The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1876-07-13
NEWS ITEMS.


ed by Rev. Samuel Hunt, from notes,
President Porter, of YALE has asked some
friend of that institution to present it with
half dozen billiard tables. DR.. Porter
doesn't believe billiards demoralizing.
Thos. n. Walker has been nominated to
the Senate by President Grant to be Post
master at Erie, in place of Isaac b. Cara.
The foreign shspments of corn from
Boston for the month of June were
7S9,976 bushels, being by far the larg'
est amount ever shipped in a cores
ponding month.
The Senate has confirmed the nomi-
natiod of Judge W. W. Ketchum as L.
s. District Judge for the Western Dis
trict of this State, vice William Me-
CandIess, retired.
A report of the death of General
Crook and the annihiliation ofhis com.
mand by the Indians was telegraphed
yesterday from the frontier. The re-
port is doubted at Washington and
| denied at Omaha.
A destructive hailstorm passed over
Auburn, n. V, Sunday evening, do
ing considerable damage to fruits,
gardens, and field crops. Some of the
pellets were six inches in circumfer-
ence, and the loss from broken glass
| is heavy.
Two American barges engaged in
conveying cargoes from one Canadian
port to another were seized on Satur-
| day by the customs authorities of Mon
treal.
The business of Cohran, Mclean &
Co., the suspended New York dry
goods dealers, has been placed in the
hands of receivers, who have given
| $3.50, 900 bon DIS.
Col. John Fowler, who was some
what prominent in New York during
| the Tweed regime, has left his residence
at New Rochelle, leaving liabilities es-
timated at 100000.
Mrs. Larry McCarty and four child
ren were badly burned by kerosene
lamp explosion at Ogdensburg, n. Y,
Saturday evening. The mother and
one daughter died Sunday.
Albert Curtis, son of Judge Curtis, Of
Ashland, Ohio, was shot and instantly
killed on Saturday, on q rancho near
Laramie City, by a man named Chan
dler. Chandler is still at large.
Susan Bowman, colored, indicted at
| Washington for the murder of her in
FAINT child, by casting her into a sewer
on the 22d of April last, has been ac-
| quilted on the ground of insanity.
In Chicago, Friday week, a number
of ''crooked whisky" distillers were
sentenced to fines varying from $1,000
down to 81 ,OOG;an to terms ofimpris-
onment varying from two years to one
day.
Friday night week the stables of
James Allen & Sons, railroad contrac-
tors, at Port Morris, were destroyed by
fire. Fifteen horses perished in the
flames. The loss amounts to $40, 900.
Cause of the fire unknown.
Before the next Presidential election
which will take place on the same
day, November I, in all the different
States in the Union, seven Of the States
will hold elections for State officers. In
September, Arkansas, Vermont and
Maine, and in October, Ohio, Indiana,
West Virginia, and Georgia.
A John H. Powers and his sister Ma
ry Jane Powers, a few days ago stopped
at Reading, Pa, and, upon being
weighed, the former balanced the
scales at 600 pounds, and the latter at
S07 l-2. They claim to be the heaviest
brother and sister living.
In a short time monument will
be placed over the grave of Captain
Mol Pitcher, at Carlisle, Pennsylvania,
in honor of her bravery at the battle
of Monmouth. June 2S, l77S.
Washington county, PENNSYLVANIA,
may well be called the mother of Con-
gressmen. One Senator and seven
| Representatives., now members of that
body, were born in that county.
The New York Tribune saws: "The
Democratic journals of the East have
undertaken the stupendous task OF
making our Governor Hendricks a
| hard-mOncy man. The Great Ameri,
can Fence Sitter has been pretty sue.
uesstul in lodging most public ques'
tions, but he just put himself on
record as an intlationist, and the
record can't be talked downn
CNolSNArI, O., July Crop reports
from 23S points in Ohio, Indiana. Illinois,
Kentucky and Tennessee were telegraphed
to the Gazette last night. From these re.
ports it appears the season thus far has
been very propitious for growing most kinds
of grain, but just as harvest approaches
there is threatened disaster from continued
aims from all points, except Tennessee and
| Southern Kentucky, Fears of the lestruc-
tion of portion of the crops from this
source are entertained. AS the crop now
stands wheat promises to yield two-t birds;
oats less than an average crop; corn un-
usually large crop; hay in abundance, but
rank and weedy; wheat suffering consider
ably from the ravages of the weeyil
A terrible tornado prevailed in Iowa tn G
night OF the Fourth The village of Rock
dale, twenty seven miles from DUBUQUE;
in the Northern part of the State, was
washed out and forty-two persous were
drowned. 1t South Burlington, three per-
sons were killed and several injured By the
| storm, which was but an instant's duration.
AT Dubuque the rain commenced falling
about ten o'clock and continued for three
| hours with solid sheet of water. All the
| bridges on the railroads and wagon roads
were swept away. Houses were carried down
the stream and their occupants drowned,
| Rockdale is built in a ravine on stream,
and the storm struck it in the dead of night.
Every building but the mill was swept
away. OF the forty-two persons missing
nineteen dead bodies have been found.
The town had about Two hundred inhabit.
ants. The scene when the storm struck
the village is described as a terrible one.