The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1874-12-24
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items Of Interest from uomc md Abro

Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad.
Captain Charles Nichols of tho schooner
Gerde Z. Merow, of Bath, from Alexandria
! for Boston, was knocked overheard in q squall
and lost. AT the municipal election in New
Bedford and Fitchburg, Mass, Democratic
Mayor was elected in the former, and an In
dependent in the latter James Russell and
John n. Ballway, aged respectively 10 and IL
years, pupils at Haverstraw, N. y, were
drowned during recess. They, with number
of other boys, were sliding Oh a pond near the
school and broke through the ice. Several
men were standing on the edge of the pond at
the time, and might have rescued them, but
made no effort to do 80. Their bodies were re-
covered about an hour afterward .A heavy
! typhoon swept over Yezo, Japan. Many sea
coast villages were greatly injured, and one was
entirely destroyed. Thirty-threo junks were
wrecked and 200 lives lost Work is re-
sumed in the Rensselaer, iron works, N Y, and
the Manchester, N. H., mills. m The death of
Gen. Robert o. Tyler, of the United States
army is announced. .... There arc three cases
upon the docket of tho Supreme Court of the
United States which involve the entire Granger
question in the Northwest, and which were
brought to test the constiutionality of the re-
strictive State legislation against railroads.
The United States public debt statement shows
a decrease during the past month of S123 i27.-
6S. The coin balance il So, 3,0i3 762 q ; cur
rency, Sl6.699311.4S; coin certificates, $23,-
Oi5, 400 certificates of deposit. Si7, 100, 600.
A fire at Knms City, Butler county, Pa.
oil district. destroyed about two-thirds of the
town. Scycnty-iiye buildings were burned in
GLIDING two hotels and tho post-oilice. The
loss is estimated at 100000. with little insur-
ancc A number of French Canadian phv1i-
ciaus of Montreal have formed an auti-com-
pulsory vaccination league. Its objects are to
oppose by every legal means the operation of
| the law Oh this subject, and agitute for its
| repeal ..... The town of Wendell, Mass. celc-
! hrated its centennial in connection with the
! Tooth anniversary of the establishment of the
Congregational church. The Rev. w. Ii.
Bowman, of Amherst delivered an historical
address .... In the Provincial Lunatic ASYLUM
/ at Toronto, Ont, patient named Mrs Newell,
ali English immigrant, afflicted with the notion
/ that her five chidrens souls would not he saved
unless she herself died some terrible DEATH set
! fire to her clothing and then knelt in devotion
while enNeoped in flames. The fire was extin-
/ gushed, but the patient died after suffering
/ great agony. $50. The business part of Wilton.
\. H., was burned. The fire originated in
Walaces block, which was entirely consumed.
Among the other buildings burned was the
Whitney House, the post-oftce, the Wilton Say
ngs Bank, and Burrys block The town library
was also burned. The losses aggregate about
] i,,,,x in, tl,,
ward, on trial for killing the boy Lukens at
Newcastle, Del, for stealing chestnuts Oh his
place, rendered a verdict of not guilty ... The
Italian Chamber of Deputies by an unanimous
vote has adopted a motion for the immediate
consideration of the subject of Garibaldis pen
sion. Mr. Frederick A. Dockray, who was
condemned to death by the Spaniards in Cuba,
but whose sentence was commuted to ten
years imprisonment in Spain, has been par
doned.
Anarchy reigns in the Indian Territory, the
strife being between the factions of the leaders
there. A number of murders have been COM
mtted. In the Newlands-Sharon wedding
i'll California, the brides marriage portion from
her father was one million dollars in gold
The election contest i'll the Eighth Wisconsin
District. between NIcDill, Rep. and Cate.
Dem, has been decided by the State board of
canvassers i'll favor of Cate. .... The Attorney
General OF the United States, in his annual re-
port, says the judgments in favor of the United
States, i'll the several suits to which it was a
party during the fiscal year, were 81. .O21 724 and
the amount actually realized in these judgments
was SS67, 192..... Cases disposed of III the
. Of
of, a. The amount claimed in miscellaneous
cases decided, S1,132, ,157; amount claimed in
cotton cases decided, S2,922 2O9: amount
awarded III miscellaneous cases SG52, ,442 ::
amount awarded in cotton cases 81, 700 1862
MI the amendments to the new Constitution of
New York were adopted by votes ranging from
49, ,95S TO i59, 65S Lewis Jarvis was found
guilty of the murder of Samuel j. Jones in
/ Oyster Bay, l.. l., in June last. The prisoner
heard with indifference the verdict of the iury.
Jarvis and Jackson were sentenced to be hanged
January 18th for the crime .. CAPTAIN
George S. Mares, of Her Britannia Maestv's
shp Challenger, has been selected to command
the English expedition to the Arctic regions.
The Spanish coasting steamer Tomas Brooks,
from Santiago de Cuba for Guantanamo, struck
on the Morrillo near Guantanamo, and sunk
immediately. About thirty lives were lost
\ special dispatch to the London Times from
Calcutta says that the government is satisfied
that the Gwalior prisoner s not Mana Sahib.
Inc same dispatch says that Yal1oob Khan is in
close confinement in Cabul. . Patrick Smith
and his son-in-law, William Lunney. were in a
saloon in Boston engaged in drunken row.
L'lnney knocked Smith down and jumped upon
linn, killing him. The murderer was arrested.
:..., Philip Salpaugh, at Rosendale n Y,
while repairing an old gun, which he supposed
was unloaded, put the barrel in q blacksmiths
forge. 1t was discharged, lodging the charge
in his abdomen and killing him instantly.
| 1t is said that the parties who endeavored to
purchase the Philadelphia Post are now seeking
to gain possession of another prominent Journal
with view to the establishment of an i'll
dependent political journal. There was a
mutiny i'll Madrid by battalion of troops who
refused to obey an order to proceed to the
| north. AT Fail River while workmen were
sinking pneumatic cylinder which is to form
portion of the pier, the upper hange of the air
lock, to which the lower was secured, together
with the cover, was blown off by the pressure of
air in the cylinder, which at the time was thirty
pounds to the square inch, as indicated by the
pressure gauge Eight men were on the cyln-
der at the time of the explosion, three of whom
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