The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-29
NEWS OF THE DAY,
Interesting Items from Home and
Ahroad

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the wires, declaring it Objectionable reading
| for the lady operators 80. AS q result of the
recent eruptions of Etna, fissure three miles
long has been opened on the northern side of
the mountain, in the course OF which several
minor craters are formed. ... Already steps
are being taken to have the next U. s. Con-
gress increase the army to 10000 men. 1t now
numbers about 18, 900; some Of the regiments
being merely skeleton. Z. =. Miss Jennie Twom-
bly,, who had an arm broken in collision
in New York in October, 1870, sued the Hudson
River Railroad Company, and jury awarded
her So, The steerage rates across the
Atlantic have been still further reduced by
some Of the competing companies to $10......
Applicants for cadetships in the Pacific Mail
Steamship Company's service must be from
eighteen to twenty-one years Of ago..
Thomas Kierpan, of New York, while cutting
hay in the Eighth Avenue Railroad stables was
cut in two by the machine. ...A At Chicago,
Goldsmith Maid trotted mile in 2:17. ...
Advices from Buenos Ayres say that several
business firms in that city have suspended and
commercial crisis is imminent. The Argen-
tine Bank has closed its doors Each party
claims the victory in the elections in France.
The Ordre estimates the number of Bonapart-
lists returned to 144. ...A special dispatch
says that anarchy reigns in Turkestan. The
Turcomans are plundering the tribes friendly
to Russia, and her armed intervention is inevi-
| table. .. The 18th U. S. Infantry has been
! ordered South.
| The grave of Mrs. Richard J. Carey, re-
Gently deceased, at Holy Cross Cemetery,
Buffalo, was robbed recently. The casket
outside coffin, and ehroud were all left lying
on the ground. Officers visited the Medical
College with search warrant and found the
body, with four others. The students were
| surprised while at work dssecting them.
Thirty-nine students were arrested end taken
in a procession to the Police Court. Justice
Nash released them on parole, to appear when
wanted. The hands employed in the several
machine shops sewing machine factories, etc..
in Toronto, are being discharged in conse-
quence Of the dullness of tho trade.
Charles Phelps, the Treasury defaulter, of
New York. was found guilty and remanded for
sentence. -Four persons were badly in
| jured by collision on the North Pennsylvania
Railroad. .... Balances in the U. S. Treasury F.:
Currency, $14, 7S9, ,666; special deposit of legal
tenders for the redemption Of certificates Of
deposit, S57225,0 ,000; coin Gncluding coin
certificates, S26, ,692, ,400), $79, ,444, 735 out
standing legal tenders, 1882 000, ,000 . The
Democratic Convention of Oswego have nomi-
mated Edward s. Esty, Liberal, of Ithaca, for
Congress- for the twenty-fourth New York
District. t.... George Washington, colored
mronaut, made an ascension in hot-air bal
loon, from Towsontown. Nd. The balloon at
tanned height of 500 feet, when it descended
rapidly and struck Flagstaff on the court
house, where it was impaled. The spectator
were Mortified. The basket rocked and swayed
fearfully. Washington jumped 40 feet to the
stone steps beneath. He was badly shaken
up, but no bones were broken.
| The greatest distress prevails among the
quarrymen in the neighborhood of Bangor.
in Wales About 5000 men employed in the
slate quarries Of Lord Penrhyn struck for
higher wages some weeks since. Lord Penrhyn
refused then to accede to their demand, and
has just declined to submit to on arbitration a
proposition which had been made on behalf Of
the quarrymen. .... A branch Of the Massa-
chusetts State Labor Reform party nominated
the following State ticket For Governor, j.
W. Andrews, OF Danvers Lieutenant Gov
ernor, Caleb Hammond, OF New Bedford
Secretary OF State, Il. Hinchcleff, of Lawrence,
Attorney General, Patrick Quincy Treasurer
George Clarke; Auditor, Charles 8. Goodwin,
OF Lowell. ia truck driver was recently
gored to death in the streets of New York by q
Texas steer. .... The New York State sculling
race was won by John Biglin, over James Ten
Eyck, in the excellent time of three miles in
| twenty-three minutes. ..... There is an effort
on foot to revive the franklng privilege at the
forthcoming session OF the U. s. Congress.
The commission appointed to inquire into the
recent shooting OF friendly Osages by Kansas
militia report that the act was unprovoked and
utterly unjustlfablo. ... The Berlin National
! Gazette declares that the arrest Of Count Won
Arnim is not connected with politics. but is
simply criminal procedure.
Lawrence Grace, about twenty-seven years
of age, living at Buskirk's Bridge, n. Y, mur-
dered his wife recently by cutting two long,
deep gas hes in her abdomen with razor,
and then repaired to another part of the house
and committed suicide by cutting his throat.
!
York District, comprising the counties of Onon-
daga and Cortland, nominated George II. Com
stock for Congress. ... Gen. Mackenzie, after
repelling two attacks by the Indians on his
column, marched all night and surprised at
sunrise five camps Of the Cheyennes and allies
in the canon Citro Blanco, on Jute Creek
A decisive blow was inflicted. The troops cap
tured and destroyed over 100 lodges and their
entire outfit, comprising robes, munitions of
warfare, etc., ], ,420 horses and mules of which
1040 were at once killed. The bodies of four
Indians who were killed were brought in. The
loss of the troops was one soldier slightly
wounded. Gen. Mackenzie is in pursuit. with
thirty days supplies. The U. S. Treasury
architect says that the New York Post Office
building will be ready for post-ofice purposes
| on the fret OF January. Edward p. Sipler,
in charge of the large circular saw at the
Washington Navy Yard, while adjusting the
guides of the saw, which was running at the
rate of 800 revolutions a minute, missed his
strike, and the weight of the hammer head
carried him in front Of the saw, which instant
ly cut off his head and his right arm. The few
horror-stricken employees endeavored to rem
der assistance, but another revolution cut his
body in twain about the hips. In the man
Cling process the left arm was barred entirely,
the flesh being torn off, and in other places
hanging in shreds .....A barn, with eight
horses, was burned at Trenton, N. J......