The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-28
NEWS or THE DAY.

| 1he ooai miners OF durham have yielded to
the terms Of the employers and the strike has
ended ...... Bill Kelly was hanged at Nash
vile, Tenn, for m urder. He denied his guilt
to the last. BY the explosion Of boiler at
tho Keystone Mill, Philadelphia, Engineer
Hugh Sweeney and a lad named Isaac Dubois
were injured, but not fatally. ... Over 1000
tourists visited Florida last winter IL ia
proposed by the trustee and committee of jay
Cooke & Co., who have just paid dividend of
per cent, to make further cash dividend Of
10 per cont. as soon as it can be realized from
tho remaining assets, thus settling with the
creditors in full. Upon this being carried out
the creditors will receive Is per cent. in cash
and So per cent in securities The Anchor
line steamer Ethiopia broke a shaft at sea. and
returned to Glasgow. Many Of her passengers
were transferred to other vessels In a
severe fight in Arkansas several men were
killed or wounded on both sides. ... The
strike OF the canalmen at st. GATHERINGS, Ont.
has ended. They resumed work, having agreed
to accept $1.37 per day. The Bosto.
Herald has been sued for $50, 900 damages.
alleged to have been sustained by @. o. Gott,
OF Fitchburg, by an article in that paper pur-
porting to be history Of the Cardiff Giant
Ihe plaintin claims that the allegations in the
article were untrue, and the defendant contends
that the charges therein made we're authentic.
and that the publication was made without
malice.
The Glasgow ironmasters have decided not
to relght their fires until the men intimate
their willingness to resume work at a reduction
Of forty per cent. They also resolved not to
meet the men in conference Destructive
fires are reported as raging in the woods on the
lines OF several railroads in Minnesota. ...
The Carlists are gradually abandoning their
cause in northern Spain, although Don Carlos
and General Elio are reported to be at Du-
range, thirteen miles southeast of Bilbao ....
1t ID announced that the Court of INQUIRY in
the case Of General o. o. Howard has failed to
md any charges against him. Hiram Craig
farmer Of Augusta, Me-. possessing property
valued at $4,000 or $4,000, hanged himself
IN his barn with trace-chain. He was aged
seventy, and was one Of the founders of the
Baptist Church in Augusta go. The damage
done by the ice at Quebec on one dav RECENTLY
VIII amount to loss of 100000. ... The
pennsylvania Legislature unanimously adopted
resolution asking the President to appoint
board to re-examine tho proceedings in the
case OF Fitz John Porter. Charles H. Jones
(coloreD, convicted Of murder was sentenced
in the Criminal Court of Baltimore to be hanged
.....A dispatch from Tucson says thirty of
Cochise's Indians are on a raid into Mexico.
They had killed two men, and captured stock
near Sarranta.
Captain-General Concha has issued decree
permitting members Of the Militia Of Cuba who
pay $1,000 into the Treasury to remain at
home. Many persons are availing themselves
OF this permission. In a skirmish near
Little Rock, quite number are reported to
have been killed and wounded on Brooks side
while Baxter admits that he had only one man
wounded The Baxter forces claim that at the
time OF the interference by the United States |
troops they had the Brooks forces surrounded |
and would have captured the whole party see.
Weston, who has been walking in New York. |
accomplished one hundred and fifteen miles |
within twenty-four hours. e. William Lauten, |
In American, who acts as Yice-Consul for Great |
britain and Germany at Manzanilo, has been |
ordered to leave the Island of Cuba within ten |
lays, in consequence Of having had communi-
'ation with the insurgents. 80. AT the Ninth
Army Corps reunion Gen Burnside was re.
elected President. e. Four convicts confined
n the State prison Of Jeffersonville. Ind,
Knocked down one Of the guards, displayed
lnives and revolyers, and escaped They were
pursued by Warden Shuler and guards, and
olored convict The convicts were overtaken,
nd brisk firing ensued. George Chamberlain.
,uard, was shot through the head by one Of the
onvicts and instantly killed. Port one Of the
onvicts, was also killed; and Brown, the con
ict assisting the guards, was seriously though
lot mortally wounded Warden Shuler had two
hots through his clothing. The convicts were
II recaptured. The officers of the Centen-
Iial Board announce that the work essential to
he anniversary exhibition has commenced, and
7ill go forward without delay. 49,. By the fall
ng Of building in Buffalo, N. Y, daughter
II the janitor, Frank Nagle, five years old, was
instantly killed; also son of Prof Buckham.
he principal Of the State Normal School, four
cen years Of age. Mrs. Buckham had a leg
'roken, and was severely bruised. Emma G.
lorse, fourteen years old, had her left arm
orn off and her skull fractured. -. The court
n the court martial case Of Gen. o. O. Howard
TODD four for acquittal and three for convic-
ion.