The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-14
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items of Interest from Home md Abroad.

Items of Interest from Home and Abrond.
Advices from Venezuela report that des-
perate battle was fought in the Province Of
Barqusimento, between n force of government
troops under Gen. Marquee and a body Of
insurgents under Gen. Colina. The engage
ment lasted eghty-four hours. Between seven
and eight hundred men were killed and wound
ed on both sides. Both parties claim victory.
...... Charles Willine q babe, was burned to
death in New York. his clothes taking fire in
the absence of his mother see. yellow river
near its mouth has changed its course, causing
widespread inundations and distress i'll China
About twenty miles from Hoochoo the country
is a vast ocean. IA. W. Hedges, postmaster
at Lancaster, KY, was shot and killed in his
office by Ebenezer Best. The two men were
brothers-in-law Hedges having married two of
Best's sisters. A family quarrel was probably
the cause A respectfully dressed man was
run over and killed on the Pennsylvania rail-
road, near Railway. ... The Arkansas Legisla-
ture has passed the bill providing for issuing
two and a half million bonds for bonding the
floating Indebtedness, and to raise means to pay
the current expenses of the State government.
...... me OnlIeu StuVCS llOUbe NOlIlllllJtee ull
Appropriations has agreed to bill appropriating
800 600 for defraying the expenses of enter
tanning tho King of the Sandwich Islands. .....
President Grant nominated Joseph Archibold
collector of internal revenue for the third dis
trict of New York NJ G. Hollister, chief justice
of the Supreme Court of Idaho John Clarke,
associate justice of the Supreme Court of Idaho.
...... Drs. Clapp and Chase, of Boston, were
tried before the Massachusetts medical society
on charge of practcing homeopathy. Ten
members have already been expelled FOR tho
same oiIenso Mr.. Ross has offered a reward
of $4,000 for the return of his stolen son,
Charlie Ross.
Two railroad accidents occurred in England
by which several persons were killed and in
jured go. II. Tardy, of Mobile was killed in
a duel with B. d. Lay, near the Alabama and
Mississippi State line. Several of the Pitts
burgh furnaces have recommended blasting
......An attempt to settle wages dispute
among the coal miners of West Yorkshire
England, by arbitration has failed. .... The
bark Nonge, from New York. Nov. 10, has
arrived at Queenstown with two survivors OF the
crew of the bark Amity The latter foundercd
on the voyage from Philadelphia to Antwerp,
and eighteen hands were drowned. The
crew of the bark Resource which was aban-
doned on the passage from Baltimore for
London, have arrived at Plymouth England
They have suffered severely. When rescued
they had been four days and nights clnging to
the wreck. In a shooting alfray in Mercer
county, Kentucky, two men were killed and one
mortally wounded The quarrel arose about
dog, and one Daniels was shot in the leg by
Isaiah Colbert. \ constable with posse at
tempted the arrest of Gobhert, and i'll the
melee Colbert was felled with shovel, when
one Herring, a friend of Gobhert'e, shot the
constable through the body, killing him. Tho
constables brother, who nterfered was also
killed. Gobhert's wound is mortal. M More
than 100000 women, exclusive of servants,
are working for wages i'll Great Britain. A
vigorous movement is on foot in London for
the organization Of trades societies among
them. ... The number of persons employed in
American breweries il II. 138 i'll malt houses
$500, i'll barley culture SO, 1853, in hop culture
S,02O and the total employed in all these
branches amounts to 56, ...... Mr.. Page. of
California, introduced a bill in the United
States House to amend the revised statutes so
as to exclude Chinese from naturalization.
The King of the Sandwich Islands has
had grand reception at all points in the
United States. He is the first real king the
United States ever had the honor of entertain
ing. ia daughter of Sebastian Eichenlaub,
of Syracuse, NY, aged four years, was burned
Tlo log+ ~,
stove, to attend to some household duties, and
on her return the little one was dead .....
Indian agent Bingham reports that he pursued
the miners ell route for the Black Hills thirty
five miles, but failed to overtake them on
account of his supplies being exhausted. go.
In the suit Of Josephine Mansfield against the
Fisk estate to recover on two promissory notes
given her by James Fisk, the jury awarded the
plaintiff S25, ,29l. 81. e.. Walter Abbott was found
dead in the road at Rumford, Me-, shot through
the body, and with three stabs in the breast.
His pockets were rifed and his team stolen. -.
Two American war vessels have entered Hong
Kong with additional survivors of the burned
steamship Japan BY railway accident at
| Woodstock, in England thirty persons were
killed and fifty wounded.
/ A personal collision between Governor War
moth, of Louisiana, and S. C. Byerly, editor of
/ the Bulletin occurred in New Orleans, in which
the latter was killed. Governor Warmoth was
arrested .. The Grand Duke Nicholas, of
Russia, son of the present Emperors brother
Constantine, is insane, and has been placed
under his fathers guardianship. E. The Didr'io
of Havana, has published an article alleging
that two steamers have been purchased to
bring filibustering expeditions to Cuba by old
members of the Cuban Junta in New York city,
which is to be reorganized for a vigorous pros
ecution of the rebellion. .... John Vetter an
infant three months old, was suflocated in
Cincinnati by his parents who were both
drunk, lying on it in bed. The corpse remained
III the house for four days before it was dis
covered by the neighbors, the parents remain
ing drunk and making no attempt to bury it,
In row in New Orleans between negroes and
whites, two negroes were killed and in row
between soldiers and citizens two soldiers we're
severely wounded ..... Christian Ecks, of
Brooklyn, shot and fatally wounded a chicken
thief named Thomas Corr, whom he detected
in the act Of stealing chickens from his back
yard. Ecks was locked up. Charles Howard,
who was taken from the jail and hanged to
lamp post in Des Moines, Iowa, was known in
New York and Brooklyn as a minstrel per-
former. He was the son of wealthy parents,
but early in life chose ways of wickedness