The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-03-09
THE WORLDS NEWS,
E4STERNAND MIDDLE STA TES

Two married men we're instantly killed at
an iron ore mine near Reading, Pa, by loosened
ore and earth falling upon them.
The seventy-ifth birthday Of Longfellow,
the poet, was celebrated with appropriate ex-
ercises at Cambridge, Mass, Portland, Me-,
and other places
Mrs DANIEL WEBSTER, second wife of tho
statesman, died few days ago at New
Rochelle, N. Y, aged eghty-four years.
FIRE at New Haven, Conn.,, destroyed the
large dry goods store of Edward Maley & Co.,
doing mage estimated at s175OOO.
An underground telegraph company has
been established in New York city, with capi-
tal of s2UO, 00O
The Western New York Dairymen's associa-
tion held a meeting at Jam es, own and effected
an organization with Ex-Governor r. L. Fen
ton as president.
A COMMITTEE of the American Agricultural
association met in New York few DAYS ago
and discussed the plans for proposed national
agricultural exposition to be held in the me-
tropolis in 1888.
IT is estimated that tho recent loss OF four
Gloucester (NIass.) fishing schooners has made
twenty-five widows and sixty-two fatherless
children, many of whom are In destitute cir
cumstances.
THE will of Charles Albert Read, lately de-
ceased, Of Newton, Mass, gives $4,000
20 the treasury of the United States to be ap-
piled to the reduction OF the war debt. To the
attending physician of the testator $500 is
given on condition "that my head is severed
from, NV In t1N bnu 1F ha;,
buried ive.'
THE recently suspended Pacific National
bank, of Boston, has resumed business.
EPSON L. FULLER, awaiting sentence in the
Vermont state prison at Windsor for the mur-
der of Mr.. William in Readshoro, hanged him
self with his suspenders in his cell. He was
found and cut down ten minutes later, but
could not be resuscitated.
HARVARD COLLEGE no longer demands that
one of the two names on every students bond
shall be that of a Massachusetts, itizen
MAN at Utica, N. Y, drank two quarts Of
whisky, for wager, and died shortly after
ward.
An international rifle match between English
and American teams will be shot at Creedmoor
in September and a return match at Wimble-
don next year.
PETER RoNALDsoN, bookkeeper for W. V.
Maciallanj Co., New York lard dealers who
failed few weeks ago disappeared, and an
examination of his accounts proved him to be a
defaulter for several thousand dollars.
THE British bark William J. Stairs, from
Liverpool for New York, was wrecked off Long
Branch, y. J. OF the officers and crew. COM
prising fifteen men, all but the cabin boy, were
rescued by the men Of the Life-Saving Station
No 3.
MnToS S. LATHAM, a prominent citizen Of
San Francisco ex-governor of California, and
formerly United States Senator died in New
York the other day, aged fiity-six years,
OF the ten men who started in the last six
day go-as-you-p please pedestrian match in New
York, four-Yint Panchot, Scott and Rowell-
dropped out before the contest ended. The
match was for $1,000 entrance money put up
by each man, a diamond whip emblematic of
the championship and a share in the gate
money for all the contestants who covered
525 miles. On the first day Of
the match the hitherto invincible
Rowell made the unprecedented score of 100
miles in less than twenty-;hree hours, and it
again prove victorious, as he had secured a
good lead over his competitors-a lead which
he maintained until the fourth day of the
match, when he broke down. and on the fifth
day he retired, after making nine miles, his
total score for the five days being 415 miles.
After Rowell's collapse, Hazael, of England,
went to the front, where he remained to the
end of the match, although hard pushed
by Fitzgerald, whose record of 5S2 miles, made
in match last D cember, was the best per-
formance up to The present contest The scores
made by the six men who were on the track
when the contest closed on the sixth day and
the amount o. their winnings were as follows:
Hazael, 600 nies-S9 900 in stakes and S10,O
gate money; Fitzgerald, 577 miles 81 900 in
stakes and $4,000 gate money; Noremac,
555 miles 50, 400; Hart, $40 m'les-s1, 600;
Hughes, 535 mles-s1 200; Sullivan, 525 miles
$500. About 10000 persons paid 81 each to
ee the match.