The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-01
south and West.

THE national committee of the Greeaback.
mittee was appointed to prepare an address to
the people of the United States.
CONSIDERABLE damage has been done to
come of the crops in Iowa and other parts OF
the West by severe frost and fall of snow to
the depth of three inches.
A MAN named Buckman, arrested in Balti-
more on charge Of larceny, confessed to the
murder on April of Captain Nelson COM
manding an oyster sloop, and of a negro en-
ployed in the vessel. The captain, the negro
and Buckmsn were the only persons on the
sloop. Buckman was employed as cook, and
after numbering the other two he turned the
vessel adrift escaping in small boat.
AT a conference between the iron manu- fac
turers of Wheeling, W. Va, and vicinity and a
committee of the Amalgamated Association of
Iron and Steel Workers the latter submitted
new scale of wages which the employers re-
fused to sign. All the mills in the district
will be closed.
THERE has been another serious inundatiol
in Arkansas, and the results are nearly as dis
astrous as was the recent overflow More than
three-fourths of the tilabe bottom land y
Phillips county is now under water, and there
is no prospect OF its being out before the last of
June. About the same condition of affairs pre-
walls in portions OF Lee, Monroe AMI Critten-
den counties, and the suffering among the Ia
borers, the majority OF whom are negroes will
| be great.
THE national committee OF the Greenbsck-
| Labor party, assembled at st. Louis, adopted
| an address to the American people. 1t says
| that legislation, 10th state and national, .or
| the last twenty years, has been in the in
| terest of incorporated capital, at the en-
| pense of the labor and general interest OF
tho country. The result of such legisla-
| ton has been to create the pr sent ma
tonal bank monopoly, the railroad monopolies
the telegraph monopoies and the land monopo-
lies. The platform Of principles is opposition
to telegraph and railroad monopoles and the
| substitution of greenbacks for national bank
currency. petition to the President of the
United States was also adopted requesting him
| TO veto the bill for the recharterng Of the
national banks should it pass the Senate.
A FIRE at Centre, Ala, destroyed the court
house OF Cherokee county, together with all the
| records.
CAPTAIN PAYNE and twenty-nine other COL
onists, while attempting to invade the Indian
Territory, were captured by troops sent out
from Fort Reno and taken back to Kansas.
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CROP reports from the Northwest continue to
be most favorable. In the Southwest the out
look is even more encouraging.
The Grant companys smelling works, of
Leadville, Col, have been destroyed by fire,
and a loss incurred of about s350,000. These
works employed 800 men and were the largest
of the kind in the world
ALMOST the entire business part of Tomb
stone, Arizona, a tlourishing mining town, has
been leveled to tho ground by the flames.
Three OF the principal hotels and two news
paper offices were among the sufferers. The
loss is estimated at $500, 1000.
| SEVEN million feet of lumber valued at $780,
600, made huge bonfire the other day at
Spring Lake. Mich.
Ten Kickapoo Indians have just been natural
| lied by the United States court at Topeka, Kan.
and are now full American citizens unler
the act recently passed by Congress.
A PARTY of six experienced miners have
started from San Francisco for Alaska in search
of gold and silver.
| WHILE Alderman A. T. Stewart, of Pueblo,
COL, was examining rifle, the weapon was
accidentally discharged, the ball passing
through partition and entering the heart OF
the alderman's brother Edward, killing him
| instantly.
| A ST. PAUL CMinn.) dispatch says that the de-
cision of the secretary of the interior opening
| the Turtle Mountain reservation to settlement
is hailed with delight by land holders and spec
| ulators, as well as he.s 5 who have been cast
ing longing eyes tn the nine million
acres Of fine DaHota land, which up
to this time have been held by 200
Chippewa Indians. Many exploring parties
have been waiting in the frontier towns for
settled weather to set out for the Turtle
Mountain country, with a view of gaining a
knowledge OF the country in anticipation of the
present decision. One enthusiastic capitalist
hailed the news with the remark "There will
be 10000 people in the Turtle Mountain country
inside Of ninety days."