The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-01-27
SUMMARY OF NEWS.


items Of Interest from Home and Abroud.
A flood in Valparaiso inundated the business
part of the city and destroyed two lives and
$1,5OO,0OO worth Of property -. E. The Prince
Imperial OF Germany will not visit the Oenten-
nial. -. DIR. Antonio Borrero has taken Office
rs president Of Ecuador. .... The New Hamp-
shire Democratic convention nominated Daniel
Marcy for governor, on platform which de-
clares that the issues Of war are settled and
states that as the Democratic party has always
been the advocate Of sound currency, it now
demands the speedy resumption Of specie pay
ments, which can only be obtained through
administration reform and honest government;
favors tariff for revenue only, and opposes
all subsidies praises the system of common
schools and deprecates all attempts to raise
sectaran issues in politics. The town of
Albaneay, Peru, has been destroyed by an
earthquake ...... The night of an election at
Gatineau Point, Canada, faction fight took
place, there beng fifty on a side, and fifteen
men were dangerously wounded ...... The
Marquis Of Ripon, the English nobeman who
recently embraced the Roman Catholic faith,
has presented the Pope with 100000 sterling.
Egypt has forwarded her goods to be ex-
hibited at the CentenDial-being the first to
arrive.
The Republican national committee, at a
meeting held in Washington, concluded to
hold their convention for the nomination Of
President at Cincinnati, June 14th. Each
State will send twice as many delegates as
1t has Senators and representatives, and each
Territory and the District of Columbia will
send two each ..... The municipal council Of
Paris will send to the Centennial the models
Of the squares and public buildings, which
| were at the Vienna exhibition .... During q
crisis in the French ministry President Mac
Mahon issued proclamation in favor Of law
and order ...... Lapage was found guilty of
murder in the first degree for the killing Of
Josie Langmaid, near Suncook, N. H, and
was sentenced to be hung ... Wisconsin's
debt is $2,252 ,057, according to Gov Luding-
ton..... Captain Josiah Briggs, his wife and
two children, of Coxsackie, n. Y, were drowned
in the Hudson by falling through hole in the
ice. Three boys were drowned at Lowell,
Mass, by the wind carrying the sled on which
they were sliding into tho water. .... Harvard
| College has TIC students.
The aggregate OF the Alabama claims is
! $12, ,673, 451.44, of which the commission has
dispo ,ed of 59,7O4, COS, IS. ..... There have
been important Egyptian successes in Abys-
sinia. The report of the American Iron
and Steel Association shows there were 2, 100, :
| 900 tons of pig-iron manufactured in this
country last year-a falling off of G00 900 tons
from the previous year.. 1t is reported
that Prince Bismarck and the vatican are
coming to terms. -. Tho number Of failures
in 1875 was 7,74O, the average liabilities being
less than the year previous ..... Thirteen
distillers of Chicago representing the largest
houses in the city, pleaded guilty to con-
spiracy A fire in Mobile, Ala, destroyed
the block Of buildings bounded by st. Francis,
st. Michael, Royal, and Sc. Joseph streets,
with the exception of the Bank Of Mobile, the
registers office, the old Western Union tele.
graph Office and the express Office.
The legislature OF Servia has voted to i'm
peach all the members Of Mainovic's cabinet
for allowing the expenditures to exceed the
amount authorized by the budget. -. .Tht
vatican has instructed the archbishops OF
Cologne and Treves to endeavor to fipd meani
of preventing their disposition from the
sees 80. Two boys were drowned while skating
on Colgate's creek, near Lower Canton, Nd. E.
The wife of exPresident Johnson died at tn,
residence Of her daughter, Mrs. Judge Patter
son, near Greenville, Tenn. . Bowdoin Coleg
will remain in the boating association ...
War has been declared between Guatemala ant
San Salvador, Central America. ..... German
will only purchase tie railways OF Prussi
at present, as some of the smaller state
oppose the sale.
A young Englishman named Henckley lai
down on a railway near Baltimore for the pun
pose OF being killed by the cars passing owe
him, but the engineer discovered him an
stopped the train in time to avoid him, where
upon tho would-be suicide drew pistol an
shot himself dead .... -Four colored men, a
!, confessed cotton-gin and house burners, wer
forclbly taken from Coahoma county Miss
jail, at Friar's Point, and shot dead by maske
men -. The Democ attic national commtte
will meet in Washington February %, to selec
time and place for the nomination OF Pres
dent. 80. The Tredegsr iron works at Ricl
mond, Va, have suspended, throwing six hur
, dred hands out of work ...... . The Englls
national rifle association accepted the cha
lenge of the rifle association of America :.
The London Times Berlin special says tn,
the government will close the Ursuline col
, vent and school on the first of April. -. .Ge
: many's preparations for the Centennial are o
l complete and the articles to be exhibited'wi
: shortly be shipped.
: George Luckhauser, OF New York city, c
9 being refused by young lady, became dc
!, perate, and procuring some sulphuric acid l
, swallowed it at the entrance of tho girl
+ house, and calling her forth shot at her with
: pistol, inhicting q slight wound. Supposir
:. he had killed her, he attempted to blow Of
: his brains, but the poison began working al
made his hand unsteady. He subsequent
died ... Ex-Gov. S. ]. Kirkwooi has bee
elected Unite States Senator from Iowa.
The liabilities OF the Tredegar iron works,
, Richmond, Va, are now put at 81 $780, 000.. =.
q correspondent of the London Times, writir
n from Vienna, says that Turkey is endeavoril
: to pacify the insurgents and thus avert foreil
intervention. .....A thousand more collie
{ have struck in north Wales, owing to the 7
Q duction Of wages by employers. James
It Beck has been elected United States Senat
Q from Kentucky, in place Of Senator Stevenso