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


is being built In Cory.
--Contracts have been let for the
new Jail in Westmoreland county.
John Roach employs one thousand
men In his ship yard at Chester.
Rabbits are running In large num-
ber in Lebanon county, near Indian
Gap.
The tobacco crop of Lancaster
county promises splendid yield this
year.
Professor Michel, musician, OF
Bloomsbury, has been arrested for
bigamy.,
Some of the slate quarries of North
ampton county show signs of exhaus'
ton.
--Pittsburg consumes twenty million
gallons of water every twenty-four
hours.
Cork is now used i'm the manufac-
ture of walking canes by q firm in
Philadelphia.
Coal operators in tho Connells-
vile region are complaining OF a
scarcity of cars.
Excitement runs very high in
Montour county in reference to the
Molie Maguires.
John Smith, of Pittsburg, aged 10
years, was killed by cows near that
City on Saturday.
Bill Rent, who escaped from the
Honesdale Jail on the l1th instant,
has been recaptured.
The Wayne county development
company has commenced to operate
for oil near Honesdale.
Mrs. Joseph w. French, of North
East, gave birth to well-developed
child that weighed q pounds.
The Warren state lunatic hospital
is becoming very popular and is now
in most successful operation.
w. II. Fitzpatrick, of Provi-
dence, Luzerne county, was fatally
stabbed by his wife on Sunday night.
Large excursion parties now visit
the localities in Mexican county
where oil wells are "torpedoed."
A mouse in Bradford gnawed the
twine from the cork Of a cham
pagne bottle and the explosion killed
him.
The water Kehley Run colliery
Gates that the fire has been quenched.
"A number of glass factories are
being established in Rochester, Bridge
port and Phillipsburg, Beaver county.
The grave of one of the Raber
murderers, at Indiantown, Lebanon
county, is the object of constant des-
ecration.
Many farmers in the Schuylkill
valley are cutting their corn for the
purpose of fodder, no ears being on the
stalk.
DR.. Diller Luther of the state
board of charities is making his annual
visitation of the poor houses of Penn
sylvania.
While B. f, Fitchthorn, of Read
ing, was Gdmiring balloon ascension,
a brace of sneak thieves robbed his
money drawer.
Mrs. Reynolds, of Titusville,
mother of the boy supposed to have
been abducted, has been arrested as a
party to the abduction.
John Mayer, an old citizen of
Johnstown, disappeared from his
home tnree months ago and has not
been heard from since then.
"A new stage of the diphtheria, in
Pike and Wayne counties. is in the
entire decay of the throat, by which
the neck is literally eaten off.
The boiler of the Rowe saw mill,
at Hydetown, Crawford county, eX-
ploded on Saturday last, and Eugene
Miller was scalded to death.
james Wermuth, of South Bethle-
hem, was drowned in tue Lehigh
while bathing on Monday morning.
He was seized with Il fit in the water.
-Findlay's general Insurance agen-
cy, at Franklin, Pa, has introduced a
new wrinkle in insurance, and is now
insuring horses and cattle against
death.
-Clearfeld county hunters say deer
will run in large number in that region
this winter, the extreme beat of the
season having driven them north.
Thomas Taylor, of Bradford, while
on his way to a fancy ball, was knock
ed down, robbed of eighty dollars, and
sent on his way rejoicing with black
eye
Parties unknown saturated slices of
watermelon with crOton oil, at Brad
ford, Mexican county, of which Il
company partook, all ofwhom became
very sick.
The grand jury in Philadelphia
found true bill on Monday against
William Shouse, charged with ab
stracting money from registered
letter In the Easton postoifice,
"A band of gypsies is now travel.
ing through Crawford, Warren and
Erie counties, led by burly fellow
named Will whitman. who rides in
an deliberately decorated chariot.
"A spring has been discovered be-
tween Edenburg and Carbon, in
Mercer county, which, when ignited,
emits blush colored flame. There
are no signs of petroleum discolora-
tiOns or smells.
Mrs. Elizabeth White, of South
Abingdon, Lackawanna county, who
is ~ years old, has Is children, 81
grandchildren, l61 great-grandchil-
dren, 8great great-grandchildrn She
is very spry, and insists upon doing
her own work.
The land of the Atlantic coal com
Dsny. in the vicinity of Tamaqun
SchuyIkill county, belonging to Coo
per. Hewitt SEQ, have been sold to
New York capitalists for 81 100, ,000
The original cosi of the land was $500
000.