The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-06-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS,

Gov Dix having signed tho New York Bridge
bill, work will be recommended on the towers
at once .. The English House of Commons,
by vote of 161 against 1876, adopted the
proposition of the Government that public
houses in London shall be kept open on week
days from o'clock in the morning until half
past II at night. Hugh Niles, of Swedes-
boro, n. j., took a rope and started for the
woods, telling his friends that he was going to
hang himself. They paid no attention, and he
climbed tree, fastened the rope to limb and
his neck, and jumped The rope broke and
he fell unconscious. He lived but few mo-
ments after being found. 49,. The will of J..
Edgar Thompson of the Pennsylvania Central
Railroad, provides for the maintenance and
education of the female orphans of railroad
employees who are killed in the discharge Of
their duties ... The police Of New York city
number 1900; of this number 1,500 were fined
from the 1st of June, 1873, to the LIST inst.
! 800, 100 92, making total of G, 162 days, or an
average to each man of four days. or $13 40
.....A dispatch from the Cheyenne Agency
reports that body of 400 Indians are on the
war-path. .....A young woman, giving hei
name as Alice Capless, while kindling fire
with can of kerosene oil at the residence of
Frank Hughes, Roberts Run, Venango county
Pa, was fatally burned by the kerosene igniting
and the can exploding. She told her attending
| physician that she was the girl who made the
charges concerning the st. Johns Convent
st. GATHERINGS, Canada, and who escaped to
Rochester. She cannot possibly survive.
1;sl,x
ment showing that over two hundred ant
twenty iron ships, mostly steam vessels, have
been built in Wilmington, and states that thii
is g far greater number than have been con
structed in all the other yards of the United
States put together. 1t estimates that the
total number of iron ships built elsewhere viii
probably not exceed fifty.
The Apache Chief Cochise is very i'll and il
not expected to recover. He imagines that the
spirits of the white men murdered by him are
gearing his flesh. . The Mexican Ell Gordo
who attempted to rob Mr.. Turner and wife, ,nea
Los Angeles, pointed out the place where thu
stolen money was. He was then taken from
the officers by a party of armed men, anC
hanged to a tree. 1t is reported that
serious mutiny has broken out amongst severa
battalions of Spanish republican troops in thu
province of Guipuzcoa. .... The sudden de
parture of Henri Rochefort from New York TO
England is supposed to be connected in SOM
way with affairs in France. Twenty-fou
clerks at the Boston Custom House have beel
officially informed that their services are nj
longer required, and several of the Offices vii
be abolished. A further reduction is to b
made in July. The total reduction in the ex
pense of the four departments thus far amount
to $4,000 year. The strike among tn
freestone workers of Boston has ended by tn
members of the Union disbanding and seeking
work as they choose .... The Catholic Episco
pate of Bohemia has determined to resist tn
ecclesiastical laws. Passive opposition has a.
ready begun with appointments to vacant liy
ings. Mr.. Sergeant, manager of the Sout
Devon Railway in England, has been appointe
successor to Mr.. Brydges in the management
of the Grand Trunk Railway Of Canada.