The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-08
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abro

/ passing counterfeit money, w5s one OF sixteen
men who conspired to kipnap President Lin
coin and Secretary Seward from Washington to
Richmond. The plot was discovered, and he
was sentenced to be imprisoned for life in the
Columbus penitentiary. He was pardoned on
condition that he should quit the United States
and never return 80. In a case in Washington
colored man who was not allowed shave in
BARRIERS shop was refused writ, the court
declaring that saloons and BARRIERS shops did
not come under the civil rights act. .....A
conflict has occurred between the troops of
India and China and twenty Cinnamon were
killed. .... The lower House of the Relclsrath
has approved grant of $4,000 for 1875 and
one of $50, 900 for 1876 to defray the expenses
Of the representation of Austria at the Centen-
nial exhibition. ... Charles X. Lands, we'll
known as tile founder of Vineland shot and
seriously nured Carruth, of the Vineland hide
pendent, in the Office of that paper. difficulty
of long standing existed between the two men,
and the editor, in almost every number of his
paper, had something to say of Landis. ..
The United States government has already
taken the preliminary steps for modifying the
treaty with the Sioux Indians in regard to the
Black Hills. .... In Newark, N j., one man
employed another to assassinate his wife, Civ
ing him $loO. The man employed took the
money and then told the story and the in
human husband was arrested
The Lincolnshire handicap, run at Lincoln,
England, was won by The Gunner. The
favorite badly beaten.... The ice-gorge
at Port Jervis was swept out by freshet
which over1owed the town, causing damage
of 950,000 and carrying away two bridges, one
railway bridge valued at $40, 900, and another
suspension bridge worth $40 900. .... The
Emma Silver Mining Company has been ordered
to file bond, to cover costs in its suit for the
recovery of $4,000, 600, by Judge Donohue, of
the New York supreme court .... Messrs.
Siordet g. Co., ell-known London merchants,
have suspended payment. Their liabilities are
stated at 50, 000 900. .... The New York Assem-
bly, passed the bil protecting incorporated
banks by vote of sixty-six yeas to forty nays.
A Camden On. J) school teacher was arrested
and put under bonds for whipping a scholar.
..... We have further reports of loss of life in
Utah by snow slides. The old man arrested
in Arizona confesses that he is John Bender.
He denies committing the Kansas murders,
but says that John and Kate, his son and
daughter, did He says he separated from
them in Texas, where they all went to from
Kansas, and came to New Mexico and subse-
quently to Arizona. John, Kate, and the old
woman were together when lie left them.
Ten convicts employed in making bricks at
Little Rock, Ark, overpowered their guard and
escaped. One Of the convicts was killed by a
guard. All except two were recaptured .....
The grand national steeplechase was run in
England and won by Pathfinder =. The United
States Senate, in executive session, ratified the
Hawaiian reciprocity treaty by vote of fifty
one to twelve. .... The Canadian government
will not impose duty of ten per cent. on tea
coming from the United States. The North
Carolina House of Representatives passed the
Senate bill calling constitutional convention
to be held on the 9th of September next, and
the bill is now a law. In the Cincinnati
Republican convention John Robinson, the
well-known circus proprietor, was unanimously
nominated for Mayor. The failure i'll Lon
don of the General South American Banking
Company is announced. The liabilities are
estimated at 81, 500, 600. 80. Charley Smith, OF
Greenville, an employee of the New Jersey
Central railroad awoke to find that himself and
family had been chloroformed and robbed OF
nearly all their wearing apparel, gold watch
and chain, and about 975 in money.
Every house but one in Camack, Ga, was
demolished during a tornado. ..... The voting
of the Episcopal standing committee of the
United States has resulted in the confirmation
of DR.. Jaeger and the rejection of DR.. De
Koven =. james Gordon, white, and Charles
Ramsey colored, were drowned by the cap
sizing of boat in the Savannah river.
Mrs. Avah Gose died in Amherst, N H., at the
age Of 105 years, one month and nineteen days
..... The United States national bank circula
tion now outstanding amounts to $349, ,4G2, SCI
OF Which amount $2,3S9,000 are notes issued il
gold banks 80. An Indian 1913 years of age
and believed to be the oldest inhabitant of the
J EARTH died at Santa Cruz, Cal. :. q. The Mexican
government is said to have given satisfactory
assurances to the United States in respect t.
the massacre at Acapulco. 1t condemns tht
crime and promises to prevent other out
breaks. .....A mass meeting of thirty thou
sand Irishmen was held in Hyde Park, London
and resolutions demanding the release of til,
Fenian prison ers were passed.
Stacy Atkinson, of Mount Holly N. j.
slipped ON the ice, and the contents of gun
he carried killed him instantly. Mrs. Often
dorfer, proprietress of the New York Staat
Zeitmg, meditates the founding of hom
, at Astoria for aged persons. ......H. L. Bate
man, the well-known American theatrica
, manager, died in Londen On Saturday
, while some fifty persons and several team
were on the ice bridge at Quebec it brok
loose and loated up the river with the tide
All were landed safely some distance above tn
city on Monday morning. .... Senator Abbet
/ introduced bill into the New Jersey Legsla
, ture confirming the sale of the Stevens batter.
to John Roach, of New York, for $105,000
| .... The projected fusion with the Car
lists has proved failure. Only eight of th
insurgent chiefs followed the action of Genera
Cabrera in giving in his adhesion to the gov
ernment of King Alfonso. =. The tornado il
Georgia did more damage than was first re
ported. Five lives were lost, and much propert
was destroyed.
A dispatch from Georgia referring to thu
terrible tornado there says: The tornado wa
preceded by dull, heavy roaring as of heay,
artillery. 1t spent its fury in about thre