The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-06-17
NEWS OF THE DAY.
Items Of Interest from Home and Abron,

Hayes, of Sandusky, for Governor, and Thomas
L. Young for observation-disclosures The |
platform adopted favors q tariff for revenue;
declares that the States are one nation and |
all citizens are equal under the lawsi is in favor
Of free education that there should be no
connection between church and State, and
opposes all legislation in the interest of one
particular sect. or the third term, it says
The observance of washingtons example, in
retiring at the close OF a second Presidential
term, will be in the future, as it has been
| in the past, regarded as fundamental rule in
the unwritten law of the republic. Lands,
who shot Carruth, of the Vineland Independent,
has been admitted to bail in the sum Of $780,
600, Carruth having recovered from his
wounds so as to be beyond danger go. Fifty
lodges we're represented at q meeting OF the
Grand Lodge Of colored Masons i'll Now York.
zee Tho Masonic parade in New York was
one of the most successful and important
events of this kind which ever took place in
the United States. Communicates and lodges
from all sections of the country were present,
and it is said that there were twenty thousand
Masons in tho procession The Macon and
Brunswick railroad WAS bid in by the State OF
Georgia at tho sale in Macon, Ga, for 81, ,000,-
O00 :. In civil rights case against tho mana
ger of the opera house at Galveston, Tex, the
Judge decided that the indictment be quashed
on the ground that the act was unconstitu-
tional. Right Rev. James A. Healcy
installed as Catholic bishop of the diocese OF
Portland Me-, with imposing ceremonies. 49,.
President Grant has left Washington for Long
Brauch, and the members of the Cabinet have
scattered to different parts of the country. ...
mass meeting composed of eighty thousand
persons was held in Hyde Park, London, to ex-
press sympathies with some cabinet makers
! who had just been released from Jail. They
we're sentenced for trying to induce workmen
to leave work and join strike. 80. The Ger
man government announces that it reserves
> the right Of holding an inquiry on the loss Of
, tho steamer Schiller, in addition to the one
3 held at Greenwich. 80. A violent storm Of
5 wind and rain passed over parts Of Indiana
Ohio and Kentucky, doing great damage by
flooding crops, washing away railroad embank-
ments and bridges and unroofng buildings.
Several lives were reported lost.
= The coal exchange of Chicago having re-
, duced the wages of coal wheelers from s5 to
: SO per day, several hundred Of the men struck,
/ and then went about to the different yards and
+ drove off those who were willing to work.
. Several non-strikcrs were severely injured.
i The committee OF the New York board of
$ aldermen appointed to investigate the official
G conduct of Comptroller Green submitted re-
Il port charging him with gross official miscon-
Il duct, carelessness, neglect Of duty and waste
. of public funds. The report was adopted.
Sixty persons were drowned by the capsizng
:, of lighter in the Tagus, near Lisbon, Portu.
n gal "A dispatch from San Diego says that
a letter to the San Diego Union, from Unea
n Sonora, reports that general excitement pre-
d walls over the Mexican raids in Texas. War it
IS feared there between the United States and
G Mexico. .... BY the explosion of a locomotive
s at Rhinebeck, on the Hudson river road, the
} engineer and fireman were seriously injured
o ...... A heavy cycloue on the Chinese coast il
|, reported to have done much damage to ship
l, ping. President Grant has extended tho
. time Of the court of commissioners of Alabama
= claims for period Of six months after Jul,
- %. ... Phil. H. Sheridan, Lieutenant-G Genera
=, of the army, was married to Miss Irene, daugh
~ ter Of Quartermaster-G General Rucker, OF
Chicago.
The coroners jury held over victim Of the
Holyoke disaster returned verdict in which
they state that they find no Lame attached tC
}, any person in immediate connection with thu
) fire but they cannot too strongly condemn
> the criminal carelessness shown in the con
struction of the gallery and the means o
-, egress therefrom. They further find that tht
- direct cause of the fire and consequent loss o
&c life was due to the use of infammable trim
+ minSs for the altar, and the substitution o
e pine sheathing for plaster in building, ant
V deprecate the use of such adornments ant
q material in public buildings By the e1
e plosion Of boiler in tho steam sawmill o
r, J. J. Wagenhuret, near Gouldsboro, Pa, tw,
l. men were instantly killed and several other
II injured among them the proprietor who wa
q struck by a piece Of flying metal, although
Z some distance off. His recovery is doubtful
e .... Reports from Missouri state that til
u grasshoppers are leaving that State on thei
- flight westward and northward. AT meet
ing of canalboat owners held in Buffalo, al
20 agreement was signed in which they agree
n not to carry wheat for less than eight cents
IS and other freights in proportion. A committe
IL 10 W SahNaSs hiiti tiloy boz ohhOio piOh"SuiS
d sufficient to control the price of freights. 80.
e A negro named Orange was hanged in Atlanta
e. Ga, for numbering rival ... The Mexica
g. Congress has voted $50 900 for the expense
g of Mexican representation at the Philadelphi
y Centennial -. Another suit to recover money
III stolen from New York city by the Tweed rim
10 has been brought, this time against the wido'
and Administrative of the late County Audito
~ James Watson I; the amount claimed ID sc, 1893
a 957.S5. .... Tie Independent of Dardanelle
,r Ark, published very severe articles in referenc
n to a Mr.. Wshart, prominent lawyer of tina
l. place, who went to tho publication Office fo
,e the purpose of getting a retraction, when Il
alteration took place, ending in editor ID. l
Cloyd shooting and killing his opponent.
The Washington Sunday Herald states tha
ia General Meigs is to be placed in comman
l. Of the department Of the South, vice Genera
IN. Irwin Mcdowell, who is to be put on the rt
ID tired list go. The Swedish riksdag has apprC
al priated S93 800 in gold to defray the expense
A. Of their countrymen in the Phladelphia Ger
a tennial. .... The corporation of London hav
e. decided to invite the Mayor of New York to a
@ international municipal banquet next montl
y ~ Owing to the failure Of the negotiation
. in Washington, it is believed that the Blac