The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-08-19
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


ficenoy in the accounts OF Woodruff, alias
Moler, the Central Pacific railroad official, is
about S1,000,000. It is thought he has gone
to China. -. Hans Christian Andersen the
poet and novelist, died in Copenhagen, Den
mark, aged seventy years. E. =. The loss of
crops by flood in tho Scioto valley, Ohio, is es-
timated at half million dollars.... The
yacht Fidget won the frst-class prize in the
Newburgh (N.Y.) regatta, and tho Mary Emma
took the second-class prize. ..... The horse
Rutherford won the three-mile race at Saratoga
5.38. -. Messrs. Moody and Sankey have
sailed from Liverpool for New York. The
centennial anniversary OF tho birth OF Daniel
OOonnell was celebrated in Brooklyn, N. Y,
with considerable ceremony. Hon. Richard
O'Gorman delivered an address . 1t is
thought the majority Of McCreery Democratic
candidate for governor Of Kentucky, will foot
up 100000. IA special dispatch to tho London
Times, from Berlin, says the Turks are collect
ing in largo force to crush the insurrcction in
Herzegovina with ono blow.
Tho O'Connoll centennial was appropriately
celebrated throughout ireland. .....A water
spout burst over the town OF Kirn, in Rnenish
Prussia, inundating tho place and doing great
damage. A bridge and many houses were
swept away, and thirteen persons were drown
od...... Egypt is preparing for a brilliant dis
play at tho Philadelphia centennial. w A
Philadelphia grocer named Leosor threw away
some spoiled bologna sausage, which were
picked up aud eaten by eleven children, all Of
whom were shortly after taken violently sick
and one Of them died. The grocer and maker
OF the sausages werc arrested .... An engine
OF the construction train OH the Marietta and
Cincinnati railroad ran off the track and
turned over into the Hooking river, instantly
killing two men and wounding nino others,
including the conductor. William G.. Car
son has been arrested in st. Louis, No., and
taken to Boston, Mass, on charge OF embez-
zliDg $50, 900 while acting as superintendent
of the pork-packing establishment Of John z
Squire e. Co, at East Cambridge, u year ago
..... Gen. Joseph Il. Johnston, formerly of
the Southern army, has declined the presi-
dency Of tho Arkansas Industrial University.
..... Ex-Stato Treasurer Parker, Of South
Carolina, against whom verdict Of ?75, 900
was recently rendered in a suit growing out OF
was in prison awaiting criminal prosecution
for similar offenses, has escaped from the
Columbia jail 49,. Chicago will pay all her
bonds and coupons which were due July LIST,
although Duncan, Sherman Il Co. had already
drawn the amount due to act as agents .....
The boiler of tho steam thrasher at work on a
farm i'll Maury county, Tenn, burst, and killed
Mr.. Cullen Harlan, the owner, the engineer
and colored man, and wounded seven others,
two of whom will die. The thrasher and
grain crop was destroyed by fire. The
losses by floods in Illinois and Indiana arc est-
mated at $4,000, 900 for each State.
Superintendent Chapman, Of the New York
State insurance department, has debarred the
Kansas Insurance Company Of Leavonworth
from doing business in New York State, on ac-
count Of their loose manner of business. The
company had some twenty-five agencies in the
State. The committee appointed to examine
| the treasury accounts have reported that they
counted and weighed every coin, and counted
all the paper money. the result of which il
that they find dohcit of sl7, ,S1S. Al, including
tho 1000 stolen few months ago. ..... The
| fishing on the north side of Prince Edwards
Island is prosperous, the mackerel being
plenty. The latest advces from Labrador say
! that fish are very scarce. -. The report Of the
Hamilton Canada board OF trade urges cur
tailment of manufactures, decrease of i'm
portatlons, and tho cessation of long credits
as tho means Of bringing about a sound finan
cial condition. 49,. VIM. II. Alderdice genora
assignee of the bankruptcy court of Richmond
Va, has decamped, leaving deficit in his &C
of the Oneida On. W Community in Boston
has been held in 10000 bail to answer the
charge OF embezziug 5000 belonging to tho
Community. Tho London branch of the
banking house Of Drexel, Morgan & Company
| will cash Duncan, Sherman Il Co.'S letters o.
credit, Mr.. Duncans father being their Sc
curity. 80. New York revenue officers have
been very successful recently in catching
smugglers of cigars, The smugglers were il
the habit of putting the cigars in rubber bag
and throwing them overheard AZ the steamer
were entering New York iiarbor, confederate
in small boats picking tho bags up The OH
GERS took u tug, and aftor tho cigars wer
thrown ovor, thoy captured tho confederate
with their booty. ...... Cardinal McCloskey la
gone to Rome to receive his hat and ring fron
the Pope. Ho took $4,000 gold to tho Pop
ns present from New York Catholics.
Two boys wero killed and eighteen wounde,
by an explosion in the Bridesburg srsenal, a
Philadelphia. The eXa!t cause of the dissste
is unknown. 49,. Tho jury in the Mountain
Meadow massacre case have disagreed an
were discharged -. Benz. II. IIalleck,
clerk in the Treasury department. has bee
arrested on charge of stealing s47, 900 owe
which 30 much excitement was created a fey
months ago. Mr.. Ottman, proprietor of
restaurant on Pennsylvania avenue Washing
ton, together with man named Brown, wer
arrested as accompicos. .., Two escaped con
victs were killed aud a third fatally shot b
ranchmen near Denver, Col . Dispatche
from central Asia report that revolution ha
broken out in Khokand, in Independent Tul
kistan. The Khan has fed aud his force
have Joined the insurgents. The choler
is raging III Damascus-four hundred case
having been reported daily ...... There wa
considerable rioting in Glasgow, Scotland, o
the day of the O'Connell celebration, betwee
Orangemen and Home Rulers. Five police
men were injured and fifty arrests made.
A heavy earthquake shock was felt at Hollil
ter, San Benito county, Cal. No damage wa
reported,.... A report from Ripon, UppG
Gatineau, Canada, states that three cnildre.
! sons of settler there, were killed and d,
: voured by bears while in the woods near the
house few days ago. .... Henry Coulter an