The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-28
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad


Thomas, Jr., Speaker of the House. ... In
Philadelphia, barkeeper shot and killed his
employer in drunken row. ... .Depositors in
the Charlestown branch of the Freedman s
Savings Institution, numbering over 5000 and
representing over $250,0O0 of deposits, have
held a meeting and adopted a memorial TO
Congress-, showing that the depostors were
mostly of the laboring class, who were induced
to place their money in the bank under the i'm
preston that it was guaranteed ana protected
by the general government, and praying Con
gress to take measures for their indemnifica-
ton. .... The Governor and State Council of
Massachusetts, by unanimous vote, have re-
fused to grant pardon to Spence Pettis, the
forger. 1t is estimated that during the last
year 1000 newspapers suspended in the United
STAGES, and that 49, 600 900 have been lost in the
publishing business within the year.
A post-mortem examination was held over
the body of Elizabeth Mccarthy, who was
found dead in house in jersey City. and
it was aecertained that she froze to death, hav-
ing no fuel or covering. 900. The Milwaukee
Circuit Court has appointed Judge Voorhees,,
of Hackensack, and Henry L. White, of Jersey
| City, commissioners to take the testimony of
Mrs. D'Auffray, better known as the escaped
nun. Her evidence is to be used in suit
| pending before that court, for the purpose of
exposing the internal arrangements of converts
and nunneries. ..... The debt of the city of
Brooklyn, including all her obligations of what
ever character, amounts to the sum Of 1885,
! 04S, 621.52, an increase in the last year of
/ 1926, 1852. The debt of the city of New
York is about S14O, 1000, 600. ... The evidence
in the Vcksburg case shows that seyenty-six
negroes and two.white men were killed in the
attack upon the city. Sir Henry Elliot, the
British Ambassador at Constantnope, has
! lodged a complaint with the Porte protesting
against the increasing slave trade which is
being carried on in various parts of the Otto
man Empire in Africa. .. One of the boilers
at the Franconia Iron Company's MILL at Ware
ham, Mass, burst with frightfu explosion,
demolishing the west end of the immense
building and shattering the entire structure
more or less. Out of eighteen men who were
in the building, Edward Cafery was fatally and
four Others slightly injured.
dispatch says that Senor CASTELAR, is pre-
pairing to quit Spain before King Alfonso's
arrival ..... The Allegheny Trust Company of
Allegheny City, Pa, suspended payment and
closed its doors. The liabilities are stated to
be Sl25,000, to cover which the company pos
sesses in bills receivable and real estate
S230,0 900 .... Julia Theurer, wife of Christian
Theurer, of Rochester n. Y, leaped from the
Central railroad bridge at the edge of the falls
into the river, and was swept over the falls.
Grief for the loss of her child had unseated her
reason. .... The body of n drover who was
murdered for his money, was found in Sheshe-
quin, Bradford county, Pa. Joseph B. North,
alias Buffalo Bill, who murdered George Jones
OH Christmas evening a year ago, was hanged
to a telegraph pole by mob in Wallace,
Kansas. The knot of the rope with which he
was hanged caught under the chin, and did not
choke him. He hung this way for long time,
talking to the mob, implorng them to release
him, but received only jeers in return. He
did not die for over two hours, End finally froze
to DEATH
The Committee on War Claims at Washing
ton made an adverse report on the House bill
for the relief of certain citizens of Pennsvl-
federate troops during the invasion of that
State by General Lees army. The bill pro
posed an apf ropriation of S1,25l. 574 for the
Use of citizens of the counties of Adams Bed
ford, Cumberland, Franklin, Fulton, Somerset
and York. BY collision on the Baltimore
and Ohio railroad, the Northern mail and
express car for Washington was smashed up,
set on fire and burned. All of the mail and
much money belonging to the United States
government was destroyed. Two men were
badly crushed. The express losses are very
heavy, as the nine safes in the car contained q
large amount of money ..... Horace b. Gibbs,
an employee of the indianapolis, Cincinnati
and Lafayette railroad in Cincinnati committed
suicide under peculiar circumstances. Some
two or three years ago he married and lived
happily until few days ago, when his wife
died and was buried at Spring Grove. Since
then he had been very melancholy, and went
to his wife's grave, where he shot and killed
himself. IA fire i'll Honesdale, Pa, destroyed
S100, 900 worth of property Burglars shot
and killed watchman at Tarrytown, n. w..
Lewis Adams, colored, was hanged at Pitts
sylyania Court House, Va. for the murder ol
another negro named Rice Wilson on the 27tl
of June last. He was strangled to death, hit
neck not being broken. ... The total lo,s by
the burning of tobacco warehouses at Balti.
more is estimated at S35O,OOO, $25O,OOO Of
which is on stock. The insurance of the
buildings amounts to sSS, 800, and on the stock
as far as known to S1500O0. 80. Genera
Bntler introduced in the United States House
of Representatives a bill for new election il
Louisiana.
The State Legislatures of Tennessee, Arkan
sas and Virginia have protested against thu
Louisiana affair .. The anniversary of tn,
death of Napoleon III. was observed by tn,
Imperialists in Paris, and by the hnpelialst
of Loudon and Chiselhurst . Further diff
culties between China and Japan are antici
pated. The Wisconsin State Grange adopted
a resolution thanking the Legislature for pass
ing the Potter law and the State officers anC
Supreme Court for enforcing it also resolu
ton asking Congress to so amend the paten
laws that any person can manufacture paten
article upon the payment of royalty. Th,
mails destroyed by the burning Of the car OF
the Baltimore and Ohio railroad included thos
of the following dates New Orleans, evenin;
of the 4th inst, and morning of the 9th
Richmond, Va, 7th Savannah, 9th Char
lesion, S. c., 5th Wilmington, N c.. 9th
Nashville, 5th Galveston, 4th; and Mem
phis, 9TH. Mails from all intermediate poiut
are of course also des troyed. ... The suspel
sion of coal mining operations in Pennsylvania