The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-09-28
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle States.

COURTNEY defeated Ton Eyok and Demp-
sey in boat race for 1000 on tho 81. Law
renee river near Alexandria, N. Y.
The General Unitarian conference held its
biennial session at Saratoga, N. Y. Cover
ernor John ID. Long, of Massachusetts, pro-
sided.
The Rev. DR.. John s. Mitchell, for over
half century prominent clergyman of the
Methodist Episcopal church, died the other
day at Newburg, N. Y, aged eighty three
years.
AT Dormansville, N. Y, Alonzo Cash
forty-oight years old, shot and mortally
wounded his wife Minnie, seventeen years
of age, and then killed himself. The two were
married last fall, but had separated.
NAMES official vote for governor with the
exception of few small plantations whose
returns will change the result but little, is as
follows; Total vote, 1881 For governor
--Robie, 72,554; Plaisted, G3,75G; Chase,
| 1888; Vinton, 262 Eustis, 305; Robes
plurality, S,79S. The Republican candidates
for Congress are elected by pluraltios little i'll
excess of that for governor. The Repub-
| hcans carry fourteen of the sixteen counties.
Of the senators, twenty light are Republicans
and three Fusionists. OF the members of
the house, 10S are Republicans and forty-one
| Fusionists.
! THE long strike of the iron-workers at
Pittsburg, Pa, is over, the strikers having
decided by large majority to resume work
under the old scale of prices.
/ TICKET nominated by the Massachusetts
! Democratic State convention at Boston: For
governor, Benjamin f. Butler; lieutenant
governor, Samuel w. Bowerman; secretary
of state, d. N. Sldllings, of Winchester;
| treasurer and receiver, General William A.
! Hodges; auditor, John p. Sweeney of Law
renee; attorney general, George f. Very, of
| Worcester.
AT the New York Republican State con-
vention in Saratoga the Stalwarts through
| General Sharpe presented us their candidate
! for temporary chairman ex-State Senator
Madden, while the anti-Administration men
through United States Senator Warner Miller
nominated State Senator Z. L. Pitts. Mr..
Madden was chosen by vote of 251 to 243.
| Judge Folger, Governor Cornell Congress
man Wadsworth, John II. Starin and GEN
I,
the name of Walter A. Wood being with
drawn from the contest The first ballot re-
suited in 223 votes for Folger, $50 for Cor
nell, GO for Wadsworth, 10 for Starin and
for Robinson. Necessary to choice 249.
On the second ballot, Folger received 257
votes, Cornell 222 and .Wadsworth Is. On
motion of Senator Miller the nomination of
Judge Folger was made unanimous.
PROFESSOR A. A. HOPKINS for governor, with
a full ticket was nominated at the New York
! State Prohibition convention in Rochester.
| The Massachusetts Republicans in State
convention at Worcester nominated Robert
r. Bishop for governor, Oliver Ames for
| lieutenant-governor, Henry B. Pierce for
secretary of state, Daniel A. Gleason for
treasurer, Charles r. Ladd for auditor and
E. j. Sherman for attorney general.
AT the Connecticut Republican State con-
vcntion in New Haven the following ticket
was nominated by acclamation: For COVER
nor, General William II. Bulkeley lieuten-
ant-governor John d. Candee; secretary of
state, S. I. Stanton treasurer, Julius Con-
verse; comptroller, Frank d. Sloat.
IT is asserted that nearly every American
author sends his book to DR.. Oliver Wendell
Holmes.
The general conference of the Seventh
| Day Baptists of America held its annual ses-
sion in Ashaway, r. l., with Professor A. R.
Crandall, of the University of Kentucky, as
president.
The full New York Republican State ticket
nominated at Saratoga is as follows: For gov
ernor, Charles j. Folger; for lieutenant
governor, B. Plat Carpenter; for chief jus
tice of the court of appeals, Charles Andrews:
| for congrcSsman- at-large, A. Barton Hep
! burn.
AsrEcIAL commission appointed last winter
| to investigate charges of malfeasauce in
| Office preferred against the Rev. B. G. Nor
| thyop. secretary of the Connecticut State
| board of education, has made report. II
| finds that there were violations of law in the
| expenditure of the funds, but nothing dis
honest, and tlat he lad not, as charged, re-
ceiycd any bcno It from the approval of edu-
| cational publications.
AT the New York State Democratic
| convention i'll Syracuse the claims of
! the various factions from Nov York city
were settled by granting to the County
| Democracy thirty-eight seats, Tammany
| Hall twenty-four seats and Irving Hall ten
! seats. Lester b. Faulkner presided.
| On the fourth ballot Grover Cleveland, mayor
| of Buffalo, was nominated for governor, re-
ceiving 2l1 votes against 1876 for Genera
| Henry W. Slocum and fifteen for Congress
| man Roswell p. Flower; necessary to a choice,
1913. This result was attained by the united
| delegations from New York city going over to
Cleveland on the third ballot. David B. Hill,
| mayor of Elmira, was nominated for lieutel-
| ant-governor on a rising vote, as was also
General Henry w. Slocum, of Brooklyn, for
Congressman-at-large William G. Ruger,
of Syracuse, was nominated on the first bal
lot for chief Judge of the court of appeals, re-
ceving 2l0 votes, against 1853 for Rufus w.
Peckham. On the State committee New
York city now is represented by two mem
bers-John Kelly and Augustus Schell-Irv-
ing Hall by one member, and the County
Democracy by the remaining four members.
AT Buffalo Mrs. James Benson, while in q
delirium from fever, left her bed, and taking
her youngest child, boy two years old,
drowned herself and him in a cistern.
DELAYED Harlem railroad train was
standing in the Fourth avenue tunnel in New
York, when it was run into from the rear by
another train with such terrific force that two
passenger cars were completely wrecked.
Madame Aubert, q teacher was instantly