The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-29
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad.
rIhn Now Ne,rl q l.

Leavcnworth and Topeka Kansas TIL
l report, ending with March, shows that the rat
Z of mortality of the white population of Wash
{ ington, d. O., was 10 34-100 per 1000 pc
annum while the mortality of the colorcd popu
lation was nearly 40 per 1000 for the sam
, period. The longshoremen of New Yorl
have made another strike. The collegiat
regatta will take place at Saratoga July 18th
Fourteen crews will take part in it. Th
, freshmen race will be rowed on the 18th, an,
the university race on the 14th. . The Demo
cratic majority in the Connecticut House O
, Representatives is twenty-five +; in the Senate
nine.... By an explosion of giant powder il
San Francisco number of people we're killeC
by being buried in the ruins of building.
Herr Slgl, editor of the utlra-montane Var
! land of Munich, who was recently sentenced tc
imprisonment for publishing an article insult
ing to Prince Bismarck has been arrested By
the Austrian authorities on the application Of
the German government .... Attachments
have been made under new suits against the
property of Vim. NJ. Tweed in New York
Gen. Campos entered Ripoll, Spain, after
fight in which he lost forty killed and wounded
L. II
returns OF the State election in Rhode Island
gave the following vote: For Governor Hazard
Independent Republican, S,717, Lippitt, Regu.
lar Republican, S,34l Cutler, Democrat, s, 169
For Lieutenant-Governor, Day, Independent
Republican, 9,135; Scissor, Regular Republi.
can, 1912 Pierce, Democrat, 5, 121. 80. The
flour, grain and commission house of Howard
Hmchman Son. of Philadelphia, failed lately,
their liabilities being placed at 800, ,000....
The total vote for Governor in Connecticut
was 53,7S5 Democratic A. 301 Republican
2,S09 Prohibition and fourteen scattering,
leaving Democratic majority of 6,6G1. The
total vote for Congressman in the State was :
5l,093 Democratic 47,311 Republican, and
1909 Prohibition. The Democratic majority in
this total vote is 1S67.
Michael Sullivan was hanged at New Bruns-
wick, n j., for the murder of Daniel Talmadge,
an old man seventy-two years of age. The
murderer secured about $270 Sullivan made
no confession and died with little evident pain
THE registry of births in Charlestown,
Mass, shows that Jesse Pomeroy, the boy
murderer, now under sentence OF death in
Boston, completed his fifteen year on the
twenty-ninth day of November last The
employees Of the Delaware, Lackawanna and
Western Railroad Company's coal mines voted
| l,5l2 to 3l9 against strike. The employees
/ OF all but one Of the coleries in the Shamokin
! (Pa region are on strike .. The town clerk
OF South Chicago has refused to sign the GER
tifcates of the candidates declared elected in
the recent municipal elections on the grounds
Of Wholesale corruption and ballet-box stu1ing
......A number of houses were blown down
and five persons were killed and several others
wounded by tornado near Little Rock, Ark
About the same time storm struck Texarkana
unroofing the public school building and fatally
wounding one child and slightly injuring
several others. Rain fell in torrents
Patrick O'Shea, who stabbed his wife on March
IS, 1874, from the effects of which she died
five days later. was hanged at st. Louis.
Nine buildings were destroyed by fire at
Greenville, Mass, and several persons were
badly injured by falling chimneys The loss
is $4,000. The rush of immigration to Ne
braska, Wyoming, Utah and the Pacific coast,
this spring Is enormous, and continues without
abatement. ..... Gen. Crook and his soldiers
have received the thanks of the Arizona Legis-
lature for their services in subduing the hordes
OF hostile Indians that held the territory under
reign of terror. By the rise in the Misis-
sippi river at Minneapolis the steamer Min
neapois was wrecked, two railroad bridges
were destroyed, ana several sawmlls were sub
merged ...... A party of Mexican robbers
threatened an attack on Roma, Texas, but the
presence of troops caused them TO retreat.
The decrease in the supply of coal sent from
the Pennsylvania mines so far this year is 91O,-
25S tons. .....A farmer named McKinzie living
five miles from Greenvlle, Ill, was murdered
in his bed, and then dragged to the stable
and placed under the feet of pair of mules.
His wife and son have been arrested on sus-
picion of having committed the deed ..A
new disease has developed itself among horses
near Albany, n. Y. The horses breast and
forelegs are covered with Jumps, which must
be painful, as the animal exhibits signs of
sickness and severe suffering ... President
Grant and his Cabinet participated in the CEN
tennial celebrations IN Lexington and Concold,
Mass
An engagement has taken place betws en-
government troops and the Carlists near
Tolosa, the latter being defeated with a loss of
one hundred killed. In answer to question
as to What course the British government
would take if the independence of Belgium
was threatened in consequence of her rejecticp n
OF Prussia's demands, Mr.. Disraeli said that
there had been much cxaggeraton in this mat
ter, but if Belgian neutrality was threatened
England was prepared to d > her duty The
steamers Ocean and Fu-Sing collided at Shang-
hal, and the latter sank Immediately, causing
great loss Of life. " Much damage has been
done by floods in Australia ....A party of
Mexicans, returning from Texas with stolen
cattle in their possession, have been arrested
at Camargo. The explosion of boiler in
the gingham mills, at South Adams. Mass.
killed three men and fatally injured three
others. Gov. Hartranft, of Pennsylyania.
has signed the bill to repeal the local option
law...... Thaddeus Smith, North Hadley,
Mass, farmer, has failed. His liabilities are
Sl5O,OO0 and his assets s10), 200. Dan
Bryant, the noted minstrel, died in such poor
circumstances that his theatrical associates had
to contribute money for his burial
The draft has been completed of a bill pro-
hibiting religious orders in Prussia except
those employed in nursing the sick. -. The
cholera has appeared in the province of Dude.
East India. ..... The Rothschilds have issued
tine prospectus of new Russian loan of el5,-
100000, with interest at four and half per
cent. per aunum, to be issued at ninety-two.
...... Disturbances still continue in Bolivia