The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-01-21
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.


George Reilly was convicted of burglary in
the second degree, in breaking into the miser
Luther Bryant's room in New York, from which
$12300 worth of money and valuables were
stolen. He was sentenced to ten years in State
prison. Two men, captured in Pulaski
county, Ark a few weeks ago for robbng
store and boat in Yell county, were convicted in
the Circuit Court at Little Rock, and sent to
the penitentary for five years. The men be-
longed to gang Of four who were supposedto
be the Gadshillers. Mrs. Cronk, of Wanaque,
n. j., who was charged with killing james
Luke, neighbor who frequently offered her
insults, has been indicted for mansaughter.
The Passaic county prosecutor made an effort
to induce the grand jury to indict for murderin
the first degree but without success. ... Com
modore Vanderbilt has purchased from Mr.. b.
Waterson, of New Jersey, the bay trotting
geldng Boy for $4,000. ... The election in
Newburyport, Mass, for Mayor in place Of
Cushing, elected and declined, resulted in the
choice of the Hon. b. T. Atkinson, Republican,
over Eliphalet Griffin, Democrat, by 46
majority in total vote of 1852. .... General
Sheridan telegraphs that Captain Koyes has
captured so Cheyennos and 20 ponies at the
north fork of the Canadian river General
Pope reports the surrender of 100 moro hostile
Cheyennes and Arrapahoos to Liout.-COl.
Nell at the agency .... Chauncey Rose, of
Terre IIaute. Ind, made Il donation to insttl-
tons located there Of 1856, 900, divided as
follows To the Terre Haute School of Indus
trial Science $2O6,OOO and to the vigo county
Orphans Home Sl5O,0OO. lie has before
given large sums in benevolence and charity,
including 800, 600 to the Ladies' Aid Society of
/ TelTe Haute $780, 900 to Wabash College, and n
large sum to charities in New York He has
also promised 100000 to the Indiana State
Normal School, located there. ... The official
Gazette of Berlin publishes Prince Bsmarck's
circular note of the 14th of May, 1872, which
was read i'll the secret session of the Won
Amm trial. The note declares that because
of the declaration of the dogma of the infalli-
blity of the Pope it is desirable that the powers
should take steps toward concerted action in
view of the next Papal election.
John Murphy. who was hanged at Carson,
Nevada for the murder of j. II. McCallum,
vas native of Scotland, and at one time
travelled with John c. Heenan, giving sparrng
exhibitions. ..... Wharton Brothers & Co., iron
manufacturers, filed their petition in bank
r1ptcy. The aggregate of the lbilities of the
firm is 1919, 53l. The assets are stated at
1898, 547 ~ Thomas Pennell. Treasurer of
Cumberland county, Me-, was knocked down
in his office and the safe robbed of between
$4,000 and 100000 One of the robbers first
engaged his attention by asking to have a
check cashed and Immediately afterward
knocked him senseless. With the aid Of a
confederate, the safe was plundered of its con-
fonts. MIR. Pencils pockets were also rilled..
The thieves escaped. .....A terrific faction
fight between the Dwyers and OBriens at
kns Mills in Tempeton Canada, took place on
Christmas day. There were seventeen of
They fought until evening and every man had
to be carried away. priest tried to stop the
fighting, but he was also beaten. " The
superintendent Of the New York State Asylum
for the Insane says that Kate Stoddard. who
killed Charles Goodrich in Brooklyn, is hope
less lunatic ..... John Johnson, the murderer
OF Andrew johnson, was sentenced in Cleve-
land, Ohio, to be hanged on the 2Sth of April
John Goodman was hanged in Ottawa, for the
murder of the Haywood family last April. The
prisoner confessed the crime while on the
scafTold.
jeremiah Post, farmer, of East Meadow.
Long Island, went to New York with load of
hay. On his return he stopped at Hampstead
and took several drinks. In the morning his
r;f oil Il 10 rL.
There she saw the wagon overturned, and
found Mr.. Post under the wagon, his neck
broken. The wagon was loaded with slabs,
and had been upset by piles of stones ..
Since the famine set in in Asia Minor $4,000
persons have migrated from various parts of
the country to the city Of Adana, half of whom
have since succumbed to disease. The strange
climate, distress, and extreme rapaciousness
Of the tax-gathcrers aggravate the mortality
...... Mrs. Nolan was found dead in bed in
Chicago with knife wound in her side. Her
two little children are too young to give any ac-
count of the mothers death. The husband
said his wife died about nine o'clock That he
went for help, and afterward got drunk, and
failed to return. He processes to know nothing
about his wifes wounds .. Two men, Fuller
and Clemens, at Fredericksburg Mo-. quarreled
about whisky, and Clemens shot Fuller with a
double-barreled shot gun, putting the contents
of two barrels into him. Fuller, although
nearly blown to pieces, stabbed Clemens. almost
dsembowelmg him. Both men died .... .
Another case similar to the Guibord litigation
Is likely to arise ont of the refusal of the
Roman Catholic clergy to bury the remains of
a late murderer at st. Marie, in consecrated
ground. The remains are inferred for the
present in an unconsecrated portion of the
cemetery. The recent labor dispute in the
Bestroada slate quaries, South Wales, which
asted nearly three months cost the workmen
about S123,000, besides the loss in wages .....
There are nearly $4,000 oranges organized in
the United States. Missouri, Iowa, and Ten
nessee are the banner States. The membership
exceeds 1,300, 900. 1t is claimed that the
order now has over $17,OOO,O 900 invested in
elevators, grain warehouses. flour mills, agri-
cultural implements catte-feeding materials,
and similar factories, banks, fire, and storm
insurance companies. ,,.. The Spanish army
accepted Don Alfonso as King. The young
man is a son Of ex-Queen Isabella, and eighteen
| years of age,
Belgium has recognized Don Alfonso, and
1t is announced that most if not all of the
courts of Europe will do 70 as soon as his
representatives are accredited. .... The United
/ States public debt statement shows an increase
of S3,659, 967.SS during the month Of Decem-
ber; coin balance, $50, 5S7, 1891; currency