The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-09-30
,aught fire from stove in the engine room.

caught fire from stove in the engine room.
...... snowstorm prevailed on Mount WASH
ington, N H., Sept. 18th, continuing all the
next day. No trains or stages went up or
down ..... The United States cotton crop this
year is 9,S27,S45 bales -. The insurrection
in the Turkish colonies etill continues, and
much fighting with the loss Of many lives
must result before affairs are settled.
The gale at Galveston drove the waters Of
the Gulf over the entire island, inundating
the highest points to depth of two feet, and
running gardens and foundations. Many build
ings were moved bodily into the thorough
fares. The gale extended along the entire
coast, and created great havoc with the ship
ping of all classes 80. The Servian news
papers say that the government has received
note from the Sublime Porte asking if Turkey
may rely on the maintenance of Servian neu-
trality ...... Jocob Benjamin, q well-known
pawnbroker of Bait more, died from erysipelas,
which was produced by the use Of hair dye.
1t ls expected that Russia will recognize Khan
SADIE as the successor of his deposed father in
the Khanate, of Khokand, Asia, but whether
recognition will be accompanied by the armed
occupation Of Khokand is uncertain. At last
advices all was quiet. .Westervelt, cne Of
the alleged abductors of Charley Ross, has
been convicted in Philadelphia of conspiracy
to kidnap, conspiring to extort money, and con-
spring to defraud the child of his liberty. He
was acquitted of the counts of kidnapping and
concealing the child. He took an appeal. E.
James Garland, professor Of music at New
Brunswick, N. j., had go i'll treated his wife
that she determined to leave him. and was
making her preparations to do 30, when he
shot her three times with a revolver, nficting
serious wounds in her neck and head. Garland
then went to his room and fired three shots in
to his own head and cut his throat and arm
with penknife, breaking two blades. Not
content yet, he caught up a hammer ard
struck himself on the head, crushing in the
skull, and died in few minutes. ... The
supreme court at San Francisco confirmed the
decision Of lower conrt fentencing ex- Han boz
Commissioner John Marks to seven years i'm
prisonment for embezzling $4,000.
Tho New York State Homeopathic Society
celebrated the semi-annual centennial Of the
introduction Of homeopathy into this country,
by appropriate exercises. 81. As the telegraph
wires about Galveston have been repaired
intelligence comes that the town Of Indianola,
on Matagorda bay, Texas, village of twelve
thousand inhabitants, was completely inun-
dated and mostly destroyed by the recent
storm Very few houses are left standing
entire, and the loss of life counts up to about
one hundred and fifty, the receding waves dis.
tributing the bodies over space of twenty
miles. Parties OF the saved were hunting ur
the bodies Of their relatives, and as there
ls little food to be had their condition is very
pltiable. The people of Galveston sent relief
information has also been received that the
town of Matagorda has been swept away. will
the exception Of two houses. At East Ba,
only i've persons out of twenty-eight ar,
known to have been saved. The town o.
Saluria is also reported to be washed away
Charles G. Fisher, assistant district-attorne-
at Washington, has been arrested for abstract
ing criminal records, and committed to Jail
The records were recovered. ...A dseas
like the epizootic appeared at Poughkeeps
and elsewhere in the State Of New York.
The Mechanics bank of Montreal has sus
pended, owing to heavy defalcation . .. TIL
cattle disease has broken out in Wilbraham
Mass ..... The Russian General Kauffma
occupied Klokand without resistance. Th
greater portion of the Russian troops RENAME
in the fortified camp outside. All the Russia
prisoners have been delivered over to Generi
Kaufman, and the Khan has accepted all tn
conditions of peace. go. An editor of til
Ge'mdnia, an Ultramontane newspaper, hs
been sentenced to five months imprisonme1
by the municipal court of Berlin for publishin
an offensive article.