The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-07
NEWS OF THE DAY. =



Union elected John Vincent president. ....
Nine stores and the Hartman House, in Main
street, Bangor, Me-, were burned. ...W VIM.
Ervan, II years of age, while being driven from
q saloon in the suburb of Waterbury, Conn.,,
by the proprietor, Jacob Becker, shot and
killed the latter the ball entering the head
through the right eye. ....A storm in the Bay
of Bisbay ragged for several days. and many
boats and over seventy persons are missing m
John Chamberlin has purchased the house
recently vacated by the English Minister in
Washington for 100000, with the intention of
turning it into gilded gambling house. ..,.
Balances in the United States Treasury Cur
rency Sl4,6S2, $50 special deposit of legal
tenders for the redemption of certificates of
deposit, S49,0SO,000; coin, S77,S23, 1927 in
Guiding coin certificates, $22, 107, 400 outstand
ing legal tenders, $3S2, 600, 900 ..... ID. b.
Logan, one of the party of twelve who left
Wisconsin last August, bound for the Black
Hills was recently killed in skirmsh with
the Indians and the other members of the
party were scattered in the engagement, since
which no traces of them have been found, and
it is feared that all of them have perished ....
George Peak, all employee in the paper mill at
Valley Falls, N. Y. had his left arm torn off
near the shoulder while putting belt on
pulley.
John A. Gilman, superintendent. while
making his usual tour of inspection through
the Duquesne, Pa, mines, fired on by
( some unknown person and fatally wounded.
The miners employed by the. company haze
been on strike for some time. and conse-
quently the pit was unoccupied at the time the
assault was made -Four men wearing masks
rode up to the house of farmer about twelve
miles north of Clarksyille Ark. They shot the
farmer. choked his wife, robbed him of S600
and escaped. .. Samuel Payson, postmaster
of North Warren, Me-, aud his wife were found
dead in their beds. suirocated by coal gas
Another couple were nearly dead when dis
covered. Ia resolution passed the North
Carolina Senate, providing for conference of
the Joint Committee on the Public Debt with
the creditors of the State, and calling a meet
ing of the committee in Raleigh ON Jan. IA,
! 1875. Mayor Stokely of Philadelphia re-
ceived letter signed Secret Six," threatening
violence if employment was not supplied for
the starving poor, and complaining that Italians
were working on the Centennial buildings ex-
cludmg actual citizens IA Philadelphia
paper was libeled, having charged that men,
ber of the Common Council had picked the
/ pocket of a marble statue of George Washing
ton on Chestnut street of a silver snuff box
By a railroad accident i'll Iowa several officials
of the Iowa division of the Illinois Central
railroad were badly injured ,....A daring
attempt was made to rob the Hochlaga Bank of
Montreal The burglars succeeded in blowing
the safe open, but the noise made frightened
them away, when the contents of the vault
were in sight ...A duel was fought at Havana
between Diego Mendo Figueroa and Pepe Cas-
tellanos, resulting i'll the death of Castellanos.
..... The LeraH Herald publishes distressing
accounts of the famine in Asia Minor. The
house of farmer named Androis Petit, living
near Port Nelson Ontario, was violently broken
into by gang of desperadoes, two of whom
entered Mr.. Petit's bedroom while the rest
guarded the sons bedroom with revovers
The ruffians carried off cash to the amount OF
Si,OOO. ..... Indian outrages are reported near
Phoebe, New. The citizens are without arms
and ask for military protection 80. The boys
of the high school in New Orleans repeated
their visit to the girls lower high school, and
forced the colored girls to leave. The school
board he's passed resolution dismssing all the
public schools until further notice new
FL Dorado, i'll the shape of rich gold mines il
the northern wilderness of Wisconsin, is re.
ported. 1t is claimed that ore sent to New
al 1
.... In the sections of Nebraska and Kansa,
visited by grasshoppers, farmers have beer
compelled to feed wheat to work animals
Many poor families are already compelled tC
live on wheat bran. Thousands of women anG
children go about their houses barefooted
Nearly $4,000 are required to feed the inhabi
tants until next fall, and as much more tc
clothe them, .., Smallpox is raging at Sorel
Quebec, in the most virulent form. -. Thirty
two thousand Germans have immigrated into
StrasbSurg since the war.
Ex-Judge Beverly Belts, of New York, has q
summer residence at East Jamaica, Queens
county, and it is in charge during the winter OF
his grandson Beverly Robinson. The house
was visited by burglars and a desperate fight
ensued the burglars finally escaping and
Robinson being wounded by pistol shot ....
The bill adopted by the United States Senate
Republican caucus, relative to the finance ques-
tion, embraces the following propositions
Redemption of the legal tenders shall begin or
the 1st day January, 1879; silver coin is, mean
time, to be substituted for fractional currency
Free banking is authorized, and is to be ac-
companied by the retirement of legal tenders
to the amount of eighty per cent. of the new
bank notes issued, till the whole volume of the
legal tenders is reduced to $500, 900, 900. This
is a modification of a proposition that developed
much strength last year. The Secretary of the
Treasury Is to use the surplus gold in the
Treasury, on the first day of January 1879, fol
the redemption of legal tenders and, if thie
surplus is not sufficient, he is to sell at his dis
cretion any of the bonds of the United States
now authorized by law to procure gold with
which to meet the demand for specie. Charges
for coinage at the United States mints are to be
abolished. The charge now made has the
effect TO send gold bullion abroad to be coined
and it is urged that if coinage is at the expense
of the government gold will be brought to the
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American coins will be less easy to export.
The Pacific Mail Companys steamphip Japan
from San Francisco and Yokohama for Hong
Kong, was burned at sea when sixty miles ou
from Yokohama. A few of her passengers ant
crew arrived at Hong Kong. The loss of life
mostly Cinnamon returning home from Sar
Francisco, was very large. .....A twelve year
| old daughter of Judge DWELL was assaulted