The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-09-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Interesting Items from Home and
Abroad.

Interesting Items from Home ano
Abroad.
Allen Craig, foreman of a tannery at Keene,
N. H., was found with his throat cut, having
been murdered, it is supposed, by drunken
companion named Mclaughlin. Nine.
Bazaine has published letter, in which she
declares that she planned the escape Of the
Marshal that she was aided only by one per-
son, and that relative. .. The election in
the Department of Calvados, France, resulted
In victory for the republicans. -. The
weather In some parts OF the South has been
excessively hot, and the number OF sunstrokes
has increased accordingly ..... The cylinder
head Of locomotive on the Delaware, Lacka-
wanna and Western Railroad burst and blew
William Connects leg off .... The Prohibition
lists Of the Twentieth District Of Ohio have
nominated D. W: Goodman, President Of
the Baldwin University, for Congress. In the
Dayton district the Prohibitionists nominated
the Rev. Mr.. Montgomery. go. Mrs. Ann
Comfort, of Fair Haven, Conn, young mar
ried woman soon to become mother, en-
deavored to kindlo fire with kerosene oil.
The oil can exploded her clothes caught fire,
and she was fatally burned. She died .....
Holland Italy, and Belgium have recognized
the Spanish Republic. ... Count Jarnac has
been appointed Ambassador of France to the
Court of st. James. M. De FORBADE
Laroquetto, the eminent French statesman,
died, aged "a years. -. Two miners were
killed at Halifax by falling down a shaft of a
| pit in Albion county. They fell nine hundred
feet.
VIM. McPhail bell boy of the American
Hotel, decamped with $500. He was sent to
the bank by the clerk to get $500 bill
changed, and did not return. -. The Mayor
of southampton, England, (NIr. Edwin Jones),
entertained in the open air upward of IL, 600
school children of the various church and
Nonconformist Sunday schools, of the town
and immediate district besides Dearly 6,000
visitors. Mr.. Bennett and his little daughter
Lillian, went to his mill at Cold Spring, L. l.
he to work and she to play While he was re-
pairing widow in an upper story, he saw
what he took to be the girls doll in the sluice
way below. Going down to take it out, he saw
to his CONSERVATION that it was the body OF the
child, and soon after he ascertained that life
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formed Of the circumstances went insane.
Robert Banks, a negro while standing in from
OF saloon at Kingston Springs, Tenn, wat
approached by William Killan, white, Oh horse
back, who asked him if he wanted to shoo
with him Banks replied, "No SIR Killan
replied, "Then 1 will shoot with you." ant
Immediately shot Banks in the abdomen, pro
ducing fatal wound. Killam, who was in
toxicated fled to the woods. E. Philip Arnold
connected with the celebrated diamond fielt
swindle of 1872 has been arrested in Kentuck,
upon requisition from tho Governor of Cali
fornia, upon an indictment supposed to b.
sworn out by William Lent and others of Sal
Francisco who prosecuted him there TO
alleged swindling. .....A cable dispatch ha
been received at Halifax from Saddler thu
English champion, accepting Browns chaleng
to row. The race is to come off on the Rive
Bann, at Colerane, ireland, in October. Brow
has ordered new boat in England. Funera
services were held in the Maverick Squar
Congregational Church, East Boston, over tn
remains of Miss Jessie Pierce and youn,
Demont and Falls, victims of the drownin
accident at Centre Harbor. large audienc
was present to sympathize in the impressiv
ceremonies. Tho interior of the church wa
handsomely decorated with flowers.
collision occurred on the Pennsylvani
Railroad, sixteen miles south of Trenton. N. ].
and three passengers of an excursion trail
were killed and several seriously injured
Ali employee at the Grand Central Depot
in New York, was on the roof of the building
adjusting the telegraph wires, when his foo
slipped, and he fell on the glass roof brok
through and hung by one leg and one arm
and in his efforts to save himself his other le
broke through the glass; and he hung sus
pended by one arm at distance of one hun
dred and thirty feet from the stone pavemen
below. 1t was just as one of the mornin
trains was leaving, and the scene was witnesse
, by the passengers, who seemed rooted to tn
spot, gazing upon the man, who was expecte
to be instantly dashed to pieces but he b
his energy and presence of mind succeeded i
drawing himself through the aperture and O
the roof 1t was truly a miraculous escap
| from death. ia dispatch received at tn
Spanish War Office from General Moriones re
ports that the Carlists lost 700 men in tn
engagement at Oteiza in Navarro. E. "A fright
full number of deaths by drowning are re
ported. d. W. Clark. of Boston, aged thirt
years, connected with The Youths Companion
: was drowned while in bathing. A band leade
at Long Branch was drowned while bathing
At Coney Island two persons were browne
while bathing. John Taliaferro, a negr
confined in the county jail at Martinsburg, Va
under the sentence of death for the murder @
Annie Butler, little girl, was taken out @
jail by mob and hanged on tree short dis
tance from town. 80. Capt A. +. Butler, wa
with his wife on street car at Augusta, Ga.
, getting off the car an intoxicated negro wa
sitting on the step obstructing the passage
Capt. Butler pushed the negro with his hand
telling him to get up. Gabriel and Michat
Muller. both negroes, were together, on
! sitting on the steps and the other standing o
: the platform of the car. Michael pushed Mrs
Butler back as she was in the act of bein
assisted out and Gabriel pulled out pist,
: and shot Capt. Butler over the left temple til
ball penetrating the brain. The negroes ra
after the shooting, but were captured by til
3 police Gabriel was slightly wounded in I'll
, face Capt. Butler died, and Gabriel was take
from Jail by mob and shot.