The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-17

| appointments during the year, 9,424. The
Postmaster-General says nothing relative to
the new postal law that has not been published
before. Hs thinks that from the law there
will be considerable increase in the revenue.
Smallpox broke out in the deaf and dumb
asylum in Now York city, and many of the in
mates were stricken with the disease. ..A
| fight occurred near Shaners, Pa, between
italian miners and citizens, in which four
Italians were killed and several wounded. 1t
is believed in Washington that there will be no
| Congressional action on the financial question
this winter. Diphtheria still continues its
ravages in New York, and many deaths occur
weekly from it.. . The citizens OF North Caro-
lima are to have centennial celebration of
their own in Charlotte, Mecklinburg county,
on May 20, 1876. .... Mchigan's official census,
just completed, shows that the State now has
a population of ,936,90S being an increase Of
1872, 526 since 1870. ~ The cash value of corn
received in Chicago thus far in 1S74is S21, ,000,-
oOO against s14 600 900 for the whole of 1873.
800. King Kalakana King Of the Sandwich
Islands, was received on landing at San Fran
cisco, by military escort. Salutes were fred
| from the forts and from the government
steamers .. In the trotting race in San
Francisco, between Judge Fullerton and Occi-
dent, mile heats best three in five, for purse
Of $4,000, Occdent won in 219, 1925, 2:20i zee.
A terrible slaughter of human lives was per-
petrated at the settlement OF Indian Tickle
Labrador, two whole families, with the excep-
tion of young girl, being the victims. The
Indians had been stealing and we're whipped
by the authorities. They committed the mur-
ders in revenge for the whipping ......A young
girl was sent to prison FOR larceny in New
York. she having stolen goods at the request
of her lover. She was only fourteen years of
age..... Lowell the poet, has declined the
Russian Ministry, rendered him by the United
States.
In Brazil tho people have risen against
| foreigners. and declared that they must leave
the country Five masked men went to
a country store OH the Petit Jean river in Yell
county, Arkansas. They shot and killed the
proprietor and robbed the store. They then
robbed a trading boat lying in the river and
killed sheriff who was in pursuit Of them. ....
One of the jurors in the trial of Taylor. who
was acquitted of the murder of Mackey at New
castle, Del, says that if the jury had been
polled on the rendition of the verdict, four
of their number would have refused their as
sent to it. After fasting fiftv-eight hours they
agreed to remain silent while the others gave
the verdict, but if asked individually, would
have disagreed with the majority ~ Herr
Sigl. editor of the Tdterldnd newspaper,
has been sentenced in conhrmacidm to ten
months Imprisonment for asserting that Kull-
mans attempt on the life of Prince Bismarck
was a sham plot concocted by the police. AT
the time of the sudden death of Mayor Have
meyer of New York, who dropped dead in his
office, the suit against him by John Kelly. for
libel, was progressing. 1t terminated sadly.
Mayor Havemeyer was seventy years of age,
and was serving his third term as Mayor when
he died. The United States government
work on Fort Adams has been discontinued M
An effort is being made to have the Brooklyn
post-offce discontinued, the business OF Brook
lyn to be done at the New York office.
Captain Charles Nichols Of the schooner
Gerdie f.. Merrow, of Bath, from Alexandria
for Boston, was knocked overheard in a squall
and lost. ... At the municipal election in New
Bedford and Fitchburg, Mass, Democratic
Mayor was elected in the former, and an In
dependent III the latter. .... James Russell and
John n. hallway, aged respectively - and IL
years. pupils at Haverstraw, n. Y, were
drowned during recess. They, with number
of other boys, were sliding on a pond near the
school and broke through the ice. Several
men were standing on the edge of the pond at
the time, and might have rescued them, but
made no effort to do so. Their bodies were re-
covered about an hour afterward .....A heavy
typhoon swept over Yezo, Japan. Many sea
coast villages were greatly injured and one was
entirely destroyed. Thirty-three junks We're
wrecked and 200 lives lost .... Work is re-
sumed in the Rensselaer, iron works, y. Y, and
the Manchester, y. H., mills ..... The death of
Gen. Robert o. Tyler, of the United States
army is announced. 900. There are three cases
upon the docket of the Supreme Court of the
United States which involve the entire Granger
question in the Northwest and which were
brought to test the constitutionality of the re-
strictive State legislation against railroads..
The United States public debt statement shows
a decrease during the past month of S123, 427.r
6s. The coin balance is $50, ,O43 1924 cur
rency, S16.6 81 .4S coin certificates, S23,
O45, 40O: : certificates of deposit, S47, 10000.