The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1878-08-01
Notes Of News.


into the border towns.
Thomas Darque fell one hundred
feet down coal shaft at Steubenville,
Ohio, and was killed.
Two villains convinced a New
York Central conductor that they were
conducting lady passenger to the
insane asylum at Utica, where against
her protest, she was taken from the
train, robbed and outraged.
"A report was received at st. Paul,
Minn., that n farmer near Faribault
shot and instantly killed two tramps,
whom he caught i'm the act of setting
fire to the harvesting machine in his
wheat field. He gave himself up, but
was instantly released.
Emil Hanson, a convict in the
Illinois Penitentiary, has been released
because, as Governor Cullom said in
granting the pardon, he is afflicted
with scrofula, which is offensive and
deleterous in its effects on the prison
hospital" He says that he will get
out a patent on scrofula and send it
around for sale among the various
prisons.
While sleeping in room at the
residence of Alex. Hooper, in Roane
county, West Va, a woman named
Ella Fairburn, rose and picking up her
four-year-old daughter, broke its neck
on the head-board of the bed. She
was arrested and placed in Jail. There
are charges against her for the murder
of two of her children. She is de-
scribed as being very illiterate.
Maggie Berridge, thifty-three
years old, living a short distance in the
country, near Gallipolis, Ohio, under
took to kindle the fire in the kitchen
stove with carbon oil. She was found
shortly after by neighbor who was
passing, leaning against the garden
fence in a dying condition, with her
clothes burned entirely off. She lived
about one hour after the occurrence.
An awful scene occurred after the
recent race meeting at Beverly, near
Sheffield, England. Twenty men
broke open the bar in the grand stand
and set to work to drink up the large
store of wine contained therein. Eight
of them were found by the police in
the morning lying senseless on the
scene of their orgies. One was dead.
Six more were discovered Supplied IN
the neighboring villages.
THAT remarkable barber, Burleigh,
of Capron, ILL.,, who called together
the citizens of the town, delivered an
infidel lecture surprising Ingersoll's
eloquent clap-trap and then, in the
presence of his audience, shot himself
through the brain, didn't call together
the citizens, didn't deliver an infidel
lecture and didn't kill himself. But
he got up the yarn for $3.50 and the
Chicago Times.
The attention of the veteran
aeronaut Prof Wise having been
called to challenge in the Cincinnati
Enquirer of July %, from one aero
nant to another, the professor had
published the following challenge in
the Journal published at Louisiana,
Mo-; 81 will compete with any man
in the world for balloon contest, as to
distance and flotation, and to make a
given point 200 miles east of place
of departure-say from Kansas City,
MOI
"A party of masked men, variously
estimated at from 40 to 500, rode into
Monroe, La, and forcibly took from
the parish Jail four colored men who
were confined there charged with muir
der. They took them to the court
house square and hanged them to the
limb of an oak tree. An inquest was
held on the four bodies and the Jury
returned verdict: "That said parties
came to their death by hanging and
that the same was done by parties un-
known"
The coach which left Deadwood for
Cheyenne, on July 23d, was stopped
at 2 O'Clock in the morning two miles
north of Lightning Creek by six
armed men. The Rev. J. w. Pickett,
the only passenger, was not molested,
the robbers turning their attention to
the mail sacks, which they robbed of
registered letters and other valuable
matter. They also broke open the
treasure boxes, but found nothing.
They were not at all excited over their
work, which occupied them fully half
an hour, and as soon as they were
through they ordered the driver to
COON.
"A special dispatch from Cleveland
states that on Wednesday last fifteen
girls employed in Madame Somers'
dressmaking establishment had milk
for dinner. During the afternoon
they were all more or less sick. includ
ing the Madame. None of them We're
so ill, however, as to be unable to re-
turn to work the next day, except two
sisters, Mary and Nettie Divitt. On
Thursday both were dangerously ill.
Physicians who were called in pro-
nounced them cases of poisoning.
Mary died in great agong. Nettie is
still alive, but is in a very precarious