The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-05-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

In Denmark 1t has been made illegal to manu-
facture matches other than those which will
ignite only on specially prepared surfaces.
Three laborers, employees Of the Morgan Iron
Works, N. Y, were drowned off Ninth street.
They we're carrying sheet Of iron over gang
plank from the pier to the steamship Ocean
Queen. The gang plank broke and they fell
into the river. An unsuccessful effort was
made to rescue them. The trial of the de-
tectiye, Patrick Leahy, for killing an unoffend-
ing laborer named Mcnamara on his own
hearthstone in New York, resulted in q verdict
of not guilty The detective mistook his victim
for desperate. 80. There is bill before the
Massachusetts Legislature to compel all rail-
road corporations to provide a uniform and
distinguishing badge for all their employees
whose duties relate to the immediate trans
portation Of passengers or their luggage. ....
The Baroness Meyer de Rothschild is about to
establish house for consumptives as a me-
mortal to her husband, the deceased banker
.... Nine of the largest cotton parishes of
Louisiana are inundated, and $50, 900 acres of
cotton and 100 900 acres of corn are DESTROYED,
without counting small farms and gardens.
hogsheads of sugar, are also overfowed
Twenty-Five thousand people are already suf-
fering for food, and the number is rapidly in
creasing. Crops are also washed out in the
uplands by rain. .... At Shawnee, Ohio an un-
licensed dentist administered to q Miss Sullivan
eighty grains Of bromide of chloral. She died
| in few minutes. The dentist fled and has
| not been arrested. -. .Ex-President johnson
says he would not be a candidate for the lower
House Of Congress, but docs not disguise the
fact that under proper and fitting circumstances
he will be candidate for the United States
Senate, and favors an expression at The polls
from the people on the Senatorial question.
Intelligence has been received that famine
prevails in Asia Minor, and that many persons
arc starving. 1t is stated that in the town of
Angora alone one hundred persons die daily
from starvation. The river Tigris is again
swollen by heavy rains, and further floods are
apprehended. Caspar Trust, German
baker, about fifty years of age, committed sui
eide by hanging himself in New York. He
formerly owned bakery, but became reduced
in circumstances, and for few years had been
working as foreman. During the winter he
was hardly able to support his large family, anG
giving himself up to dependency at length re-
solved upon suicide. Trust leaves wife ant
nine children destitute. ... Ernest Strube oi
New York, not finding his supper ready wher
he went home, attempted to commit suicide
by jumping from the fourth story window
He was seriously injured. =. The United State!
House Judiciary Committee agreed to an i'm
portant amendment to the Geneva Award bill
to the effect that payment will be made to tht
mutual insurance companies for all losses sus
tanned by the vessels for whose depreciation
we made claim against Great Britain, provided
no member of mutual insurance compan,
shall recover for any war premiums paid to sucl
company for risks. In other words, they will
be paid for all losses, and cut off from war pre-
miums. The amendment further provides tina
they shall distribute the money so paid then
among their members who contributed to pa
the losses. .... The Pope sent letter Of con
graduation to the wife of Don Carlos on he
confinement. He addressed her as "he
Majesty" and some of the papers allude t
this as an act implying a recognition of th
legitimacy of Don Carlos as King Charles VII.