The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1868-12-11
NEWS ITEMS.


A dispatch from Havana says that
Salnaye attacked the town OF Jacmel,
Havti. recently, and was repulsed after
loosino 800 men. He had also committed
outrages against the French and English
aors and vessels of war had been sent
for TO protect.toreign residents ank reselt
the insults put upon them 10y Salnave.-
Gen Monagas, Of Venezgea, is reported
dead and it is feared another revolution
will be the result.
A colored boy named Ben Gray has
been arrested at Richmond, charged
with having misplaced switch recently
at Temples Crossing on the Richmond
and Petersburg Railroad, and thereby
throwing the mail train from the track;
Aher some hesitation the boy confessed
to having moved the switch while playing
with it. and being unable to replace it
He was committed to answer.
On Sunday morning the jury in the
case of Gen. Cole, charged with the muir
der of L. Harris Hiscook at Albany last
Winter, came into Court and asked for
instructions. They desired to know 1t
the prisoner, being previously sane, was
se,zed with uncomfortable frenzy at the
sight of Hiscock, should be considered
sane; also, if one "obstinate juryman
should Weld his convictions to the other
eleven. The Judge instructed them re-
gardinc the first point that it was one
which they must decide for themselves,
and as to the jurymen if he was honest
in bis opinion he should maintain it.
A treaty has just been concluded with
the delegates OF the severa0ribes rep
resentng the Six Nations, which they
cede TO the General Gov vAnment the
lands owned by them in nsas' The
Government agrees in consideration, 10
nav the sum of 1920 for each and every
person entitled to participate in the bene-
iicial provisions of the treaty OF Jan, 10,
1888. (about 1000 in number,) the sum
TO be einvested 10 United States bonds, to
he held in trust by the Secretary OF the
Interior, the interest thereon to be paid
annually to the members OF the seVerai
tribes
On the night of Nov. II, Howard A.
Cleveland a Young man about 30 years
of age, visited his friend Warren George
at East Orrington, Me, to the purpose OF
passing the night. Some time during
the MIC Int Cleveland cut Georges throat
from ear to ear, nearly severing his
head from his body. His mother, an
: old lady 70 years of age, then helped
4 him to conceal the body in the cellar,
e after which they robbed the house and
-. fled. The mnrder has but recently been
= discovered, and has created a great SELL
: sation from its brutal nature The OLD
F lady was arrested few days since, and
d Young Cleveland was apprehended III
| Boston on Friday night.
!, A terrible steamboat collision took
u place on the Ohio River on Friday night,
!, resulting in a fearful loss OF lfte The
=" regular passenger boats AMERICA and
G. UNITED STATES, playing between Cincn-
l. natl and Louisville, came in collision near
J. Warsaw, owing to false signals having
a, been sounded. Immediately upon coming
II together a quantity of Petroleum Oh
a board the UNITED STATES caught fire and
f. enveloped both vessels in flames, A
u scene of horror ensued among the pass
at engers, many of them jumping overboarc
to escape the flames. 1t is thought be
ne tween seventy and eighty persons, man,
u. " of them being ladies, were either burnc'
81 81 to death or were drowned Both vessel
it. are reported as entirely destroyed.
N, Three men have just been arrested a
n0 Toledo, charged with having placed OF
A. structions on the railroad near that city
,at Oh the 2Oth of June last, for the purpoS
Of of throwing passenger train down Il
nix embankment and plundering the passer
zen gers, living or dead. The authoriti'
ace had given up all hope of tracing the vii
81! ians, when, few days siGee two
ery @ them got into fight, and Statford,the OF
no who got whipped, made complaint Al
her caused the arrest of the other, This Ia
one, named Wetmoro, made full co
tession of the transaction, impllcatl'
dor Stafford and man named Smith, all
obi whom are now in Jail.
;ith Advices from Venezuela, via Ilavar
ons announces the death, Sep. IS, of Gt
hol' Jose Tadeo Monagas, President Of Ve
ION, ezuela. Gen. Monagas Was Il revolutiC
Who AIRY leader for many years, and Was q
the of the most dreaded, because the IN
ter popular among the people, Of all /
de- prominent men in his country,
york fought gallanty to secure the indep,
dence OF his country, and then led
first revolt against its regularly elec
En- President, Gen. Paez This insurrect
able was speedily put down, as We're also I
glrl' others which he instigated. In Is
ine ~" however, he was made President, bu,
ds ~ a 1916 set himself up as Dictator
+ to attacked the House of Representa-
wing compelling his new made friend, 6
IS if Paez, to take arms against him. Nc
Il II gas succeeded in sustaining himself,
NO, reigned supreme until 1859, when he
4 " overthrown. A1anuel Felipe de Tc
was his successor, having been elet
President, but in 1861 Paez was