The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-04-14

complete accouterments, have been III
process of manufacture. Greece will
come next with 700 field pieces, COM
pletely equipped. Next in order is
Sweden, with fifty field guns, Holland
with 120, and Italy with 400 siege guns.
Arizona, like all the Territories, has
become heartily tired of the colonial
system of government, and is moving in
the matter of obtaining statehood. The
house of representatives, has passed a
bill calling q convention to meet in
January, 1882, which convention is to
frame State constitution to be sub
mitted to the people at the general
election in 1882. The census showed
that in June Arizonas total population
numbered 40,441, including 1,G30
Chinese, two japanese and 3,493 Indians
and half-breeds. The showing, it will
be seen, is not favorable for admission,
but the Territory is rapidly filling up,
and its early future is full of bright
promise.
The Winter palace in st. Petersburg
figures extensively in the Nihilistic plots.
The palace is an imposing pile upon
the left bank of the Neva. Rastulli was
the designer of the structure. The
Winter palace occupies the site, which,
in the time of Peter the Great, was the
property of his high admiral, Count
AfraXin, who by his will left it to Peter
II. After her coronation at Moscow the
Empress Anna lived there for time, but
in about the middle Of the last century
1p1 I nj Ip ,o,, -
o palace begun. It was completed in the
reign of Catherine. In 1887 it was
burned to the ground; but in less than
two years the palace, as it now stands,
was finished. It is about eighty feet in
height and more than $50 feet in length.
A record of adventurous villainy Just
about black enough to furnish the basis
for a novel OF the blood and thunder
type has been made by four brothers
named Killian in Southwestern Mis-
souri,. Each of them "killed Lis man
in the most fendish manner conceiv-
able, and the youngest of the four, who
avowedly committed murder forno other
reason than to equal his brothers, has
recently been sent to the Missouri peni-
tentiary for life. One of the others was
shot by the avengers Of his victim, but
two of the four escaped all justice. That
part of the country III which these crimes
were committed was once the home of
outlawry, but capital and honorable
labor have carried thither q degree of
civilization fatal to the peaceful pursuit
Of such villainy.
So 7, tcn %
ton to-day 81, 100000 of unclaimed in
terest on government bonds. This sum
is getting larger every day. This seems
strange, but il is true. This vast sum
of money, or much of it, can be drawn
by simply applying for it by whoever is
entitled to it and has the registered
bond on which the interest is due and
not paid. There are thousands of per-
sons who have bought bonds and not
knowing how to get the interest on
them prefer to lose the same rather than
to expose the fact that they have the
bonds. Others have interest due them
and actually forget the fact, and it lies
in the treasury vaults waiting for them
to apply for it. Should one of the clerks
of the bond division inform person to
whom interest is due of the fact, and
the same be discovered, he would be in
stantly discharged.
Beer suddenly killed healthy young
man named James Little, at Canton,
Ohio. While holding a glass of beer
to his lips at his boarding house he was
attacked by violent fit of gasping for
breath, his head hanging down on his
breast. The inmates of the room took
him outside into the fresh air, after
which he reclined ON some old carpet
in the summer kitchen, and in few
moments was corpse. A post-mortem
was held by the coroner and q doctor.
They reported all the organs in unim-
paired condition. The mode of death
was decidedly unusual The cold beer
which he drank partly paralyzed the
stomach, and before the beer became of
a proper temperature to be absorbed
into the system it began to ferment,
causing a formation of carbonic acid
gas. The gas gradually overpowered
the heart, lungs, and brain, and para
lyzed the entire nervous system, pro-
ducing death.
A new branch of burglary has been
opened in Chicago. A young lady went
into dentists shop to have five teeth
extracted. Having put her under the
influence of gas or ether, he drew
fifteen teeth from her upper jaw. She
sued the dentist for damages. He
pleaded the teeth all needed pulling.
She denied this, but as the dentist had
the teeth she could not prove her case,
and the dentist would not produce them
in court. Therefore the jury, evidently
thinking that the dentist knew better
than the young woman whether she
needed the teeth or not, disagreed, and
she could not recover. Like the sailor
who, during a battle, threw the live
man overheard in spite of his cries, be-
cause he had been told that the man
was dead, the young woman was not
considered trustworthy authority on the
state of her own teeth. Hers, it APP
pears, was not the only instance. Sew
eral persons have been subject to the
same involuntary dental bereavement in
the same establishment, with view to
compelling the victims to buy false
teeth.