The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-04-22

their States will take part in the Philadelphia
Centennial. III is reported that several
clerks in the United States Post-office depart
ment in Washington have been discovered to
be acting as accomplices of mail contractors in
swindling the Government There have
been four cases Of yellow fever at Key West,
Fla., but there are none there now.....It is
proposed by British and French capitalists
to make the channel tunnel project an enter
prise of purely commercial and industrial
character, and not government. undertaking.
They favor the formation of French COM
pany, with capital of 250, 100000 francs.
Four lines, instead of two, will be laid down.
The entire work will occupy eight years. ....
The Trenton On. J.) iron works were destroyed
by fire with loss of 100000. Over three
hundred men are thrown out of employment.
1850. Mexican authorities claim that prominent
citizens of Texas are encouraging and aiding
the border troubles with an object in view
against Mexico. . The American Trust Society
is fifty years old. The total receipts have ex-
ceeded $12, 700, 900, of which one-third was
from donations and legacies. The expendi-
lures for grants, colportage and the foreign
mission press have exceeded the entire benevo-
lent receipts.
A discussion between two miners ON the labor
question at Peckvile (Pa.) resulted i'll fight,
in which one of them named Patrick Slavin
was killed. "A terrible case of fanaticism is
now undergoing investigation in Cuba.
mother, believing she was acting by the
orders of the spirits, tore out the eyes of her
son, and afterward attempted to tear cut her
own. This she did openly, as solemn sacri-
fee, in the presence of the ether women of
the family, who prayed in loud voice while it
was going Oh. All the parties have been
arrested, and are now on trial. In the
Cincinnati charter election the Democrats were
successful by majorities ranging from 1000 to
6,000. ...At the Annapolis (NId) election a
riot took place. at which number of persons
were badly hurt. -. p. T. Barnum, the show
man, was elected mayor of Bridgeport (Conn }
at the late election .... The supposed yellow
fever at Key West is believed by physicians to
have been another disease e. The new
Canadian postal law takes effect from the list Of
May instead of the LIST of August as originally
anticipated. =. The steam boiler of the Delano
iron works, Syracuse On ", exploded, killing
one man and seriously injuring several others.
...... At meeting of the stockholders of the
American Steamship Company at Philadelphia
the annual report was read, showing that the
receipts for the past year had exceeded the
ordinary expenses by S147, 7,900.... James IL.
Ingcrsoll, sentenced November %, 1873, to
five years Imprisonment for forgery in the
second degree, has been pardoned by Gov.
Tilden, of New York. Ingersoll was con-
nected with the Tammany ring.
Tho Canadian House of Commons has passed
a bill giving Germans, naturalized after resi-
dence of five years in the Dominion, all the
rights of British subjects. ... The vote for
Governor in Connecticut stood SO, 1855 for Inger-
soil, DEM, A, SOB for Greene, Rep and g. 756
for Smith, Temperance. The Congressional
delegation shows three Democrats and one
Republican a Democratic gain Of two. The
State Legislature is Democratic A fire in
shelbyville, Ind, destroyed property valued at
/ 1000. .... The report that the Emperor of
! Brazil proposed to abdicate is pronounced ull-
founded AT fire in the Frankfort House,
/ NOW IOlh OIc lldl NdH 1ulSc
masked men entered the house of Charles
Mitchell, farmer living near Mitchell, Cana
da, tied him and his daughter hand and foot,
and fastened them down 70 their beds. The
robbers then leisurely ransa kel the house,
and carried off 81, 900 in cash. ... Henry r.
Wilkinson bought lottery tickets from James
Gill, valued at $4,000, and, having lost he
sued Gill for double the sum. A New York
| jury gave him II, 400. -. David Keaveny, aged
fifteen years, was arrested a Sp ingfeld, Mass,
for killing his father, Michael Keaveny, al
Petersham, on Easter Sunday by striking him
with a tiat-iron.