The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-12-19
Notes Of News.

--Wmi Merrick was convicted, at
indianapolis, of murdefiug his wife.
"A dispatch from London states
that Queen yictbria is indisposed
Senator Davis wv. Va.) predicts
no change this session in the tobacco
tax.
The New York police have ar
rested two men who are thought to be
the Manhattan bank robbers.
Peter Muchmeisser, a drunken
wretch, nearly killed his wife at Gin
cinnati and then hanged himself. She
may recover.
AN explosion of nitro-glycerine
and gunpowder in coal mines at Ear
lington, KY, blew to pieces train of
cars and killed a negro.
DR.. Bradford. for the death of
Sarah Connors. in New York; by NAL
practice, was sentenced to Sing Sing
for fourteen and a half years.
Senator Chaffee, of Colorado, is
the fortunate owner Of halfof newly
developed silver mine which is yield
ing $4,000 worth Of silver daily.
The Citizens Relief Committee of
Memphis wound up its affairs on Sat
urday and distributed the balance on
hand, S7,253 among four orphan asy-
lums.
"A 100 mile walking match, at
Jamestown, N. Y, between Miss
Mary Marshall, Of Chicago, and Dan
Corrol of Warren, Pa, was won by
the former.
The statistics of the western pork
packing houses in six large cities show
total for November of 1885, 900 hogs
Ia.,t If
Sl5, 600 which is an extensive thing
in hogs.
"A. Portland dispatch says: "In
the United States District Court, in
the case of the United States VS.. w. G.
Griswold, charged with fraud in con-
nection with Indian war claims of
1854, the jury have returned verdict
awarding plaintiff S35, ,22s."
AT Dubuque wedding the other
! day, 1mong the wedding presents os-
present from the doting father to his
darling daughter. After the guests
departed the old man cody rolled up
the bill and put it in his pocket, and
that was the end of it.
Hon. II. p. Gage, ex-Presieent of
the Hancock (Ohio) savings Bank,
hole in his right temple. A revolver
was found with one chamber empty.
He is supposed to have shot himself
on account of bank troubles. There is
only very slight chance of his recov-
cry.
Joshua Walker on Saturday night
last purchased quantity of pork, and
taking it home proceeded to salt it
down. His wife soon after discovered
that he had been trying to make a
brine with white sugar. She was
seized with fit of laughter, which
she continued for several minutes,
when she suddenly expired.
IF there had been any doubts in
| Minneapolis as to the explosive charac-
ter of mill dust they are now entirely
| dissipated. The overwhelming dis
aster OF last May went far to establish
! the theory, and the question was
finally set at rest Monday by a watch
mans lantern, cloud of -four dust,
| an immediate explosion, and seventy
| five thousand dollar fire,
Detectives from New York are at
| Fredericksburg institutina search
for the remains of A. II. Stewart, sup
| posed to be concealed there. These
officers say that they have clue and
believe that their efforts will be re-
warded this time. They refuse to
make any statement further than that
they are positive that they have got
on the trail of the ghouls. and are
certain that they will be able to put
their hands on the missing remains in
Il few days.
One of the strangest crimes of re-
cent record is the shooting of Miss
II L., I - d.
comOke City, Md. Whether accidental
who charge Miss Duer with murder
allcge jealousy as the motive, Miss
Duer believing that Miss Hearn loved
another young lady more than her. A
murder of this kind without one of the
| opposite sex ,lS Il prominent element is
an anomaly in crime,
A horrible accident occurred at the
| American Iron Works, Pittsburgh, by
which Patrick Shannon, Assistant
Millwright, was instantly killed and
| his body torn to shreads shannon
had gone upon platform to examine
line of shaitlng, when his clothing
was caught by pulley and his body
| drawn onto the shaft, which was maxi
| ing 2i0 revolutions minute. Before
) the machinery could be stopped his
body was torn to pieces and scattered
over the mill, portions of the remains
being thrown 300 feet.
| The Atlantic express, bound east,
on the Wabash railroad, was telescOped
at TOionO, Illinois, at one o'clock on
Saturday afternoon, obstructing the
track for eleven hours. The train was
ccming into the switch rapidly, being
late, when the icy condition of the
track caused the mail, baggage and eX-
press cars, four coaches and sleeper
to jump the track. The track was
badly torn up and coaches damaged.
The passengers were greatly alarmed,
but uoue seriously hurt. Senator Davis
was a passenger OH the train
The recent convention of cheese
and butter makers held i'm New York
city, has shown that nearly $3.50, 600.
900 worth of butter and cheese have
been produced in this country within
the past year, or one-seventh more
than the value of the wheat crop OF
the country, and one third more than
the cotton crop. There will be eX-
ported this year from the whole
country Si30i000, 600 pounds of cheese
and 5000, 900 pounds of butter. There
are l3,0o0,000 cows in the country, OF
% to every 100 persons.
Disastrous floods devastated the
Middle and New England States last
Wednesday and Thursday. The
Hudson and Susquehanna were both
flooded, and much damage is reported
in their valleys. One of the singular