The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-12
NEWS OF THE DAY,
Items of Interest from Home and
Abroad

Oubans III they will lay down their arms.
1t is positively known that the rumors recently
telegraphed from Madrid that Don Carlos had
bees killed, originated on the Madrid Bourse,
where they sent up the Spanish funds. E. The
Czar Of Russia informs the young men Of his
country that they have no right to enter
before they have reached the
military age, and not then unless in tho con-
scription they have drawn the lucky stay
at-home numbers. By q boiler explosion
in Baltimore, five men were seriously injured.
......N. p. Banks was nominated for Congress
on Peoples ticket in the Bunker Hill
(Mass.) District. VIM. Gould, the law book
publisher of Albany, was struck with the
paralysis while on the witness stand. .
A New York policeman having been accused
OF robbing, his wife died Of broken heart.
Japan is still proposing for war with China.
An American-built bark, painted black with
yellow streaks, about 800 tons burden, and her
length about 1A5 feet, was sunk at sea, and it
is believed all her crew perished. .... The
steamship Chusan from Glasgow for Shanghai,
was driven ashore near Ardrossin and was
smashed to pieces. Seventeen of the crew
were washed overheard and drowned m The
arbitrator to whom was referred tho questions
in dispute between tho striking operatives at
Bolton, England, and their employers has de-
cided in favor Of tho masters and the pro-
posed reduction Of five per cent in the opera
tives' wages goes into effect Immediately
Captain Chaffee, with the Sixth United
States Regiment of Cavalry of Gen. NIies's
command, surprised band of hostile Kiowas
led by Red Otter, and captured their entire
camp driving the redskins before him In all
directions. The friends of President Lerdo.
Of Mexico, are said to be trying to get posses
sion of the State Government in order to
re-elect him. .. The North German Gazette
states that the German Government has no in
tention Of occupying any part of the Naviga-
tors Islands. ... The steamer City of Brook
yn, the property of the Northern Transpo rta-
ton Company, exploded her boiler when
opposite Ecourse eight miles below Windsor.
Ontario. killing fifteen persons and seriously
wounding several others. The Bob Hacket
rescued the survivors and took them to De-
troit. The Brooklyn was shattered to pieces
The steamboat Esperanza was burned at
Profits Island, Mississippi river. The boat
and cargo are r. total loss. The chambermaid
was lost but all the others were saved. Six
fishermen were drowned off Lowestoff during
the gale on the English coast. 80. John Nc
Mahon has challenged any person in the
United States to wrestle for 81 200 or 50, 500 a
side, square hold, best two in three.
Hamilton, the defaultng Treasurer of Jersey
City, returned and gave himself up to justice
He tells romantic story of his life in Mexico
Most of the money and bonds stolen were dis
posed of before the return. ...., 1t is reported
that the French government has confdentially
informed the government of the Gear of its
readiness, upon certain conditions, to support
Russia Oh the Eastern question. The ship
Magic, belonging to London, has been lost in
gale off Stornoway, on the Northern coast of
Scotland. Twenty-four persons were drowned.
The Dublin gas works were destroyed
recently and the Irish city was in darkness.
The United States sloop-of-war yandalia, re-
built to carry fourteen guns, was launched at
the Charlestown Navy Yard, in the presence of
a large concourse Of spectators. ... The City
Of Brooklyn, which exploded her boiler on the
lake, killing thirteen and injuring eleven per-
sons, was racing at the time of the disaster.
1.-The Hoossc Tunnel will not be COM
pleted until one year from January. 1t is
rumored that the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in the West are preparing to in
dulge in a general strike for higher wages.
Some symptoms of the strike.have appeared on
the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad.
An Italian, charged with the murder of seven
persons in Italy, was arrested in New York and
taken home for trial.
Bogus advertisements, calling for working
men, in New York city papers, have sent many
unfortunate men there to be disappointed.
dispatch from Rome says: The Pope re-
ceived the Bishop of Verdun. He said he
trembled at the dangers menacing France. 1t
was necessary that the Catholics should unite
their forces to meet these threatened evils and
oppose the enemies of the church and society,"
...... Miss Lizzie Hefferman, of New York,
dropped dead while waltzing in dance hall.
The dance was stopped, and efforts were made
to resuscitate her, but all to no purpose. She
had been subject to attacks of heart disease.
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is supposed that the excitement brought on
the fatal attack. She was 10 years of age. -.
The hundred-mile walking match between
Gushing and Avery was completed at Lewiston
Me-, Cushings time being 23 hours and G
minutes and Avery's % hours and 21 minutes
Third United States Assistant Postmaster
General Barber expresses a belief that the
Cynxr 30 Ill. lzr.
million dollars or five per cent. of the amount
of stamps sold by the use of washed postal
stamps. 80. The law officers of the British
Crown haave decided that a certificate of
naturalization granted in the United Kingdom
confers upon an alien no right or privilege in a
British colony.
Georgetown, Mass, was visited by a $780,
900 fire. ..... 1t is estimated that the people
who have fallen victims to the famine in Asia
Minor number about $4,000. As an instance
of the terrible devastation among the cattle
and flocks, it is stated that in one village out
of more than 1,6OO steep and goats, just one
sheep and one goat remain, and of 100 COWS
two remain. In another, from flock of 200
sheep and goats, eight are reported and from
another flock in the same village, numbering
800, of which 700 were mohair goats, the same
number, eight, is reported. The Agricul-
tural Laborers Union, of England, received
a deputation from Mississippi, and listened to
their proposals for the immigration on a large
scale of the farm hands of England to that
State. The committee resolved to send a
Union delegate to visit Mississippi and report
on the prospects, and made an appropriation
TO meet the expenses of the inquiry So. AT
midnight, Simon Wolf an influential citizen of