The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-03-30
THE WORLDS NEWS.
Eastern and Middla States.

one of the three surviving members of the
Pennsylvania constitutional convention Of
1887, died the other night in the Lancaster
Pa) county almshouse, aged nearly eighty
years.
Mrs. HARRIET L. SPRAaUE, a young widow,
while leaving a meeting at Cherryfeld, Me-,
was killed by Chester Cunningham, who cut
her throat. The murderer had been paying
. his victim attentions, and his crime was
prompted by jealousy.
LABOR strikes are announced in various por-
tions of the country At Lawrence, Mass, the
strike of the mill operatives assumed formida-
bic proportions.
A CAR attached to freight train jumped the
track near Downingtown, Pa, and was run
into by another freight train. The engine of
the latter train and eight cars were thrown
over an embankment thirty-three feet high
and seven other cars filled with merchandise
were completely wrecked. William Fllley, en-
gineer, was fatally injured, and @. Keeser,
fireman, was killed.
THE steamer Sidney L. Wright on her way
from New York to Porto Rico, was wrecked,
and with her crew of five men went down.
REV. DR. oRv1ILE DEWEY well known Uni
luGlan ulNlue, uleu lew uhl StHCc tb ohSIhSiui
Mass aged eghty-eight years.
BY the strike of the operatives employed in
the great Pacific mills at Lawrence, Mass,
more than 5000 persons have been thrown out
of employment.
New York city now has Japanese consul
Takahashi Shnkichi.
CAPTAIN JOHN BERTRAM, retired seaman,
died the other day at Salem, Mass, aged
oighty-sx years. He had visited almost every
country on the globe, and left fortune esti.
mated at nearly s1O,0O0,00O.
JHE tugboat Henry c. Pratt, lying at Phil
adelphia wharf, exploded hor boiler, killing
five men and causing considerable damage to
buildings in tho vicinity. The body of George
Scully, captain of the tugboat, was blown 25O
feet over two buildings, striking the ground
alive.
THE captains Of several vessels which ar
rived in New York few days ago report that
they had passed through enormous masses of
dead fish, the sea being covered with them for
over forty miles The fish had probably been
killed by some volcanic eruption.
Four thousand persons were thrown out of
employment at Troy, N Y, by the strike of
molders.
Trr oor,Ot rnrortry discovered from tho
Dudley observatory Albany. is only 1G0. 00O,OO
miles distant, and approaches the earth at the
rate of 2000 900 miles day, but is expected to
switch off when still S0,OOO,OoO miles away.
FIVE persons were hanged for murder the
other day in Pennsylvania. At Harrisburg
Frank and Henry Rumberger were hanged for
the murder of Daniel Troutman on
the 14th of November, 1880, at his
home in the upper end of Dauphn
county. The men broke into his house for
robbery. Troutman shot at one of them as he
was fleeing, but the other shot and killed him.
AtMiddleburg, Jonathan Meyer was executed
for aiding his brother-who IL also under sem
tence of death for completely in the same
crime-to murder John Kintzler an old
fortune-teller, and his wife in 1877. At Pitts
burg Edgar F. Small suffered the extreme
penalty Of the law for numbering Nicholas
Jacoby, with whom he had quarrelel. At
Clearfeld John A. Nevelling was hanged for the
murder of Samuel Pennington in 1880. And on
the same day that these executions occurred in
Pennsylvania John Mccarthy was hanged at
Angelica, n. Y, for the murder of Patrick
Marhey.
GEORGE E. LANE, of Exeter, N. H., banker,
and county treasurer until January last, gave
himself up to the sheriff of Kent county and
confessed that he had appropriated about s2j,-
600 of the county's money and over $50, 900 of
the cash belonging to depositors Heavy specu-
lation in stocks is the cause of his downfall.
Two accidents occurred the Other day o. tn
of the New York elevated railroads. In On
two trains colldel AMI narrowly escaped hcn
thrown into the street. and in the other lit
girl fell under the wheels of a train an &s
literally cut to pieces.
Four colored men were drowned at La :,,,,
Pa, while coming down the Yogghot cav.iy,
in an old boat, which sank wien i: reached tli
falls
An elephant, said to be the larScat in t.
country, was sold at auction the other Gay
H9RS2ak8e4ll Sa8 n g. f8f 8f jS&&8RG2 ponuclan o: a,a
ton, Pa, had his head blown of willie !i,iay
blast in mine.