The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-07-27
NEWS OF THE WEEK.
Eastern and Middle states.

Eastern and Middle States.
A A"NAT1oNAL Temperance Camp Meeting
opened the other day at Ocean Grove, N. J.
GEORGE WOODRUFF, of Derby, Conn.,, nged
fifteen, bent over TO watch the motion Of
grain-cradle swung by his fathers hired man,
when the blade struck him In the throat, cut
ting the jugular vein and causing instant
death.
A PRIZE fight with gloves in Gilmore's Gar
den, New York, between john l.. Sullivan and
"Tug Wilson," an Englishman, was witnessed
by over $4,000 persons who paid each s1nor 50
admission. The conditions OF the fight were
that Sullivan was to knock Wilson out OF time
in four rounds. Sullivan failed to knock out
the Englishman in four rounds, and the latter
was awarded the victory and something like
$4,000.
The New York Greenback-Labor State con-
vention at Albany adopted platform reaffirm-
ing the one adopted by the convention at Chi
cago June 9, 1880, condemning the railroads for
their conduct during the strikes, as we'll as the
penal code and the prison system of the State,
demanding that incorporate capital should he
should be elected instead of appointed that
the thirteen specific demands made by the
Central Labor union OF New York city were
to be approved, and declaring the party to be
the original alti-monopoy party of the coun-
try. Epenetus Howe was nominated for gov
ernor on the first ballot. James Allen for
| lieutenant governor; s. J. McParlin for chief
| judge of the court of appeals; S. J. Mcdonald
AZ Ivu6 vssuIuu-at-Iua
| GREAT damage was done to property in Bos.
ton by heavy storm.
BY the decision of the highest tribunal in
Connecticut women are now entitled to prac-
ice in the courts Of that State.
OK December 16 the ship Theobald, Captain
| N. L. Waterhouse, sailed from Philadelphia fol
San Francisco. Since that nothing has been
heard OF her, and she and her crew of nineteen
men are supposed to have been lost
Miss FANNY PARNELL sister of the noted
Irish land league leader, died suddenly of hear
disease at Bordentown, N. J. Miss Parnell was
tventy-eight years old, had been conspicuous
in tho affairs of the ladies' land league, and
frequently made appeals in behalf Of tho Irish
cause at land league gatherings.
GENERAL N. NJ. CURTIS, a Federal govern
ment employe charged by the New York Civil
Service Reform association with receiving from
other officers and employees of the Federal
government money for political purposes, was
found guilty by the United States circuit court
and sentenced to pay fine of $1,000 General
Curtis will appeal to the United States supreme
court. The case has excited much interest in
political circles.
PITTsBURa Pa) dispatch asserts that O.
the total number of ironworkers who went or
q strike more than eight thousand have re.
sumed work at the wages demanded, and that
about thirty thousand men still remain idle.
JAMES F. WALSH, the nineteen-year boy
who, in January, 1881, murdered his sweet.
heart, Barbara Groenenthal, servant girl O
sixteen, in jealous rage, because she refused
to accept him any longer as her lover, wa,
hanged in Brooklyn.
A FIRE at Fairfield, Me-, destroyed large
part of the place. Four saw mills, sash and
blind AMI two furniture factories, and one
builders manufacturing establishment wer,
burned with their entire contents; also five
dwelling houses. The loss is estimated al
more than 100000.
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houses, two lumber yards, and row of nine
dwt ling houses.
THE captain and crew OF the schooner Alex
andria, which was abandoned in sinking con-
diton off Barnegat, were picked up by the
steamer William Crane and landed at Boston.