The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-08-24
THE NEWS.
Eastern and Middle etn,ea

| CIRCULAR hns been prepared 10y the Tenn
Bi-Centennial association. Of PHILADELPHIA,
and will be forwarded 10 the governors OF the
different States, inviting troops 10 visit the
Quaker city and take partin the military din.
play on October "a, the bi-contennial ami.
! versary of the landing Of William Penn.
CAPTAIN WEpD, the English champion
| swimmer, defeated twenty-five competitors
in five-mile swimming match OF Nantaskct
Beach, Mass.
Two boarding houses, n barn and outbuild-
| ings at Rye Beach, N. H., the well-known
| summer resort, were destroyed by fire.
The Vermont Greenbackers were repre-
sented by 200 delegates at their State con-
vention in Waterbury. The convention
nominated for governor, @. @. Martin; for
lieutenant-governor, John Jenner; for treas
urer, Fletcher Tarbell. The following Con-
gressional nominations were made: First
district DR.. Kidder Second district, II. ID.
Dunbar.
The sale of Canonchet, Ex-Governor Will
liam Sprague's famous house in Rhode
Island, was attended with considerable ex-
citement. Ex-Governor Sprague and son,
armed with rifle and pistol, guarded the
house and grounds and prevented the imme-
diate approach of spectators. The property
was bought by Francis D. Moulton for
S62,25o. Next year, probably, grand hotel
and clubhouse will be built on the property
by Delmonico, of New York, and others.
The American bankers convention held
their annual meeting in Saratoga, N. Y, re-
elected President George s. Coe, of New
York, and listened to the reading of various
papers on financial topics. Delegates from
all parts of the Union were in attendance.
WHILE Alexander and John Gilchrist and
their unmarried sister Margaret were in the
sitting-room of their residence lin West
Charlton, N. Y, at 8 P. NJ, the front door
suddenly opened and five masked men pushed
into the room with drawn revolvers. Two
attacked Alexander, two John, and one
Margaret terrific struggle ensued, in
which Alexander grabbed three-tined steel
fork and used it so effectively that one tine
broke off in the body of one of the burglars
The burglars then knocked Alexander down
with the butts of their revolvers, handcuffed
bound and gagged him. John suffered a
similar fate, and Margaret was handcuffed
and gagged. After securing the family the
robbers took the gag from Alexander's mouth,
and with pistol at his head asked him to
disclose the hiding place of the key to the
safe. Alexander refused to tell, whereupon
he was again gagged, and with John, was
taken to the cellar and tied to post.
Margaret was left upstairs. The robbers
then began to search for the key, which they
found between two feather beds. The safe
was soou rifed. 1t contained $500 in money
and $4,000 in bonds and mortgages. The
robbers left with the booty, and Margaret
soon afterward slipped the handouts over
her wrists and liberated her brothers, who
broke the handouts from their wrists with an
ak and hammer.
AT the Massachusetts Greenback State con.
vention 325 delegates, representing seventy
nine towns, were present, and q full ticket
headed by General Benjamin F. Butler for
governor was nominated. A platform was
adopted, in which the many concessions
made to the principles of the Greenbackers
are referred to with satisfaction. check
upon the power of wealth and its unjust accu-
mutation is demanded. The payment
of the national debt as rapidly
as the revenues will allow, and
the abolition of the National banks as banks
of issue, are demanded. The resolutions af-
firm that eight hours should constitute legal
days work. A board of arbitration, to be
composed of an equal number of working
men and employers, for the settlement of
labor troubles, is demanded. The system of
contract convict labor is opposed. The ar
bitrary Imprisonment of American citizens in
British bastiles, and the Misrepresentation at
the court of st. James by minister who
sanctions the illegal conduct of the British
government are deplored.