The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abro


the President. .... The Kansas Legislature
adjourned without voting penny to the grass
hopper-stricken regions of the Stato.....
Steamers arriving in United States ports report
having seen many wrecks at sea, the wrecks
generally deserted by their crews ...... In
Schenectady, N. Y, Gates, charged with mur-
der, was tried and found guilty all in one day.
... In the case of Srander, the colored wife
murderer in Virginia, sentenced to be hanged,
u stay of proceedings has been granted. ...
! Two children of VIM. Thomas, colored man,
| of WilkesbalTe Pa, were burned while their !
mother was out after water. The eldest was o |
boy three years old, who died few minutes
after the mother returned, and the youngest
a baby had its legs burned to a crisp up to the
knees .....A boiler exploded in Rushville
Ind, killing two persons instantly and serious
iy injuiing four others. In New Hampshire
the vote for Governor was 20 close that there
was no choice by the people, and the election
of Governor goes to the Legislature. ..About
one thousand men have joined the new Black
Hills expedition to start this spring. ... In
Atlanta, Georgia, colored barber joined with
others in visiting saloons and testing the Civil
Rights question. He lost patronage by it, and
mitted suicide.
! Upon the revival of the franliing privilege
TONS upon tons Of matter were sent by mail
fro n Washington. $50. During the last ten
vears' fifty-two life insurance companies in the
United States have ceased doing business. .....
A woman called at the house of Mr.. Beckworth,
in Georgetown, D. c.. and on being refused
aims left. Shortly after she met little niece
of that geutlemasl, having in her arms his in
FAINT child, six weeks old. She persuaded the
girl to give it to her, and sent her off to store
to buy some candy, since which time neither
, the woman nor child has been seen or heard
of "A dispatch from Florence, Arizona, says
old Bender, the Kansas murderer, is still there
awaiting Gov. Osb orne's requsition. He seems
| to realize his fate, and is willing to submit to
the law. . The Congressional delegation in
| New Hampshire is two Democrats to one Re-
pubt an. ... At the twenty-third annual COM
, , meuceluent of the Women's Medical College in
Philadelphia sixteen students graduated as
: doctors of medicine. 80. Petitions for the pas
y sage of Ii prohibitory liquor law, from all Sec
. tions of the Dominion of Canada. continue to
+ be receiv ed daily. Mr.. Burke presented one to
n the House signed by 5000 Inhabitants of New
e Brunswick There was great cheering when
J the petitions was presented. ... JOHN Mitchell
d was reelected to Parliament from the Tip
y perary district Ireland. ..... Gov. Booth, of
&C California, having resigned his Office in order
II to take his seat in the United States Senate,
10 Lieut. Gov. Romualdo Pecheco native Cali.
" fornian, becomes Governor. .....A bill passed
both Houses of the New York Legislature de-
u claring that after January l, 1879, all taxes
IT shall be collected in gold or its equivalent and
ss all contracts made shall be payable in United
f. States coin m The Apaches have been killing
&c herders in Mexico.
Id Joshua Griffin, colored was hanged at Belar
H. Nd, for the murder of Miss Susan Taylor, ant
10 George Wheeler colored, was hanged at Eas
lc ton, Nd. for tho murder of Mrs. Margare
Whitman .. John Mitchell was elected II
. the English Parliament from Tipperary b.
a z SOS majority. :. The National Fire Insuranc
=, 'Ct mpauy of Philadelphia has suspended. ....
i, State Engineer Thompson, of Louisiana re
,y ports that there is imminent danger of crevas
as ses in that State, and that at some points til
ty levees hay already begun to cave in 1t
It announced that the party now in the Bac
vn Hills will if necessary, be driven out by troops
or and others will be prevented from entering.
ne The Toce di JTerita says the Pope confers til
le- Cardinals hat on Archbishop McCloskey, nd
a only on account of the personal merits of thu
lie - ,,ooo,,ao 49, nj, Co. = 5oe;,.;or
ny nf bonorino the Catholics of America and {
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SIC United States. ....A $4,000 tre occurred {
he saltwater, n. Y .....T The United States Freet
he mems Bank is said to be in much worse COZ
he dition than supposed. and little will be r
at allied from it.
en- A number of Ohio distillers have bee
he arrested charged with defrauding the Unite
ny States government. Two boys named Geort
i4I' Selb and Westley Goodenough were playir
" "'u' with revolver in Burlington, N j., when ii
~ former, not knowing the weapon was loade
, pointing it at the latter, said: SO Your money
~, your life" and discharged it, the ball enteril
ere Goodenoughs head above the eye causing
ait- dangerous wound, .Ihe Fhooo pala py c
q Q Senator Pomeroy to State Senator York
Kansas in 1878 has been returned to Pomer'
bv York. the former paying out of it the S2,0
costs incurred in the criminal prosecute
against himself. 80. The tow boat Babba
PIE sank near Cairo in the Mississippi river al
''' three lives were lost ..... The Legislatu
r. of Texas refuse to make an appropriation f
~ the Centennial exposition. :. Reports fro
~, various sections FAY that the fruit trees ha
Il not been injured by the extreme cold and tn
TO fruit prospects are good
zee, The island of Mackinac, in Lake Michiga
,dl- which heretofore has been held as a milits
S IL reservation, is to be set apart for natlo
was park, with the exception of Fort MaclIinac a
ol grounds. go The insurgents in Cuba la
'iiy succeeded in destroying a number of fine suG
" plantations. ......A company of United Sta
-. cavalry il ordered to start from Fort Laran
90 as soon as the weather will permit, with
,eee structions to bring in all the miners report
and to be in the Black Hills...... Oil was struck
,rm depth of G54 feet on farm at Warren, T
.nts recently. This strike develops an entirely Il
)rd- belt of oil territory The Berlin pap
ney have notified persons intending to send artic
the to the Philadelphia Centennial exhibition IL
get if they should become bankrupt their got
will be liable to seizure. . "A frightful tornt
passed over Rienza Miss, dol lg vast amol
of damage . OF the five Councilors-elec
in New Hampshire, two are Republicans and tn
NJ. are Democrats. The State Senate stands
)sed Republicans and five Democrats with no che
BOD in districts two and four. The House of ReI
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