The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-19
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

| 6dobCln dllu lnluulO ObdJtS.
The letter of Mayor Cleveland, accepting
the nomination of the New York Democratic
State convention for governor, has been pub
lished.
TUMBIINa barrel containing 10000
breech-loading caps blew up at the Union
Metallic cartridge shop, Bridgeport, Conn,
with terrible force. The building in which
the explosion occurred wGs blown to atoms,
but fortunately no one was injured.
The officers of the Irish National laul
league have issued a circular from Buffalo to
the public relative to the statement which has
been made that the land league is no longer
in existence, emphatically protesting against
it, and declaring the league to be in full life
and strength.
! JACOB BECKER, young man in the emplov
| of Baily, Farrell ,S Co., lead pipe works,
Pittsburg, Pa, was standing on scaffold-
ing, cleaning the rust off a shaft, which was
making 1G0 revolutions a minute, when by
some means his right leg became entangled
i'll telephone wire, and losing his balance
he grasped the shaft. In an instant he was
whirled around with fearful rapidity, and the
telephone wire wrapped round his leg until
the limb was severed from the body. He fell
through hatchway to tho ground below, and
when picked up was dead. His head was n
shapeless mass, and his leg was still dangling
from tho wire.
HOWARD CARROLL, a New York journalist,
thirty-two years old, was nominated by the
New York Republican State committee for
congressman-at-lar in place of A. B. Hep
| burn, declined.
HENRY WARD BEEoHEB astonished the
meeting of the New York md Brooklyn As
sociation of Congregational churches, held
in Brooklyn, by withdrawing from member
ship. Mr. Beecher made long address, in
which he gave as his reasons for withdrawal
| that he does not believe in a material hell or
the future punishment of the body. A reso-
luton requesting Mr. Beecher to reconsider
! his withdrawal was referred to committee.
The champion team of Australian cricket
ers, after a highly successful tour in Eng
land, are now in this country playing Il
series of matches. The first match, played
at Hoboken, N j., against team of eighteen
Americans, resultedin the easy succe1s of the
Australian eleven.
AT 4:3e o'clock in tho afternoon, when
Fourteenth street, between Broadway and
Sixth avenue, New York, was crowded with
women out shopping, a man ran westward
from Broadway, holding sharp pair of
| compasses in his hand and stabbing at every
one he met. Ladies ran screaming across
the street and rushed headlong into the
nearest stores. The man pursued them. and
stabbed many before he was finally thrown
down and secured. Eight ladies, two boys
and one man were stabbed. Some Others
who were wounded went to their hon CO
without reporting their names to the poll, e.
The woman who was most seriously injured
was Mrs. Hanley, the wife of the police
man who finally secured the madman
The man who did the stabbing is French
man named Ernest Doubourgne, familiar
figure in the streets of New York. He is
undoubtedly insane, and at one time could
be met daily on the streets accompanied by
his father (now dead), the two carrying
large tin signs with inscriptions to the effect
that they had been robbed of large sums of
money. With these signs pinned to their
breasts and backs the two paraded the streets
almost every day, attracting much attention,
but were looked upon as harmless lunatics
One or two of the women who were stabbed
received injuries likely TO prove fatal.
A LARGE number of well-executed counter
felt silver dollars are being circulated in The
western part OF New York
PRESIDENT ARTHUR was present at the
Webster celebration at Marshfeld, Mass,
the statesmau's home. Speeches were made
by the President, who was escorted to Marsh
field from Boston by several military and
civil societies, Governor Long and Others.
GEORGE d. RISE cashier of the Lebanon
| (Pa.) Dime Savings bank, drew $4,000 in
Philadelphia and returned to his home in
Lebanon with the money in a satchel. After
supper he was proceeding to the bank with
The money and had reached a dark and lone
| ly spot when two unknown men approached
| and, dealing him several blows, finally
knocked him senseless, tore the satchel from
his grasp and fled.
AT Boston, Mass, Captain Matthew Webb,
the English champion swimmer, performed
| an extraordinary aquatic feat. Heremained
| in the water constantly, with the exception
of fifteen minutes in every twenty-four
| hours for 100 hours. He almost gave out
several umeS, Dut succeeded III ulllsnlnS lnc
task, losing twenty pounds i'll the effort.
FIRE destroyed John Hurd's large grain
elevator at Bridgeport, Conn. The building
contained $4,000 bushels of oats, 10000 bush
els of corn and wheat, and thirty tons of
mixed grain. The total loss on the building
and contents is about $135,000, on which
there is an insurance of $4,000.
The wife of Policeman Hanley, one of the
women stabbed by the lunatic Doubourgne,
on Fourteenth street, New York, died from
the effects of her injuries.
AT Syracuse, N. Y, an express train struck
carriage containing John d. Millonee,
aged twenty-seven years; his wife, aged
twenty-four years; Mrs. H. B. Comstocz
and Mrs. Munro Burgess, the two latter
being elderly ladies on visit from Mara
thon, N. Y. The three ladies were killed
and the man was seriously injured.
South and West.