The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-04-06
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

The inadequate water supply Of New York
has led to the promotion of company which
proposes to build an aqueduct from Lake
George to the city-a distance of 225 miles-at
an expense of 50,0OO,O0O
Two brothers-James and Elliott Bassett
respectively twenty-one and nineteen years old
were burned to death and three frame build
ings we're destroyed by q fire in Ansonia,
Conn.
DURING severe gale at Evansburg. Pa. n
three-story brick house in the course of cree.
tion, was blown down, and two men-william
Hunt and Frank McDonald-were killed. John
Houser and William Sharle were fatally in
jured and five others were slightly hurt In
Pittsburg, Pa, during the same storm, SINH
lar accident occurred, and two workmen were
fatally injured.
Six Zuni Indian chiefs have travelled all the
way from their home in Now Mexico to Boston
for the purpose of paying homage to the Allan
tic ocean, "the god of the waters" one Of
their principal deities. For 196 years their
supply of holy water from the great sea had not
been replenished, and the chiefs and medicine
men were sent on the long journey to
propitate the Great Spirit and mplore his con-
tinued favor They were accompanied in their
pilgrimage to the ocean be ch by several hun
dred spectators The chiefs chanted to the
ocean, smoked sacred cigarettes. and filled
seven demj johns with water, which they will
carry back to New Mexico to use in future GER
emones.
THE fine Hudson river steamboat Thomas
t1,o d., rIl
New York. during dense Iog and will prove
an almost total loss. The 1876 passengers on
board we're all safely transferred to passing
propeller. The loss is about 5000, 900.
AT meeting Of the Pennsylvania Greenback
State committee in Harrisburg it was de-
termined to nominate straight Greenback-
Labor ticket at the convention in that CITY
May 1S.
The New York board of aldermen passed
resolutions calling upon President Arthur to
recall Mr.. Lowell, our minister to England, for
"his pusillanimous conduct in treating with
Earl Granville regarding the arrest without
warrant and imprisonment without trial of
American citizens"
A pRoHIB1ToRY liquor bill was defeated in
the lower house of the Massachusetts legisla-
ture by tie, the speaker declining to vote.
A New YORK legislative committee is inves-
tigating alleged abuses and barbarties in Sing
Sing prison.
NEGOTIATIONS have just been concluded in
New York which practically put the Western
Union Telegraph company in possession of its
latest rival, the Mutual Union Telegraph COM
pany.
FROM reports made it is believed the Della
ware peach crop will be unusually large this
year, the yield ranging from 4,66O, 900 to 8, ,25O-
0G0 baskets.
CASPER DErrzER, of Wilkesbsrre, Pa died
the other morning while apparently in good
health. He was a soldier under Napoleon, and
had attained the age of 101 years.
In the Massachusetts house bill to compel
the fortnightly payment of wages to operatives
by manufacturing corporations was refused
third reading.
A SECOND attempt has been made to destroy
the monument erected by Cyrus W. Field to
Major Andre at Tappan, N. Y Some persons
exploded charge of dynamite under the mon
ument and partially destroyed the stones form.
ing the base. The shaft was not thrown down.
Commodore Vanderbilt, shot himself while
lying sick abed in New York hotel, and diel
in a few hours, agel fifty-one years. He was
subject to epileptic attacks had led all irregu-
lar life and when Commodore Vanderbilt died
came prominently before the public in the un-
successful contest of his fathers will.
DURING a violent wind and rainstorm several
persons sought shelter in farmers shed near
Reading, Pa. While there large water-tank
resting on a high support of masonry in the
rear was blown over on to the shed, crashing
through AMI killing George Shelthorn, his
nine-year-old daughter, and John A. Couze,
youth of eighteen and fatally injuring Mrs.
Shelthorn. Three other persons were also ln-
jured.
IT appears from NewYoIk mercantile agency's
report that during the first quarter of this year
there were no less than q 1870 failures in the
United States, with liabilities amounting to
S30,33S 271, as compared with 1,76l failures III
the same quarter last year and liabilities o
s24, ,447, $50; and this, in turn, was double tn
losses for the corresponding time in 1880, when
the liabilities aggregated only s12,777,0 ,07i. TIL"
{, 1870 failures last quarter are divided as fol
lows: In the Eastern States, 292 with l. $50
of 50 112, $40; Middle States, 5O8, with loss.
of S1O,6OS 612; Southern States, 700, with
losses of $11, ,OS7, ,25O; Western States, $685. WI h
losses of s5,201.5 and Pacific States and
Territories, 167, and losses Of 81, ,32S,0
EXAMINATION of the accounts of the late Ed
ward d. Gale, prominent New York poli-
tician, and at the time of his death attorney
for the collection of arrears of personal taxo,,
shows deficiency Of a large amount of money
belonging to the city.
FIVE boys were digging tunnel in a sand
bank near New Providence, Pa, when the top
caved in, covering them all up. Three brother
named Rowland, aged respectively ten twelve
and thirteen years, were taken out dead and
two other boys were fatally injured.