The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-10-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Interesting Items from Home ana
Abroad.


A New York concern in the Household
Sewing Machine line" under the name of
Robert j. Mulligan h Co., Jerome P. Hudson,
and George w. Paine, was seized by the police
and broken up on the charge of swindling.
The Household Sewing Machine " is a worth
less toy that is operated by crank, and is like
the old-fashioned domestic coffee mill. ....
Governor Dix censures Mayor Havemeyer of
New York city, but does not remove him, the
charges made not being of sufficient impor-
tance. 80. The Icelanders who desire to settle
in Alaska wrote letter to the President of the
United States relative to the matter. A few
days later they received reply from Secretary
Fish stating that the petition had aroused
much interest in the mind of the President, in
which interest the State Department largely
shared that accordingly the Department to
whom the matter had been referred by the
President. had lost no time in communicating
with the Secretary of the Navy with reference
to the subject. A chip was available and
ready, and IN it the Icelandic Committee will
make tour of inspection Of Alaska, and if
their report be favorable, will make arrange
ments for the settlement Of large colony of
their countrymen there.
1t is stated that nearly four thousand female
criminals are at large in England with tickets
Of leave, the majority Of whom live ia Lon
don .... Mount Etna has been in eruption
since the evening Of Aug. 30. The lava is
issuing from the crater by three mouths, all of
which, however, are some distance from any
habitations. go. The Freshmen class in Yale
college numbers about 175.... James Tosier
killed his wife, Sallie Tosier, and then killed
himself in Philadelphia. The wife did not
live with her husband. She was 30 years of
! age and he 81, and had been married a year.
The murder and suicide was committed with a
Sharp's pistol, he firing two balls into his
wife's head and one into his own. Both were
dead when the officers and crowd who were at
tracted by the reports of the pistol rushed into
the room. Maggie Jenks sister of NIrs. Tosier,
was in the room at the time and witnessed the
tragedy 80. John II. Hurley was sentenced
to fourteen years in the Massachusetts, State
prison for burglary, added to which he must
serve thirteen years of an unexpired term of
twenty years, for garroting, having been par
doned by the Governor after serving seven
years on condition of future good behavior
Hurley is now SO years of age......A prize
fight for 5000 side was fought by Mike
Walsh of Hunters Point, aud Lor Wren ,of
Greenpoint, in Greenpoint lumber yard
Wren was whipped. Application is to be
made to the next New York Legislature to
abolish the Inebriate Asylum on Wards Island
The institution, which has only ten inmates
las for a long time been source of expens g
to the Commissioners of Charities. ... The
President of the United States appointed Com
modore Jno. G. Howell to be Chief of the
Bureau of Yalds and Docks Of the Navy De-
partment Rear-Admiral G. i. 2. Rodgers,
who has been in charge Of that bureau for the
past three years, will be detached, and ordered
to duty as Superintendent of the Naval Acade-