The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-15
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


The Italian Senate has passed bill for the
suppression Of brigandage in Sicily and else
where. The Khedive Of Egypt formally
opened new court OF international appeal
... Further reports from France place the
damage by floods at $24, 900, 900 in tho cities Of
Toulouse and Agen alone. Contributions are
pouring in from all parts Of France, Switzer-
land and Belgium. .... The daily record of
damages by flood and tornado is enlarged by a
storm at Dccorah, Ia, which destroyed pro-
perty to the value Of $3.50, ,000 Several bridges
we're carried of .... China has made liberal
appropriations for representations at the
Philadelphia Centennial. ... "A great typhoon
visited Hong Kong May 81. The steamer
Poyang was wrecked near Macao, and one
hundred and twenty-five lives were lost, one
hundred and fifty junks were destroyed and
great damage done to property in Canton,
Hong Kong and whampoa. .....T The Chinese
authorities declare their determination to ex-
terminate the Formosan savages and to build
walled towns on the island. John Condor,
Of Chicago, ILL.,, drew revolver at the break
fast table and shot his wife twice, instantly
killing her. He then shot himself, iniicting
wound which might prove fatal. On the
police attempting to arrest him lie fired at
them, but without effect. Jealousy was the
occasion for the shooting.
A collision occurred between two passenger
trains on the Detroit and Milwaukee railroad
by which fifteen immigrants, both conductors
and two other train employees were Injured
.... The internal revenue receipts for one
year up to July first amounted to 1885, 47o, 1872
2O'. ..... The Iowa Republicans nominated
Samuel j. Kirkwood for governor. The plat
form declares that as specie is the only re-
liable legal tender, a currency convertible with
coin should therefore be gradually attained;
revenue tariff adjusted to encourage home
industries that no moro public land should be
cedcd to corporations; that the patent laws be
revised to relieve industry from monopolies
opposes a third term and thinks the Presidents
letter efrectually does away with the subject /;
indorses free education and the public schools.
-. One weeks health report Of New York city
showed III cases OF contagious diseases, as
follows: Diphtheria, seventy-eight scarlet
fever, fifty-one; smallpox, seventeen; typhoid
fever, one ..... The California Democratic
Covention nominated VIM. Irwin for governor.
The platform opposes the unconstitutional in
reference of the federal administration in
the domestic affairs of the States, by which
one portion of the Union is ground with taxa
ton to keep another portion of the Union in
bankruptcy and servitude; denounces the Re-
publican party for corrupt administration,
for the curse of an inconvertible currency and
for the attempt to pass the Force bill :" op-
poses the division of the school fund declares
the right and duty of the government to regu-
late corporations to prevent them being made
monopolics fav )rs equal taxation and op-
poses all legislation known as "prohibitory."
. The United States steamer Lancaster
has reached Fortress Monroe from Rio Janeiro,
having on board several cases OF yellow fever.
There is no diminution in the frightful NOR
tality from measles and typhoid fever in the
Fiji Islands Medical aid is to be sent from
Australia E. The peasants Of Deva and vicinity
in Pennsylvania, Austria, have revolted against
the mobiles and defeated battalion Of militia.
Many persons have been killed, including two
judges. Regular troops have been sent to the
scene OF the outbreak. .... Tho report that
the king of Burmah refuses to allow British
troops to pass through his territory is officially
confirmed. .... Gen. Cortina has been arrested
and placed under guard by Col. Manuel Parrat,
of the Mexican regular cavalry. Cortiua's
police have been arrested, disarmed and i'm
prisoned There is great excitement in Mata-
moras, and trouble is anticipated. Alexander
Erwin, having charge Of the foundry business
OF Henry G. Morris, Of Philadelphia, who re-
Gently failed, has been discovered to have en-
bezzled sums amounting to $1,2O0000, and
extending over several years. ... Col. E. B.
Carling, quartermaster at Fort Sanders Wyo-
ming Territory, committed suicide by cutting
his throat from ear to ear. Financial embar-
rassment complicating his official affairs,
is assigned as the cause Of his suicide. The
new postal arrangement with foreign countries
went into effect July first. .... "A member of
the Baltimore city council WAS expelled for
taking bribe. He makes the eecond man ex-
PEELED from that body for corruption. -. One
hundred Germans, men and women, exiled on
account of the new religious laws of Germany,
have arrived in this country and were enthusi-
astically received.
John Hughes was hanged in the Jail yard
at Newton, N. j., for brutally numbering his
wife in January last. In his remarks while
upon the scaffold he neither acknowledged or
denied the crime, although at tho time Of his
arrest he admitted it. .... Tho Philadelphia
revenue officers seized the large tobacco ware
house of Henry Mehl & Co., and took Mr.
NIehl into custody on charge of removing
snuff from his factory unstamped and i'm
properly stamped. Paris dispatches place
the loss by inundations in the southwestern
portion Of France at Sc, 900, 900, and the num-
ber of lives lost at threo thousand. .... The
official figures from the Irish American rifle
match show the Americans won by thirty-nine
points instead of thirty-eight. ..... The Swiss
national council has voted 5000 to defray the
expenses of q proper representation of Swiss
products and industry at the Philadelphia Cen
tennial. -. The assembly of Cape Colony has
unanimously adopted resolutions in favor of
the annexation of sundry independent terri
tories south of Natal, inhabited by Que hun
dred and fifty thousand Caffres. 49,. By the
burning Of the stables of the East Genesee
street railroad company at Auburn, N. Y,
eighteen horses perished. .... Private adyices
from the Black Hills report extensive dis
coveries of gold
The governors council of Massachusetts
have decided by vote of five to four against
commutation of the death sentence pro-
nounced against Jesse Pomeroy, the boy muir
derer. Tho subject may be yet reconsidered
by the council before the time appointed for