The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1881-11-24
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

Mrs. Edwin SooTH, wife Of the tragedian
died the other day in New York.
THE Massachusetts, Paper company, Of Spring.
field, Mass, has failed, with liabilities Of
s3OO,000
OFFICIAL returns from every county in Penn.
sylvania give Baily, Republican, for State treas.
urer, 1902 plurality over Noble, Democrat.
A sK1FF ferryboat containing nineteen per
sons, while crossing the river from Troy, N. Y,
to Port Schuyler was swamped by the swell o.
passing propellers, and five men were drowned
COLONEL J. HOWARD wELLEs, q well-con
nected New Yorker, has been caught in al
elaborate scheme to blackmail Jay Gould, the
well-known stock operator, by sending him
letters threatening death in case the sender wa.
not given "points regarding the probable ris,
and fall in stocks 1t was learned that all th,
letters were mailed for station Z, and on Sun.
day fifty detectives and fifty letter carrier
watched all the lamppost boxes in that district
Presently letter was posted which lettel
carrier found to be directed to Mr.. Gould, and
at signal detective arrested Welles, who had
dropped it in the box.
A BosroN dispatch says that the commission
to investigate the conduct of the Ninth Mas
saohusetts regiment, during its recent visit to
Yorktown, has reported to Governor Long thai
members of the regiment were guilty of gross
misconduct in Richmond, some of it of a very
grave character. 1t is recommended that the
colonel of the regiment be required to make
searching investigation, 80 as to discover and
discharge the offenders. Governor Long at
once directed the issuance of q special order
requiring the colonel of the regiment to ascer.
tain within thirty days what officers or men had
been guilty of improper conduct. Failing to
present such names as required, the dispatch
says the entire regiment will be held strictly
| responsible for the reported misconduct and
will be liable to such action as the governor
may direct.
Pittsburg; ninety delegates, representing 22O,.
| 900 workmen, were present.
The bark Low Wood arrived in New York
few days ago having on board the captain and
crew of the barkentine Bend Or which was
wrecked in mid-ocean. Inrecsuing the men
mate and four sailors of the Low Wood were
drowned.
Two pugilists, Holden and White, have been
having fight for tho lightweight champion
ship" in the vicinity of Erie, Pa. A large
crowd of roughs and "sporting men" were
present, but the brutal exhibition -as stopped
by the police after four rounds had been fought.
Hon. JOHN BRIGHT has just celebrated his
seventieth birthday.
ADvIcEs from Mecca, Arabia, say that 500
| persons are dying daily there from cholera.
| BY an explosion-supposed to be of hidden
| dynamite on board the steamer Severn, from
Bristol for Glasgow, nine persons were killel
| several wounded, and portion of the vessels
! deck was blown away. The Severn was towed
| into Kingston harbor.
The official count in Pennsylvania gives the
| following vote tor State treasurer: Baily, Re-
| publican, 2G5, 293; Noble, Democrat, 5S,3S7;
| Wolfe, Independent Republican, 49,969; Jack
son, Greenback, II. 946; Wilson, prohibition,
| 1912.
THE value of personal estate in Massachu-
setts is s49S 274 149; total value of real estate,
ST. 149, ,965, 1927 total valuation, s1,G4S, 239,97
| Total number of dwelling houses in the State,
| $50, 563 Total number Of acres of land as
| sessed, 4, 4,4S77G9.
The Pacific National bank of Boston, Mass,
was compelled to suspend payments in conse-
| quence of the failure of Theodore G. Weeks, a
stock broker, who had been allowed to ovcrdraw
| his account. At meeting of tia creditors OF
the bank it was found that the Pacific National
had out about $500, 900 of overdue paper, all OF
which amount was held by single concern.
Most of this paper consisted of Weeks notes.
and when intorrogated the Pacific bank people
admitted that they had no money with which to
| meet them.
JOHN REILLY, aged 100 years, died the othsl
| day in New York from the effect of burns re-
ceived by his clothing catching fire from {
pipe which he was smoking
The Vermont supreme court has sentenced
Emeline L. Meeker, the convicted child muir,
derer of Waterbury, Vt, to be confined in the
State prison till the last Friday of March, 1885
the last three months solitary-and then tc
be hanged. This is the first time woman ha:
been sentenced to be hanged in Vermont.