The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-16
South and West.

A DISPATCH from Coalfield, Va, states that
shortly after / o'clock the other day an cxplo-
sion occurred in the Grove shaft of the Mid
lothian coal pits. A volume of smoke, cinders,
wood and bark burst from the shaft, which be-
came choled up and closed. Intense excite
ment ensucd, as it was known that a large
number of men we're at work in the pit, which
is over 1900 feet deep, the galleries extend
ing 8, 900 feet underground. Several efforts we're
made 10 test the pit and to reach the imprisoned
workmen without success People from all
quarters foclied to the scene of the explosion.
Thirty-two mention whito and twenty-five COL
ored---were cntombed in the mine, and by
O'Clock all hope was abandoned, and the most
narrowing scenes of wsiling women and chill
dren and grief-stricken men followed. A ma
iority of the entombed were married, and
many leave largo families. Most of these had
assembled at the mouth of the shaft, and tho
scenes were heartrending in the extreme
AT Tunnelton, Ind, Zack. Whittier, Virgil
Wilson and Nicholas Vaughan were all killed
while attempting burglary at the liquor store
Of Thomas Clarke. A confederate named Ben
jamin Wlloughby that morning betrayed them,
thereby giving Clarke and others time to pre-
pare for their reception.
A GREAT religious revival is reported from
louisville, KY, among the noted converts being
General Abe Buford, a well-known turfman
and brother of Tom Buford who killed Judge
Elliott, of the supreme court, last year. The
revival meetings are conducted by the Rev.
George o. Barnes, of Eastern K'ntucky, whose
surprising success and wonderful powers Of
persuasion and OF impressing his own religious
fervor upon his hearers is the universal theme
of conversation.
Mrs. ISAAC YoaELsoN, of Canton, ILL.,, suffered
from cancer of the stomach, and after going
fifty-one days without food died of starvation.
A HAND-CAR on which were seven persons was
run into by a construction train on an exton-
sion of the Missouri Pacific railroad near Waco,
Texas. Major Washbun, one Of the hest
known railroad builders in the country; Mr..
Stoll manager, and Mr.. Painter, foreman Of
track laying, Mrs. Stoll and her litt!o bog,
were all killed.
CHARLEY HING, Chihaman, was hanged at
Minncmucca, New, for the murder of All Lick,
a fellow countryman.
WILLIAM MILLER, the Oldest Mason in the
Inl6u Dldlts, ulSu u lew u5ubS dSO Nv NulN-
well, Ohio, aged ninety-eight years. He had
been Mason for eighty-one years.
A FREsHET in Texas caused the Navasola and
Brazos rivers to unite and become virtually
one. Hundreds of cattle were drowned by
the overflo wing of the rivers banks
THE first bookkeeper of the First National
bank of st. Paul, Mimi, has been arrested foI
embezzling between $4,000 and $4,000.
JESSE BARBER (colored) was executed al
Wfnnsboro, S. c., for the murder of Mack
Perry (also colored), and Quirino Gaitau, a
Mexican, suffered the death penalty at Browns.
vile, Texas, for the murder of another Mexi-
can.
AT Chicago George Robinson, driver of an
ice wagon, shot Mary Bacon, a servant girl, in
flicting mortal wound, and then opening his
mouth fred bullet into his brain and in,
stantly fell dead at her feet The girl had re-
fused to marry Robinson.
ELMER HARMAN, aged twenty three, living a
Newport, Ohio, became enraged because hi;
uncle, a blind man of eighty years, accused
him Of laziness, and seizing club beat out tht
helpless old mans brains.
JUVENILE tragedies; At Kookuk, Iowa, q
twelye-year old boy, killed another lad with
club during quarrel, and at Columbia, S. G.
a colored girl of fourteen drowned herself be,
cause she had been beaten severely by hel
mother.
DEPUTY SHERIFF JONES started out with
posse to arrest three outlaws whose headquar
ters were in log shanty near Crane New
Mexico When the posse reached the hut
Eight followed, in which one of the sheriff
assistants and all three outlaws were killed
Jones was fatally and another man seriousl,
wounded.
CHICAGO dispatch says that Mrs. Scoville
sister of the assassin au, is strong in tn
tonviction of her brothers insanity and be
lioves that he will ultimately escape the gallows
GRAIN transactions have been very active il
Chicago recently The sales in one day wer
3O,OOO,OOO bushels-2O, 100000 bushels abov
the average.
A MAN named Bivins married an attractiv
woman, but after two weeks of matrimonial
life became dissatisfied with his experience
walked into tho Haw river in North Caroln
and drowned himself
Mus. GARFIELD, a Cleveland dispatch says
declares emphatieally as untrue widely cir
culated report that she had written letter Il
President Arthur, asking him 70 repriey
Guiteau.