The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-05-25

THE captain, first officer and fifty-fve Of the
crew Of the Turkish transport which went
ashore in the Bosphorus pershed.
| ABOUT half OF the village of Danville, Que
hec, has been burned. Forty houses aud
stores we're destroyed, causing loss estimated
at $4,000.
FHOM st. Johns, N. f., comes news Of many
marine disasters and much loss OF life during
the recent heavy storms. Several vessels with
| al on board have been lost. A large French
| vessel with a crew Of nineteen men and
| cighty-seveu passengers, more than forty days
overdue, has been given up as lost. Since the
arrival Of the French fishing fleet al st. Pierre
twcnty-ono deaths from drowning have oc-
| Cured.
JUDGMENT in the case of the persons on trial
in connection with the Ring theatre fire has
been delivered, Director Jauner, Herr Nitsche
and Herr Geringer were pronounced guilty OF
| contributory negligence. The other persons
| accused were acquitted. Director Jauner was
sentenced TO four months simple arrest, Herr
Geringer to four months imprisonment and
Herr Nitsche to eight months Imprisonment;
Geringer and Nitsche to fast one day in each
month.
PERU has rejected Chili's terms of peace.
The principal conditions were that Chilli should
| keep the province of Tarapaca as conquest,
and that Peru should be obliged to sell to
Chill the Peruvian province of africa.
BATCH of six thousand Swedish and Nor
wegian emigrants have started for America.
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| net completely submitted to the khedive. They
kissed his hands and garments, implored his
| pardon and expressed loyalty. The khedive
| received them coldly. He said he would sink
| personal differences to save the country, which
was placed in serious danger The ministers
withdrew humiliated.
Mn, LOWELL, the United States minister,
opened the "Garfed Home for Working
| Girls" near London.
| Ar caucus of Democratic members OF the
| House, after number OF speeches had been
made, it was tacitly agreed to oppose as far as
possible the consideration OF tho contested
election cases from the South.
| A LARGE number OF arrests in connection
with the recent murders of Lord Cavendish and
| Mr.. Burke have been made in England, Ire
| land and Scotland The Liverpool police, act
ing on a private letter, boarded the steamer
| Egypt as she was about to sail for New York.
The passengers and crew were all mustered on
| deck. Tho vessel was then searched and ten
men were discovered slowed in different parts
of the steamer. They we're taken to the police
station.
AN explosion Of gunpowder has occurred in
Copenhagen, Denmark, by which six persons
| were killed and many injured.
Mr.. SARGENT, United States minister to Ger
| many, presented his credentials to Emperor
William.
TIE eclipse Of the sun was successfully OBJ.
served in Egypt by English, French and Italian
astronomers.
Mr.. GEORGE OTTo TREvELYAN, the new Irish
secretary, took his seat in the British house OF
commons. He defended the repression bill,
and declared that it would not be used against
any constitutional effort to alter existing inst-
tutions. Mr.. Dillon strongly denounced the
bill as a measure for the promotion Of crime
in ireland.
THE Irish party in the British parliamen,
unanimously condemn the repression bill, All
the Irish judges except the lord chancellor
have protested against the proposed abolition
Of trial by jury.
TIE steamer Rogers caught fire in the ST.
Lawrence river, Canada and was destroyed.
Three men persisted.
VESSELS arriving at Halifax, n. s., repori
having met immense fields of ice in the ocean
There are about 100 vessels fast in the ice
around the Magdalen islands.
AN American missionary stationed at Talas,
in Asia Minor, reports the prevalence Of dis
tressing famine in that region. He says thai
from one-half to three-fourths Of the people in
many villages are destitute.
Ten thousand Jews are without shelter al
Brody, Russia, and their condition Of misery is
reported as indescribable.
The Irish repression bill passed its second
reading in the house OF commons by vote OF
3s3 against As.
TIE coronation Of the Russian Gear will take
place at Moscow on September6 6.
A FIRE at Lyons, France, destroyed several
workshops and other buildings, causing loss
OF about $500, 900 and throwing 5000 workmen
out of employment.
FouR hundred houses have been destroyed
by fire at Boyabad, in Asia Minor.
The schooner President arrived at Quebec,
having on board the mate and five seamen OF
the ship Western Belle, which had run into an
iceberg and sunk. The captain and thirteen
men were lost.
The Duke of Grafton is dead in his sixty.
fourth year.
IRELAND is to have new detective force.
DURING riot in Limerick, Ireland, the police
charged on the crowd with fixed bsyonets and
siysral persons were injured.