The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-02
NEWS EPITOME.
astcrn and Middle States.

astcrn and Middle States.
An explosion on board steam tug at Hsver-
straw, N. Y, resulted in the death Of the second
engineer, fireman and cook and the total de-
struction of the tug.
CHARLES DANA & Co., wholesale provision
dealers of Boston, have failed with from $780,
900 to s150,00O liabilities.
Hon. CLARKsoN N. Potter, the prominent
New York lawyer, best known to the country as
chairman of the "Potter Congressional Com
mittee," charged with inqu!ring into alleged
frauds connected with the presi tential election
of 1876, died suddenly the other day at his
home in the metropolis, aged fifty-six years.
While arguing q case before the court OF ap-
peals at Albany he was taken sick, and his
symptoms assuming an alarming phase he was
conveyed to his home in New York, where he
fingered but few days before death relieved
him of his sufferings. In 1879 Mr.. Potter was
defeated for Acknowledgements of New York
by only 300 votes in a poll exceeding 900, 200.
In August last he was elected president OF the
American Bar association.
The Hartford Comm high school has been
destr yed by fire. Loss, s120,00O insurance,
$4,000.
A PHILADELPHIA lawyer was fined $50 for
not reporting case Of smallpox which proved
fatal.
GOVERNOR HoYr, of Pennsylvania, has
signed the death warrants of six men and fixed
the oath of March for their hanging.
In New York and vicinity the thermometer
recorded a the way from forty degrees below
zero-at L Ike Saranac-to three degrees below
zero-at New York city-and many cases Of
prostration caused by the intense cold were re-
ported. Three men were found frozen to death
one in New York. one in Greenpoint, Long
Island. and one in Newark, n. j.
JAY GOULD has gobbled another railroad
the st. Louis and San Francisco road.
A FIRE destroyed the Providence and Woon
socket passenger station at Woonsocket, r. l..
and damaged other property there, involving &
loss of about 100000.
| A CONVENTION Of farmers interested Il
ensilage was held in New York, and discussed
| subjects connected with the use of ensilage q:
food for cattle.
The jury in the coroner's investigation o.
the Spuyten Duyvil railroad disaster gave
verdict fixing the blame on Melius the brake
man of the Chicago express the two engineer;
and conductor Of the same train; the engineer
Of the Tarrytown train Mr.. John N. Toucey
the superintendent, and the managers and
officers of the New York Central and Hudson
| River railroad.
A BILL has been introduced into the Nov
Jersey assembly to provide whipping-posts 70
wife beaters.
PROFESSOR THEoPHILUs PARSONS, Dane pro
fessor of law at Harvard college, and well
known writer, died a few days ago, aget
eighty-four years.
An ice gorge at Bradford, Pa, caused tn
water in the river to rise over ten feet, flooding
a portion of the city and causing great damag
to property.
By the burning of the Keystone Hub, spok
and Wheel works, in Philadelphia, loss o
$50, 600 was incurred.
WIDOW GRAFT and her two sons Q very poo
family, living in Greensburg, Pa, have receive,
notice of having been left fortune of $500, 90
BY the death of relative in Sweden.
a TERRIFIC gallo has done great damage t
property of ali kinds in many parts of tn
were overturned, trees uprooted and Otho
property damaged to the extent of hundreds c
thousands of dollars. At Nashua, N. IL
a shoe manufactory, four-story building, i
which 200 men were at work, was lifted fror
it's foundations and moved two feet from il
proper position. One of the escaping men wa
fatally injured by jumping from window. 4
other points persons were also injured more o
less seriously.
An explosion of the boiler in the mill of tn
Kennebec Framing company at Fairfield, Me
resulted in the instantaneous death Of two fire
men and fatal Injuries to the engineer, time
keeper, foreman and another man.
GEO. W. GooDNow, merchant of Bosto
and deacon in the First Baptist church
Cambridge, dropped dead in church. Light
his brothers and sisters had previously died
apoplexy, and the death of the deacon w
from that disease.