The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

expulsion from the Ontario Parliament was
carried by 1874 to 6S. -. In Lincoln, r. l.,
lad took up gun supposed to be unloaded,
and pointing it at his little sister, Belle Bliss,
said playfully, "I will shoot you" The gun
was discharged, and little Belle was killed. ..
The U. s. House Committee on Claims agreed
that hereafter they will consider no claims for
compensation for bonds and treasury notes
destroyed by fire or other accident or 80
damaged that they cannot be identified by
| number E. In the case Of the conspiracy Of
the Typographical Union of Titusville, Pa,
against the Daily Courier, twelve Union prin-
ters were sentenced to imprisonment for
twenty-four hours and fine of $40 each. .....
A little child in Georgia recently saved its
father from suicide. Disguised with his pow
erty, though he seems to have had good health
| Mr.. Meredith of Cusseta loaded double
barreled shotgun and put the muzzle to his
head. His child ran up as he fred and knocked
| the weapon to one side. The mans lifes was
saved. The Supreme Court of Pennsyl-
vania has ruled that demand for payment of
a note must be made at reasonable time of
day il at a private residence, not at an hour
when it may be presumed that the family is in
bed and if at place of business, within bust
ness hours. .....A Colorado company imported
a number of Cinnamon to work in their mines
at Middle Boulder. The residents held an in
dignation meeting and forty masked men
| politely escorted the yellow men out of town
...,.. The Legislature of Massachusetts, has
passed an act for the preservation Of the smelt
| fisheries.
terrific gale ragged in the English Channel
for three days. Many ships, the names Of which
are unknown, have been wrecked and all on
board lost ... The Porte has authorized the
Khedive of Egypt to keep the Suez Canal in
working order should NJ. de Lesseps persist in
his refusal to abide by the decision of the In
ternational Commission w The schooner
Victoria of New London went ashore on the
rocks at Harris Island, and the captain and one
of the crew were drowned in trying to run an
anchor. .... The offer by Plymouth Church to
Mr.. Beecher of a six months vacation with
uninterrupted salary and the expenses of a
European tour paid, has been declined by hin :
| He says that so long an absence would be irk-
some to him, and uni ust to those who have
paid high prices for pews, he will not go to
England, and will take only his usual vacation
Of three months on his farm next summer
woman named Mary A. Whittier about sixty
| five years old, was found dead in her house in
Portland, Me. She was somewhat eccentric
and lived alone, receiving no visitors. She had
| apparently been dead a week or ten DAYS Not
a morsel of food of any kind nor a particle of
wood was in the house. 1t is supposed she was
taken too i'll to go out and purchase food and
actually starved to death. She has a son in
the Second Auditors Office in Washington.
The steamship Tacna, from Valparaiso for Pan
| de Asucar, sank at sea- Without any ner
ceptible cause, the vessel evidently heeled at
A. NJ, while the passengers and many of the
crew were asleep. The captain, who was on
deck, tried to right his ship, but his crew was
panic-stricken and nothing could be done. The
total number who persisted was nineteen, all of
whom might have been saved had it not been
for the panic which seized upon a portion of
the crew and the refusal Of the two men who
got possession of the dingy to render any as
slstance to the occupants of the gig.
Mrs. Perry was shot and instantly killed at
Nanuett, N. Y, by masked burglar, who had
effected an entrance into her house. The
murderer is supposed to come from NeS York
In close wagon. .... The derelict French
steamship Amerique was towed into Plymouth
harbor by the steamers Spray and F. T. Barry.
Ihe captain of the Spray reports that he en-
ccuntered the Amerique in latitude A. 40 drift
ing in the trough of the sea. On being boarded
she was found to be abandoned with six or
eight feet of water III her engine room. stoke
hnl ht,,,1-
of the steamer were dry. Her spars and steer
ing gear were intact. .... Dockery, who has
been condemned to death in Cuba, is a nephew
of the late Joseph Manton a well-knovn mer-
chant of Providence. Dockery graduated at
the Providence High School, and was for some
time correspondent of the Boston Journal
| Gold mines are reported to have been
discovered in the mountains of Arkansas. near
| the Choctaw line. Miners and adyenturers
are fiocking thither. Five large ocean steam
ships have been lost within the past twelve
months namely, the Atlantic, City of Washing
ton, Ismalia, Vile du Havre, and Europe
......The National Gazette thinks that
the reports which have recently appeared
that the storms on the Atlantic have of late
years increased in frequency and violence are
nonsence. 1t says the modern steamers are
constructed on such wretched models that thew
are unfit for rough weather. The old proper
tions of beam and depth to length are now
disregarded, and the modern steamers, like
velocipedes, must be kept going at high rate
of speed or go down.
DR.. Kenealy has applied to the Court of
| Queens Bench for new trial for the Tchborne
claimant, on the ground of Lord Chief Justice
Cockburns misdirection to the jury and inter-
ference with the testimony, and that the verdict
was contrary to the evidence. The application
was refused as to Lord Chief Justice Cock
burns conduct. On the legal points, and as to
absence Of Jurisdiction, the Court reserves its
decision. .... The remains of DR.. Livingstone
were, with mt ca display and ceremony, ,deposi ed
in Westminster Abbey. ... The condition of
| affairs as far as the famine is concerned in
India is improving ..... The Spanish army in
the north has been heavily reinforced 1t now
numbers 10000 men, and has 70 pieces of
artillery. $50. Charles Dolan of Grafton, Mass,
was accidentally shot by Walter r. Condor of
the same town, in Worcester, and fatally in
Jured. Both boys are fourteen years old
They ran away from their homes, and expended
the money, which they had stolen, for four
pistols and two watches. Condor was playing
with one of the pistols in bed when the acci-
dent happened. Partial returns indicate
that the plebiscite taken in Switzerland on the
revision of the Federal Constitution has re-
suited in amajority of over hundred thousand