire
ment abed.
Complaints are made in England that
dynamite can be purchased withou t
difficulty in any part of the kingdom,
and this with unfortunate results. Gren-
ades of dynamite are employed to kill
trout, and hardly a month is said to
the explosive as a means of catching
fish. 1t has been used also as a means
of taking ones own life. A case re
ported from Yorkshire is OF drunken
well-digger, who put an end to his days
by exploding a cartridge in his mouth.
His tongue, teeth and maxillary bones
were blown to pieces, although his
cheeks and lips, for some odd cause,
suffered no harm at all.
During the month of July there were
102 railroad accidents, of which forty
one were in the nature of collisions,
fifty-six of derailment, two Of boiler ex-
plosions, two of broken connecting-rods
and one was due to broken wheel.
Of the collisions twenty.three were from
the rear, seventeen from in front and one
from the side. The derailments were due
to variety of causes. Three were from
broken rails, three from broken wheels,
three from broken axles, two from
broken trestles, two from broken
bridges, one from spreading rails, three
from accidental obstruction, eight from
cattle on the track, four fl ON washouts,
one from landslide, two from mis-
placed switches, and one each from
runaway, flying switch, malicious oh
struction, rail purposely removed, and
sub-switch purposely misplaced, while
nineteen are unaccounted for. OF the
collisions, as far as explained, eight
came about by trains breaking in two,
four by mistakes or neglect to obey
orders, three by misplaced switches and
one by fog. The record for the year
shows that the greatest number OF
accidents occurred in January and the
smallest in April. The average of
deaths by accident was l IA daily.