The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29

GENERAL GEORGE SroNEdAN has been nomi-
mated for governor by the California Demo-
Gratis.
AMONG those who professed conversion at q
meeting held by the Mountain Evangelist" Z"
the Rev. George o. Barnes, at the opera-house
in Frankfort, KY, was Luke d. Blackburn,
governor of the State.
A PHENOMENON was witnessed the other day
at Cleveland, Ohio. A tidal wave about two
miles wide and eleven feet higher than the sur
face of the lake suddenly appeared and swept
the lake front, doing damage estimated at
$4,000.
STATE SENATOR THOMAS J. FOSTER, Of Indiana,
committed suicide at Fort Wayne Intemper-
ance was the cause.
THREE men and one woman - Anderson
Singleton, Abram Anderson, Boston Singletary
and Lucinda Teasdale - all colored, we're
hanged together at Kingston, s. G. Singleton
and the woman were convicted of the murder Of
Phoebe Teasdale, the wife OF Anderson Single
ton, and the half sister of Lucinda Teasdale, in
January last. singletary and Anderson were
convicted OF robbery and arson last March.
The execution was conducted within the Jail in
closure, but crowd of about 1000 persons
were in town. All protested they were inno-
cent except the woman, who said she killed her
! sister in self defenses Singleton, in his last
speech, said the rope had been put around Ii
| neck by witchcraft, and named the voudoo
| doctor who, he said, had bewitched him.
ANOTHER heavy storm, attended with loss of
life and great destruction of property occurred
| in Iowa. At Independence two brothers
boys Of eleven and eighteen years-were killed,
ten other persons were injured, and property
amounting to s15OoOO was destroyed in few
minutes time
PROFESSOR W. J. LAND, the most prominent
chemist in Georgia, committed suicide in his
| Office in Atlanta by shooting himself with q
revolver. His mind was unsettled.
At Findley, ILL.,, Charles G. Senseny, John
Wilson and Charles G. Holmes were instantly
killed by lightning.
ONE cyclone is following another In the
West, all doing immense damage to life and
property. Twenty houses were demolished
and five persons were killed and twenty-five
injured in the southern part Of Clay county,
Iowa. In Emmetsburg five houses were blown
down and other damage was done. One man
was thrown upon hot stove and burped and
three were carried off and b=dly hurt, A child
was carried several rods and received severe
| injuries, from the effects of which i. will die.
In Denton township, Iowa, the house of Will
| jam Myers was blown down and all the mem
bers of the family were hurt. Near Wesley G..
| W. Adams and child we're injured. At Hos
per, Iowa, the cyclone destroyed the Presby
| terian church, the schoolhouse, a carpenters
shop and twenty five residences and barns in the
village and immediate vicinity. Henry Gaue,
farmer, was fatally injured. Eighteen freight
cars were turned upside down, most of them
being torn from their trucks. The depot and
adjoining warehouse were lifted from their
foundations, carried ten or. twenty feet and
badly wrecked. In the vicinity of Spencer,
Iowa, six persons were killed and forty injured.
! At Omaha, indianapolis, Muncie and numer-
ous other places more or less damage was in.
| flicted.
THE Kansas wheat crop this year is estimated
at 100000 bushels.
In Minnesota work train of twenty-five
cars, filled with Swedish AMI Norwegian labor
ers, jumped the track on an EN- bankment ten
feet high and rolled into pool Of stagnant
water eight feet deep. About fifteen men were
killed and eight injured.
| ACoAcH containing number of young people
from San Francisco was overturned near Santa
| cruz, CAL, ana three young ladies and one boy
were killed and four boys seriously injured.