The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

The Pacific Steamship Company will Introduce
midshipmen into .heir service for the purpose
OF raising up thorough officers. ..... An official
return gives the total strength of the English
troops engaged in the Ashantee war at 1857
men. The total casualties, including those
from disease, we're 723. In the capital OF
Mexico there are eleven Protestant churches
and seven Protestant schools. Altogether
there are ninety-eight Protestant churches in
the Republic. On the very day that the
attempt was made on Prince De Bismarck's
life, his son fought duel with pistols, with
NJ. Zarskow, an officer Of infantry, killing the
latter. . Over fifty bodies have been re-
covered from the Inflated Pat Rogers. .....
Near Pittston, Rudolph Schmaltz miner, and
Nicholas Owens, laborer, were instantly
killed by mass of top coal falling upon them.
The President has Internationally pardoned
one Cyrus Plummer, sentenced to imprison-
ment for life ut Oharlestown Mass, for a mur-
der committed fifteen years ago. 80. The
amount of national bank notes outstanding in
the United States begins to show gradual in
crease, the books showing now in circulation
$3.50, 900, 900, while only a short time ago 348,
100000 were the figures. .... Two lads of
Augusta, Me-, aged about eleven years. were
drowned in Hartwell Brook, which they were
crossing in pursuit OF COWS. "A st. Louis
cotton irm have peen indulging in 1918, 900 Of
| forged paper .Rioting has been going on
in Portsmouth, England, and conflicts have
taken place between the troops and mobs.
Some of the latter have been killed .. The
smallpox Is raging frightfully in Jamaica.
A. @. Burton, (colored), candidate for the
| Tennessee Legislature, was shot and mortally
wounded at Braden's Station, by some party
unknown. The shooting caused intense ex-
citement among the negroes in the vicinity,
and a riot was feared. 49,. The towboat Sol.
Roberts, which blew up and burned OH Guyan
Shoals, Ohio River, occasioned the loss Of three
lives. All the wounded will recover. New
York city is talking about seceeding FROM the
State and setting up little kingdom Of its own
.... Eight leaders of the Internationale have
been arrested in Rome, and arrests have been
made in Florence and other Italian cities.
Papers were seized showing that the Inter
rationale has been making great progress in
Italy. Col. Richard Tenbroeck. the we'll
known horse owner, who once took lot of
American horses to England, was shot and
mortally wounded at GilmanB Station, KY, by
Gen. Walker Whitaker John Stanton
Gould, well known as a scientist, and for some
years President of the State Agricultural
Society of New York, died in Hudson. .....
The Mutual Base Ball Club of New York. are
accused OF selling out to the Chicago Club and
10 u-in not ha
allowed to play in Chicago again. The
Commissioners of the District of Columbia
| have consolidated all the schools of the Dis
trct under one Board of fifteen members,
composed of ten white and five colored men.
Prominent among the after is Fred Douglas.
The consolidation is not to effect the present
relations of the white and colored scholars
| New York is threatened with a smallpox
| scourge and much fever is felt.
An officer on the New York police force has
saved over one hundred persons from drowning
... The New York Sun declares that the city
will not secede from the State ... Minnesots
gives fair yield of wheat, despite the grass
hoppers Since Clusters command entered
the Black Hills, dispatch says, it has beer
prospecting in continuous line in the mos
beautiful tract of land man ever looked upon
Here in Cluster Valley" rich gold and silver
mines have been discovered, with both placer
and quartz diggngs, and this immense section
bids fair to BECOME the future Ell Dorado o.
America .. Near Carlisle, Nicholas County
Ky, a man ramed Hamilton, while attending
the Methodist Church, becoming offended a
something that was said, stood upon bencl
ard ioul ished pistol. Thomas Shaw, one O
the trustees, succeeded in pacifying him an(
coaxipg him out Of doors. When outside
Shaw told him the penalty Of the law for hi
offense whereupon Hamilton shot SHAY
through the heart.