The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-27
GENERAL NOTES

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600.
In twenty heats 1872 tons of steel
we're made in the new mill of the Beth
lehem, Pa, iron Company.
Milford township, Bucks county, Pa,
is excited over the supposed rediscovery
of an old silver mine.
In the anthracite coal counties OF
this State 450 persons were killed aud
1,3l2 more or less hurt in the mines
during the FIVE years ending with
1874.
Carruth, the Vineland editor who
was shot by Lands, and carries the
bullet in his brain, is now able to sit up,
and his physicians say he will recover.
Samuel White, prominent citizen Of
Ludlow, Mass, was bitten in the thigh
by boar Saturday forenoon, and bled
to death before assistance could reach
him.
Last year there were 1924 brewer
les in operation in the Union, New
York having $40 and Pennsylvania
347. In all New England there were
only "A, Vermont having none.
Thomas N. Walsh, who shot his wife
at Cape May on December 16, has been
found guilty of murder iu the second
degree. His punishment will be ten
years in the State Prison.
The Postmaster General has issued
an order reducing the postage to and
from all counties with which postal con
ventions have not been cont luded from
ter cents to five cents for each half
ounce or fraction thereof
James Robinson, the champion bare
book rider, is to ride in San Fran cisco
against Chas. Fish European celebrity,
tor $4,000 side and the gold and
diamond studded belt of the world. I he
San Francisco brokers are said to hold
Robinson as the favorite, and to have
staked over half million dollars on the
result.
St. Paul, May 21.-The Pioneer
Press publishes dispatches from con.
siderable number of localities in all
parts of the State relative to the grass
hoppers. There are no grasshoppers ir
the district devastated by them las,
year, nor in any part of Minnesota ex
cept in a very small area, and in com
paratively small numbers, confined tt
the group of counties on the great bend
of the Minnesota river.
Elmira N. Y, May 23.--Martir
Fitzsimmous, son Of one of the richest
farmers in this valley, living three
miles south of this city, committed sui
eide this afternoon by shooting himself
through the head with a revolver. HI
was about thirty eight years of age, anc
bad just returned from California
where be went eleven years ago, HI
was unmarried. No cause is known
for the act.
The Toledo Blade publishes ar
elaborate crop report, carefully compiled
from statements By competent parties a,
l60 points in Ohio, Indiana, Illinois
Missouri, and Iowa. These statements
indicate that from one-q quarter to one
third of crop of winter wheat hal
been killed, but that has been nearly
offset by the increased number of acre
sowed, and the quantity of spring whea
will, if everything is favorable, hence
forth bring the whole production to tha
OF an average crop.
st. Louis May 21-The Women 5
State Temperance Mass Convention me
here yesterday afternoon and organized
Committees on various kinds Of business
were appointed with the view to perma
nert organization. At the night session
Mrs. Mary M. Cleary read an essa,
"On the Results of the Womau's Cru
sades," in which she claimed that thu
crusades last year we're of Divine in
spiration, and that they were designed
to preserve the morals Of the people
They had occasioned the closing o
seven dstilleries and 597 SALOONS in tel
districts Of Ohio But the most bene
fetal results was the impetus they CAV
to the temperance movement to til,
country.
Washington, May 1S-There are Il,
new developments Today concerniu!
the whiskey frauds. No changes il
supervisors have yet taken place bu
two removals, and new appoiutement
will be made during this week Th,
Department Of Justice will soon com
meuse the prosecution of parties en-
gagged in the whiskey frauds, but nj
particular cases have been designated
as time is required for the arrangement
Of proofs Solicitor Wilson was relieved
at his own request, from duties connec
with the discovery and prosecution o.
the persons concerned in the frauds
The Secretary of the Treasury says tha
much OF the credit of bringing thu
frauds to light is due to the efficiency
and skill Of the Solicitor, who wa.
elected for this work in consequence O
his experience and success in the prose
cution of similar cases of fraud while
he held the position of United States
District Attorney.
James Lick, of San Francisco, ha,
made new trust deed. 1t differs from
that revoked in few particulars. The
donation for statuary at the State
Capitol of $3.50, 900 is changed to SlO0
900 for statuary at the City Hall, Sar
Francisco. The appropriation for the
Key monument is reduced from $3.50