The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-12
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


Cuba and other West India islands, has sus-
pended, with liabilities at s1,5OO OOO go. Tho
publishing house of J. b. Ford Co.-widcly
known as tho publishers OF the works of tho
Beocher family, and moro especially of tho
Life OF Christ" which was often referred to
in tho late trial-have been obliged to call
a meeting of its creditors to got an extension
of time on its liabilities. Secretary Brstow
has called in the last outstanding bonds of the
issue of 1862 -. .Thirty-one mills have been
closed at Dundee, Scotland, throwing twelve
! thousand persons out Of employment .....
Following close upon the suspension Of Dun
can, Sherman g. Co., como the reports of
other failures. John Mason & Co., one Of
Phladelphas Oldest firms in tho West India
| trade, have closed their doors liabilities un-
known The Tobacco Exchange banking COM
pany of Louisville, KY, have also suspended.
.... Cyrus ID. Foss, ID. D., OF New York. has
been elected president of Wesleyan College,
at Mddletown, Conn .....The Minnesota Re-
publicans, in convention, nominated John s.
| Pillsbury for governor. Tho platform recog
nizes tho equal rights and just protection of
all men; favors a return to specie payment ;
calls for tariff strictly for revenue, favorable
to homo industry demands that all corpora
tions shall be held subject to tho law-making
power; approves tho present national admin
istration indorses the policy Of arbitration
between this and foreign countries instead of
war; that it is the duty of tho State to maintain
the integrity Of the common school system.
Further testimony in the Mountain Meadow
massacre coroborates that already given.
Implements were found in Lees cell with
which he was to attempt an escape from jail
Preakness and Springbok came in together
as winners Of the Saratoga cup, making the
two miles and quarter in 3.561l ..... The
supreme court of Louisiana has decided that
the acts under which the 100000 600 and
S3,0OO000 levee issues were made are const-
tutional. Most of the bonds are held in
Europe. The funding board have boen manda-
mused to fund thom. :. "A riot among twenty
two hundred strikers on the st. Gothard tunnel
was put down by the Swiss troops, who killed
two men and wounded several others. -. The
counsel OF tho Mountain Meadow prisoners, in
his address to the jury, stated that the immi-
grants wero murdered by the Indians, and tha
such white men as were present at the time did
80 under compulsion from savages; that Lee
held no military or church office, but was
simply farmer for the Indians. -. The Prince
Bishop of Breslau, in his dual capacity as a
German and Austrian bishop, is mediating be-
tween tho Vatican and Prussia, through the
rapal Nuncio at Vienna. Nineteen deaths
from yellow fever havo occurred at Barrmcas,
Fla. DR.. Pcckover dentist OF Cynthiana,
Ky, was shot and killed by another dentist
named Donally, after somo high words had
passed between them. Donally gayo himself
up to authorities, and was on his way to Jail
whom peckover's brother-in-law, Il. ii. Ridge
ley shot at and killed him. Ridgeley is III
custody. 1.-The people OF Nebraska generally
corroborate Prof. Marsh's charges against the
Indian commission, The steamer My Choice
ran down a rowboat on Lake Michigan and
four men wore drowned.
Henri Rochcfort has challenged Paul Cas-
sagnac, the bclligerent Paris editor, to fight a
duel. -. Thomas Donohuo was drowned in q
vault on his promises at st. Louis. Charles
Prunty, James Henry, and Joseph Schlichtg
who successivoy descended into the vault tc
recover tho body Of Donohue, were overcome
by foul air and died before thoy could DO res
cucd. ... Tho telegraph reports a cave in al
the Eureka consolidated nino at Ruby Hill
Nebraska Five miners were killed. Two
havo been recovered, and search is being mad,
for tho others. President johnson has
been stricken with paralysis. Hopes arc eli
tertained Of his recovery. -. In answer to th'
superintendent of the Bank department Of Nov
| N,,l- Siot hn ottorp,,,-,,nncra1 a,
opinion which is adverse to the legality of in
vestment in the District OF Columbia 3Gi
bonds by tho savings banks Of the State. ....
Smith, Il negro murderer, was hanged a
Charleston, S. G. He confessed his crime. :.
, Reports from eighty of theninetytwo countie
} of Indiana shoY that tho crops arc heavil
5 damaged by tho late rains, and will not yiclt
e fifty per cent. Tho wheat has sproutod in th
3 stocks. The accounts from Illinois and Ohi
| are about tho eamo. Heavy rains also prevail
in Missouri Arkansas, Nebraska and Ken
> tucky and much anxiety is felt for tho crops
..... A tornado passed through Harveysburg
, Ind, tearing houses to pieces and causin
, destruction. Five women were killed.
Inquiry having been made at the Post-oflic
/ department whether newspapers printed il
Y one place and issued or published from anothe
S place can be sent from the printing Office a
| the rate of two cents per pound the sam
as from publication offices, the department de
! cides that the Office of issue is tho office G
$ publication, and not whero the paper may
K printed 4; and that all such publications mue
first be sent to the place Of issue before the
u can pass through the mails at publishing ratei
. see. The Democratic convention in Orego
9 nominated Lafayette Lane for governor. TIL
; platform cslls for tho payment Of the publ
: debt resumption of specie payments, legir
ative control of railroad fares and froight
n and demands reform in all departments o.
@ poses the protective tariff, paper currenc.
@ national banks, Chinese immigration, frau
@ and corruption in Office.
Il A battle has taken place in Montana teri
tory between the Crow and Sioux Indian
in which the former were worsted. -. I'll
:. race between Gen, Buffers yacht America al
y Rufus Hatch's yacht Resolute, over course
! thirty-nine miles, was won by the America
h 2m 18s ..... William and Ann Jones wei
found lying helplossly drunk, with their infal
child lying beneath them on the floor in Ne
York. The father and mother wero arreste
|, and the body of the child was given i'll chari
s of a coroner. "A meeting attended by 100, ,0
, persons was held in Hyde Park London,
v WHICH resolutions were passed demanding Il
/ release Of the Fenian prisoners. The seer
Q tary of the treasury has ordered the sale
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