The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-01-12
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern and Middle States.
A sx-pAy go-as-you-please pedestrian con-
test in New York ended with the success OF
Patrick Fitzgerald, who covered $50 miles, thus
defeating tho best previous score, 57S miles,
made by Vint last May. Noremac came in
second, with 565 miles, Horty third, with $50
miles; Krohne fourth, with 500 miles, and La
couse fifth, with sol miles. The prizes were
81, 500 and q silver trophy for first man, $500
for second, t4OO for third, 5000 for fourth and
500 for fifth.
THE failures throughout the United States in
1881 are reported by r. @. Dun Co.'s New
York Mercantile agency as numbering 5,5S2,
with liabilities amounting to $S1, 155, 1892. They
ray in their circular: Gas to the proportion of
failures to those engaged in business our sta
tistics show that in 1876 the failures were in
every 69 persons; in 1877, / in rs; in 1873, in
ca in 1879, in 105; in 1880, in 1853; while in
1881 the proportion was in 14O Tho alvan-
tage in favor OF the year just closed over the
average OF years is therefore very marked"
FEW mornings ago fire broke out in the
clearinghouse Of Garrett Abois, at Richbug
N. Y. Mr.. Abois, aged seventy, carried his
sick and infirm wife out OF the house and
laid her in her night clothes in tho snow.
Three OF his children, aged respectively thir-
teen, twelve and ten two girls and one boy,
we're burned to death All of the ten boarders
escsped in their night Clothes but three were
fatally burned.
LAST year 1929 vessels arrived at Mew York
from foreign ports, OF which 1883 were steam
ships, 40S ships, 1850 barks, ee3 'Eigs and
| 1885 schooners. or the steamships 1,27G
| were British, 206 German and 1873 American.
OF the sailing vessels of all classes i,G4l were
| American, 1859 British, 6l9 Norwegian, 800
| Italian and 800 German. III 1880 1917 vessels
arrived from foreign ports, Of which 1895 were
steamships
The record of arrests by the Now York city
police in 1881 shows, in round numbets, 69, 500.
OF this total about $4,000 prisoners were men,
There were $4,000 deaths and 26, 100 births in
| the city during last year.
FoUR passenger cars were precipiated down
an embankment near Kennebec, Ne, and
catching fire we're entirely consumed. Two
men were killed outright and about fifty four
more were injured, several fatally
ANGELO CoRNErro, a convict at she Sing Sing
(N. W prison, crept behind Daniel Cash,
another convict, and inflicted a stab which
caused death in twenty minutes A short time
ago Onofrio Mangano, another Italian convict.
killed a coloroi prisoner named Williams, and
at Mangano's trial Cash was the principal wit
ness for the prosecution and Conetto for the
| defense.
THE annual auction sale of pews in Mr..
Beechers Plymouth church, Brooklyn, brought
s3j, 492, the first choice going for s425.
THE total number of disasters to steamships
in 1881 is put by New York paper at 1913, Of
which fifteen were American and III British
vessels.
AT the opening of the New York Legislature
no organization was effected in either branch.
Although the Democrats have shaht majority
in both houses, the refusal OF the Tammany
members to go into the Democratic caucus and
to vote for the officers nominated in that cau-
Gus prevented organization and caused a dead'
lock.
BosroH is to have a statue OF the late Presl-
dent Garfield.
TIE Massachusetts and Connecticut legis-
latures are in session.
PnofrssoR JOHN W. DRAPER, Al. D., IL. D.,
the noted scientist and author, died the other
morning at his home in Hastings-on-the-
Hudson, aged seventy years.
. DunISG 1881 nearly $500 buildings wore
erected in New York city, at total cost of SIT,
700 600. Among the editices were six churches,
sIx schools, eight hotels and thirty public
buildings
]. WIssLov JONES & Co., a packing firm OF
Portland, Me-. have failed for slS2, 900. The
firm owned fifteen corn and five lobster fac
tories in Maine, and fourteen lobster and
salmon factories in the provinces.
THE Massachusett, State debt. as shown b.
Governor Longs annual message, is 1872 800,
AGA.
An additional deficit of $3.50, 900 has beer
discovered in the accounts of the recently sus
pended Pacific National bank, of Boston.
Ex-PosTMAsrER- GENERAL JAMES has assumed
the duties Of his new position as president o
the Lincoln National bank Of New York.
THE schooner Cara Lee arrived at Pigeoi
Cove, near Rockport Mass, bringing five mel
alive and two dead, picked up adrift in an ope
=, boat. They are the crew of the schooner Bird
| Ol 1tOChluHu, nlc, Doulu ioi DOotoh Ni'u pas
tor. The vessel sank, and the men, eight il
number took to a boat and were picked u
forty miles from Capo Ann. On the death o
the second mate, who was the last to expire
the five survivors cut his throat and sustainc'
life by sucking the still warm blood from hi
body.
Two Mormon missionaries are reported to b
making numerous converts inportions ofWest
ern Pennsylvania.
MARTIN KANKowsKY, who murdered Min
Muller on the Sd of May, 1881, in some wood
near Hoboken N j., was hanged in the Jail a
Jersey City, N. j. He met his death withou
fear or bravado, and with declaration of hi
innocence at the very moment when he wa
lifted of his feet by the rope. Kankowsky mar
r ed his victim and then murdered and robbeo
her. He leaves wife and two children. o.
the same day of Kankowskys execution Josepl
} Abbott was hanged at Elmra, N. Y, for kill
ing George Reed fellow-convict in the New
York State reformatory, in April, 1880.