The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-09-28
FOREIGN News.

A WOMAN was shot by process server in
county Donegal, Ireland, while resisting the
seizure of her cattle.
HEAVY floods have done much damage to
property in portions of Italy.
The Hon. Gerald valerian Wellesley, dean
of Windsor and domestic chaplain to Queen
Victoria, is dead.
The Missouri car and foundry works in
st. Louis were burned; loss estimated at
$4,000.
julius ZEM1TzLY met singular death at
Chicago He went into an ice-house at
tached to a brewery and was frozen to death.
A CABLE is to be laid between,Portugal and
the United States.
ALL the Irish suspects now in prison ex-
cept those against whom crime can be proved
are about to be released.
DUBLIN dispatch asserts that the Irish
leaders have formed new organization to
take the place of the land league, which was
suppressed They will declare in favor of
peasant proprietary and of a schome for the
land colonies somewhat similar to that adyo-
Gated by Michael Davitt.
Miss SARAH ELsToNE, the daughter of re-
spectacle parents residing i'll Woodstock,
Ontario, deliberately committed suicide by
building a fire and standing over it until
horribly burned from head to foot. She was
rcligiously inclined and her last words were
81 am going to Jesus" She left n note say
ing she was tired of this world and had made
up her mind to sacrifice herself.
IN Copcordia, Mexico, five persons were
killed in a church which was struck by light
ming. A number of other persons were Sc
riously injured in the rush to escape,
GENERAL WoLsELEY issued an address to his
soldiers congratulating them upon their sue
cess in Egypt.
AEDELLAn PAsHA, The commander of
Damietta, Egypt, was shot by his own troops
for refusing to surrender to the English.
A GERMAN Catholic priest charged with
libeling Prince Bismarck in an article has
been fined 200 marks.
A FIRE which lasted several days destroyed
the greater part of the town of Kashin, Rus
sia.
AN examination of the Egyptian treasury
shows that about S1,0t0,GO0 were taken by
Arab Pasha.
FLOODS in the Tyrol caused a large loss
of life and destroyed much property. Twenty
six bodies were recovered.
COMMANDER RAwsoN, who was specially
promoted for bravery at the battle of Tel Ell
Kebr, in which he was wounded, died from
tho effects of his wound.
The exhibition building at Sydney, New
South Wales, has been totally destroyed by
fire, with all its contents. The loss is
about So, 100000.
BARON TENTERDEN, British permanent un.
der secretary of state FOR fo.eign affairs, and
formerly British agent for the Geneva con
ference, is dead.
PATRICK WALSH was hanged at Galway,
Ireland, for the murder of Martin Lyden,
Walsh protested his Innocence and insisted
that witness.had sworn falsely. When the
black flag in the prison was hoisted the con-
vict's mother, who was in the crowd outside
gave way to wailing and refused to leave the
spot. Her friends also joined in the nolan.
choly cries. A large guard of soldiers wore
on the ground.
TIE rebellion in Ecuador, South America
is still in progress.
IT is officially announced that General
Wolseley and Admiral Seymour will be raised
to the peerage in acknowledgment of theil
recent services in Egypt.
WHILE mixed train was crossing the rivol
Drave, near Eszek, in Austro-Hungary, q
part of the bridge fell in and the engine and
| baggage cars were pitched into the river
dragging with them some Of the passenger
cars containing number of HussGrs on g
furlough. Thirty soldiers were drowned
and many others were injured.
A DISPATCH from Armagh, Ireland, says
that eight men charged with treason-felony
four Of whom had only recently been liberated
from Kilmainham Jail, have been remandod
1t is understood that the crown has obtained
evidence from an informer, who made cx,
traortlinary revelations in regard TO the OK
:sterce of a widespread conspiracy.