The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-03-23
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
EASTERN AND MIDDLE STA TES

EASTERN AND MIDDLE STATES
MRS. SARAH e. HOWE, who was convicted at
Boston of swindling the depositors in the
Woman's Bank of that city, was sentenced to
three years in the House of Correction.
AT sale OF old coius in New York Con-
Tolerate half-dollar of 1861 sold for 1870.
In order to refute the ch,rgos that he was
selling certain railroad stocks known as the
"Goud stocks, aud to allay tn feeling that
crash was coming in Wall sire It, Jay Gould
invited number of the heaviest New York
stock operators to his Office and exhibited to
them the little sum of $50 200, 900 in the securi-
ties in question, which he claimed he keld
solely as inves' monts.
AT Waterbury, Vt, Michael McCaffrie, aged
fifty years, in fit of insanity killed his wife,
CT the same age and his own mother, aged
eighty years. aud concealed their bodies in the
cellar of his house.
SARAH Burr an old woman who died re-
Gently in New York has bequeathed So 900, 0 0
to institutions in the metropolis and other parts
of the country.
Mrs. MELVILLE, wife Of Engineer Melville
of the Jeanette, has received letter at her
residence in Philadelphia from her husband
in which he expresses the belief that Com
mander De Long and tile twelve men with him
have perished.
RALsToN, McQUArDE & Co., bankers, of Fair
view Pa, have suspended. The liabilities are
between $500, ,0OO ana $3O0,OOO
BOILER explosion in Goodwin Brothers
rhoo shop at Lynn, Mass, leveled the build
ing Rilled several men and injured others.
SMALLPOX assumed an epidemic form az
South Bethlehem, Pa, 13O persons out of n
population of 4, 900 being down with the dread
disease.
HAzAE1, winner of the recent champion pedes-
tfian match in New York departed suddenly
an / secretly from Philadelphia for England in
order to escape the clutches of deputy sherifl
who was after him with an attachment issued
in favor Of former trainer.
THE mouth of j. ". Clark s. Co.'s mine
near Pittsburg, Pa, is about three hundred
yards from tho MJnongahela river, and the coal
is brought in cars down steep incline TO a
tipple at the waters edge, where the barges are
loaded for shipment. The other day several
men were standing on the tipple talking and
awaiting the arrival of cars. Suddenly loaded
car broke loose at the head of the incline. L
came whizzing down with fearful velocity and
crushed into the tipple, instantly killing three
men.
NINETEEN women graduated the other day
from the Women's Medical college of Phila-
delpha.
SERGEANT MASON, convicted by court martial
ol shooting at the assassin Guiteau, has ar
rived at the Albany pcnitentiary. Resolutions
a-kiuS executive clemoncy ior him were pro-
posed in the legislatures Of New York and New
Jersoy.
ALL business was suspended and healh oil
GERS were given police power at South Bctile
hem, Pa, on account of the extraorlinar,
spread Of smallpox. Eighty-ive houses con
tained $50 cases, and more than 1000 person.
left he village.
WILLIAM BRECKENRIDGE a driver employed
by Brooklyn laundry, was caught in tn,
machinery and whirled around. His hand.
and feet were torn of and he died in less than
half an hour.
FREDERIcK A. PALMER, late auditor of til
city OF Newark, y. j., has been sentenced t
State prison for twenty years by Judge Depuc
on eight Indictments for obtaining about 1920,
900 from the city treasury ON forged warrants
THE captain and fourteen men of the shi
Screamer, OF New York, which foundereI q
sea, were landed at Province town, Mass, hay
ing been rescued by Nova Scotian brig Ihre
men are known to have persisted, and it
feared thata fourth was also drowned.
PRorEssoR Boss, of Albany, N Y, has veri
fed the di-covery Of the first comet Of the yeal
made by Charles S. Wells, of the Dudley o.
iorvatory.