The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS,
Interesting Items from Home and Abroad

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for the regatta, to take.place on July H. Union
and Hamilton colleges were admitted as men,
bers of the association In the del artments
of Barcelona and Navarro several bands sf
Carlists have been defeated by the national
troops. An attacking force of Cuban in
srrgents were driven from fort No. 15 with
loss of five men. . Preliminary steps have
been taken by the German government to
insure satisfaction from Spain for the treat
ment of the vessel Gustav by the Ga L.,s......
An explosion of gas took place in one of the
vaults in the Park Hotel, III New York, by
which three persons were painfully buned...
The Louisiana Legislature has again elected
p. j. S. Pinchback to the United States Senate.
..... The case of the heirs of Monroe Snyder
against the Pennsylvania Mutual Life Insurance
Company to recover the face of a life policy,
payment for which was refused on the ground
that deceased had committed suicide with in-
tent to defraud. closed with verdict fof plan
tins for SIC 4j9. ..... The deputy constable
appointed to look after the children employed
in the factories i'll Massachusetts, has presented
his report to the Governor He declares that
in Massachusetts, there are 0000 children
growing up in ignorance. i'll consequence of
their employment at too early an age, and too
exclusively in factories .... The Secretary of
the United States Treasury estimates the ap-
preparations required to supply deficiencies for
the service of the fiscal year ending June 80,
1878. and prior years State department, $23,
7G4 Treasury, S2G4,797 war, 5113, 7G7 navy,
s13,377 interior, s471 $40 total 1892. .05i.
President Grant signed the new Finance bill,
giving it his "hearty" approval. But he
pointed ont to Congress that fixing date when
specie resumption shall commence implies an
obligation to provide such legislation as may be
necessary to redeem their promise. And in
this connection he calls attention to the de-
fciency which exists in the Treasury, and
which. under the present revenue laws, is like
ly to continue and to increase. This fact has
an importance entirely separate from that
which arises from the recent pledge to resume
in 1919. The Secretary of the Treasury states
the requirements of the sinking fund for the
year ending the 30th of june at S31, 069, 5i5,
and the balance remaining from other eXpendi-
lures he estimates at only 80 002 1861. There
will therefore. unless expenses are cut down,
or revenues increased. or both. be a distinct
7iS.43. The Secretary estimates the deficiency
next year at 51l, $40, 914. He suggests the duty
Oh tea and coffee he returned, and that the ten
per cent. reduction of the tariff OH the articles
specified on the law of June e. 1872, be re-
pealed
4 dispatch from PadanS announces that the
Dutch troops in Acheen have made general
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carried nine forts, with loss of q killed and
65 wounded. The enemy lost Ill killed and a
large number wounded .....A locomotive on
o., the Baltimore and Ohio railroad exploded her
=, boiler when near Moundsville, instantly killing
| the engineer named Maurice Hustled. The
1 fireman, named A. Lyell, had leg broken.
None of the passengers were injured. ... The
\, First National Bank of Carhondale, Pa, was
z robbed of 10000 in currency by two men. who
[ seized and bound the cashier. during the ab-
: sence OF the other officers of the bank
c report was current III London that the nativet
of Santa Cruz Island, in the South Pacific, hat
captured and massacred the crew and officer
y of the cutter Iapwing, which they burned,
u The extensive works of the kinsey Iron ant
:, Machine Company in Canton. Mass. took firt
), from spark of hot iron and all the shops ol
the east side of the street were destroyed
The company employs from 500 to 600 men
!, and is one of the largest in the country outsd
4 of Pennsylvania. The works cover seyera
g acres of ground The entire property is valued
+ at S250,0O0, and the loss is something unde
o this amount. The total insurance on til,
works il S2l0,000
The National Women Suffrage Convention
t adopted resolution to hold national citizen
T. suffrage association in Philadelphia on Jul
l. 4th 1876, in which the women of the old AN
y new world, who demand equal freedom o
Il franchise, are invited to participate .....
Charles A. Stevens, Republican, was elected t
It Congress in the Tenth Massachusetts, District
.e to ill the mexpired term of Alvah Crocker.
- The lose by the ire in Rutland. Vt, will lie
. 100000 insurance Sl00, 900. .... The Unite
, States House Committee on coinage agreed t
20 report favoIaby the Senate bill providing fo
10 the coinage of twenty-cent pieces with a
a amendment allowing them to be in use on re
FL demptiOn Of any fractional currency, incladin
2. the fifteen-cent note which was not mentione
in the Finance bi recently enacted .,.. job
s. McClelland the telegraph operator convcte
in the Hudson county, n. j.. Court of Sessions
of manslaughter, in causing the death of fou
% men by collision of trains OH the Pennsylvani
- railroad last March, was sentenced by Judg
N Hoffman to pay fine of $3.50 and costs
~ court . The National Council of the Sove
N egns of Industry in Philadelphia were repr,
70 4ented by councils from thirteen States I'll
order is only one year old.
ld John Il. Anderson, who entered the shops
le the Walngford Wheel Company New Havel
Sc March 7, 1874, with revolver in each han'
IS, and fired eleven shots at the wolkmen, again
vi whom lie had grudge, killing Horatio &. Hal
Ie ~ of Wallingford and wounding two or thrt
w others. has been convicted of murder in Il
"a first degree in the Superior Court i'll that cit
%, The defence was plea of insanity. .Ju
after dark, three negroes, with their wagon
loaded with shingles. had gone into camp abol
six miles from Clinton, La, they were yisitt
by white men. who were mounted, and wi
Is proposed buving their shingles. After fe
10 words one of the white men pulled out a pst
u ~ and shot two of the negroes, killing them il
W stmtly. The third negro escaped and ga'
the alarm ..G. W. Ullery, arrested for 8
- outrage on little girl nine years Old, he
-, Urbana, Ohio. was hanged by mob of for
ca masked men, who went to the jail, captured al
ne bound the guards, battered down the door