The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1875-10-21
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Item. OF Interest from Home and Abro

Items of Interest from Home and Abroad.
The rapid transit commissioners Of New
York city have handed in their report and
specifications to the mayor, in which the
general plan prescribed is an elevated railway
supported by columns from curb to curb or
over the sidewalks In narrow streets, and span
ming the surface roads in broad avenues. ......
Scarce trace Of the storm remains in Calves
ton, Tex. The harbor was benefited by the
storm, as now there are fourteen feet of water
on the bar, and Liverpool steamers go direct
to the wharves . The ProhibItionists Of
Massachusetts, in convention at Boston, re-
nominated State ticket, heading it with John
l. Baker, of Beverly, for governor Wendell
Phillips and several ministers addressed the
meeting. Opposition to Rice the Republican
candidate, seemed to be the main interest
manifested ..... Some three or four hundred
Southerners went to Brazil after the close of
tho war, thinking they would do we'll in that
country bat they have been gradually coming
back by means of free passage in United
States vessels, and now our government is to
send vessel for the remainder. The
Turkish Porte has instructed Server Pasha to
insurgents. .... 1t is now considered certain
that Messrs. Moody and Sankey will begin re-
vival services in Philadelphia early in Novem-
her .. Two persons died in Dalton, Ca.
from eating cream which Was favored with
peach leaves. They partook of it at we'd
ding. ... Connecticut is to have biennial cleo
tions for governor and to vote in the fall in
stead of spring.
Mobiles (Ala.) board of health announces
that the yellow fever has entirely disappear o.
from that city,. War has commenced at
Cape Pamas, Africa, between Liberia and the
alb Jiignes under the command Of several edu-
catod natives. There wa, some fighting on
the seventeenth Of September, in which fifty
we're killed and wounded. The Liberian gov
ernment has dispatched troops from Monrovia
to the scene Of action, and great battle is
daily expected During the troubles be-
tween the whites and negroes at Friars Point,
Miss, squad of white cavalry charged on an
ambush Of negroes who had fatally shot q
white man, and killed three and wounded one.
They also captured three and took them to
Jail Sir Edward Thornton British minis
ter to this country, who is acting as commits
sioner between Mexico and the United States
has decided adversely on fourteen of the
claims against Mexico, and approved Of seven
Of them, aggregating $357,0O0, mostly with
interest for the past ten years .... The eccle-
siastical court of Berlin have deposei the
bishop of Breslau. go. The jury in the Siney-
Parks trial at Clearfeld, Pa, rendered YER
dict acquiting Siney, but convicting Parks Of
riot and conspiracy. Parks was sentenced to
hard labor for one year, and to pay a fine of 81
and the costs of the trial, which are estimated
at IL, 500. .....1 1t is officially announced that
Burmah has Internationally agreed to allow
! the passage of an escort Of British troops
through Burmese territory to Furman if
another expedition thlther be necessary. 900.
/ The hog disease is raging extensively in Ohio.
The Treasury department has ordered the
collectors Of customs to display the revenue
flag over the buildings containing their offices
during business hours ...... Commissioner
Smith left Washington, not to return to
the Indian bureau .....A statue of the late
John A. Andrew, WAL governor of Massachu-
setts, was unveiled at Boston with appropriate
ceremonies including song written by Oliver
Wendell Holmes ..... Another suit of the
people of New York against Wm. NJ. Tweed
for the recovery of moneys stolen by the
"ring" has been instituted. The amonnt
sought to be recovered is 1898, GAO. A. ... The
Servan deputies met at the residence OF Prince
Milan and rejected motion for wal by vote
Of siyty-two to twenty-one. 80. George w
Pemberton who murdered Mrs. Bingham ir
East Boston early last spring, by choking hel
to death on being detected in robbery, paid
the full penalty Of his crime in Boston. He
vas calm aud collected previous to the execu
ton and died easily George Speer, G
married negro, was hanged at Fayetteville, Ca
for outragng white girl of fifteen. ... Z. w
B. Hitchcock, OF Naugatuck, Conn, shot a
his wife, but the ball glanced off her stee
corset spring and she was unnjured. H,
then shot himself and died shortly after.
A freight train jumpe the track at Roches
ter, y. Y, just previous to reaching the depot
while running at the rate of forty miles a,
hour, and crushed through the walls, wrecl;
ing the train and instantly killing the engi
neer and fireman. The accounts of Nava
Paymaster j. II. Stevenson, who has beer
attached to the naval depot at Nagasaki, Japan
have been adjusted at the department, and hi
money account is short $5t, ia. He has beel
superseded and is supposed to be on his wa
home ..... Westervelt, convicted of conspir
ing in the Charley Ross abduction, Was sen
tended to seven years Imprisonment snd fine
81 and costs. . The rectifpg house, residence
and all the property of j. P. KisainSer, o
Milwaukee, Wiz, has been seized bv collec
tor of internal revenue for an assessment o
, 1886, 900 against the Union Copper Distillin
Company of Chicago. The members G
the defunct banking firm OF Duncan, Sherma
d Co., of New York, were arrested on charg
} Of fraud preferred by some of their creditors
They we're released on small bail ..... Dplc
matte relations between Holland and Vene
zuela have been broken off because the forme
country refused to indemnify Venezuela fo
alleged Intervention by Dutch subjects 8
Curacao in Venezuelan internal affairs. -.
Recent rains have swollen the rivers an
caused disastrous inundations in Leicester
shire and Warwickshre, England. The de-
struction Of property is very heavy, and som
lives are reported lost .... The mate of til
American brig Helena &. Rice, stranded O
!, Salt Key Bank, off Florida, reports that on th
, island near by he saw signal pole standin
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