The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-05-25
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The Tennessee senate passed the bill to fund
the State debt at sixty cents and three, four,
five and SIX per cent. interest.
Dr.. H. H. HUBBARD, late surgeon-general of
the Confederate army, died in San Francisco,
age ffty-fve.
A SAILING boat with twelve persons on board
capsized in Lake Calumet, near Pullman, ILL.,,
and all were drowned, as folIows Napoleon
Bucklin, an old sea captain, recently from
Maine, aged so years, and his two sons, Ben aud
James Bucklin, aged IL and II; John L. Smith,
foreman in the car department. aged 20;
Charles F. Pierce, aged 46; II. 7. Moore, 35
years; W. J. Burns, % years; young man
named Foster, man named Davis, As years
old, and three other men.
STEwARrsvILLE, Mo-, is in ashes. Thirty.
seven houses, including every business house,
were burned.
The total number of killed and wounded bv
-------. U.oIone aI McAlllster, indian Ter
ritory, is 12O or these fifteen are already
dead, many are manned for life and others
cannot recover.
FoUR men, while fishing in lake near
Sheffield, Ind, were drowned by the upsetting
of their boat.
The courthouse at Franklin, Ky., has been
destroyed by lire of incendiary origin.
THREE hundred men took Joseph E. Jenkins,
who murdered Raphael Castillo, from Jail at st.
Martinsville. La, and hanged him. The
crowd also hanged Eugene Azar, who killed a
man last January.
THE house of Briggs Flaek, Orland, CAL, was
burned, and young girl, the sister of Mrs.
Flack, persisted. Mrs. Rice and her child were
fatally burned.
ISAAC GARDNER and his three daughters,
while attempting to ford the Tuscarawss river
near Newcomerstown. Ohio, in wagon, were
drowned.
The late Ex-Governor Washburn, of Wiscon-
Elm, left estate valued at 81, 800, 000 HIS will
provides $4,000 for public library at La
Crosse and $780, 600 70: a memorial asylum at
Minneapolis as a tribute to his mother.
SfEPHES G EFFLEB was hanged at Marion,
N. c. for numbering his wife, and W. W. Rhea
suffered similar penalty in the same way at
Pulaski Tenn. for killing one Goodrum,
against whom he had grudge. Rheas hang
ing was witnessed by 5 900 persons and was a
horrible affair, as three attempts had to be
made before the man was launched into eter.
nity the moose clipping twice, lacerating his
face and breaking blood vessel.
A FIRE at Leadville, COL, destroyed the
Windsor hotel, Academy of Music, and the
Palace of Fashion, large dry goods house,
causing loss of about 100000. Several lives
we're lost.
JoHN McMENEMoN, farmer, aged sixty
five, living near Muscatine, Iowa, was shot
and killed by his ffteen-year-old daughter.
The father and daughter were quarrel
ing, when the girls brother, aged
eighteen, handed her revolver, with which
she shot her father through the breast. 1t is
supposed that the children desired to get pos
session of their fathers property. The mother
is in an insane asylum.
FURTHER crop reports from the Northwest
state that wheat and corn are doing well, and
that there is a large increase in acreage.
AFTER a session covering period of thirteen
months committee appointed by the Arkan-
sas legislature TO investigate the accounts Of
ex-Treasurer Thomas J. Churchill, now the
governor of the State has made report de-
claring that there is deficit in the accounts
of the governor during the six years in which
he was treasurer to the extent of STA, 900.