The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-10
GENERAL NOTES.

AT Bathurst, N. B., the smallpox
epidemic has been arrested by the timely
precautions OF the health officers.
The New York State Labor Uoion
pledges assistance to the striking long
shoremen to the extent Of $40, 900, or
S50,000.
The Citizens Oil Refinery of Pitts
burgh has suspended payment. The
liabilities are about 100000, the assets
cannot yet be given.
A heavy earthquake occurred at
Oreana, Nevada, on Sunday. There
were two shocks lasting two minutes.
No damage was done
An Investigation, ordered by General
Sheridan, shows that so lar no white
men have entered the Black Hills terri
tory since the expedition OF General
| Custer
Attorney General Williams decides
that the goods of foreign exhibitors sent
to the Centennial buildings are free from
seizure by the creditors OF the managers.
A shock of earthquake has been dis
tinctly felt at Salem and NeWburyport,
Massac husetts. The wave apparently
moved from west to east rocking houses,
rattling erockery, and causing some con
sternation.
The boy in the family of f. w.
Peytou, at Barboursville, West Virginia,
supposed to have been the missing
Charlie Boss, was found upon investiga-
ton, to have escaped from a neighbor-
ing poor-housc.
d B. Fripk, ex-editor of the Truckee
Republican, was shot and instantly
killed at Truckee, Nevada, the other
night, by an unknown man. Frink was
a member Of the vigilance committee
in that place,
In response to telegram from Tus-
cumbia, Mayor Coff Of Boston has re-
ceived number of contributions for the
sufferers, which will be forwarded at
once. Numerous accounts OF suffering
in the South and West have elected
very general expressions of sympathy in
Massachusetts,.
Philadelphia, December 5'-The pre-
prietoIs of the Reading Eaglc conyic
ted of libel in the Charley Ross case,
were brought up for sentence in the
Common Pleas Court to-day. Judge
Allison, after an able discussion of the
responsibility OF newspapers, said he re
cognized the fact Of personal ignorance
OF the defendants of the hbtllous article,
and waived sentence Of imprisonment,
imposing fine Of one thousand dollars
and costs. A large number OF promi-
neut citizens, who have interested them,
selves in behalf of Hawley aud Ritter,
were present and congratulated the de-
PENDANTS Oh the result.
John D. White, Republican Con
gresham elect from the Ninth Ken
lucky district, shot aud killed HARRISON
Ccckerel!, his Democratic competitor in
the late election, in Estelle county,
Kentucky on Tuesday. The canvass
between the two men wos very bitter
and personal and a few days since
Cockerell published a card making very
severe structures upon White.
New Orleans, December $ The re-
turning board will make final report
on Saturday, more than bali the Safe
has been canvassed, showing pubuclct
over 5000 ahead of Moncure, Democrat,
for State Treasurer.
Sigismund Schwab, the first Of the
New York Liquor Dealers Association
convicted OF selling wine without license.
was sentenced by Judge Barrett to
thirty days in the city prison and fine
of 5000. The court warned the liquor
dealers that if organized resistance to
the law continued, tho full penalty
would be meted out. This case is the
first criminal prosecution by the excise
board Tor % years.
Colonel Thomas A. Scott wants Con
gress to give $4,000, 900 to aid in con-
strncting the Texas Pacific Raihoad.
He is now it Washington, and will press
the claims of the contemplated road,
A remarkable accident occurred last
Friday morning at the extensive CLARK
thread works at Newark, n, j. The
coupling or the main shaft by which the
power is supplied to the factory became
detached, and the engine of 700 horse
power, thus released from restraint, ac
quirei fearful momentum. The driv-
ing wheel, weighing 200 tons, few into
fragments, one OF which, weighing two
tons, shot through the roof aud landed
fifty feet distant, There were many
narrow escapes, but no personal injuries.
The Concord (N. H. Savings Bank
suspended on Tuesday, after paying out
5000, 600 to depositors, who have been
making run on the hank for some
weeks. The trustees have petitioned
the Superior Court 10 appralse the value
of the remaining securities in the bauk
to determine the loss of unsatisded de-
positors.
The Government has no confirmation
of the report that the Spanish govern
ment has pardoned Dockray, the Ameri-
can, now imprisoned in Spain for being
Cuban spy, and the story is not credi-
ted. Should Dockray be pardoned
and return home, the Department OF
Justice will secure his arrest and try
him for embezzemeut of Government
funds while Collector of Internal Rev
enue in Florida.
An epidemic known as the "black