The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-20
NEWS OF THE DAY.
items of Interest from Home and Abroad

proclamation Offering unconditional pardon
to all the Cuban rebels who surrender previous
to May 3d. He excepts deserters from the
Spanish army, who will be obliged to serve in
the war guard OF the army until the close Of
the war. John Metzeger, a miner, while
on his way to work at Maffit's mines near
Wilkesbarre was attacked by four other miners
and shot in the face, but not dangerously
wounded. .... Rev. Thomas A. Jaeger, d. D.,
has been consecrated as Episcopal Bishop of
Southern Ohio...... The coroners jury has
exonerated Frederick Blanckmeyer from COM
plicty in the death of his wife, whose body
was found in her apartments in Jersey City. -.
Sheriff Hoyt, Of Orange county, n Y, has
levied on the real estate and personal property
of John H. Conner defaulter, at Goshen,
valued at $4,000, under an attachment in
favor Of the National Stock Yard Company.
Among the property seized are forty head of
imported Holstein cattle. Dan. White, a
negro, attempted to ravish widow living pear
Raleigh, Shelby county, Tenn, ON whose plan
taton he was at work. Her cries attracted the
attention Of her son, at the sight of whom the
negro fed, but was afterward captured and
taken to Bartlett to await trial That night he
was taken from the Jail by party Of disguised
men, carried to the woods, and hanged to a
tree. .... The President has accepted the re-
signation Of Acknowledgement Williams and
appointed Edwards Pierrepont to the vacant
position. ...... The city of Oshkosh, Wis, was
nearly destroyed by fire the loss is estimated
at S2,000,000. 49,. The Germans of New York
teudered n complimentary dinner to ex-senator
Carl Schurz. .... The Allegheny county work
house, situated at Clsremont, nine miles from
fire. OF the $50 inmates, none were injured or
escaped.
A fire at Sing Sing, N. Y, destroyed three
hotels .... Philip Sheridan was struck on
the head with a paving stone in the hands
of Joseph Doyle, in Jersey City, and died a few
days afterward. Doyle was arrested. 80. The
residence Of Mrs. Lucy Bakewell at Shelbyville,
ny., in which was the library of the great
naturalist Audubon, was burned. Mrs Bake
we'll was Audubon's sister-in-law, and his
library had been left with her. The collection
consisted Of shout eight hundred volumes
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\ mother and daughter, were found dead in
their beds in a small house in Detroit their
heads chopped and hacked with an ak almost
beyond the semblance Of human beings.
Suspicion points to John Thomas, the husband
of the frst-naned victim, q colored barber, and
he has been arrested. ... The bodies of two
colored children, aged respectively six and
-
The flesh had been eaten from the bones by
buzzards, but the skulls were in good con-
dition, and indicated having been broken in
The father is suspected Of completely in their
MURDER. Somebody entered the city hall,
Hoboken, N. j., and cut out $3.50 worth of
orders for groceries from the overseer of the
poors book .... John Miller, German, was
instantly killed in Pavonia avenue, Jersey City,
by being accidentally thrown from truck
which he was driving. He fell before the
wheels, which passed over his chest "A boy
named Simmons, aged fourteen, Was fatally
stabbed in the abdomen by another boy Of the
same age, in New York. 49,. Joe Howard.
cOlored, cut the throat of Gus Strickland, a
white boy, twelve years Of age in Milton
county, Georgia, over game Of cards. Howell
fled. Strickland died instantly .... David
Sinton has decided to erect ON the Fifth street
market space, Cincinnati, a granite tower one
hundred end sixty feet high, surmounted by a
colossal statue of Cincinnatus habited in a
toga. The etower will cost $4,000.
Gov. Kellogg, of Louisiana, has entered a
suit in the superior district court against Audi
tors Clinton's securities on his special bond for
the recovery of various sums of money alleged
to be fraudulently withheld from the State
treasury, and moneys illegally paid by Clinton
to unauthorized parties. The amount sought
to be recovered aggregates $500, 900. .... Ex-
tensive forest fires ragged along the line Of the
Manchester and Lawrence railroad, New Hamp-
shire, and destroyed great amount of timber,
together with dwellings and mills =. Lord
Falmouth's horse, Spinaway, won the great
English three-year-old race for five thousand
guineas. "A terrible explosion occurred in
the Bunkers Hill colliery, North Staffordshire,
England, while the miners were at work.
Thirty-five men were killed. . The case of
Leader against Moody and Sankey, the Ameri-
can revivalists in London, has been settled by
the acceptance of suggestion of the Master of
the Rolls that the defendants pay one shilling
damages and costs, and agree not to again use
her Majesty's Opera House for tt cir me 4tings
The death lis announced of the famous
traveller and artist, Jean Fredercide of Wal
deck, at the extraordinary age of 10 years.
He was born March 10Th, 1766. A fierce
gale passed over Rochester, blowing down the
Leighton iron works, involving loss of $780,
900. Many persons on the streets were in
jured by falling awnings ...... Judges Brooks
and Deck. i'll their respective charges to grand
juries in North Carolina, declare the criminal
features of the Civil Rights bill unconstitu-
tional, on the ground that no law can declare
that men are socially equal.
The ill-feeling existing between the French
men and Englishmen engaged in the fisheries
off Newfoundland is likely to lead to collisions,
and the governments of France and England
have resolved to send war vessels to prevent
disturbance. ......V Vessels passed through the
straits of Mackinaw this year on the first Of
May. 1.-THE Falcon estimates the loss OF
horses and mules in Fayette county, Tenn,
from buffalo gnats in three days at from three
tofive hundred head -. The number of miners
killed by the explosion in the coliery at North
Stsfordshire, England, was forty-one These
are probably all who have perished. Many OF
the bodies of the victims were mutilated be-
yond recognition. A great number of the
dead miners left large families of children in a
destitute condition In the family of Mr..
Hinckler, at Sandlake, Iowa, seven children
died within one month, all of diphtheria.