The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


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Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
Spanish vessel, which was shipping ma
terial OF war at Barcelona, Spain, suddenly
exploded and sunk. Fifty persons were killed
by the explosion or drowned. -. Mrs. Hal
dand.was struck dead by lightning near Frost
Station, Tenn, the electricity barning every
shred.of clothing from her body. ....A steam
yacht, carrying the Queen and the royal family,
while crossing from Osborne to Portsmouth,
England, collided with and sank the schooner
yacht Mistletoe. A party Of ladies and gen
tlemen were on board the Mistletoe, three of
whom were drowned and one killed. None OF
the royal party were injured. Reports
have been received OF great floods in Burmah
Tho Irrawaddy has overnowed its banks for
miles in the district Of Prone. doing immense
damage to the rice fields and to property
generally ,....A party Of about forty men
made raid within three miles OF Colon, Cuba,
sacked and burned store, killed nine volun-
teors, wounded about thirty and made their
| escape ...... The towns of Gluchov, Kizliar
and Karizin, Russia, have been nearly totally
| burned. Numerous other destructive fires are
reportedin Lithuania and elsewhere in Russia.
In Springield, Mass, John J. Keneaey, aged
twenty-fotr years, was killed by falling about
forty foot from scaffoding. .... Graham
Brothers & Co., wholesale grocers and COM
mission merchants, Baltimore, Md, have sus-
pended, with liabilities Of $50, ,000.... ID. NJ.
Key, of Chattanooga, Tenn, has been ap-
pointed by the governor to fill the vacancy in
| tba ITnitad Stotn. Sapata caused nv tho doa IA
of Andrew Johnson.
Three hundred houses were burned at Ryeff,
Russia. Milan, prince of Serbia, has ad-
dressed circular note to the great powors
asking their advice as to the Herzegovina in
surrection ...... A suit has been begun under
the civil rights law in Washington against the
Pullman palace car company ... Mrs. Clara
II. Carter, who was taken to the insane asylum
in Augusta, Me-. committed suicide by stran-
Cling herself with pair Of eastcs .....
George W. Pemberton, who was sentenced to
be hanged for the murder of Mrs. Bingham in
east Boston, stabbed himself in the neck,
breast and arm. The deed was committed
with the handle of a tablespoon, which he had
sharpened on the floor of his cell ..... David
Dobbins, in Digby county, N. S., beat out
his wfe's brains with mallet set fire to her
bed, and then fled to the woods. The murder
was evidently premeditated. The wife was a
quiet, inoffensive woman ..... Latest reports
of the crops in the West are favorable-more
so than could be expected after the serious
floods.
As party of men were at work on the new
| lpno ouvlt,, Of linn
belt fell among them, killing one man and
injuring another. ..... While large New York
excursion party were at Iona Island, in the
Hudson river, one woman was crushed to
death between the boat and the wharf and two
men were drowned by falling into the river
While boy named Joseph Stahl, from AL
toona, was riding up the mountain i'll coal
car the trap gave way and he was thrown
to the track. His body was cut into a hun
dred pieces The family of Hon. Thurlo "
Weed was poisoned in Now York by servant
girl using oxalic acid to clean the kitchen
kettles with. Fortunately all recovered. ....
man, his wife and three small children were
found dying from starvation in New York
tenement house. ..... Rear Admiral Collins of
the United States navy is dead. ..... Three
children named Lord, agcd one, two and four
years, living in the parish Of Cashmere, Canada,
were burned to death in their house, their
mother having locked them in for safety while
she was attending to some work outside.
The German journalists have asked to be
allowed to publish truthful reports of public
proceedings of law courts. ..... The national
council at Geneva has resolved to suppress con-
vents and Sisters cf Charity. 80. The United
States inspectors have been looking after the
overlooking of passenger boats, and on re-
cent Sunday fifteen hundred people were left
on Rockaway beach near New York ~ Mrs
Lincoln hiss become so much better as to leave
the asylum in which she was placed. .. In
the great race at Utica, N. Y, between Gold
smith Maid, Lulu and American Girl the
Maid won the heats, in 2.1S9l, 2.179l and 2 16
Budd Doble, the Maids driver, will advocate
her withdrawal from the track. 49,. The Ameri
can rifle team were enthusiastically received
II the return from Europe. ... "A tramp, after
being refused nights lodgings in a house il
Miansport. Pa, occupied only by a widow
secreted himself behind door, VIII re he was
detected by the lady, who got revolver and
started toward him, when he slapped her, ant
t, she shot him twice, killing him ..... Til,
Fdnfulla of Rome says the late Emperor Fer
dinand of Austria bequeathed $4,000, 000 t
the Pope, which amount has already been paid
The New Orleans Price Current estmate
the sugar crop for 1874 and 1875 at lie, Sc
hogsheads, against 80, 49S last year ..... TIL,
total amount OF canal tolls collected on th
New York State canals from the opening o
navigation to and including the second week il
August, 1875, has been a704, 247.32. For tn
same length Of time last year it was 81, All,
, 0076S showing decrease of 57O6, SO thu
far this year ,.... There have been heay
frosts in Illinois, Iowa. Minnesota and Wis
? consin and the crops have suffered severely
especially corn. .Adyices from Key Wes
5 are TO the effect that yellow fover has entirel
disappeared. go. "A company has been forme
in Omaha to build a narrow gauge railroa
to the Black Hills ...... Jonathan Edwards
graduate of Yale in 1919, great grandson @
at the age Of seventy-seven. The Londo
Times, in an editorial article on the Easter
troubles prophesies the gradual and inevitabl
n disruption OF the Ottoman empire. :. Arch
bishop Ledochowski is to go to Rome at tn
/ expiration Of his term of imprisonment {
( receive the insignia of the cardinalate.
3, A dispatch from Montgomery, Ala, says ths
= two men who were in Jail for rape in Pensf
4 cola were taken out and lynched ON Saturda