The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1879-06-26
Newsy Notes Foreign and Domestic.

: Newsy Notes Foreign and Domestic.
An Indiana farmer shot into his
smoke house at u supposed thief, and
killed bis uncle.
"A fierce bulldog at Meriden, Conn,
tried to fight his reflection in mirror,
at cost of 5000 TO his owner.
Chicago packers, since March /,
have slaughtered SO4, 900 hogs, against
925, 900 for the same period a year ago.
William Gale of Cardiff, has only
just completed at Bradford, England,
the unexampled feat of walking $500
miles in 1000 consecutive hours.
Dan Rice will not not build a
floating theatre this season. Hejoined
Adam Forepaugh's circus at Chicago
on the 9th as leading clown.
Miles, the polygamist, who was
all ready to mary three women, will
look from behind the bars of u peni-
tentiary during the next five years.
He is the second polygamist convicted
in Utah.
1T is estimated at the Brewers
Convention, in st. Louis that there
were ten million barrels of beer con-
sumed in this country last year, or
more than a barrel for every five per-
sons. And yet we talk of hard times.
Immigrants are now pouring into
this country at something like the
rate they used to come before the
panic. Over $1,000 landed at New
York during May, an increase of 1000
over May last year, and arrivals are
steadily increasing.
Salt Lake City, June 10. - George
r. Reynolds, the bigamist, was SELL
fenced to two years Imprisonment and
$500 fine. He is the first Mormon con.
victed of polygamy since the passage
of the act in 1862, and every effort was
made to prevent his conviction.
The national debt is now about
1904 OO0, 900, which bears interest as
follows, in round numbers: pei
cent, Sl4,O0O,O0O; per cent, $780,.
100000; AZ per cent, $3.50, 900, 900; /
per cent, $500, 600, ,OOO;:6 per cent.
$3.50, 600, 600; no interest, S4OO, ,OOO, 900.
London, June 10 A dispatcl
from Cape Town, dated JUNE 5, say
that Prince Louis Napoleon. accom-
panied by other officers, went out from
Col. Woods camp to reconnoitre anC
dismounted in a mealie field, and tha
the enemy crept upon them ant
killed the Prince. His body was re
covered.
Cincinnati, June 2l.-In the U
). court DR.. Edward Bonaparte, ALA,
e. B. Reynolds, a speciality physician
of this city for the past twenty-fiv,
years, was to-day sentenced to the pen
itentiary for one year for sendin,
printed documents through the mail
giving information We're certain arti
cles, the sale of which is forbidden b,
law, could be purchased
William Nailor and Elvira Vircl
were married, near Evansville, Ind
in the evening, and that night re
mained in the house of friend. L
the morning the brides parents cam
up with their farm hands, all arme
with guns, and captured her, in spit
of her own and husbands S desperate re
sistance. She was carried off, an
Nailor has not yet been able to fin
her.
Washington, June 22.-The legis
lative bill was signed yesterday an
the President, at an early hour tt
morrow afternoon, will send to tn
house of representatives message al
nouncing his approval of the arm
appropriation bill. His private secrt
tary will at the same time deliver I
the house the Message from the Pres
dent returning the judicial expense
appropriation bill, without his appr'
val.
| William Hanrv Erh of ST 7 ~--+
behaved so badly to his wife that sh
procured divorce. He afterward b,
came drunkard, and earned a mi,
cradle living as q knife grinder.
was his custom to set up his machin
across the street from his wife's hous
and menacingly grind knives in h'
sight. This made her nervous at frs
but she gradually became accustome
to it. Seeing that he was no long
soaring her, he took to running t
ward her, brandishing a knife, an
declaring that he would kill he
, When that plan began to fail, as it d
, a few days ago, he stabbed her
death.
There is considerable eXciteme