The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-11-04
SUMMARY OF NEWS.

datons. The loss is considerable. Torquay
Teigumouth, and Dawlish were flooded and
much damage was done to property. ..... The
Congress Of Costa Rica, Central America, has
passed a law declaring the Port Limon, on the
Caribbean sea, free port, and offering induce
ments to immigrants to that section by per-
mitting public lands to be acquired at nomi-
nal rate and allowing manufactures of rum
and tobacco to be established in that part
of the State for domestic use or export without
payment of duties .... Tho Warren avenue
Baptist Church, Of Boston, has stricken out
that portion of the declaration of faith which
makes immersion a prerequisite to COM
munion. The church is one hundred and
twenty-five years old. The trunk lines
running out Of Chicago have advanced passen-
ger fares about 90 ...... verdict for $4,000
damages and five per cent. for counsel fee was
rendered in Brooklyn a. y court against
liquor dealer who bit off piece of the nose
and thumb of Walter westlake -. Governor
Tildep's commission made their seventh re-
port, showing an absolute waste of half mill
lion Of money on the Buffalo canal " improve
ments," and inculpating Appraieer Davis and
Commissioner Fay in corrupt and unlawful
practices. -. Two hundred dwellings,, q syna-
gogue, and five schools in the town of Widsy,
Russian Poland, have been burned. Some
! persons perished and three Thousand are
homeless. .. A terrible fire took place at
Iquique, Peru. Three-quarters Of the town
are said to have been destroyed ......A A white
murderer named Dugan was taken from
sheriff in Arkansas, by a crowd Of masked
men, who shot him. Dugan was under SEN
tence OF death for killing his son-in-law under
slight provocation.
The sinking Of a shaft one hundred meters
deep will be begun near Calais, France, as the
preliminary operations in the construction of
tunnel under the English channel . China
has proposed to send a mission to England
bearing an apology for the Yunnan outrage,
..... Mr.. Frederick Hudson, formerly mana
ging editor Of the New York Herald and well
known as journalist and author, was killed
by train Of cars at Concord, Mass 49,. The
damage by the floods in England was heavier
than at first reported. Sheffield was heavily
damaged. The valley of the River Don formed
a lake half mile wide and fifteen miles long,
flooding many colleries and iron-mills, and
At Rotterdam two thousand people were
thrown out of employment by the floods .....
Eight of the indicted st. Louis distillers have
pleaded guilty, and have withdrawn their
claims to the property seized by the govern
ment, valued at over $500, 0O0 "A DIR. Bal
lard was waylaid and shot dead by man
named Andrews near Marion, Ark. 1t WAS
| tba conclusion Of q fprrnar duarrp1 A
policeman of Denver, Col, entered small
tenement, recently vacated by some Italians,
to discover the cause of a sickening smell,
when he discovered in the cellar the bodies of
a man and three boys, all having their throate
cut ..... The county of New York has issued
Judgment for S648, 491.57 against the estate OF
he late James Watson, county auditor, under
the Tweed ring. ......A young man named
Kiser, who had become insane over religious
subjects threw himself from tho tower of tbs
water works in Chicago and falling distance
of one hundred and seventy feet, was dashed
to pieces
{ Proposals for the new Canadian loan fol
two and one-half millions sterling have JUS
been issued in London. Three-fifths of thi
2 sum are guaranteed by the Imperial govern
, ment, and the other two-fifths are issued OF
, the credit of Canada alone. The rate Of in
) terest of both is four per cent. ..A A Telegram
from Berlin says that the estimates for til
German empire for 1876 show deficiency o
So, 750, 900. 80. "A firm in Manchester, England
has begun the importation of American cali
Goes 49,. During the recent storms in Grea
Britain a number Of vessels were lost an
many lives sacrificed. Ben Boyd, the mos
notorious and successful counterfeiter in IL
;. country, was captured by secret service detec
" tives in Illinois. They also seized numbe
y OF plates and much material for making cour
terfeits. ..... The commissioner Of interrf
revenue has decided that weiss bier is smls
= liquor to ale, porter and lager bier, and subjeC
to tax Of one dollar per barrel of thirty-on
n gallons Mrs. Walton, the divorced wif
Of Hiram Walton, of Mercer, Me-, who hs
n been living with Greenleaf Tracy, was she
g and killed by Tracy in fit of jealousy. II
then fled to the woods ard shot himself. Bot
Is were dead when found. Henry Brown, til
V negro who killed Phillip Pfarr, German, Ii,
/, ing few miles from st. Louis, and the
l. ravished and robbed his wife, was hanged j
/, the yard Of the jail. In brief speech mao
IS on the scaffold, he admitted having struc
y Pfarr the blow which caused his death, b.
"a denied outraging Mrs. Pfarr.
The census of Massachusetts, for 1875 shov
a population of !, 1,651 G52 80. The initial r.
L Il vival by Moody and Sankey was held in Broo
- lyn, n. Y, at the early hour Of eight o'clock
i u Sunday morning, and was attended by abo,
Il five thousand persons, nearly ten thousar
ID being turned away. The service at four o'clot
l. was equally crowded, and it was found nece
id sary to open two neighboring churches -.
,e Attorney General Pierrepont has given
elaborate opinion confirming the opinion til
the United States is pledged for the payne
l. of the principal and interest of the 8 65 Distri
,r bonds. ....A carriage containing five perso
, was overthrown into the Schuylkill river o
A. posite Manayunk, Pa. Henry Getler, of Phil
t. delphia, his mother and child were browne
s. ..... DR.. Linderman, the director of Il
g. mint, is hopeful of the future production
ID gold and silver. From his late personal obse
D. vatons he thinks the sum total next year W
is be s100,000,000, of which amount the Coz
w stock lode will furnish one-half. go. Pet
Murray and his bride were burned to death
~ Cheshire, Conn.,, by their house catching fiji
n 1.-THE commissioner Of pensions, in |
a. annual report, places the number of pensione
in at 234, S21, decrease Of 1,42O since Il
m previous year. The total amount expend
l. amounted to S29, 6s3, 116 63. .. United Stat
w Treasurer New recommends that the redel