The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-09
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Interestins Items from Homo and Abroad

town Of Nsmanghan, Khokand, after General
Kaufman had left. General Scabeleff returned |
and defeated the Kiptschsks, who fed, leaving |
1900 dead on the field. q. The steamer
Amerique, Of the General Transatlantic line,
was disabled at sea by the breaking Of her
shaft. Her passengers and mail were taken
OF by the steamer China. The Here
govinisn Insurgents captured an important
fort whigh commanded Zubci, with all its gar
rison. The insurgents also occupied several
strong positions in the neighborhood Of Piva.
.... Forty students have been expelled from
Princeton College for insubordination in be-
longing to prohibited secret society. By
the destruction by Are OF Jones' brewery, ia
New York, three hundred men were thrown
out Of employment and loss Of 100000 en-
tailed on the owners ...... The report of the
ordnance bureau gives the aggregate strength
Of the militia Of the countrySs 4,724 organized
and 9,701,077 unorganized. .... Cyrille Dion
beat Maurice DAILY in New York, in q contest
at billiards for 81, 900 and the championship.
Dion made GOO points to Days 557. ....A
LOGON tive and five freight cars went through
an open draw near Rutherford Park, N. j., on
the Erie road, owing to the signals not being
given. The train hands jumped and avoided
injury.
Tho governor OF Massachusetts pardoned
four convicts Thanksgiving day, according to
the time-h onored custom. Several fishing
boats were lost off the coast of Fifeshire,
England, and sixteen fish ermen are known to
have been drowned. Fourteen more are miss
ing. "A coal oil lamp exploded in the bed
room of Mrs. Charlotte Chew, at Camden,
N. j., and set the carpet on fire. Her daughter
Laura sprang out Of bed to give the alarm,
when her night dress caught the flames and
the young lady sprang out Of second-story
window, receiving injuries from which che
died in a few minutes. Mrs. Chew also died
from the effects of her burns e.. "A lunatic
named Hile, confined in the hospital at Gettys-
burg, Pa, killed @ woman named Beatty, who
entered his room to clean it. He choked her
insensible, and then jammed broomstick
into her brain .... The Quebec government
have decided to send five hundred barrels Of
flour to the people Of the Magdalen islands,
who are without their winter stock OF provis-
ions owing to the wrecking a few days ago Of
the vessels which were taking the same to the
islands.
The funeral services over the remains OF
ce-Prcsident Wilson were conducted by the
chaplain to the Senate, Rev. DR.. Rankin pro-
nouncing an eloquent eulogy. The casket Was
conveyed by rail to Baltimore, where it lay in
State in the city hall for short tinl e. The
Paris Noii!eus says there is no longer doubt
that England has an eye on Egypt; and the
Paris Temps declares that the purchase of the
Suez canal shares gives England the virtual
suzerainty of that country ...... Ben Edwards
and Oscar Freeman, both colored murderers,
were hanged ct Ssrdis Miss, in the presence
Of about four thousand people, three-fourths
of whom were colored ... Three sms'l boys
were buried in a sand pit in Brooklyn, n. Y,
and when they were excavated life was ex
tinct A. Hartman, of Auburn, Me-, VOL
the fitty-mile walk against G.. F. Avery, OF
Bangor, who gave out on the thirty eighth
mile. Harriman's time was ten hours arc
twenty.sl1 minutes New York city mill
dealers have raised the price to twelve cent?
/ per quart go. The schooner Sunshine was
overturned of the Columbia river, California
and forty people lost. ..... A colored man ant
woman were hanged at Monroe, La, in thu
/ presence Of five thousand people, for th
murder of the woman's husband. Chief
Justice Waite declines to allow his name to b.
used in connection with the Presidency, be
! lieving it inconsistent with his Office to b
concerned in politics.
/ Chavez, lieutenant Of the late bandit Vas
quez, was shot and instantly killed nea
Arizona, while attempting to escape arrest
. Secretary Chandler has offered E. S
Toby, Of Boston, the Office of commissioner @
Indian affairs .EYGov. James Z. English
Of New Haven, Conn, has been appointed t
fll the unexpired term of the late Unite
States Senator Ferry. .....T The Ontario (Can,
manufacturers have adopted resolutions cal
ing for the taSation Of American farm pre-
ducts, nasmuch al Canadian products are take
on crossing to this side also that the custom
be more strictly looked after .. The Officer
of the lost steamer Pacific were blamed by tn
coroners jury for poor discipline. ... Col. De
Anges, New York custom house official, col
cerned in the revenue frauds on smuggle
silks, has been sentenced to two years in
prisonment and pay fine Of 900 ....
lie Nord, the Russian organ, says that I'll
purchase by England Of the Suez canal stoc
will not affect the peace of Europe. -. 1t
stated that with view opreventing Austris
intervention, Montenegro has proposed
Servia an offensive and defensive alliance
favor OF Herzegovina, and if the offer is Z
cepted both countries will take joint action
April .... The roofs of the Chauncey al
Grand Tunnel mines, in the Wyoming vale
Pa, cayed in, entsiling loss of over S1OC
600, besides throwing an immense number
miners out of work at a critical season Of Il
year. The miners, one hundred and twent
five in number escaped only two hours prey
Gus to the disaster; and it was owing to Il
watchfulness Of one OF the propretors th
, they were not all crushed.
: A duel was fought near Baltimore betwe
r. W. Baylor, of Norfolk, Va, and Col. Jam
Q. Keegan, as the result Of quarrel in Phil
delphia. Baylor received shot in the le
side. The Istbmus canal commissioner
! appointed by the President have reported
, favor Of the Panama and Nicaragua route
{ the mosS practicable. The estimated cost
I $66, ,000,0 900 ..... The United States suprel
, court has sustained the position of the Uni
Pacific railroad company by affirming the I
. cision of the court of claims, manly, that t
company has the right to retain one half
its earnings on acSount OF transportation
the government. -. There will be no sales
treasury gold ordered for the month Of
(: cember, the currency balance being lar
9 enough to obviate the need Of any such sal
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