The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-11-30
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In consequence of the recent fall in price
for iron and steel products it is reported. by
way of Chicago, that several prominent
Western mills will be shut down.
ALABAMA's vote for governor was, accord
ing to the official account, ONeal, Demo-
crat, 100,59l, and Sheffield, Independent,
1886.
OFFICIAL returns give the following as the
vote in Indiana: Hawn, Republican, 21O, ,23i;
Myers, Democrat, 220,91S; Leonard, Green
back, 1880; Myers plurality, 10,G8i. Con-
gress: Kleiner, Democrat, 1913 plurality;
Cobb, Democrat, 1861 majority; Stocks
lager, Democrat, 4,5S5 plurality; Holman
Democrat, 3,44 plurality; MGtson, Demo-
crat 3,d52 majority; Browne. Republican,
1918 plurality; Peclle, Republican, 81 plu
rality; Lamb, Democrat, 2S7 plurality; Ward,
Democrat, S75 plurality; Wood, Democrat,
l,o14 plurality; Steele, Republican, 1893 plu-
rality; Lowry, Democrat, 3,3G3 plurality:
Calkins, Republican, G9l plurality.
Mr.. WILLIAM A. RUSSELL, merchant in
helsterstown, Nd, was shot dead by one of
two burglars who had broken into his store
BOILER explosion on q plantation in
Pointe Coupee Parish, La, instantly killed
the engineer and fatally injured two colored
laborers
BITTER railroad war prevails in the
Northwest, and passenger and freight rates
have been reduced to almost nothing. The
fare between Chicago and ST. Paul was re-
duced to twenty-five cents, and freight was
taken at any price that shippers chose to
offer.
The Chicago Rnil,vaV Age reports that
LOGS miles of road were completed in Oc-
tober, making 8 ,1i3 miles in ten months OF
1882.
THE noted racing sire imported Buckden
is dead. His owner, Captain. .Cottrell, of Mo
bile, had just refused an offer of $12,0 900 for
him.
B. H. CRAPsTER, for ten or twelve yea! s
postmaster at Shelbyville, KY, was found
dead ina stable On his premises the other
morning with bullet hole through his head,
A pistol was lying by his side, indicating
that he had committed suicide.
A DENVER (Col.) dispatch says that the
mails between that city and Eastern cities,
particularly New York, Buffalo and Cleye-
land, have been Systematically robbed, and
that the losses in drafts, bills of exchange
and postal money orders amount to more
than 100000. These last are not real losses,
but Denver banks and business houses have
been forced to make their transfers of
money through express companies, much to
their cost and inconvenience.
Two female servants were sufocated at
tine burning of a boarding house in Indian
apoIis, Ind.
A NATIONAL labor congress has been in
session at Cleveland, Ohio. A platform was
adopted and the following legislative COM
mittee for the ensuing year was chosen:
Robert Howard, Massachusetts,; Gabriel Ed
mansion, Washington; Richard Powers,
Chicago; Samuel Gomper, New York. N. FL.
Foster, Cincinnati, was reelected general
secretary
A REMARKABLE crime was unearthed near
Havana, H., By the confession of Theodore
Gardner that he had murdered his aunt
Mrs. John B. Weller, wife of wealthy
farmer, for whom the murderer was working
as farm hand. Gardner, who is only nine
teen years old, confessed that he had quar-
relied with his aunt, and upon her telling him
to leave the place he had choked her to
death.
The ST. Louis grand jury have ignored
the bill against John A. Cockerell, editor Of
the Dispatch, for the shooting of EI
Congressman A. w. Slayback, and it is no
likely that any further action will be taken
in the matter.
A CHICAGO Judge has granted Mrs ScoVile
Guiteau's sister, new trial on the GROUND
that, though possibly insane, she was neithe
of homicidal or suicidal tendencies, nor dan
gerous to her friends, and therefore not
subject for an asylum. After her first tria
Mrs. scoville fed TO Canada, where she ha
been lecturing.