The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-02-11
NEWS OF THE DAY.


Interesting Items from Home md Abroad
Burning plantations seems to be the favoritt
amusement in Cuba just now. . Frederick
Heidenblut was hanged in Philadelphia for the
murder of Godfrey Kuhule ON Dec. 81, 1873
His spiritual advisers remained with him up tc
the time of the execution. It was not unit
seventeen minutes after the drop fell that his
heart ceased to pulsate. lie died of strangula
ton. Samuel Beighley was hanged Al
Greensburg, Pa, for the murder of JOSEPH
Kerr. He was led or rather carried, up tho
steps. When asked if he wished to say any.
thing, he merely shook his head. The minister
read his confession on the scaffold. lie was
only 20 years of age. .....A snow slide occurred
at Alta City, Little Cottonwood canyon Utah
The slide came into the upper portion Of
the town, demolishing two houses and killing
six persons .... Francis Herman is the first
Democrat to represent New York State in
the United States Senate for thirty years.
Henry l.. Da es was elected United States
Senator from Massachusetts,, tho decisive
ballot standing Dawes, 14O f; c. F. Adams 9S
J. G. Abbott, 10; II. l.. Pierce, 1 /; G. II. Hoar,
8; N. p. Banks, /: C. Devens, Jr., 10.
Mrs. Eliza Smith, an agcl lady OF Nashua,
N. H., was burned to death by her clothes
catching fire from kerosene lamp. Silas
c. Hatch was elected treasurer of the State of
Maine. THE Republicans of the First Michi-
gan District nominated Charles S. Whitehouse.
of Rochester, for Congress .... The United
States Senate committee on Territories report
favorably on the project of forming a new
Territory out of the northern half of Dakota.
1t will be called PcmDna. Tho now Territory
will contain II, 200 square miles. The capital
will be Bismarck, little town at the present
western terminus of the Northern Pacific rail-
road. "A dividend of five per cent. has
been declared to the creditors of jay Cooke &
Company .... The issue OF bonds to the New
Orleans and Texas railroad by the State of
Louisiana is declared illegal. This will save
the State s17, 900. -. Tom Ballard, the
notorious counterfeiter, was sent to the Albany
On. Y penitentiary for thirty years.
The iron-masters and colliery proprietors of
South Wales threaten a general lockout unless
their employees resume work within a week.
If the threat is carried out 10O 600 persons will
be thrown out of employment The British
government demanded an apology from the
government of Peru for the removal of n
passenger from O British steamer at Callao
The German Rechstag has passed the Land
sturm bill ...... The Cariists threaten violence
against the captain and crew of the German
ship Gustav, who are in Zurauz, if the town is
bombarded. .... The United States treasury
department is in possession Of facts which
o,1,.
terious manner, smuggled into the country in
large quantities, chiefly by Cinnamon
Mr.. A. S. Paddock, Conservative was elected
United States Senator from Nebraska in place
of Thomas W. Upton. The annual report
of the commissioners of immigration shows
that the total number of alien passengers who
landed at the port of New York during the
year 1874 was 14O,04l, smaller number than
came in any year since 1862 and 1876, TT less
than in the year 1873. China has been hay
ing revolt among her soldiers.
During cold snap New York harbor was 30
filed with ice that foot passengers crossed on
it from New York to and from Brooklyn
The balances in United States Treasury Cur
rency, $1O,013,64 special deposits of legal
tenders for the redemption of certificates of
deposit, S46, $780, 900 coin, S71, ,7O6, ,239, in
cluding coin certificates, :27, ,6O9, 100 (; out
standing legal tenders, $3S2, 900, coo. King
Alfonso was formally proclaimed king in Cuba
by Captain-General Concha. -. The special
Centennial committee of Congress visited the
Centennial grounds and inspected the progress
of the buildings. .... Mary Allen, of Phila-
nv I, A.
She had been confirmed opium eater, and had
previously attempted suicide. . 1t appears
that 2O,223 immigrants arrived in the port of
Boston during the year ending Sept. 80, 1874
against 81, ,O42 i'll tho preceding year. -. The
Indians at Spotted Tails agency threaten to
eSpel the miners from the Black Hills
bill has been passed by the St. Louis city
council making it a msdemeanor to frequent a
house of ill-fame. ... The contested Con-
gressional election case of Ward, Republican,
against Harrison, Democrat, in Chicago, has
closed in favor of Harrison "A baby farm
ing establishment was brought to light in
Holliston, Mass. Many children died there,
and it is claimed that healthy children were
murdered by laudanum. A young lady in
Christmas, and the case is attracting much
notice from medical men, The ladies of
Yonkers, n. Y, have been making raids on the
gambling institutions there with considerable
success.
The express from Chicago on the Michigan
and Lake Shore road, was thrown from the
track by broken rail, ditchng the locomotive
and baggage-car, killing the engineer, John
Anderson, and seriously injurng Walter Cum
mings, the fireman. No other persons were
injured 80. "A young man of Elmra, n. Y,
named Park G. Harrington has died by being
severely burned in the lookup at Households,
where he was imprisoned for intoxication
Smallpox prevails to an alarming extent in
New York city .....A fire destroyed the farm
house occupied by Pierre Dulude at Boucher
vile, near Quebec. His wife and eight children
perished in the flames Dulude was seriously
burned in his efforts to save his family, and is
not expected to live His wife and children
were literally burned to ashes, and only frag-
ments of the bodies can be found. The eldest
child was thirteen years old and the youngest
WAS baby.