The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-22
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Interesting Items from Home and
Abroad,

Abroad.
The New York Aldermen passed an ordinance
requiring dealers in hay to mark on each bale
its net weight. The ordinance is intended to
prevent dealers from charging for the wooden
binders which surround the bales. ....T The
London Times, in leading article contradicts
the statement recently current that the Queen
has paid tho debts of the Prince of Wales. ....
An insurrection has broken out at Buenos
Ayres in consequence of the alleged fraudulent
conduct Of the late Presidential election. Gen.
NIitre is at the head of the insurgents. ......
The Hon. William d. DAILY, on behalf of
the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty to
Animals, sued the Pennsylvania Railroad Com
pany. The charge was that the company
inhumanly packed calves in a freight car.
The company made no defence, but asked the
Court to be as lenient as possible in the fine to
be imposed Tho Justice reserved his de-
cison Twenty-eight car loads more of
iron were received at Roach's ship yard,
Chester, Pa. for the three new ships building
for the Pacific Mail Steamship Company The
keels OF the three arc laid. Over two thousand
men are engaged on the hulls and engines.
The first one is to be completed in May next,
and the other two ono and two months later.
..... The Brooklyn journeymen plasterera say
that they will resist the proposed reduction
of their wages from "a to $3.50 day. -. One
of Mr. Bergh's deputies complained against
| John Fuber, foreman of East New York car
stables, charging that he killed six sick horses
by hanging, thus infcting unnecessary pain,
in violation of the statute. e.. The celebrated
| s,,,1, of T,,1r Poi In Canada hut
a priest could not be held responsible before
the civil courts for what he said from the
pulpit, has been reversed in Court of Review.
Nourret Pasha, the Governor of Angora, in
Asia Minor, has addressed an official statement
to the Turkish Government on tho famine in
his province. He says that in Angora alone
nearly 25, 900 persons will be utterly destitute
and dependent upon Government for food
during the coming winter. Samuel B.
! AIurdock, convicted in Washington of sending
threatening letter to the Hon. Fernando
| Wood, for the purpose of extorting blackmail,
was sentenced to three years confinement in
the county jail. A conspiracy for the over
throw of the reigning dynasty of Servia has
| been discovered Many arrests have been
made. and arms have been seized. Ex-Prnce
Karageorgewich is believed to be the prime
| nstgator of the movement. .... The Supreme
Court for the District of Columbia has ap-
proved the judgment of the Court below, that
insanity is not cause for divorce, ... The
suspension of mill work in New Hampshire ls
not general the mills at Salmon Falls alone
curtailing as yet...... The Peoples party in
Missouri nominated for Congress in the First
District Mr.. E. o. Stanard In the Second
District Mr.. Erastus Wells, the Democratic
nominee was indorsed. In the Third District
Mr.. Robert F. Wingate was nominated. .. The
typhoon which visited the southern part of
Japan was one of the most severe ever ex-
perienced by foreigners. Fully two hundred
lives were lost at Nagasaki alone. Stores and
houses were overthrown, many ships lost, and
the Governors new houses arc heap of ruins
Kobe also suffered. Not less than one thou
sand junks were wrecked. Sagoken suffered
much from the typhoon. Six thousand houses
we're destroyed one hundred lives were lost,
and thousands of cattle on the plantations
were killed.
A terrible affray took place at Silver Citya
New. Two men wero instantly killed and three
have died since There has been trouble
among tho trustees of the Justice Mining
Company. Two parties are fighting for the
control of the company. About o'clock a
party of men, headed by Mr.. Kellogg, the
newly-appointed superintendent, went to the
works When near the works they were
warned off. Instead of obeying, they made a
rush for the entrance, when shooting COM
menced on both sides .... The jury in the
Phelps case, at Albany, failed to agree
Eleven Of the jurors in the case signed and
sent the following paper to the Court In
the case of the State against q. II. Phelps, the
prisoner, we find the prisoner guilty on the
evidence, but ono juror disagrees on his own
conviction and not on the evidence. .... The
coroners verdict in the case of Linscott who
died III dentists chair in Boston. is that
death was caused by the inhalation of chloro
form, administered for a dental operation
The jurors are of opinion that, with our pres
ent knowledge Of chloroform, its use as al
nsthetic is wholly unjustifiable, and they
recommend that legislative action be taken tc
prevent it's administration. ... The clergymer
of Portsmouth, N H., propose uniting week.!
in prayer for the cause Of temperance. ....
The verdict of the coroner's jury upon tho
Granite Mill disaster, at Fall River, is a sweep
ing censure of the style of mill architecture il
the United States. The matches at Creed
more since the International match have beer
unfavorable to the Americans, the Irish team
taking the prizes ..... The New York Herald
offers TO pay one-fourth of the expense O.
United States Press Expedition, under DR..
Hayes, in search of the North Pole.
The tobacco crop of the Connecticut valley
which looked poor during the early summer
has been harvested without accident and under
most favorable circumstances. .... The con-
denser in the laundry of the Massachusett,
State prison exploded, killing j. Henry Woods
the night watchman. The top of his head wa.
completely blown off .... The cotton milli
generally of Rhode Island have began run
ming on two-thirds time. .... The Continenta
and Lincoln Mills in Lewistown Me-, are run
ming half time. The Androscoggin is running
two-thirds time, and the other mills will follow
.... Bryan Waller Proctor, we'll known al
Barry Cornwall" the English actor, is dead
He was in the eighty-fourth year of his age.
..... Walrabe, the Orange Mountain brigand
pleaded guilty in the Newark N. j., Court o.
Special Sessions to forty indictments for burg
larry. The Democrats of the Fourth Distric
of Arkansas have renominated Col. Thomas
W. Gunter for Congress. .... The Democrats
and Labor Reformers of the Fifth Massachu
setts District have nominated Gen. N. p
Banks for Congress Charles Place O1