The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-20
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

pOmmAht Or NbWot
The Vulcan Iron Works of Wilkesbarre, Pa,
decided on reducing their workingmen'swaSes
10 per cent. and so announced. They cid
meeting and resolved not to go to work as long
as the reduction was insisted on......It is
reported from Berlin that the Roman Catholic
Bishops of Germany, have forwarded to the
Government protest declaring that they
cannot submit to onesided laws, and claiming
that the Legislative power in matters concern
ing the church belongs to the Pope alone. ....
Col. VIM. Il. Steele has been renominated
Delegate to Congress by the Democrats Of
Wyoming i e. Fourteen hundred and seventy
five barrels Of high wines worth from $4,000
to s9O, 900 at VIII holesale, were seized at the
warehouses AZ and Al New street, and 75 and
80 Pearl street, 115 New Church street, and at
place in Cherry street, New York, by the
Internal Revenue authorities, on suspicion Of
fraud in the measurement .... AT Mof6tsville,
henderson county, s. O., young German
named Gairizun shot and killed q young lady
named Katie Tucker. 1t seems that Gairizun
was employed by the father of the young lady,
with whom he fell desperately in love- He
rival, and deliberately killed the young lady
while the three were sitting in Mr.. fuckers
parlor. After committing the deed the muir
derer fled, but was arrested and lodged in ia
..... John Cooley, Sr., the Oldest printer in
New York State, died in Utica, at the age of
seventy-four He was apprentced in Cork,
Ireland, in 1918, came to Utica in 1851, and
he aI at oIp
more than 6l years. lie Temps says Ger
many and England have arrived at a complete
understanding on the Spanish question and
hereafter no complaint will be made if British
ships conveying articles contraband Of war to
the Caris!s are seized
Mr.. CARLY of New York, buried child in
Calvary cemetery. He put Ihis wife and children
IN coach, and bid the driver carry them home,
While he remained to fix some details concern
ing the burial. As the driver approached the
North Side railroad track, gentleman on foot
warned him, and the engineer OF the approach
ing train blew the whistle, but the driver
lashed the horses, and the coach was struck by
the locomotive. The driver was instantly
killed, Mrs. CARLY was seriously injured,
and one OF the children had it's scalp almost
torn of f...,. AT a Cabinet Council in Madrid,
it was decided that - 600 troops be ordered
forthwith to reinforce the army in Cuba .
Tho Democrats CT the Second Pennsylvania
District nominated Benjamin Rush for Con-
gress. Reports from Manitoba state that
the grasshopper raids are no; 80 bad as first
reported. The reservoir Of the Trenton,
L Wat Ire
a damage to property of $4,000. w English.
German, and Italian war ships have been sent
to the coast Of Spain State Senator Swope,
of Indiana, shot and killed Percy Riley at
Evansville Ind. -. 1t D reported from Olot,
Spain, that one hundred and eighty-men of the
Nouvilas column, who had been prisoners
there for some time have been shot in cold
blood. The taking Of Cuenca was character
lied by horrible brutalities. The Civil Guard
had every tenth man shot, and the iown was
given up to plunder.
| Louis Macmillan Van Etten, the forger
died in Jail from the effects of lsudanum which
he swallowed He poisoned himself to escape
being sent to San Francisco, where he was
wanted on q charge of passing an altered
Van Etten carried on his swindling by repre-
senting himself as son or nephew of Com
modore Vanderbilt. -. The Building Committed
of the Centennial Board Of Finance announces
that contract has been made for the iron re-
quired for the buildings with the Pencoyd Iror
Works. The works are to place the iron OF
the ground within six months from the date o.
the contract. The Black Hill Indians appea
to be peaceably disposed towards Gen. Custe
and his command
Chicago has had one Of its frequent excite
ments in the grain market, caused by tn,
elimination Of q successful corner in corr
chiefly managed by W. N. Sturges. 1t is sal,
that the combination have already shipped an,
hold in store 100000 bushels, and are pre-
pairing to repeat the operation which demolish
ed 30 many small dealers in July. Tn
reason why the Secretary of the United State
Treasury limited the call for five. twenty bond
to twenty-five millions is, that this amount i
all that can be examined at a time as eac
bond has to be closely looked into, go man
well executed counterfeits are in circulatio
...... The notorious Lord Gordon Gordon she
himself at his residence, Headingly in Man
toba. The English detectives arrested hin
and he promised to go quietly with them
they would not 60 through the United States
While in his room preparing for the journe
: he blew out his brains with a pistol. Gordo
is the man who fooled the magnates of Eric
taking 200 $1,000 greenbacks and 100000
| stocks from Jay Gould at the time of Gel
Dix's accession. He was, without question
the boldest schemer in the country.