The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-03
NEWS OF THE DAY.
items of Interest from Home and
Abroad


Of France have adopted resolution recon-
mending the establishment of system Of
gratuitous secular schools for primary instruc-
ton in the city OF Paris, attendance upon
which shall be obligatory The resolution has
been presented to the Permanent Committee
OF the Assembly for consideration. ....A bill
has passed the Oregon Senate which provides
that husbands and wives without children may
be considered divorced by simply ceasing to
live together. ... Ambrose Lepine, Riel's
Adjutant- General, is to be hanged on the Goth
of January ... DIR. NJ. A. Shield young
and promising physician of Hampton, Va,
committed suicide by poisoning. No cause is
assigned for the act. Ho leaves wife and
two children. In his message to the Arkan-
sas Legislature. Governor Baxter said that the
State had no idea Of repudiating any Of its
just debts. ... The smallpox still prevails in
Montreal. ... The strike Of the coal miners of
st. Clair county, ILL.,, continues, and appre-
hension is felt that trouble will ensue. ...
Tho political complexion of the next Legisla-
ture of New Jersey will stand as follows
Senate, 13 Republicans to Democrats
House, 10 Republicans to Al Democrats:
majority on joint ballot, II. Both houses will
be convened on the second Tuesday in January
next. George Rufer made a full confession
in the Jail of his completely in the murder of
| Herman Schilling at Cincinnati, and gave n
Rickening detail of the horrid deed from the
first blow on the head to stabbing him in the
bowels with a pitchfork. They crammed the
body into the furnace to conceal the crime.
The majority for the Constitutional amond-
ments in New York State was very large. The
| lowest majority on any OF the propositions
is likely to exceed 100, 900, while on the pro-
vision restricting special legislation the ma
iority will reach, and may oven exceed 45O, 900.
The amendment increasing the pay of mem
bers, and that on State appropriations, will
have the smallest majority, yet the majority
for both of those, from present indications,
! will reach 100 600 or more .... The execution
| of three men. for the crime Of murder took
place in Pennsylvania the same day. w. E.
! Udderzook was hanged for the murder of
| W. S Goss, his brother-in-law, under peculiar
| circumstances. A life policy for :25,000 was
taken out on Goss' life with the intent to de-
fraud the insurance companies. Goss disap-
|
under restraint by which he was kept by his
friends he threatened to expose the plot, and
was murdered. He was executed at West
chester, Penn, death ending by strangulation,
and the murderer suffering severely. O'Mara,
and Irving were hanged at Montrose, Penn.
for the murder of the mother and sister of the
former. The crime for which they have just
suffered the extreme penalty of the law was
brutal in the preparation and monstrous in
the motive that prompted it, presenting
O'AIara in the unnatural light of the murderer
Of an aged mother and invalid sister, in order
that he might be relieved from the RESPONSE.
bility of supporting them. The circumstances
Of the case are familiar to all. The bodies OF
the poor women after the murder where taken
III an ash cart to the railroad track and left
there in ditch. The track made, as the
bodies were dragged along was plainly to be
seen. Blood was found in the house. on the
way to the track, and in and about the cart
OAIara made a confession Of the murder
Irving denied having actively participated il
it, but acknowledged being present. At 1880
the signal was given, the weights dropped
and both victims were jerked upward about
seven feet, and then fell to within two ant
half feet Of the ground. They died very
easily, both being pronounced dead in ter
minutes
A most disastrous inundation has occurred
at the village Of Mayari Cuba which wal
oYerfooded for forty hours. Nearly all lh,
houses within its limits were destroyed, en-
failing much suffering and destitution. ....
Returns from remote counties, heretofore
partly estimated. make it certain that McDill
Republican is elected in the Eighth District o
Wisconsin. This leaves the Congrossiona
delegation of the State standing, Republican,
Fix and Democrats two The Hon. Har
rison G. Rice, late Democratic candidate fo
, Congress in Indiana, is preparing to contes
the election Of the Hon. Morton @. Hunter
, and has secured the services of the Hon. d. W
: Voorhees, and Judge Carleton, Of that city, t.
; prosecute the case. The latest advices fror
Khiva say there is complete anarchy there
: Turcomans refuse to obey the Khan, VIII
summoned his council, which declared tia
Khivan autonomy was q Fiction, and that til
aid Of Russia for the maintenance of orde
was Indispensable. From Oct. to Nov
Is, two hundred cases of diphtheria wer
reported in Brooklyn, eighty-four of whic
we're fatal. .... In the Episcopal Conventio
in Burlington, n. j., on the fifteenth ballo
the Rev. John Scarborough, D. D., Rector 0
- Trinity Church, Pittsburgh, Pa, was electe
, Bishop by vote of 81 to SO Of the clergy all
3G to so parishes ...A German named Kra
e mer, living in Cheshire Conn. beat his wifi
with a club, while both were intoxicated, +
: that she died. .... United States Postmaster
q General jewell emphatically disclaims intend
ing to recommend any increase in the preseI
S rates of postage. On the contrary, he think
: the letter postage should be reduced wheneve
4 u it shall be found possible to materially dimins
= the expenditures for carrying the mails witt
!, out depriving the public of existing facilities
n .....A team of horses ran away near Wei
Point, N. Y, killing cavalryman name
o Meyer.
Mrs. W. II. Howard, Jr., Of Braintree, Mass
was walking in the streets accompanied by hC
! ! husband, when they met an intoxicated maj
= = Just as the Howards came abreast OF the in
briate he gave whoop, which was so sudde
in its effect upon Mrs. Howard that she droppe
: dead at her husbands feet. She was robu
: and healthy woman, and her death was pr,
nounced by her physician to be the consequent
@ Of fright. AT a tenement-house fire in Ne
s York woman and boy were burned to deaf
: and man and his wife fatally injured. ..
The amendment to the Constitution of Coz
necticut, increasing the representation
, towns having population of 200, was adoptC