The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-07-22
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Items of Interest from Home and Abror

tor, Henry Ward Beecher, for the year 1915,
from $4,000 to 100000. This was done, as
stated at the meeting, to assist Mr.. Beecher in
meeting the expenses of his late trial. 1.-The
Wisconsin Republican Convention nominated
Harrison Ludington, of Milwaukee, for gov
ernor. The platform declares their unalterable
adherence to the indissoluble union Of the
States opposes any union Of church and
State, or legislation in the interest Of any
particular creed stands by the public school
system, with no division Of the school fund;
approves the Presidents letter on the third
term question indorses the policy OF adjust
ing difficulties between this and foreign ma
tions by arbitration instead Of war adheres
to the doctrine OF legislative control over cor
porations deriving their functions from the
State desires a revision OF the patent laws....
The Mexican authorities have put down the
rebellion in the state OF Lapaz Z. =. Burglars
took the cashier of bank at Montpelier, Vt,
from his bed to the bank at midnight and
ordered him to open tho vault. But as there
was a chronometcr lock on it, it could not be
opened until after nine o'clock, and 30 they
wero unable to accomplish their purpose.
They secured $1,000 in unsigned bills which
we're in drawer and then took the cashier
home and pinioned him. One Of the robbors
was subsequently captured ...... kilograms
from all parts OF the country report deaths and
damage from lightning -. The Minnesota
Democratic State Convention renominated
Hon. d. L. Buell. for governor. The platform
sets forth that the adoption of the fourteenth,
fifteenth and sixteenth amendments closed q
era in our politics, and as they have been
accepted in good faith all parties must stand
upon them declares that the bulk Of the
rights OF the people must find their safeguard
in the States and the people themselves ad-
vocates tho freedom of the press calls for
a return to specie payment; wants a tariff for
revenue only, and none for protection free
and uniform excise laws. ..... The American
rfemon shot with the Irishmen again at Bel
fast for the belfast cup, at range of ono
thousand yards. They were allowed five shots
each, and the result showed tic between
Gildersleeve, of the American club, and Lee,
of the Irisll-both counting nineteen out of a
possible twenty. They then had three shots
to decide the tie, which resulted in another
tie. Once more they fired three shots each
and Gildersleeve won the cup by scoring
twelve to his opponents ten. Afterward
banquet was given the American team. .
Bogardus, of this country, shot a pigeon match
in Hendon, England, with Rimmel, the cham
pion of England, and easily beat the English
man ..... -Four of the Kentucky Ku-Klux
prisoners we're sentenced to the penitcntiary
for terms varying from two to three years. 80.
Hamilton, one of the five convicts who 80 dar-
ingly made their escape from Sing Sing prison
by stealing locomotive, was recaptured in
New York city. He is the only one caught as
yet. Dispatches from Europe state that
an instruction has broken out against the
Turks in Herzegovina, and the Turkish troops
are on their way to put it down.
Thomas Malone, employed in yeast factory
at Blissville, Long Island, while strainng a
large tank of boiling yeast, lost his balance
and fell in. He was boiled to death-the skin
being completely stripped from his body. go.
The steamer Poyang, from Hong Kong to
Macoa, China, was lost with over one hundred
souls on board. .... George Brown, the noted
oarsman, died at Halifax, N. s., at the age of
thirty-six years. Capt Queen, of the United
States steamer Saranac, recently lost near
Vancouver's Island, has made an official report,
in which he states that the vessel was caught
in whirlpool which prevented her minding
the rudder, and in this condition she WAS
thrown bodily upon the sunken rock. .... The
Erie railway companys suit againt Commodore
Vanderbilt to recover nearly $5,000,000, al
legged to have been fraudulently obtained by
him from the company, was decided lately on
appeal IN favor of the company .. General
Frank P. Blair died suddenly in st. Louis. He
had been very low for many months but under
the treatment of blood infusing was gradually
gaining and had already ridden out number
Of times, even walking down stairs the day Of
his death ..... The families of the Indian
prisoners at st. Augustine are to be sent them.
Mark Brown was hanged at Monticello, N. Y,
for the murder of Sylvester Carr at Purvis in
October last He was intoxicated at the time
of the murder. 80. The American rifle team
having decided to engage in but one team
match during their visit, have declined to shoot
against picked team of English riiemen.
They will enter Wimbledon for the Albert cup
and other matches open to all corners The
bravery of an express messenger was all that
prevented heavy robbery on the Vandalia
road, short distance from Casey, illinois,
Two men got on the engine while it was stop
| ping for water and after killing the engineer
started the machinery. Meanwhile others of
the band had uncoupled the Adams express
car so that the moving train under charge of
the robbers consisted of the engine, tender
and express car, leaving the balance of the
train standing still. After proceeding two
miles the engine was stopped and the robbers
demanded admittance of the express messen-
! ger, but as his Car was strong and without
! windows he refused to surrender, and offered
| to shoot any one who broke into his car. The
robbers were unsuccessful in their efforts to
secure an entrance and had to content them
selves by firing many shots through the car in
hopes of hitting the messenger. AS soon as
the conductor and train employees discovered
the engine and car gone they organized a
force and followed on, but the robbers had
gone without securing anything. .. The Bra
lillian naval surgeon who volunteered and
helped to take caro- of the persons sick
with yellow fever on board the United States
steamer Lancaster, after the two regular ship
surgeons had persisted of the fever, accom-
panied the vessel to this country and was
thanked by our government for his action.
The government also asked him to visit our
principal cities and watering places and de-
tailed an officer to accompany him.
AS a train on the Toledo and Wabash road