The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-25
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
tens of Interest from Home and Abrond.

by VI TO 81. ...... Charges have been preferred
in the New York Legislsture against the sheriff
of Oneida county. An avalanche of snow
from Cape Diamond, Ontario, came crushing
down on a two-story frame house occupied by
family named Gibson. 1t completely demol-
ished the building, burying the family six in
number, and child named Hetherington in
the ruins. .... The Legislature of Wisconsin
elected Angus Cameron, of La Crosse, United
States Senator, by vote of 6S to SO for Carpen-
ter. The election of Mr.. Cameron was brought
about by the coalition of the Democrats with
tho boiling Republicans. The latter offered
the Democrats four names from which they
might chose q candidate. The Democratic
caucus nominated Mr.. Cameron conditionally
upon his acceptance of the platform that
includes hard money tariff from revenue only,
and the supremacy of civil authority in time of
peace. Mr.. Cameron was born in Caledonia
Livingston county, New York, in 1926. He
went to Wisconsin in 1857, and served six years
in the State Legislature, and was Speaker of
the Assembly in 1867.
In the course of the Civil Rights bill debate
in the United States House, Brown, of Ken
tucky, made severe attack upon Butler, of
Massachusetts, compelling the House to make
the cause of the latter its own. Dawes pro-
posed to have Brown expelled for what he
termed gross violation of the privileges of de-
bate I; but he finally withdrew this proposition,
and motion of Hale, of New York, was passed,
| by which Brown was called to the bar and CEN
sured. 80. Reports from the far West say that
many people have frozen to death from the ex-
treme cold. .... "A locomotive was thrown from
the track the South Side railroad of Long
Island On striking the water the boiler ex-
ploded, killing four men and injuring others.
......A bill is before the New York Legislature
providing more effectually for the punishment
of peculation and other wrongs, affecting tho
public moneys and rights of property. .... Ii
has been ascertaned that twelve female
patients Of the Beaufort (Ont.) Insane Asylum
perished in the fire there. .... General Hersey,
of Bangor, Maine, is the fourth member of the
next United States House of Representa-
tiyes who has died since the election took
place. The fatality among the members of the
44th Congress is urcXampled "A mammoth
concert is to be given at the New York Hippo
drome for the benefit of Miss Linda Gilbert
the founder of prison libraries. 1t will take
place April goth, and 1000 performers have
volunteered.
A dispatch from Madrid says that the national
troops continue to meet with success in their
operations against the Carlists. .... Five coun
terfeiters, two alleged murderers and one hote
thief escaped from jail at st. Louis .... The
Attorney-General is of opinion that prisoners
sentenced by United States consular courts
cannot be legally held if brought to the United
States for Imprisonment ... Samuel Foote.
young m2n of temperate habits, committed
suicide in Auburn, n. Y, by taking poison
This was the sixth attempt he had made on his
own life. o..... Senator Carpenter, after hE
DEBUT returned to Milwaukee. He was met at
the depot by about one thousand citizens who
detached the horses from his sleigh and drew
him through the principal streets amid enthu-
slastlc demonstrations. .... One of the escape d
lunatics from the Montreal asylum, named
FIeury, killed his sister at Three Rivers with
an ax...... Two more men were killed at shaf
8 of the Deleware, Lackawanna and Westcrn
railway tunnel in New jersey.
Mrs. John Grabach, OF Kearney Junction
Nebraska, killed her little step-daughter aged
four or five years, by kicking the child down
and jumping upon her in q fit of anger. The
woman attempted recently to poison the child.
..... The Chinese in the United States cele-
brated their New Years day OH February 5tl
and 9th in their peculiar way. :. u. In the United
States House of Representatives Mr. Dawes
announced that the receipts Of the government
during the last forty days were SO, 500 900 short
of the estimates, and that the deficit would
probably be S50,O0O000. ... An insane man.
who was found lettering on the grounds sur
rounding the executive mansion at Washington
at midnight, was arrested while attempting tc
stop the Presidents carriage, which was return,
ing to the mansion with several of the Presi-
dents family. The same individual was ar
! rested several days before for being found at
night in the vicinity of the White House 90.
st. Marys Catholic Church, in Putnam Conn.
was destroyed by fire. Loss, 37O,OOO 8. There
is no prospect whatever that any of the sewins
machine companies will this season succeed il
obtaining all extension of their patents, not
wthstanding the efforts which continue to be
made for that purpose...., The select Con
gressional committee on the Mississippi levecs
have agreed to offer an amendment to the Rive
and Harbor bill when it shall come up, making
an appropriation of SO, 100000, the amount es
timatcd by the engineers as requisite to repai
the damages of last season.
San Francisco las again suffered eevera
earthquake shocks. DR.. Ricardo who wal
tried on charge of attempting to kill lttl
Walter Shafer, to conceal bunging surgica
, operation and who was convicted of assault
was sentenced to pay $500 fine and costs, il
Paterson, n. ..... President Grant signed tn
act to amend the existing customs and interna
} revenue laws and for other purposes, other
wise known as the "Little Tariff bill" II
the New York Assembly Mr.. T. G. Campbell
introduced bill authorizing the supervisors il
the various counties to raise by taxation an,
appropriate such sums as they may deen
necessary for the support Of the poor. zee. TIL
Shakers lost $150,OO0 by the fire at Noun
Lebanon. AS their was no insurance the los
. is severely felt In the disaster to the Pacifi
Mail steamer Japan $50 Cinnamon lost tLei
lives. .... The Hoosac tunnel in AIassachu
setts cost S13, 3,0O0 600 and 142 lives to build
Bishop Clarke of Rhode Island, has pub
lished an appeal to all of the Epscopa
Churches in his diocese requesting that durin
Lent collection be taken for the relief of tn
Kansas and Nebraska sufferers Canad
has appointed three gentlemen to act as com
, missioners at the Centennial The Main
Senate failed by a vote of Is to Is, to pass th