The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-08-31
NEWS SUMMARY.
Eastern and Middle States.

Eastern ana UltUuio SCHUeBs
HERBERT SPENCER, the eminent English
scientist, arrived in New York few days since
from Europe.
THE Hotel Hamarock, q new seaside hotel at
Marshfeld, Mass, was destroyed by fire. The
boarders, about 100 in number, escaped,
many of them with only their night cloth
ing. Many were obliged to jump from the
upper part of the building to escape the
flames.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR called q meeting of the
cabinet at his residence in New York the
other day, all the members being present
with the exception of Secretaries Teller and
Howe, of the interior and postof1ice depart
ments. No business of special importance
was transacted.
PITTsBURG (Pa.) dispatch says that the
long strike of the Pan Handle coal miners
against reduction from four cents to three
and one-half cents has ended in their defeat,
and all the strikers who could obtain work at
the reduction have gone in. The struggle,
says the dispatch, has been the most pro-
tracted and expensive ever known to that dis
trict. In the four and half months since
April l, when the men laid down their picks
they have lost in wages $250,000. The oper-
ators have lost their summer contracts and
to some extent their footing in the market,
and the railroad company has lost very
heavily in freights.
THE Maine Independent Republicans have
nominated Warren F. Vinton for governor.
By collision between two trains near
No.b, M r
were killed and two men were seriously in
jured.
AT the Delaware Democratic State conven-
ton in Dover Charles G. Stockley was nom
mated for governor and Charles B. Lore for
Congress.
A MYSTERIOUS malady which affected sew
eral herds of cattle in Cayuga county, N. Y,
was discovered after examination by sur
geons to be the Texan fever, and rigid
quarantine was at once established against
the plague
A FIRE at Syracuse, n Y, destroyed the
main mill of the Syracuse iron works, caus-
ing loss of 100000. At Keeseville, N. Y,
the flames burned two hotels, Association
Hall and other property, entaiing total
estimated loss of 100000
A SWIMMING contest for $1,000 and the
championship of the world, between the
English champion, Captain Matthew Webb,
and Thomas Riley, the champion short dis
tance swimmer of America, took place at
Hall, Mass, and was won by the former.
Captain Webb made the distance (two
miles) in one hour, four minutes and fifty
seconds, and Riley in one hour, five minutes
and ten seconds.
A FATAL accident occurred on board the
United States steamer Tallapoosa just after
she left New York harbor for Newport The
men were at exercise, lowering the life-boat,
when three of them were thrown overheard.
Henry Kratz, acting quartermaster, was prob
ably stunned, and did not rise to the surface;
August Ohlmsen, boatswain's mate, was res
cued with one arm disabled, and Oscar West
erholm, seaman, with broken ribs. Julian
G. Baker, gunners mate, who saved the life
of Ohlmsen, was thanked on the quarter
deck, and substantially rewarded by Secre-
tary Chandler, who was on board the Talla-
poosa.
CRoPs in various parts of New England
have been seriously injured by the protracted
drought.
AT Cohoes, N. Y, the protracted struggle
of the Harmony Mills operatives, which be-
gan on April a. is virtually ended, most of
the strikers having resumed work.
HENRY j. HALL, paying teller of the Rhode
Island Hospital Trust company at Provi-
dence, confessed to being defaulter in the
sum of $4,000. The stealing was begun in
1875 and the money was spent in extravagant
living.
AN explosion in the Erie railroad elevator
at Buffalo blew off the roof of that struc-
ture. The building at once took fire and
burned to the ground. The engineer and
three other men were killed. The damage
done is about $250,000
JAMES REDDEN (colored) was hanged at
Newcastle, Del, for assaulting twelve-year-
'old white girl.
GEORGE LEE of Newark, N. j., defeated
Courtney, Wallace Ross, Hosmer, Riley and
others at the Saratoga Lake regatta in the
professional three-mile boat race. The anna
teur championship was won by F. Holmes, of
Pawtucket, r I.
FIRE at Newport, R. l., partially destroyed
the Cliff house, a summer resort, and two ad-
joining cottages.
GENERAL CHARLES J. Powers, a prominent
Rochester IN. " lawyer, slipped and fell in
the street sustaining injuries that caused his
death. He was forty-nine years old and had
served with distinction in the late war;