The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-12-14
Foreign News.

REvoLUT1oNIsTs have been attacking
fighting has been done.
a ST. PETERsBURG dispatch says that the
Danish Arctic exploring weasel DijmItna
appears TO have drifted into the Kara Sea,
10 the south of the Nova Zembla. 1t is pro-
posed to organize an expedition with from
ten 10 fifteen slelges and 150 reindeer to
search for the vessel.
FIRE has destroyed the Royal Alhambra
theatre.
The British ship Fiona has been lost at sea
with all on BOARD.
A COLLIER foundered off Berwick, Eng
land, and ten persons were drowned.
THE foods along the Rhine have resulted
IN loss of millions of marks. Near May
ence sixty houses were swept away.
LOUIS BLANC, the noted French historian
and journalist, born in 1918, and Anthony
Trollope, tho well-known English novelist,
born in 1915, are dead.
The CalIres, who have been at war with the
Beers, ire being driven into caves, where
they are blown up with dynamite. In ons
cave fifty natives were killed.
Il Chihuahua, Mexico, the Indian chief
Juh and his band stole large number OF
sheep and cattle from several ranches, and q
party Of about thirty Mexicans followed
them, but were lured into an ambush and
surrounded by the Indians. One Mexican
broke through and went for help. A party
of about seventy men went to the assistance
of the rest, but were headed of by the IN
dians and compelled to witness the slaughter
of every man of the thirty Mexicans without
Icing able to help them. When the friends
Cf the victims went TO bury them they fonnd
not far from where the massacre occurred
the bodies of five Americans, who had also
been slaughtered by the Indians.
-Four more Egyptians prominent in TIE
late revolt pleaded guilty to the charge Of re
bcll:on and -were sentenced to death, bat
their sentence was conlmuted to exile for life
by the khediye.
A FEE which proved the most destructive
one in years burned down a number of bust
ness houses and other property in the heart
of London.
THE transit of Venus across the sun was
successfully observed by the American OBJ
servers in New Zealand
DISPATCH from chihuahua, Mexico,
states: "The recent massacre in Casas Graz
des by the Indians pro7es to have been n
horrible affair. A band of Apaches number
ing 500 crossed the border and descending
upon the little town began an indiscriminato
massacre. Fully seventy-five persons rell
victims and several girls and women were
carried OF by the savages. A large quantity
of stock and other property were stolen. II c
houses of the unfortunate Mexicans were
burned and the dead bodies stripped of their
clothing and jewelry. The murdered persons
belonged to the wealthiest classes, several OF
the most prominent families being among
the victims"
DIpHTHFRIA is raging to frightfal exten,
In several settlements of Prince Edward's
Island.
By the recent fire in London property cov-
ering two acres oe ground was destroyed,
eight persons were injured, and damage esti-
mated at $l5,000,000 was inflicted
The German bark Argonaut, from Bremen
for New York, was wrecked ON the island of
Tersche!ling. The captain and ten of tha
fourteen other men on board were drowned.
A THIEF cried "fre" in Barcelona (Spain)
theatre; panic ensuei, and in the rush ore
person was killed and eighteen others were
injured.
SIN HUoH ALLAN, of Montreal, owner of
the well-known steamship line between Great
Britain shd Canada, died a few days ago in
Edingburgh, Scotland.
Two more of Arab Pasha's advisers-his
military engineer and his under secretary of
war-have been sentenced to exile for life.
The French senate has voted 100000 to
the sufferers by therecent floods in the Seine
district.