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


which expiring U. s. patents may be extended
by the Commissioners of Patents will expire on
the I'd OF March next, after which time the life
Of all patents will be limited to seventeen
years. AS notice of application is required to
be published ninety days prior to hearing,
the time in which applications can be filed will
consequently expire on the I'd Of December Of
the present year. . "A serious accident oc-
Cured near Ionia on the Detroit, Lansing and
Lake Michigan Railroad. A loaded gravel
train was backing up when a burning tree fell
across the rails just before the engine, and was
the means of throwing nearly the whole train
from the track. Six men were killed outright,
and one has since died Of injuries received
Fourteen or fifteen others were seriously in
jured -. "A telegram from Calcutta says that
the rivers from Assam to Dude, in India, have
overfowed their banks, and the country is
flooded. The damage liz very great. Near
Delhi ILL.,, a child of Mrs. Fred Chapman was
run over by railroad train and cut in two
The mother, upon viewing the mutilated body
became q ravipg maniac. 80. France has de-
creed that no child shall be trained to acrobatic
performances by it's parents before it is twelve
years old, nor by any ono else before it is
sixteen
The Brooklyn City and Newtown Railroad
Company received note from conductor who
quit the road two years ago, containing 5000,
restitution money. The note said that the
money had been taken from passenger fares,
and that ten cents day had been given to the
driver and ten cents daily expended by the
conductor himself for coffee and cakes until
5000 had been stolen. The conductor had not
| pocketed cent. t..... Oliver p. Frankes, a
notorious desperate, was hanged by vigiants
near Nevada City, Mo. Charles p. Werner,
proprietor Of the Southern Hotel, st. Louis,
was en- route to New York on the through
express from Philadelphia, and while passing
through the Delaware bridge at Trenton the
car careened causing Mr.. Werner's left arm
which was resting on the ELL to strike the
bridge. The arm was mutilated in horrible
manner. The train was stopped at Trenton,
and the arm was amputated there. .....A
proclamation has been published in Spain,
supplementary to the decree establishing a
state Of siege. 1t declares that charges of
sedition or conspiracy against the State shall
be tried by court-martial; and persons con-
victed Of interfering with the operation of
railways and telegraphs shall suffer death. -.
The boy murderer Pomeroy. of South Boston,
has confessed the killing of little Kate Curran
...... Queen Victoria has asked Parliament
for grant for Prince Leopold, who was twenty
one on the 7th of April ..... Experienced
frontiersmen express the opinion that the late
Indian raid into Fort Steele indicates the
approach OF q general Indian war......A
boiler explosion occurred in the starch works
of Johnson & Sons at Madison, Ind. -Four
men were badly scalded and three fatally in
jured.
The Williams College crew established their
instead of Dartmouth The Williams boat
was awarded the fourth place by the judges,
but the signal officers disputed the claim. -.
A fight occurred in Milwaukee, resulting in the
death Of one Martin Smith at the hands of
August Ehwig and his nephew, John Ehwig.
The following day, a few hours after a coroner's
jury had returned verdict again the Ehwig's,
| John was taken into custody. Before the
officers could arrest the uncle he had disap-
peared and the same day was found drowned
in the canal. The man evidently committed
the deed from fear and remorse. The grass
hoppers made their appearance in myriads in
the province OF Manitoba and destroyed the
entire crop in New Palestine and White Mud
settlements from their western limits. ....
The Indian Commissioners say that Satanta
and Big Tree, who were SO long confined in the
Texas Penitentiary, are true to their promises
and maintain peaceable course in good faith
..... Private advices from Orange county
Indiana say that o half-witted fellow, name
unknown, who was addicted to petty thieving
was taken from the custody of the constable
and hung about five miles from French Licl
Springs. He was under arrest for petty larceny
when lynched by between twenty and thirt!
men, The gold beaters' strike in Philadel
phia terminated in victory for the workmen
who returned to work at the old rates, agains
the reduction at which they struck.
Cochise, the late chief of the Apaches, il
credited with having slain twenty-sever
Americans, four Apache Indians, three Ger
mans, one Scotchman, two Englishmen, on,
Frenchman, and forty-nine Mexcans and half
breeds, in all eghty-seven persons. Within
twenty-five years the States and Territories o.
the United States on the Pacific coast hav,
produced 81, ,583, GA O34 in silver and gold, o
which England has secured the larger part.
The Western Reserve College at Hudson, Ohio
an institution under Presbyterian influence
will henceforth receive women as students.
Three thousand acres Of cotton have beer
planted in California this year. The crol
looks we'll. -. George Simpson, planter
residing about fifteen miles from Shreveport
La, was murdered by negro. Simpson, wh
is about seventy years Of age, was alone AM
asleep when the negro stepped into the hous
and seizing Simpsons gun shot him dead. TIL
negro was pursued and captured, and takel
from his captors and killed. "A Carls
telegram from Bayonne declares that Dol
Alphonso entered Cuenca on the 10th inst.
and levied a contribution of $4,000 pound
sterling. Two thousand Of the garrison fel
, prisoners into his hands.
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