The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-27
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stitutions ...... Josh Frazer, colored, was
hanged in Camden, s. O., for murder in the
presence of six thousand people, He was con-
victed on circumstantial evidence, but con-
fessed his crime on the scaffold. He also
acknowledged numbering his wife and child, as
well as another woman, besides burning several
barns and ginhouses.
A collision occurred on the fourth of April
off the coast OF China between the Chinese
steamship Fu-sing and the British steamship
Ocean. The Fu-sing founded almost instantly,
causing loss Of fifty lives. 80. The striking
miners held grand labor parade in Wilkes
barre in which some three thousand men
joined. Everything was orderly ...... The
jury in the case of Father Gerdeman, the
Catholic priest Of Philadelphia charged with
embezzling church funds, have failed to agree
on verdict. . . Ben Nevin, who lived on
farm near Lexington, Mo-, was called to the
door on Saturday night recently by band Of
masked men and riddled with buckshot, thirty
two entering his head. .Alonzo Jackson
and Albert Smith, with their wives and two
children each, went over dam at GAINESVILLE,
Ohio. Both women, with one child each, were
drowned. The Papal Nuncio made formal
demand for the restoration of Catholic unity
in Spain, and the government has replied that
it is resolved to maintain liberty OF worship.
... The Governor of Missouri has issued
proclamation appointing juno as fast
day. lie states that information is received
from all parts OF the State indicating the grass
hopper plague causing loss Of crops and possi-
bly, famine, and 80 calls on-the people to unite
in calling for divide relief. John @. Breckin-
ridge, ex-senator and former Vice-President,
is dead. -. II Pope has resolved to convoke
the vatican council again at an early date to
discuss ecclesiastical reforms.
A young girl named Whitby was the victim
of outrage and murder near Trappe, Pa. Her
body was found under table with both ears
torn off, and her head terribly bruised. A
tramp is suspected of the crime. . The board
of health of Hudson county, N. j., continues
to revoke the license of physicians who cannot
show proper credentials. 49,. In an insurance
suit in Jersey City, it was decided that where
premium had been paid to an accredited agent
of company, the company was responsible
for the insurance, whether the agent had made
returns to the company or not. ...... The pris-
oners in the county Jail at Glen Cove Springs,
Fla, bored through the floor with an auger,
and digging underneath all but one made their
escape while one Mcpherson and his wife,
living eight miles east Of Columbus, Neb.,
were visiting on Sunday night, leaving their
four children, one boy and three girls, at home,
the house took fire. The boy, aged fourteen,
and girl, aged twelve years, got out of tho
house, but the girl afterward returned to res
cue her two little sisters, and all three perished
in the flames. The fire WINS evidently the work
of an incendiary go. John Dolan, formerly
tax collector OF Kline township, Pa, who is a
defaulter in the amount of S4,000,was arrested
in Iowa and brought back for trial :. Parties
Of men are arriving at Cheyenne daily to wait
until the government throws open the Black
Hills to settlers.