The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-07
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. OF Interest from pome apd Abr,

In aid OF the sufferers by the cyclone. New
Orleans sent $4,000 worth of clothing and pro-
visions. -. The Spanish envoy to the Vatican
was instructed that the Madrid government
will be firm but moderate. 1t will respect re-
ligion, but at the same time protect the rights
Of the State. 1t is believed here that the vati-
can will finally abate it's pretensons 80. The
emperor of Austria, in his speech to the par
liamentary delegations, spoke hopefu ly Of the
peace OF Europe. .... The Odd Fellows Grand
Lodge held session at indianapolis, Ind A
procession in their honor contained ten thou
sand Odd Fellows in regaia. . Sharkey, the
murderer who escaped from the New York
tombs year ago in woman's attire and who
was ordered to leave Cuba, attempted to escape
from the Kingston steamer as she touched
at ports on the north coast of Cuba, and was
brought back to Havana. ... The emperor of
Brazil has asked the Chamber of Deputies for
their sanction to his visiting Europe and the
United States, to be absent period OF eighteen
months ...... Henry Wilson writes a letter to
inform his friends that he will not be candi-
date for governor of Massachusetts, ...... The
town of Velasco, Texas, was also swept away
during the cyclone, but no lives were lost.
The coal schooner Egan was run down and
sunk by the schooner L. r. Williams on Lake
Huron, and two Of the crew were drowned =.
dispatch from Vienna states that Servia and
Montenegro have notified the powers Of their
determination to remain neutral in the troubles
between Turkey and the northwestern provin-
ces. The Servian legislature, in reply to the
speech to the throne, thus refers to the Her
zogoyinian troubles Perpetual suffering has
compelled our brethren to take up arms. Our
hearts bleed for them. The Honduras
minister at London is charged with conspiracy
in trying to defraud the British public in re-
gard to Honduras bonds The baggage
and presents of the Prince Of Wales have been
placed on board the ship Of war Serapis, ready
for India, and she will proceed to Brindsi.
Italy, when the prince will embark ....A
treaty of peace between the Colombian poyern-
ment and the rebellious coast states had been
signed by tho president of Colombia and also
by the presidents Of all the states lately in in
surrection. ......W While Lester Sykes was work.
ing at new well thirty-seven feet from
the surface, in West Springfield Mass, quick
sands caused cavng in. A board curbipg
formed an arch over Sykes saving him from
immediate death, and leaving slight opening
for ventilation. An alarm was given and fifty
men began the work of rescue 1t was neces-
sary to dig a pit thirty feet in diameter to
avoid crushing in the balance Of the earth and
so shutting off all air. Relays worked steadily
for thirty-six hours before they came to Sykes
and he was then dead. His voice was heard
twenty-four hours after his burial a Young
lady Of sixteen, named Laughlin, accompanied
Mr.. Schell and his wife on an excursion to
the woods near Bellefontaine, Ohio, and after
rambling about Mrs Schell being fatigued re-
mained with the carriage while the other two
strolled off for wild plums. After time Schell
returned, saying the young lady had strolled
of and left him. Search was made resulting
in the finding of the body of Miss Laughlin in
nearly nude condition. with her throat cut
from ear to ear. The ground gave evidence of
severe struggle. Schell was arrested and
a bloody knife found in his pocket ...... The
statue of Stonewall Jackson, presented to yir-
gnia by two English gentlemen, was received
at Richmond with much public ceremony
of the three hundred houses standing in In
danoa, Texas, before the inundation, only
five are left. The loss OF life at Indianola ia
now put at one hundred and fifty, and one
hundred and fifty more were lost in small set
Elements along the coast making three hun
dred in all. Christians Point was entirely
swept away by the storm >. =. George Engel-
hardt easily beat James ONeil in the single
scull match between them at Saratoga rowing
the three miles in 22222I.
The national agricultural congress, during
Its session at Cincinnati, adopted a resolution
recommending the completion Of the four
great water routes commended by the United
States Senate. =. The recent rains in Michigan
have brought the apple crop to state of ex-
cellence far beyond the most sanguine expec-
tations. The trade is very brisk at 81 per bar
rel, with 1925 and $3.50 talked of for the
winter varieties, which have not yet appeared
In market .... The Herndon House. at Mar
shall, Mich, was destroyed by fire. Two Of
the guests and two servant girls were burned
to death. Many persons were injured by Jump
ing out OF the windows. .... Recent rains have
been very damaging to the English hop crop.
..... Fifteen hundred Ural Cossacks have
been banshed to the penal settlement of Tur-
kestan, by the Russian government, for having
resisted the new military laws. Many more
are likely to go, as those laws meet with much
opposition in the Ural colonies. -. .Messrs
Moody and Sankey are expected to do revival
work IN New York this winter, probably at
Garden. IA dispatch from Kansas
Jity reports the arrest Of Gen. John d. Crof-
on, late adjutant.ge general of the State of
Missouri, charged with forgery in connection
WITH war claims while Cfofton was adiutant-
general. .... Schell, the man who murdered
Miss Laughlin near Bellefontaine Ohio, was
AIKEN from jail by crowd of infuriated men
md Iynched. Mrs. Schell had been previously
Irrested, and confessed that her husband had
old her of his intention to outrage and then |
murder the young lady, and the excursion to |
he woods was planned for the purpose. She .
vas compelled by her husband to accompany
hem and keep silent under penalty of death.
. .Ihe merchandise imported into the United .
tates during the eight months ending August
lst were 535, S29, ,S32 less than for the same
eriod last year.
The Bonapartist conference at Arenenberg,
concluded with the following re-
ult: The Empress Eugenie will abdicate the
egency and the Prince Imperial undertakes
he exclusive direction of the imperialist policy,
nder the guidance Of M. Rouher ......A
,atholic procession was attacked in Toronto
n account OF the religious troubles all over
|anada. Bricks and stones we're freely fred
nd many pistols were used. Forty or fifty