The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-06
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items Of Interest from Home and Abroad.

made contracts in Bohemia for ten thousand
horses. 80. During debate in the Prussian
Diet on the bill Withdrawing the State grants
from the Roman Catholic clergy Prince Bis
marck made speech declaring that he was not
an enemy of the Catholic Church he wsrred
only against the Papacy y....., The German
government journals give tranquilizing assur-
ances in regard to the relations of Prussia with
foreign powers Tho Carlists have sur
prised Fort Aspe, near Santander, and carried
off two hundred prisoners and -four guns go.
The Anti-Slavery Society of Pennsylvania cele
brated the one hundredth anniversary Of its
organization in Philadelphia. Vice-President
Wilson called the meeting to order ..... 1t is
reported that the Turks have murdered 270
Christians in Roumelia and Bulgaria during
the last three months, and that the names of
the victims have been communicated to the
foreign representatives in Constantinople zee.
In a match game Of tase ball at Savannah, Ga.
two players, Mccullough and Bailey, were
badly injured. McCullough's leg was broken
by a runner jumping ON him, and Bailey had
his nose split and eye nearly put out by fred
hot" ball The game was then stopped. .....
President Grant has appointed Leande1 G.
Dwyer, of Tennessee, Consul at Odessa, Rus
sia . =. The stage from Downievlle to Sacra-
mento, Cal, was stopped by highwaymen and
Wells, Fargo & Co.'s treasury box containing
| $4,000 in gold dust, bars and coin was carried
away.
Michael McIIale, who lived near Fort
Lee, New Jersey, attended the election,
became intoxicated went home, knocked his
wife down and cut her throat with razor. &C..
Daniel L. Hayden for seventeen years a clerk
in the post-office at Hartford, t., was arrested
charged with abstracting valuable letters from
the mails. go. .Annibal Capalti, created Car
dinal in 1868, died at Rome -. A bill making
| the manufacture of pear, apple and potato bar
rels holding less than 110 quarts dry measure
criminal offense was defeated in the New York
Assembly after long debate "A detach-
ment of United States troops left Fort Laramie
for scout east, fifty miles, as far as Scots
Bluffs, after party Of forty miners reported
to have left the line of the Union Pacific rail-
road for the hills. Their orders are stringent,
and require them to destroy property and ar
rest the leaders. .....A bill providing for a
system of public parks for Boston passed the
Massachusetts House. -. The indications are
that the United States government will soon
open up the Black Hills gold country for settle
ment. Cheyenne, W. T., is rapidly filling with
people who are only waiting for permission
from the government to go to the new Eldora-
do. .... The new United States silver twenty
cent piece is nearly ready. -. The New York
Herald says ST the bituminous coal miners
carry out their threat to strike, within few
weeks every furnace and factory in the United
States would be stopped. The damage that
would result cannot easily be estimated. ......
Another medical mystery is furnished by West
chester n Y. The doctors give a man dose
of morphine to set him asleep, and succeeded
80 well that he never awakens. Now the
coroner will have to find out what killed him.
The wife of a physician at st. Paul, Mimi.
committed suicide by taking strychnine. 80.
Mrs. Mason, aged seventy, hanged herself a
Providence, r. l., and Mrs. Irwin, described as
respectable young widow, drowned herself
and child at Hannibal, NO., ... The Chipaal
silver mine at Newburyport, Mass, was solo
for 100000 to a joint stock company or
ganized in New York for the working of tn,
mine. The same parties paid $4,000 fo
, other parcels of land in the vicinity. JOIN
Hunter, of Collingwood, Canada, has beer
sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment fo
incendiarism with intent to defraud the Hart
ford Insurance Company. "A party of three
persons ascended in the balloon Zenith a
Paris to make scientific observations. TIL,
balloon attained the extraordinary height O
| 3 mn n1etras (ovar mo faaN Two ~ tl,,
Rronauts were suffocated to death, and whel
the balloon reached the ground the third wa
almost insensble and has since been so i'll tina
his recovery is doubtful. .... Three thousanC
bales of cotton were destroyed by fire a
Charlotte, n. G Two women and two mel
. have been recently sent from Washington t.
, the asylum for the insane, having gone Graz
, over the Deecher trial. 80. The American re
vvalists in England are meeting with grea
E success, their meetings being attended By thou
sands Of people.
Marcus l.. Dean committed suicide at Paw
tucket, r. l.. "A drunken husband in Williams
burgh, N. Y, nearly succeeded in murderin,
his wife, sister-in-law, and fellow laborer
with shovel The parties were severely in
\
, Eads was murdered by Dan McAllister, a
Peoria, Ill. "A thief seized package con
tanning $500 from bank messenger in th
Boston postoffice and escaped . "A famiI
| at Dutch Hollow, ILL.,, were poisoned from eat
| ing Holsters child died. and two of the me-
, are not expected to live. ..... Twenty-Five live
t have been lost in the Canada Pacific railwa
, survey, and steps have been taken in Ottaw
to raise memorial to the victims . .Johl
) Donohue had his head blown off by an explo
sion of Illuminating powder at New Haven
, Conn. .... Abram j. Buckles auditor of Della
ware county, Ind, is declared dcfaulter t
the amount of $4,000. ..... Urgent steps ar
being taken by the New Jersey farmers club
to prevent the spread of cattle disease there
, Serious and damaging floods have occurre
along the line of the Union Pacific railroad.
A mischievous boy in New York while throwing
stones accidentally killed little girl ten year
!; Of age. IA plot has been discovered il
Uruguay to assassinate the President and hi
: Cabinet. -. Seven persons are implicated il
the Washington post-ofice contract frauds. .
A receiver has been appointed for the Northern
Pacific railroad. ..... Indians surrounded tn
miners in the Black Hills, and endeavored t
burn their stockade, but were unsuccessful
, They killed and scalped one miner, who wa
away from the stockade. Government troop
arrived, rescued the party, and took them fron
the hills.
The Indian apant ar San Norloo ao,a,,o,, All;