The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-03-04

to investigate the charges that alterations had
been made in the last years Supply bill......
Railway travel was greatly impeded n the
North and West by snow and ice during the
late storm. Many roads were entirely closed.
....A man, supposed to be Bender, the
notorious Kansas murderer, was captured in
Arizona by two men who tracked him through
Western Texas and New Mexico. %. The New
York State Senate confirmed the nomination of
/ A. Melvin Osborn, Of Greene county, to be
! justice Of the supreme court in the third judi
cial district in place of Theodore Miller, re-
/ signed. =. The National Changers adopted q
resolution that manufactures ought 10 be
encouraged in the South.
A den was broken up in Now York in which
an old man had twenty-five boys from eight to
! fifteen years of ago, of whom he was making
! thieves a.....It is said that during the cold
weather in New York the water pipes were
| frozen, and that a fire under even ordinary cir.
cumstances would have proved Chicago or
| Boston conflagration. The new Bounty bill,
| passed by the United States House, proposes
to pay $685. per month to oil soldiers and
sailors who served in the war of the rebellion,
deducting from this amount the boxnties al
ready paid by the general government and
States. 1t will cost, it is estimated, from
seventy-tive to one hundred millions Of dollars.
......Tho National Grange adopted resolu-
ton asking the United States Congress to aid
the Texas Pacific railroad .... Rufus Hatch
swears that s2,0OOOOO was taken from the
Pacific Mail treasury by its officers on false
vouchers. The barracks of Fort SILL Kansas,
were burned and all the Indian prisoners cs-
capped. ..... Poor Marshal Bazaine receives
nothing but insults from Frenchmen in Spain.
Judge Wexford, of the circuit court OF
Richmond, Virginia, rendered decision that
no execution can be made to soil property Of
the State for debt Sixteen business houses
were burned at Independence, Mo. -. Gov
Castor, of Massachusetts, has signed the new
State Detective bill abolishing the present
coustabrnary on the 1st of March go. Evan
Morris, of Pittsburgh, Penn. has issued a
challenge to row any man in the United States
five-mile single-scul race for $1,000 to
$4,000 side. The race to take pace i'll April
on the Monongahela, at Pittsburgh.
In the British House of Commons, Mr..
Lopes, by the advice OF Mr.. Disraeli, apollo
gized for and withdrew the offensive expires
sions he had used in regard to the Irish Home
Rulers. ......A riot occurred recently among
the Chinese in Singapore jail, and sixty-seven
) prisoners were killed, including sixteen of the
keepers of the Jail. " A fire at Darien, Ga.
destroyed property valued at 100000. 1t was
1 the work of an incendiary. go. Henry G. Free
j man, the Oldest member of the Philadelphia
bar, excepting Horace Binney, died recently
! in the eighty-sixth year of his age. He was ad
3 mitted to the bar in 1900 . Mrs. McCarth,
was found dead on the floor of her house il
Portsmouth, n. H., having frozen to deatl
: whilo intoxicated. .... Darcy Doulton, Q. G..
4 NJ. P. T., and Grand Master Of the Ontari,
= Orange Grand Lodge, died suddenly in Toront,
of apoplexy. In the English House o
3 Commons Mr. Bourke, Under Secretary for tn
{ Foreign Department, in reply to an inquiry b.
: Mr. O'Elery, said that instructions would b
= sent to Mr.. Layard, the British Minister a
l. Madrid to recognize Alfonso as King of Spain
=. The Democratic Convention Of Connection
i renominated the present State officers, and tn
platform adopted is in favor of hard money
a against an increase of taxation, and condemn
: the action of the Federal government.
l. Near Helena, Colorado, thirty vigilantes wer
VI to the house of one Gibbs to hang him. and st
&c fire to the house. Gibbs leaped out tbroug
n the flames with a revolver and shot thre
3 of the party dead and wounded another, whe
ID the rest took to their heels and fled. =. THE
~ aged brothers, old business men of New Yorl
g ,ol Al
j, second Saturday and the third Sunday-ar
e were all buried at the same time " TT
e. British steamer George Batters, for GibralLa
Of is supposed to have been lost, with twenty-oI
le persons on board .... The Canadian govern
pr ment has consented to grant loan of $780, OF
Is to 5000 Mennonite families who desire to in
eu migrate to Canada. IA fire broke out
of Port-au-Prince, Hayti, which destroyed ii
hundred houses ...... The house OF d.
Alellott, OF Belfast township, Pa, was burne
and three of his children were burned
death. Mr.. and Mrs Melott went away Oh
visit and left the children locked up in Il
!. house The United States House commit
ne on Indian affairs reported adversely on the b
IL to provide for the organization of a Territeri
,n government over the Indian Territory. TT
il Rev. Mr.. Lesserman, pastor OF the Methods
as Episcopal Church in Lowell, Mass, was n
ys over by the Lowell and Andover railro
at express train, and ground into so many fra
o. ments that it was with difficulty the renal
Ike could be gathered up. The rebellion
in Bolivia still continues and the soldiers are col
ot hitting the most savaa- excesses upon t.
E. people.
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