The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-12-02
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


duced in the Mexican Congress Don Carlos
offered to establish truce with King Alfonso
in the event Of war with the United States. =.
Blockow, Vaughan & Co., iron producers of
Leeds England, have been compelled to dis
charge between two thousand and three thou
sand workmen, owing to the depressed con-
dition of the iron trade. Reports from
Fort Laramie, Neb., place the thermometer at
fourteen degrees below zero ... John G.
Johnson, one Of tho aldermen Of Newark,
N. j., committed suicide by shooting himself
through the head. Financial troubles led to
the act...... cambridge, champion amateur
oarsman Of the country was beaten by Julian
Kennedy, of Yale College, in contest near
New Haven. Distance, two miles time,
H.56H ..... A monument to Edgar Allen Poe
was unveiled at Baltimore with appropriate
dedcatory exercises ... The official vote of
New York State for secretary OF State gives
Bigelow, DEM, 3S5, JOG, and Seward, Rep,
$40, 50S
conspiracy to seize the arsenal and to
burn the town OF Rangoon, Burmah, has beon
discovered by the authorities. A great many
Burmese have been arrested on suspicion of
| III Iuo dlldlT. n ulsDdLCn from
England states that on account Of the recent
floods the sanitary authorities have declared a
district Of Brazil, with a population of six
thousand souls unfit for habitation until mid
summer. Thousands of acres in the valley Of
the Trent will probably remain under water
throughout the winter. -. The Staten leland
ferryboat ID. II. Martin was discovered on fire
shortly after leaving her dock in New York,
and she was Immediately ran ashore and her
passengers landed in small boats. The Martin
burned to the hull, involving loss of $50, 600.
1.-The losses by the fire in New England
during the month of October were $6O1, ,275.
The Chicago grand jury found true
bill against nine election judges and three re-
peaters, for alleged election frauds. e.. . Tom
Allen and Jim Mace have made q match to be
fought in May next, for $4,000 a side =.
Frauds in the pay rolls Of the Brooklyn IN. Y
navy yard are being investigated. .... The
Black Hills commission advise the use Of
stern measures toward the Sioux to bring them
to terms go. Alabama gives majority Of
| fifty thousand for its new constitution. By a
collision between a freight and construction
train on the Pittsburgh, Cincinnati and st.
Louis railroad, near Dennison, Ohio, three
men were killed and two wounded One of
the engineers disregarded the signals.
The italian government is about to purchase
tho upper italian system of railways, at an
expense Of about e32, 600, 900. M The Now
York canal commissioners have passed a reso-
iution to close tho canals on the tenth OF
December next. The secretary Of tho treas
ury has orderod!the collectors of customs at
Boston, New York, Philadelphia Baltimore
and New Orleans to reduce their working ex-
penses fifteen per cent. John Clark, a
noted desperate, who killed a Mr. Trevor in
Rochester, New York, in endeavorng to avoid
arrest for burglary, was hanged at that place.
Clark was cool and collected to the last, walk
ing finally to the scaffold with cigar in his
mouth He died easily ..... Horny Nichols on
was hanged at Coushatta, La, for the murder
of Marcus Young, jewish pedder. He pro-
tested his innocence. The reply Of the cure of
Notre Dame, Montreal, to the counsel for the
Insdtut Canadien, who demanded eccles iasti-
cal rites over the remains Of Guibord under
pain Of damages, is published. The letter re-
fuses the demands made, and suit for dam
ages will probably follow. The population
Of Massachusetts, as finally corrected, is /,
651, ,9l2.. ..... The President has issued orders
consolidating about ninety internal revenue
collection diatricts in various parts of the coun-
try into forty, including number in New
York and Pennsylvania -. Ex-Mayor Davis,
Of Carrollton, Ill.,, e wealthy citizen, shot him
self in the head during the funeral ceremonies
Of Paul Wright, who shot himself three days
previous ...... A handsome bronze medal and
diploma were received at the Navy depart
ment from the Geographical Society Of Paris,
10 be awarded to the officers of the United
States steamer Tuscarora, as a recognition OF
their services in making deep sea soundings
in the Pacific. Brooklyn (N. Y.) public
school children must be vaccinated or stay at
home the health board saye.
James Fl. Hallock, resident of New Jersey,
took ether in the New York homeopathic col
lege, for the purpose of having an liberated
jaw opersted upon but died from the effects
OF the aLipethetic. .... Lodicia and Alber,
Fredenburg, mother and son, were found
guilty Of the murder Of Arlo Davis, in Gray
vile, Herkimer county, n. Y, and we're sen,
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at Herlimer. They were convicted upon the
testimony of Mary Davis, daughter Of Albert
Fredsnburg, who was an accomplice
Grasshoppers are making their appearance in
alarming numbers in the northern districts OF
South Australia ...... telegram Gays in the
negotiations which are now proceeding for the
settlement Of the troubles in the Turkish pro.
vinces, the programme put forward by Aus
tria includes comparatively high degree Of
self-government for the Christian communi
ties II turkey. Russia seems to demand only
Il m faithful adhesion to the promises OF
reform already made by the Porte. :. The
Cuban steamer Uruguay is still at Kingston
Jamaica, watched by Spanish gunboat. 80.
A fire in the extensive clothing store OF James
Marshall & Co., Newark n. j., destroyed the
entire contents. The loss is 800, 600.
At Locustdale, Pa, while several miners were
sitting on box containing powder incased il
a small keg, spark accidentally dropped in
the box, igniting the powder, which exploded
instantly, terribly wounding the men. Alfred
]. Steeley, John Durken and Mordecai Jones
have since died. A man named Payne, was
also wounded, probably fatally. .. United
States Senator orris s. Ferry, whose health
has been failing for some months past died al
his home in Norwalk, Conn.
The late Vice-President Henry Wilson wai
born in Pennington, N. H., Feb. 16, 1912. Al
ten years of age he was apprentced to far,
mer with whom he continued for clever