The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-16
NEWS OF THE DAY. W
Interesting Items from Home ana
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Turkey has protested to Montenegro against |
he subjects of that province taking part in
he Herzegovioian ineurrection and the great
overs support the protest. The navy
yard at Philadelphia was sold at auction to the
Pennsylvania railroad company for $1,oOOOOO.
.... Spain, in her note to the United States,
the gradual emancipation OF the
slaves in Cuba, increased freedom OF COM
merce and that when foreigners arc arrested
they shall have immediate hearing, and that
legal redress shall be obtainable for past in
juries ... The Russians, under General
Skobeleff, attacked the Kiptschaks at the town
Of Baly Ktschi, Khoband and defeated them
with heavy loss =. The Egyptian troops have |
occupied the districts Of Ju5a and kismayo, |
disarmed the Zanzibar forces there and hoisted
the Turkish flag =. WIN. M. Evarts mas
been appointed orator, Mr.. Longfellow the
poet. and grandson of Richard Henry Lee,
OF Virginia, to read the Declaration OF lnde-
pendence, at the opening ceremonies OF the
Centennial Tho schooner ]. q. Jenkins
was lost in Lake Ontario with nine persons.
In obedience TO the orders of the secretary OF
the treasury, the number Of employees OF the
New York, Boston and Philadelphia custom
houses has been reduced. The comptroller
of the currencys reports shows there are
1910 national banks, aggregating capital OF
s491, 296, 600. He thinks the national banks
are unduly taxed and recommends the repeal
-s .--~ ---t se-.-.r t~A Oh Oheohs The
Broadway Baptist church, of Louisville, Ky,
valued at SIC, 900, was almost totally destroyed
| by fire.
| Prince Bismarck threatens to resign if the
penal code is not adopted as submitted .....
Ex-Chief Clerk Avery was convicted in st.
Louis OF conspiracy to defraud the govern
ment This makes the third conviction Of
members Of the whisky ring. g.......A number
of the Pennsylvania coal mines have been
closed on account of the over-supply and
about five thousand miners have been thrown
out of work. :. 1t is reported that the Penn
sylvania railroad will build grand depot on
the old navy yard site. ...... The Maayans are
preparing to resist the British. ... In Rut-
land, N. Y, Sarah Conklin, aged fourteen,
was murdered in a piece of woods while re-
turning from school, and evidence points
strongly against sixteen-year-old boy named
Rutcr, who was arrested. 1t is believed ne
! dltetubtou W iioi, anu loiiii6 III illS
effort killed her with small hammer which
was found near Bly,. james H. Armsby, tho
eminent surgeon, died suddenly in Albany,
n. Y. He was the founder of several medical
institutions .. The hotel bill against the
city of New York for entertaining King Kala-
kaua. of the Sandwich islands, amounts to
$6,35S. 81. and is still unpaid.
By the burning Of u hotel at Back river,
a few miles from Montreal, a lady and two
Catholic priests were burned to death 49,.
! A dispatch from Campo San Diego county
Gal, reports an attack by Mexican bsnditP.
They are supposed to be Chavez's band. J..
Gaskill merchant, his brother and others
we're seriously wounded, and several are miss
ing. One of the robbers was killed and num-
ber wounded. Gaskill's store was robbed.
The governor of Californis has asked for the
| appreh ension OF the bandits. Raouf PGsha
succeeded in throwing fresh provisions into
Gorsnske, for the Turkish troops held il state
OF seige there, but the Herzegovinaus assert
that he WAS subsequently defeated near Gal
schko, losing one thousand killed and wound
ed At a sale Of shorthorns, draft-horses
and cotswold sheep at Toronto, Can, the total
sum realized was $4,000, the three highest
prices paid being $4,000 for Seventeenth Duke
of Airdrie; $4,000 for Kirkleiehton Duchees
Eighteenth, and S3 200 for Oneida Rose
terrible explosion took place in the Powell
Duffryn pit, near Tredegar, England. TWENTY
miners were killed. and ten have been taker
out severely injured. . Gen. Babcock, private
secretary Of President Grant, has been in
dic;ed by the st. Louis grand jury for com
plicity in the whisky frauds. The Presiden
has appointed Gems. Sheridan, Hancock ant
Terry as a commission to investigate III,
charges against Gen. Babcock to see if h
; should be courtmartialed, in addition to th
civic trial. Wm NJ. (Boss) Tweed, VIII,
was in confinement at Ludlow street Jail, Ney
York, on suit brought by the city for the re
covery of s6,0o0,0O0, escaped from Wardel
Dunham and deputy-sherif and no trace o
him has been found. The story told by tn
officers is to the effect that Tweed frequentl
went riding about the city, under charge o
the wardens and this Saturday afternoon the
q stopped at Young Tweeds house in Madiso
e avenue, and all entered. While there, Twee
a asked and received permission to "slip u
+ stairs to see his wife; but shortly after WaI
: den Durham sent young Tweed to inform hi
father that it WAS time for them to retur
to jail. Young Tweed went up stairs an
e immediately returned with the informatio
y that his father was not there, and had Ell
= capped. The officers Immediately searched til
Il house, and not finding any trace of him hurrie
/. to police station and sent alarms all over tn
country. The story of the officers is dii
!, credited, and it is supposed that they willfull
allowed him to escape, ard that he embarke
. on sailing vessel for foreign port, as h
8 large form was too we'll known to permit h
8 travelling on land 80. Foreigners are sti
n molested in China. War between Japa
y and Corea is deemed averted.
8, TIE European grain market is stiff, bl
= prices will not advance before spring, owing
q the large stock on hand. -. The estimat,
3 for the fiscal year ending June 80, 1877
:, amount to 1910 090, 769.S9, and the appropri
y tions for the same period are S29S, ,166, III. s
Il showing a A" shortage" Of SIG, s64, 592. 49,
a. The failure is announced of William Spotte
& Co., linen manufacturers and bleachers,
j. Belfast, Ireland. Their liabilities are est
mated at $1,000, 900. ..... The steamer G. |
Durfee, when twelve miles up the Red rive
"a \. buyst her steam pipe and xii ed one man al
It scalded three. Three others jumped owe
III board and were drowned. -. BY sn explosiC
in the Swaithe colliery, in the southern part
II Yorkshire, England, one hundred and IF
ny lives were lost and as many more perso
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