The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-01-22
the bank and appointment of receiver.

"a. Saratoga races begun; Tom Bowl
ing, Strachino, and Regardless the win
ners.
25. Ten squares burned in Baltimore.
81. Discovery of comet at Mar
settles by Borelli.
%. Brigham Young sued for di.
vorce by Ann Eliza Webb, his 10Th
wife.
81. Evacuation of Nancy and Belfort
by the German troops.
AUGUST.
l.. Suspension of the Hoboken IN. J.)
Savings Bank.
2. Twenty-three blocks burned in
Portland, Oregon.
5. Civil Service rules approved and
promulgated by President Grant.-The
Standard On Works at Hunters Point,
l.. l., burned.-The British Parliament
prorogued.
8. Steamer Wawaset burned on the
Potomac river over 80 lives lost.
| 8. Three steamers and two docks
burned at Portland, Me. three lives
lost.
10. Portions of Baltimore flooded by
heavy rain-storms.
IL. Three men of the Yellowstone
Expedition killed in fight with the In
dians near Big Horn river; Indian
loss estimated at 40 killed and wounded.
IA. Heavy rain-storms in the Middle
and Now England States.
16. Strike in the Leicestershire eng.
coal mines.
IL. Discovery of planet of the 11th
magnitude by Prof. Watson of Ann Ar
Dor, Mich.
81. Discovery of comet by Borelli
at Marseilles.
%. Prince Jerome Napoleon elected
| President of the Corsican Council Gen
eral.
"a. President Grant approves the
sentence of death passed on the Modocs.
Discovery of comet by M. Henry at
Paris.
SEPTEMBER.
6. Plaza Vapor at Havana burned.
8. Decline in gold forced the suspen-
sion of the Warehouse and Security
Company, and several sugar firms in
New York.-Increase of yellow fever at
Shreveport, La.
8. The Geneva award ($15, 1000, 0O0)
paid and invested in U. S. Government
funds.
10. Report that the Polaris crew is
probably safe.
II. Organization of permanent In
stitute of International Law at Ghent.
II. Collapse of The Graphic balloon
in Brooklyn.
Is. Meeting of the Grand Lodge of
| Odd Fellows of America at Baltimore
Loss of the steamer Ironsides near
Grand Haven, Mich. IA persons
drowned and six missing.
II. Sixty-four houses burned in
Chicago.
IS. Suspension of Jay Cook & Co. s
banks in New York, Philadelphia, and
Washington, and the First National
Bank of Washington failure of Rich
ard Schell, in New York. The Polaris
survivors arrived safely at Dundee,
! Scotland.
10. Failure of 10 banking firms in
New York and Il in Philadelphia
lication of the story of the Buddington
party of the Polaris crew.
20. Suspension of the N. Y. Union
Trust Company .defalcation of its Sec
retary exposed.
81. Spread of yellow fever in Men,
! phis reported.
%. The Government purchased over
5000, 600 in bonds in Wall street.
Runs on Chicago, Albany, and Trenton
| banks.
%. Failure of Henry Clews & Co.
The panic renewed in Wall street.
"a. Suspension of Howes & Macy in
New York Clews, Hatch g. Co. of Lon
don, and firms in other cities.
20. Large currency payments sus-
pended in Western and Southern cities.
2G. New failures in the West and
South.
2S. Discovery of planet of the tenth
magnitude by Prof. Forester of Berlin,
reported.
80. The New York Stock Exchange
re-opened.
OCTOBER.
3. Four Modocs hanged at Fort Kla-
math sentence of two committed to
life Imprisonment by the President.
4. Suspension Of PeaEe, Opdyke & Co.
6. Connecticut voted in favor of one
capital. al.-Marshal Bazaine's trial by
court marshal begun at Versailles.
Z. Charlestown, Brighton and West
Roxbury annexed to Boston.
8. The Buddington party of the Po-
laris crew arrived at Washington.
10. Release of the Indian chiefs San
tanta and Big Tree at Fort Sill.
II. Close of the Evangelical Alliance.
IA. Advance in gold and heavy de-
cline in stocks; six New York failures
reported.
Is. Reaction in Wall street two
failures.
20. The Jesuits ordered by the Ital-
ian Government to vacate their property
in Rome.
81. Snow storm at Cincinnati and
Dayton.
%. Convention of Northwestern Far
mers at Chicago.
%. The Canadian Parliament opened,
27. Six acres burned over in Canas-
tota, n. Y.
29. Another panic on the Vienna
Bourse.-E. S. Stokes convicted of
manslaughter in the third degree, and
sentenced to the State Prison for four
years.
80. Payment suspended by Hoyt,
Sprague g. Co., and failure of three
other New York houses.
81. Capture of the Cuban steamer
Virginius by the Spanish gunboat Tor
nado, near Jamaica.-A & w. Sprague,
of Providence, suspended payment.
NOVEMBER.
2. The Vienna Exhibition closed.
4. Execution of .Varona, Cespedes,
Del Sol and Ryan, captured on the
Virginius condemned and shot at San.
tiapo de Cuba.