The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-10-12
SONT,R IND HEST.

A MISPLACED switch on railroad near
hutchinson Kansas, caused collision be-
tween an express and a passenger train.
Both engineers, the firemen. baggageman
and another man were buried in the wreck,
which took fire, and all six per.shed.
THE Chicago Raillcay Age reports the con-
struction of 1,2O9 miles of nam track i'll the
United States during September and total
for nine months of the present year of sos
miles. 1t estimates the total construction
for the entire year at 10, 900 miles, an amount
fur greater than ever before built in one
season.
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS was elected gov
ornor of Georgia by majority variousy
estimated at from $1,000 to $1,000. All the
Democratic nominees for state offices were
successful, and the general assembly is also
largely Democratic.
John Brooks (colored), who had confessed
to making brutal assault upon a little girl,
was taken from the sheriff at Jacksonville,
Tenn, by a large crowd and hanged.
JOHN LEIGH and James Rigby, two farmers
of Palmer, ILL.,, quarreled about the pos
session of some land and became involved in
IL
torious. The other afternoon Leigh's son
approached Rigby and, pretending that he
desired to effect a peaceable settlement sud
denly opened fire with a revolver, killing
him.
FRANK JAMES, the notorious outlaw, brother
of tho late Jesse James, surrendered to Gov
ernor Crittenden, of Missouri, at jefferson
City, and was delivered to the Jackson
county authorities at Kansas City. When
Frank James surrendered to Governor Crit
tenden, he handed him his pistols and stated
that he (the governor) was the only man
except himself who had touched them for
twenty years.
AN Atlanta (Ga.) dispatch says that Mr..
Stephens, the newly-elected governor, sent
to the governor his resignation of the Office
of Congressman from the Eighth Georgia
district. It was accepted, and an election
to fill the vacancy was ordered for November
7. Gartrell, the defeated candidate for
governor, will contest the election OF
Stephens, not with the hope of getting in,
but to show alleged frauds and intimidations.
The following are Ohio's crop estimates,
based on returns from all the counties of the
State: Total number of bushels wheat 45,-
1881 rye,' 406,151; oats, 1S,435,779 /;
barley, 1881, 1903 corn (probable), S7,0O5,
$50; potatoes (probable), S9,O00,00O Per
cent. of an average crop-Sweet potatoes,
100; tobacco, "a sorghum, 80; corn, 81
potatoes, 101. Yield per acre in bushels
Wheat, 1871 rye, 1853; oats, 2S barley, 1919.
AT Lowell, Kansas, a Miss Rosecranse,
young lady of seventeen, tried to rescue her
seven-year-old sister from their burning resi-
dence, when both lost their lives.
The steamer Atlantico brought from Vera
Cruz, Mexico, TO Now Orleans forty-seven
sailors from five foreign vessels flour Nor
wegian and one Swedish), and four sailors
from one American vessel, the bark Commo-
dore Dupont, all wrecked on the coast of
Mexico. The vessels were riding at anchor
off Tampico and Pueblo Nuevo, and were
driven ashore by gale.
The Mormons have been buying large
tract of land in Arizona.
The vote in Arkansas on the liquor license
question stands 1880 for licenses and 45,041
against.
SIXTEEN freight cars and two engines were
totally wrecked by a railroad collision near
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, causing an estimated
loss of $4,000.
FIRE at Warrington, Fla, village ad-
joining the Pensacola navy yard, destroyed
twenty-four buildings, inficting total loss
of about $4,000.
Two convict guards at Darlington, Texas,
shot at each other with pistols until both
were dead.
A PREMATURE explosion of blast took
place near Mountain Store, Mo-, by which
Gordon Mcdonald, a railroad boss, and four
laborers were killed, and six others seriously
injured.
By a collision between a freight train and
wood train near Bridgeville, Del, an en-
gine and four cars were demolished and
eleven train hands were injured more or less
seriously.