The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-05-13
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items Of Interest from Home nnd Abr

Diego by companion who administered NOR
phine to him, and robbed him of $780, The
New York Seventh regiment will attend the
Bunker Hill centennial in Boston Hampton
won the metropolitan stakes at EPSON, Eng
land, beating the favorte and eight other COM
pettors. go. Among one days crimes reported !
are the following: David Mandlove, while |
drunk, shot and killed his father in st. Paul,
Ind; Patrick Hewitt, of New York. struck at
his wife but bit and killed his little boy and
Martin Hilbert of Williamsburgh, struck his
wife and when she ran set bloodhound upon
her, re animal biting her and severely injuring
the poor woman. Ten natives of Ixtacalco,
Mexico, are on trial for horrible outrage.
They are charged with burying three men
alive, leaving only their heads above ground,
and then dspatching them with hatchets and
knives, after prolonged torture. .....Miss Alice
A. Early of Rockford, Illinois, has gained
suit for libel against Wilbur f. Storey editor
of the Chicago Times, with $25, 900 damages.
...... Oscar Green, farmer, in alighting
from passenger train at Otisville, n Y, was
run over by'a passing coal train and killed..
Roswell G. Smith, author of the widely known
Smiths grammars, arthmetics, and geop-
raphies for schools, died in Hartford lately
aged seventy-eight years. go. Charles Smith,
a boat boy, aged sixteen years, died at Port
Jervis from the effects of coal gas that burst
out of stove into his face while he was light
ing fire. He was at first overcome by the
gas, then partially recovered and survived two
days.
The Mormon apostles laboring in London,
Ont are making numerous converts to their
creeds. .. 1t is said that the interprovincal
exhibition at Montreal will prove failure for
want of funds. .... Donaldson, the balloonist,
had a narrow escape at Philadelphia. He cut
away his car and with it fell forty-fve feet
being picked up insensible, but soon after
recovered. .. The Southern railroads are fol-
lowing the Northern lines in reducing their
rates of fare -. On the West Jersey railroad,
near Millvile, the body of man was found,
his head having been smashed in with club.
......A lot of boys in Orange, N. j., were tor
menting blind man who picking his way
along, when the man in fit of anger swung
his cane, striking one Of the boys in the head
/, and fracturng the skull ..... Chas. E. Lewis,
one Of the oldest and formerly very wealthy
merchant of New York, lost his wealth and
committed suicide at the Windsor House by
shooting himself through the head
A destructive confagration occurred in New
Orleans, three steamers being burned one of
them had an excursion party on board. A
number of lives were lost .... Capt. st. John,
venerable and we'll known North river steam
, boat captain shot himself. He was very
wealthy and was no doubt temporarily insane
, from care and anxiety. ....Seven cases of
fatal suicide were reported in one day in the
papers. They took place in all parts of the
United States. The suicide mania is raging
terribly 49,. A man in st. Louis cut his throat
and walked a whole block before he died. ....
Fred Klenen, the dafaulting secretary of the
. Hoboken Savings Bank, was sentenced to ten
, years Imprisonment at hard labor in the State
!, prison. A new and dangerous counterfeit
p recently made its appearance at the nationa
+ bank redemption agency in the IS notes of the
9 first National Bank of Paxton, H. 1t is ev
g IDENTIFY altered from the plate on which the
g counterfeit IS notes of the Traders Nationa
e Bank of Chicago were printed. .... The police
L authorities of Posen have notified all til,
? Ursuline Sisters in that district who are no
natives of Germany that they must leave th'
> country within two months. . Charles Hill
: prominent citizen of Saco, Me, and a leading
politician of York county, hanged himself il
O his sleeping room. He was sixty years of age
... Joe Cobum has accepted the challeng
q of Steve Taylor, Of Jersey City, to fight a
# catch weight for 81, 500 a side. .... The direc
L tors of the Northern Pacific railroad repor
II that work will soon be resumed on the line. :.
d Robert W. Batting was sentenced to Sing Sin
for life for the murder of John Tomkins q
New Platz on the twenty-first of October. ...
= The Postmaster-General of the United State
- discovered fraudulent bid among those fc
mail routes in Louisiana. About six clerk
have already been discharged for completely
l. the frauds, and it is understood that at least
II dozen more are implicated
!, A severe gale at Norfolk, Va, upset tw
n oyster sloops near Craney Island. The crew
q were seen clinging to the bottoms of the boat
Efforts to reach them with tugs faiIed. Sever
persons were drowned. -. johnson, the mu
% derer, who was to have been hanged at Clev
~ ~ land Ohio, has had his sentence commuted
i Governor Allen to imprisonment for life. -.
Il Several thousand ticket holders in the Kel
G tucky State library lottery have placed the
at coupons in the hands of Colonel Blanton Dul
can, with instructions to bring suit against I'll
lottery managers for breach of contract and
=" recover their money. 1t is believed that Il
o contract of the last dIawiDg such
,o make the managers liable 49,. The LousiaI
q Legislature adjourned sine die without pas
II, ing any of the reform measures. ..., The &C
We hery owners OF south wales nave agreed
It.. throw open their pits to miners at reductiC
of fifteen per cent in wages. go. The strike
a. the cotton operatives at Blackburn, Englan
40 has ended. 49,. Lieut.. Henely of the Six
al United States cavalry makes the followil
th official report Attacked at daybreak on Nor
H. Fork, Sapper creek, party of sixty Cheyenne
q whom believe to be some of those who ha
is been at the agency. cut off twenty-seven frc
ul their ponies and demanded their surrend,
a My demand was answered by a volley. Aft
desperate resistance they were all kille
Nineteen warriors, including two chiefs ant
.rs medicine man, were among the dead. l ca
re tured 1875 ponies. l burned their camp, &C
ey sisting of twelve lodges, and all their effec
,le Sergeant Papier and private Tieros of my co
gh mand were killed.
lh- The Court of Claims has decided that {
ne title to the Hot Springs reservation in Arkanl
ou is vested in the United States .. "A collisi
'e occurred on the Baltimore and Potomac 7;
Il road, near Washington. Ten persons w