The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-04-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS

Seven-tenths of the ticket which drew the
capital prize in the. Louisville Library Lottery
was held in Memphis "A fire broke out at
Millerstown, Butler County, Penn, in the
Central Hotel, by which seven persons were
burned to DEATH The bodies were recovered
...... Wm S. Schofeld, convicted of embez-
zling money-letters from the Boston Post
Office, has been sentenced TO three years in
the State Prison.
The U. s. House Committee on Territories
by vote of to 1, have agreed to recommend
the passage of n bill for the admission of New
Mexico aB a State III the Union .A London
Ne'cs special from India says that incendiary
fires were alarmingly frequent in the neighbor-
hood of Steetamow, in the Gwalior district
Two large villages have been entirely destroyed
Large numbers of inhabitants are emigrating
| from Nepaul in consequence of the famine. =.
| At Middletown, Wis., while exercises were be-
ing held in the school house, a lamp exploded
| which set fire to the building. About 800 per-
| SONS were present and became panic-stricken.
| In the rush for the doors about forty persons
were injured four seriously. The fire burned
| about half an hour and was then extinguished
| by two plucly women, who smothered it with
| overcoats and carpets. The U. S. Senate
having agreed to issue $4,000 600 additional
national bank currency, the aggregate volume
of that currency will be $4OO, 900, O00 The
| vote having fixed the legal tender circulation
at 540O, 600, 900, the entire volume of currency
will be $500, 100000. This is the amount sug.
gested by Mr.. Ferry, of Michigan, on the fourth
day of December, in the proposition for finan.
cial relief he then offered. .. christopher
Reckstein, of Austin, New, had been for long
time jealous of his wife OF account of the
attentions of a young man named Norton
and they had frequent qiiarrels about
him. One Osterhaus went to Reckstein' +
house, and receiving no response to his
demands for admission, broke open the
door, On the floor lay the naked body Of
Mira Reckstein cut to pieces, with the heat
split open. At her feet were the bodie,
of their two little girls, the heads nearly sever
ed from the bodies, and near bv were tn,
bodies of Reckstein and young Norton. crap
pied as in death struggle. Reckstein graspet
In bis right hand large bowie knife covered
with blood, and in Norton's right hand was ;
dragoon pistol, two chambers of which were
discharged. All were dead and there is no liv
ing witness to the affair.
Two conductors in the service of the Penn
| sylvania Railroad pleaded guilty to the charp,
of stealing from the company, and were sen
fenced to a fine of $500 each Philip Jones
an old farmer, tried to make peace between ,
party Of roughs who were quarreling over ,
game of billiards in the only drinking salool
that has not yielded to the women's movemen
in Blutfton, Ind. One of the rowdes strucl
Jones on the head with billiard cue, crushin,
his skull He kicked him in the face whe,
down, and then fled. Jones died soon after
The excitement over the affair is intense
AS seven men were loading barge with sand a
Fort Pickering, at the southern boundary O
Memphis, about quarter of an acre of bluf
fell upon them, burying the barge, and Dav
Tracy, Dud Wove, and another, name unknown
beneath the slide in 100 feet of water. Th
other four men barely escaped the whirlpoo
formed by the huge mass of earth falling il
the water ... The proceedings in bankruptc,
against the a. q W. Sprague Manufacturint
Company by the National Bank of Commerc,
of Providence, has been settled, by the Sprague,
making legal assignment of all their propert,
to Zachariah Chaffee, who has acted as trustee
under the trust deed executed four month,
ago. The assignment will bring the Sprague,
under the State bankruptcy laws and is salts
factory to the bank.