t lark and her three children were
burned in a most terrible manner. The
three children bave died, and there is
little hope of tbe recovery of tbe moth
er. Mr. Clarke is one of tbe leading
business men in tbe plaoe, and Mrs.
Clarke was greatly beloved by a large
circle of friends.
A tramp recently shot one Whitta
ker, conduotor of a freight train, near
Logansport, Ind., dangerously wound
ing him, because the conductor had
ejected him and a companion from his
train. Tbe pair of tramps are now ie
custody.
- STATE ITEMS.
Apples are eight cents a bushel ia
Lycoming county.
Squirrels are not to be found in Brad
ford county.
It is estimated that the tobacco crop
covers 149,000 acres in Pennsylvania.
Ibeepizooty, in a mild form, has
reached Harrisburg.
trie baa a strong Garfield club com
posed of colored voters.
Ibe episooty is reported in Puts-
burg, and the car horses are somewhat
afflicted with it.
The receipts of the Berks county
fair were $7,200.
Girls are the most expert thieves in
Pittsburg.
Pennsylvania has an area of 4b,UUO
square miles, and 6,068 miles ot rail
road.
A drive of 12,000,000 feet of Iocs
was recently sent down Beach Creek to
Flemington.
Lumbering promises to be very ac
tive in Clearfield county.
Levi relty, of Mifflin, Lebanon oun
ty, bas what he calls a Garfield sweet
potato, which weighs 21 pounds.
Christian Bosche, an old employe of
tbe Switch back Road, bad a leg cut off
by cars on r ndaj.
A man named Wilson was killed by
cars near Bradford on Thursday.
