The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1880-03-18
The News.

-AlDerC MaIcros was Killed by tne
explosion of q blast in the Hoosac
tunnel on Sunday morning. This is
the 190th fatal accident that has oc
Cured in this tunnel since it was
begun some twenty years ago
Friday morning q fire destroyed
the boiler house and factory of the
Standard Nut Works of Lewis, Oil
yer & Philips on the South side Pitts
burgh. 1t was occasioncd by upset
ting lamp. Loss, $4,000 insurance
in home companies.
"A servant girl in Philadelphia,
while defending steep back stairway
in private house, with a basket of
china, slipped and fell to the bottom.
The china was broken into fragments
and, in falling among the debris, her
throat was cut, and she bled to death.
The jury in the case of Louis No
len, who killed his father and shot
his mother md brother, in Strongs-
vile, Ohio, on the night of the 2lst
OF October, has brought in verdict of
guilty of murder in the second degree;
penalty, imprisonment for life. The
jury were out twenty-three hours.
A prominent citizen of Atlanta,
Ga, has been arrested for threatening
to kill Rev. r. c. Foule, rector of St.
Philips church, in the pulpit Sunday
and going to church avowedly for that
purpose. He accuses Foule of causing
a divorce between himself and wife.
He has been bound over to keep the
peace.
john Mayiield, colored, was
hanged on Friday at Florence, Ala,
for the murder during quarrel Of
Tobe Irwin, colored, in Florance on
November IL, 1873. He said his con-
viction was caused by malice, but he
was going, to better country and was
prepared to die. He showed no signs
of fear. Another addition to the an,
gelc throng.
Washington, Pa, March 12.-The
ashes of Dr. Samuel Hahn were re-
moved from the retort, placed in tir
box and expressed to \. & G. Kautl
man, No. 20 Duane street, New York
this afternoon. They weighed five
! pounds and thirteen ounces and were
very fine, and of a white color. The
incineration was successfully accom-
plished in two hours and twenty min
utes.
! SAN FRANCISCO, March 16. - Tht
police judge this morning sentenced
| Dennis Kearmey to six months i'm
prisOnment in the house of correction
and to pay a fine of 1000. The mag
nitude of the sentence was Il surprise
to Kearney, who had expected to ge
Off with nominal punishment. |
is probable that he will take the cast
to the supreme court on Il habeas cor
pus.
-Rerresentative Emil j. Petrol
has been convicted in the Dauphii
|
solicitation of members of the Legis
lature. Application will be made 70
pardon in the cases OF Kemble, Saltel
PetroT Rumberger and Crawford, an,
their counsel are now preparing rea
sons that will accompany such appli
cation. 1t is thought that a specia
meeting of the Board of PardOns vii
be called to consider these cases.
John McDermott, a convict, com
mitted suicide at Sing Sing, n. y
prison on Saturday morning, by plaC
ing his head and shoulders into tn
mess-rOom furnace. He was sent t
the prison December 1888, by Judg
Daniels, for the killing of his wife
Maria, in New York, on April l;
1878. He was called "Praying John,
on account of his religious behavic
since he has been at the prison. II
Was IL years of age, and is not know
to have any relatives,
A curious legal case has arisen
Oregon. a Chinaman belonging
the Lee" family has been sentence
to death in Portland for murdt
and after using every means, h
: counsel have now come forward wit
a plea TO the United States Circu
Court to annul the entire proceedil
Oh the ground that All Lee, being
. subject of the Emperor of China, co
not be tried by State Court. 1t
probable, however, that the questiC
| will be settled by the hanging of A
: Lee before his case can be attended
by the court.
About nineteen years ago youl
, man named Nathan Hirshier disa
peared from Pottsville, Pa, and
was thought he had become Il
. victim of the Molly Maguir'
:, Recently his brother, Moses Hirshl'
!, learned that man supposed to
; Nathan Hirshler had married in NJ
. York and gone to Chicago short
after the war. Moses at once went
= Chicago, and Friday a telegram W
- received from him in that city, sayir
~ 81 have found my brother, and he
=, alive and we'll" Nathan Hirshler
II a prosperous man and occupies pro
- inent and lucrative governmen
: position. He had served in the Fet
- raj army thrOuphOut the war.