The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-18
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Items of Interest from Home md Abroad.
The lower branch of the Ohio Legislature
passed the bill providing for compulsory edu-
cation in that State. 1.-THE Rcpublican Con-
vention of the First Congressional district of
Connecticut renominated General A. II. IIawley
| for Congress The Prohibitonsts of Ohio
/ have renomnated State ticket. .. George
| NJ. Chadwick, New York broker, convicted OF
uttering q United States bond four years ago
and sentenced to the Albany renitentiary for
| ten years, has been pardoned by President
| Grant Tornadoes have been doing extern
sive damage in Missouri and the West. The
public printing of the United States cost last
year over two million dollars. The appropria-
/ ton for this year is 81 ,6G5, 507 .....A burning
well near Butler, Pa, sends up mass Of flame
forty feet high by fifteen wide. The surround
ing country is illuminated by the light Tho
roar of the escaping gas is described to be like
that of mighty river.
Another man supposed to be Bender, the
murderer has been arrested i'll the mountains
of California. A member of the North
Carolina Legislature expelled from that
body for the use of blasphemous language. -.
Thomas Murphy, resident of Ansonia Conn,
has been arrested for numbering his wife, by
striking her with AK, because she asked him
to get pail of water 49,. BY flood in Ten
nessee a number of buildings and bridges were
swept away and much damage done ......A
frightful disaster occurred i'll st. Andrews
Catholic Church, New York. While services
were being held and the church filed, the wall
of building adjoining fell, crushing in the
church roof, killing five persons instantly and
seriously injurng over thirty more. The wall
which fell was that of burned bulldog which
had been left standing by itself New York
State alone has put in applications for space in
the Centennial building equal to the full
amount allowed the United States. A bill
introduced i'll tho New Jersey Legislature
against kidnapping inhicts punishment of
twenty years imprisonment and $40, coo fine
for each offensc. Another new planet has
been discovered. The honor of discovering
belongs to Berlin.
Mr.. Gordon Claude q cadet engineer of the
naval academy at Annapolis has been expelled
for refusing to fence with a colorcd midship-
mar. Mrs. Ann Eliza Young has been
granted $4,000 for lawyers fees, and an ali.
AAiOHN VI sOOO pSA AAOIitA, pChOlLlS JIG lildl IN
her suit for divorce from Brigham Young.....
Much damage to property has been caused by
freshets in Tennessee, Pennsylvania and Ohio.
...... The one huudredth anniversary of the
beginning Of the revolutionary war was celc-
brated at Salem, Mass. .. 1t is reported that
the Protestant clergy of Spain have forwarded
a memorial to Germany and other Protestant
powers complaining that liberty of worship is
threatened. ... The Legislature of Pennsyl-
yania has passed, and Governor Hartranft has
signed, a bill defining the offense of kidnap-
ping, and imposing fine of $40, 600, and i'm
prisonment for not more than twenty-five
years on all persons found guilty. of the
otfense.
The Kansas Assembly has instructed the
committee ways and means to report bill
Immediately, appropriating $500, 600 for the re-
lief of the grasshopper sufferers. Several
persons were drowned by the floods III Tennes-
see...... The Spanards hope to finish the
Carlist war by defeating the last of the Carlists
within few weeks ..... The Civil Rights bill,
it passed the United States House and was
adopted by the Senate, applies only to inns and
service in the iury-box. see. Michael Sullivan,
convicted of the murder of Daniel Tamadge,
at Metuchen, n. j., December /, 1874, was
sentenced to be hanged. The Cliff Loco
motive Works. at Scranton, Pa, were burned,
with loss Of $500, 600 ... The building i'll
spectors who pass ed the wall which fell on st.
Andrews Church in New York were arrested TO
await the verdict of the coroners jury The
Wisconsin Legislature has passed railroad
bill which is considered by the roads even
more Objectionable than the Potter" law.
1.-The Minnesota Legislature passed rail-
road bill which repeals past legislation.
The United States House of Representatives
adopted resolutions recognizing Kellogg as
Governor of Louisiana, and recommending the
Hahn Legislature to seat the Conservative
members fraudulently counted out by the re-
turning board ..... Gen. FitZ-John Porter has
been appointed commissioner of public works
in New York city. ...... The Chief Secretary for
Ireland introduced bill in the House Of Com
mons to repeal the stringent laws now in opera
ton in the proclaimed districts A double
execution took place in Sacramento, in the
hanging of Gotta and Estrada for the murder
of John Cruise, whom they killed while attempt
= ing to rob him. The necks of both were
broken. ... Commander Mclriman, Of the
I United States navy volunteers, is to lead an ex
l pedtion to find the North Pole m The Secre
tary of the United States Treasury has issued
call for the redemption of $5,0o0O00 coupon
I bonds of the issue of 1862, upon which interes
will cease June /, 1875. The bonds are EN-
a braced within the numbers following So
bonds from No. S,351 to No. 10000; Sl0
= bonds from No. 49, 101 to No. 27,500; 500
bonds from No. II, 101 to No. 13,600 81, ,00
J., bonds from No. 33, 101 to No. 39, 900. go. .Th
g new Tariff bill was defeated in the Unite,
= States Senate by vote of 80 to 70.
= The city of Knoxville WAS nearly inundate
4 by the late flood ... In the Ohio House
q joint resolution requesting Congress to reduc
II the United States Presidents salary to $3.50
year was adopted. ....A railway acciden
e occurred near Litchfeld, England, by whicl
e thirty persons were injured. The Arkansa
e Legislature has made an appropriation for til
70 Centennial . The resolution of censure pu
10 upon Senator Simon Cameron by the House o
l. Representatives when he was Secretary @
g War in 1862 was rescinded by the House. ...
70 > Both the principal hotels ia Alexandria, Va
N closed the proprietors fearing trouble i'll col
D. sequence of the passage of the Civil Right
T. bill. Another hotel in Baltimore closed fo
n the same reason. :. There is great depressio