The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-16
Foreign Nc.Ts.

A FIRE broke out at IL o'clock at night in
the Halifax On. s. poor asylum, and the
flames leaped from cellar TO roof in almost
an instant, causing the utmost terror and
excitement among the 500 inmates, all of
whom were asleep The persons in the lower
part of the building were rescued by the
fremen, but in the upper wards, far
above the roar of the flames, were heard
the cries of the patients who were roasting
TO death. Some were seen to dash them
selves against the windows and cling to the
sashes until their strength was exhausted or
their hands were burned off, and they fell
back into the caldron of flames. About
thirty-one persons-eight men and twenty
three women-were burned to death.
THIRTY workmen were buried alive by Til
explosion in a colliery at Derby, England.
A SERIOUS riot occurred in a suburb OF Vi
emma, a large crowd of workmen and others
stoning the police and destroying the police
station, woupding the commissary in charge.
Troops were sent to the scene of disturbance
and restored order. Twelve workmon and
several of the police were injured, the latter
very seriously. Many of the rioters were
arrested.
TIE governor ard secretary of state of To-
basco, Mexico, have been murdered.
ToRTY-THRrr lives were lost by the ez-
plosior in mine near Derby, England.
AYoruER cyclone has visited Manila, chief
city OF the Philippine Islands, doing great
damage.
THEar are three French generals in the
cabinet formed by the new boy of Tunis,
North Africa
SEVEN or eight thousand persons are to be
helped by committee TO emigrate from The
poorer districts in Ireland.
AT the annual procession in London i'll
honor Of tho new lord mayor two American
| flags were carried.
A RAILROAD accident in Algeria, North
Africa resulted in the death of ten persons
and serious injuries to thirty-six others.
A FATHER and his son were driving wagon
| filled with gunpowder in Victoria, British
! Columbia, when the powder exploded, blow
ing the wagon and six horses TO shrods.
| Both father Gud son were terribly mang!el,
| having their clothes torn of, their eyes blown
out and limbs fractured, and died soon after
III great agony.
DURING Il speech at the new lord mayors
banquet in London Mr.. Gladstone said tha:
new desire is dlwning among the Irish to
I seek ameliorution of law by peaceful efforts,
and he thought the foundations of society
in Ireland were NOW in but little danger. lie
highly praised the conduct of the British
forces in Egypt, which he believed would be
memorable i'll history.
Thirty families, comprising 1C0 persons
nave been evicted from The estate of lsadort
Burke, in county Mayo, Ireland.
GENERAL LYNOI, the commander-in-che
of the Gillian forces of occupation in Peru
has levied a fresh tax of 50 ON certain sec
tons of the Peruvian tradespeople.
4 VICTORIA british Columbia) dispatcl
says that the United States revenue cutie
Thomas Corwiu has arrived there from
Alaska. Before leaving there she shoIleC
and burned an Indian village, killing man,
of the tribe, who held a number of whit,
prisoncr5.
A DAUGHTER has been born to the king dnt
queen Of Spain.
PATRICK DELANEY, returned convict
was arrested in Dublin on the charge o
wanting TO assa ssinate Judge Lawson. De
laney was discovered approaching the judg
with revolver protruding from his pocket.