The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-08-06

UOOtS lOr ulnle In Omllla.
Six men recently caught 1, 900 grown
trout in one day in a Montana stream.
San francisco rejoices over the fact
that many Cinnamon are departing for
their native land.
A lady in Syracuse was quito severely
poisoned recently by bite from cur
rant worm,
DIR. Isaac Jump was nominated for
Governor by the Republicans of Della
ware.
A dangerous counterfeit in the S5
note of the Traders National Bank OF
Chicago is in circulation.
A well-digger at New Haven Ind,
has struck vein of oil at depth OF
eight feet. TIE fluid is equal to the
best coal oil.
Further reports from the Indian
country show the Comanche, Cheynne,
Arapahoe, and Kiowa Indians to be still
on the war-path.
Governor Allen, of Ohio, commutes
the sentence of Hugh Dougherty, sen,
fenced to be hanged at Lancaster, Ohio,
July 81, to imprisonment for life.
Jesse Pomeroy, the boy murderer Of
Boston, has confessed that he murdered
the Mellen boy on the 22d of last April,
describing in detail how the murder
was committed.
Generals Sheridan and Sherman, the
Secretary of War, anl the Commits
sioner of Indian Affairs, all agree to the
pursuit and punishment of the hostile
tribes on the frontier.
John T. Cardisle, aged % was hanged
on July "a at Marshall, Saline county,
Mo-, for the murder of George Mckee
two years ago. He is said to have
murdered three other men.
In the two years ending with last
June the amount ofmoney realized fer
wheat in Califol mia was. in round num-
bers, sl0,000,000, which has enriched
nearly all parts of the State.
1t pays in France to feed horses for
the butcher F%om S26 to $50 is given
for an animal in fair condition, and
about thirty thousand of these animals
are eaten annually. Horse meat is sold
for about the price of beef.
The poormaster in Troy was called
upon by q woman who said her husband
was dead and she was destitute. A
visit to her house found the body in a
sixty dollar caskct aud three carriages in
the funeral procession.
st Paul, Mimi, July 31.-Lccusts
swarm over Nioolet county. and have
destroyed one-sixth of the oats and one
twentieth of the wheat in the county.
the adjoining county of Sibey is dam-
aged much greater.
It is estimated, taking as a basis the
growth of the country, that in 1880
there will be 100000 miles OF railroad
in the republic. We have already
nearly 10000 miles.
The Baltimore dos-killers are discon-
solate. The city council appropriated
$4,000 to pay them for the work, and
they killed 2,150 worth, but the City
Comptroller refuses to Fay the bills.
They now propose to appeal to the city
fathers.
An exchange says. "There are two
million beehives in the United States.
Every hive yields on an average little
over twenty pounds of honey. The
average price at which honey is sold is
twenty-five cents a pound, so that, after
saying heir own boald, the lees pre-
mt US with revenue of SIS, 800, ,000."
On the 23d ultimo Ida Troxel, the
youngest daughter of Hon. Henry
Troxel, deceased, of Bucks county, this
State, aged about l3 years, committed
suicide by taking poison at her brother
n-law's, DR.. Trumbower, at Richland-
town. She lived only about halt an
hour after taking the poison, supposed
to have been strychnine.
The Indian Office at Washington has
information of the arrest of notorious
whiskey trader aud horse thief named
Martin, alias hurricane Bill, in Kansas,
and his having been turned over to the
United States marshal at LevenwoIth
Martin has been one of the principal
operators in stirring up the present
Indian troubles, by killing buffaloes and
stealing horses from Indian reservations
Washington, July 3O.-Recently the
managers of the Philadelphia, Whining
ton and Baltimore Railroad, notified the
Post Office Department that unless their
demand for increasd compensation was
complied with by the first of August
the postal cars on that road would be
Withdrawn. The department is power
less to comply with the demand, and if
the railroad authorities carry out their
threat, it will likely cause serious inter-
ruption to mail communications on that
road.
Tamauqua, Pa, July 30.-By an explo-
sion of Yields powder magazine yester
day, Isaac Mummy, John Krouse and
Owen Gaber; were instantly killed, and
a boy, Frank Coyle, playing near, fatally
injured. Mummy and Krouse were
working in the magazine. Their bodies
were blown to atoms. There were over
one thousand kegs of powder in the
magazine, The loss in building, mate
rial and machinery will exceed $4,000.
Philadelphia, July 30.-Information
was received at Polieoe headquarters
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