The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-11-19
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items of Interest from Home and
Abroad

death bed that she was kicked to death by her
drunken husband. -. Almost every steamer
from Europe brings Mormon immigrants for
Salt Lake ......Gov. Dix, OF New York, has
commuted the sentence Of Mrs. johnson, who
was to be hanged at Mayville. She will 60 to
Sing Sing ....Reports of distress in Nebraska
and Kansas are received daily in Chicago, and
the demands for help are constantly becoming
more urgent. The unfortunate settlers are
thus early in the season actually suffering for
the lack Of food, and the prospect for the win
ter is dismal beyond measure 1t is stated
that the real extent Of the grasshopper devas-
tation has been fully appreciated, and that ad-
ditional territory is constantly being added to
that where want is known to exist. .... One
man was killed and several injured by the
caving in Of bank at Springfield, Mass. go.
Judge Smell, in Washington, sentenced to six
months imprisonment in jail, man who set
a bulldog upon small girl. The dog nearly
tore off one ear OF the girl, and shockingly
lacerated the back part Of her head, and
stripped her of her clothing.
A gang Of highway robbers were captured in
Lower California, and 80, 600 Of their ill-gotten
gains recovered. -. The one hundred and
fiftieth anniversary Of the First Congregational
Church at Worcester, Mass, was celebrated in
appropriate fashion. 90. Docliray, the Ameri-
can, is in prison in Spain and ironed. He was
sentenced to death, but the sentence was COM
muted to ten years Imprisonment. -. Two
men were fatally injured while blasting rock at
White Mountain Notch. The crops through
out India are reported to be in a most prom
Using condition, as the monsoons have begun
with copious showers Of rain. All fears Of
continuance OF the famine are now die
sipated, and the number receiving government
relief in Bengal has already fallen below $780,,
000. 1t is now believed that nearly one
thousand persons pershed by the typhoon in
Japan.
Late advces from Central Asia report that
the insurrection in Khokand has been sup
pressed. "A dispatch to the London Times
says that the Governor Of Syria has been
ordered to suppress all the Protestant schools
in his province. Three grain vessels were
wrecked on the lakes near Buffalo, in the
severe storm recently. ..... John PARCEL, Of
Englewood, N. j., was out with dogs in the
neighborhood Of Snedens Landing, near En-
glewood, hunting for coons. The dogs man
aged to get down on the lower slope at the foot
Of the palisades and freed a coon. PARCEL
vert close to the edge of the precipice, and,
the earth giving away, he fell distance of
sixty feet, and was picked up dead.
William H. Gary, an influential builder of
Troy, N. Y, hanged himself in his barn. ...
girl in Lowell, Mass, cloth factory had her
arm torn from its socket by belt, and died
almost Immediately. .....A large number OF
workmen we're discharged from the Ports.
mouth Navy Yard, work in the constructing
department being suspended. .....A young
man named Benjamin Haight was shot about
two miles from Elmira, N Y, while stealing
turkeys from the premises Of the Hon. Ed
mund Miller. The shooting was done by
son of Mr.. Miller. Haight died. -. The
action of the Brotherhood of Locomotive
Engineers in st. Louis cannot we'll result ir
anything but general strike. They will resist
any reduction Of wages, and two or three OF
the Western railroads have already declared
their intention Of opposition. If strike doel
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hood being ameng the strongest corporations
..... Burglars entered the dwelling of Jacot
Tell, at Pittsburg, Pa, and after carrying ava,
the silverware and other articles of value, Sc
fire to the house. Mr.. Tell awoke the family
and all escaped by jumping from upper win
dows, except his son Joseph and a servan
named Margaret Lynch Joseph rushed dow
the stairway through the flames and was seri
ously burned, while the servant was suffocatet
in the third story, and her body, blackene'
and disfgured, was found after the fire wa
extnguished. .... The citizens Of Bostol
heartily indorse the plan Of the Philadelphi
Centennial and it is proposed to carry it out.
The new Army bill introduced by the Frenc
government provides for raising a total fore
of $50, 900 men. latter nearly years burn
ing the Empire Coal Mine, near West Pittstor
Pa, has been extinguished steam being use
for the purpose. Sentence has been pre-
nounced on the three military men accused G
having murdered President Balti in prison i
July, 1872. Their names are Najar, Patin
and Espinozco. The first two are to draw lot
which shall be executed. The third is to hav
fifteen years penal servitude. 80. The Secre
tary of the United States Centennial Con
missoners received a communication stain
that the King Of Sweden and Norway ha
appointed committee to prepare for partic
patton in the Centennial Exposition 49,. Th
! lost Atlantic cable has been picked up and tn
whole cable is being laid ... Large and d.
structive fires have been raging in the Dism'
} Swamp. -. James Luke, charcoal sellel
quarreled with Mrs. Sarah Cronk and towar
midnight attempted to force the door of he
dwelling at Wanaque, NJ ]. Mrs. Cronk an
her husband warned him away. He force
the door and the woman shot him dead Whe
arrested she said that she was enraged by hi
language and killed him as he entered tn
door. go. Buffalo Bill, who has been to th
Black Hills region says the land there is ric
with gold. "A. H. Bogardus, the champio
wing shot of America, has challenged Ii
Paine to shoot, under the following conditions
Stake, 80, 500 aside every bird killed With
five feet Of the trap to be scored as lost.
A large lot Of Cinnamon have been brought
the United States to make cigars. jaime
Lick and his wife were attacked ON the stree
by George Rapp and his wife. Mrs. Lick Wa
murdered on the spot. Mrs. Rapp and ht
husband then attacked Mr.. Lick, the formt
being armed with a knife and the latter with
timers soldering iron, and after knockin
: him PROSTATE they placed him face downwar
in small creek, and Rapp stood on him
hold his face in the water until he was stral
: gled. They were frightened off by approach
ing footsteps, and Lick was picked up insens
! BILE, and died shortly after. go. The Italian