The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-01
SUMMARY OF NEWS.
Eastern and Middle siafas.

Meeting her tho other day in cemetery he
shot her in the back infiicting mortal wound
Fay was arrested.
The boier-makers OF New York and Brook
lyn have struck for an increase of ten per cent
in their wages.
TIE Pacific National bank, Of Boston, which
suspended sonic months since and only recent
ly resumed, has stopped payments again and
will wind up its business. The second suspen-
sion is due to lack of business since resump-
ton, public confidence in the concern not hav-
ing been restored.
TIMOTHY SMITH, a thirteen-year-old boy OF
Naugatuck, Conn, objected to going on an er
and for his mother, and when she insisteN
went to the barn and hanged himself
The estate OF Joseph L. Lewis, Of Jersey
City, valued at 81 ,OO0,O 900, which he bequeathed
to the United States COVER nment to help to pay
the national debt, has been finally settled. The
probate of the will was disputed by woman
who claimed to be the widow. She, Marcus
Sacia, DR.. Parks and other associates
we're convicted of fraud and SEN
fenced to State prison at Trenton. The
estate, by judicious investment, has now
reached the sum of s1,4OO,OOO The sum OF
s300,Co has been awarded to the West
India heirs, and 100000 has been allowed for
counsel fees and legal expenses. The residue,
s900,0 is in United States bonds, and they
WILL it is said, be Cancelled, under the direction
of the court, and then be returned to the sec
retary Of the treasury, as the simplest way OF
carrying out the terms of the will.
Noses TAYLOR, one of the best known and
yealthest of New York's merchant princes and
bankers is dead in his seventy-seventh year.
He left an estate estimated at between s40,.
100000 and s45,OO0,oO0, mostly in railroad,
bank telegraph and gas securities.
THE prosecution closed in the Cramer case
at New Haven, and without speech or argu-
ment the defense began to call witnesses,
seeking to establish their theory that Jennie
Cramer after scene with her mother, went to
Savin Rock and committed suicide.
THE Pennsylvania Independent Republicans
assembled at Philadelphia, nearly every dis
trict in the State being represented, and nom-
mated q full ticket. United States Senator
Mitchell was temporary chairman and II. L.
Foster permanent chairman. The platform
declares attachment to the principles of the
Republican party; deplores "the evidence that
the calamity of Garfed's assassination has
been followed by the overthrow of the
reforms his election signifed !" de-
aounces the spoils system "boss" rule and
machine" control demands the reformation
of the civil service by law, and declares in favor
of "reforms in the party rules" The following
is the ticket: For Governor-State Senator
John Stewart; enlnt-Governor-Levi Bird
Duff; Secretary of Internal Affairs-Major
George W. Merrick Congressman Large
Colonel William McMichael; Justice of the Su-
preme Corrt-George Junkin.
AT Lancaster, Pa, ten prisoners in the Jail
made their escape and took to the woods.
The fifty-third anniversary of the Brooklyn
Sunday schools included exercises by 1913
schools of all Protestant denominations. 1t
was estimated that co., 900 pupils and teachers
marched in the seven divisions.
AN explosion of gas at the Kohinoor coliery.
Shenandoah, Pa, resulted in the death of six
persons and severe injuries to several others.
Large quantities of coal fell from the top,
. props and timbers were hurled about, and the
doors of the gangway were blown to pieces.
John G. Jackson for governor, and j. Albert
Whtlock, editor of the Newcastle STAR for
Congress-
By the fall OF section of rock in tunnel of
the New York. Lake Ontario and Western rail-
road at Weehawken, N. j., opposite New York,
James Mulcare was killed, and Bartholomew
Cox and Charles Brown received probably fatal
injuries.
Two members of the Union League club of
New York, have been prominently before the
public for several weeks past, Oh account Of
row which resulted in their issuing circulars
to the club members, and threatening to fight
duel. The club has taken the matter up and
expelled one OF the members and censured the
other.
FIFTY Jersey bulls were sold in New York fol-
$685., an average of s13970 each. Sultan
Carlo brought $1,775.
The late Ralph Waldo Emerson in his will
leaves an estate valued at from 100000 to
s15O,OOO The will contains no public be-
quests.
Mrs. NOBLE CRoFF died in Waterbury, VT,
from the effects of tumor, which, when re-
moved, weighed eighty pounds.
AMONG the passengers on an ocean steamer
which arrived in New York the other morning
we're Lieutenant John W. Danenhower, United
States navy DR.. Raymond L. Newcomb, nat
uralist Jack Cole, seaman, and Long Sing
steward, four of the thirteen survivors of the
United States Arctic exploring steamer Jean
nette, which was crushed by the ice and sank
on June ~, 1881. The narrative Of their
tedious journey over the ice, dragging
their boats on sledges until the open
sea was reached the embarkation of the party
in the three boats; their separation in gale
and the landing of two of tho boats crews at
the mouth of the Lena river, with the subse-
guent tedious march of the survivors toward
the Siberian settlements, has all been told,
together with the news of the fate OF
Captain De Long, commander Of the expedi-
ton, and those who were with him in the
other boat which reached the land. The nine
other survivors of the Jeanette ar3 still BRAY
ing the hardships of Arctic travel in the hope
of discovering some trace of the third boats
crew, whose fate is as yet uncertain. The
four men who returned were Or
dered home by the navy departments
Lieutenant Danenhower on account of his
partial loss of sight and DR.. Newcomb to
attend him, and Jack Cole, whose mind has
completely given way under the strain Of pri'
vations and hardships. The Chinaman was
ordered home as not being likely to assist in
tie search for Lieutenant Chipp, who com