The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-02-23
South and West.

JOIN NoNDERAN, wcll-to-do German of
Cleveland, Ohio, has been heavily afflicted,
GIpiih,ria aving entered his family and car
l.,d oil six out of seven children within few
dlys.
FREDEEIcK MULE teaches country school
Gt Hnmmoul's Corners, Ohio. Recently he was
arrested torthe alegc excessive punishment Of
Miss Lambert, ne of his pupils, for some def
a:ao"fhl1 authority. ubs-qucnty she brought
Eait, and Mill was bound over to answer. Mr..
lambert, the pupils father, now voluntarily
vi.hdg1ws the charge and pays the costs and
t0mcys fees. Null made it all up with the
girl, they fell in love and are to be married.
A DECLINE in the price of cotton caused the
failure Of several firms in New Orleans.
AT Grand Haven, Mich. the steamer Wis
consin having on beard 1000 tons of freight,
struck a pier as she attempted to enter the
harbor and sank.
PHILANDER HENDERSON, aged thirteen COM
mtted suicide at Hend, rson's Mills, Kentucky.
The act is attributed to grief over the absence
Of a favorite brother who ran away from home
and was not permitted to return.
An extraordinary marriage is reported from
Somerset county, Nd, where II. L. White n
boy Of seventeen, was united to Ella Shores, 3
pretty brunette Of fourteen. Two years ago the
rirl was married to her stepfather, aged sixty
five, who was arrested for the act and impris-
oned, the girls friends obtaining divorce.
i COMMITTEE appointed to solicit sGbscrip
tions for the relief of the survivors of the vic
Tins of the recent explosion at the Midlothian
(Va.) mine have issued a circular setting forth
That thirty-two men were killed, leaving TWEEN
ty-six widows and 100 orphans, all of whom are
now dependent on charity.
A FLOOD has caused considerable damage in
and about Helena, Ark.
REV. DR.. WILLIAM MAY WIcHTMAN, bishop
o! the Methodist Episcopal Church South, died
at his residence in Charleston, S. c., the other
morning at the age Of seyenty-four.
ROBINSON, Kansas, has been devastated by
fire, the place losing twelve business houses,
two hotels, postolice, Masonic hall, Odd Eel.
lows hall and two dwellings. Only one store
in the town was left standing.
ALDERMAN FREDERICK A. CLARK, president
q the board of aldermen of Adrian, Mich, has
been arrested, charged with aiding the fugitive
young mayor of that town in the attempt to
float s15O,0O0 worth of illegally issued water
bonds. The bonds were sent to New York for
Gale, but their spurious character was dis
covered before any had been put upon the
market. Mayor Thomas j. Navin, the head of
the conspiracy to defraud Adrian, is on Y
twenty-seycn years old.
TIE boiler in the Georgia Car works at Car
tersville, Ga, exploded, killing instantly four
;y,i,, ,l,or Of
Of whom have since died.
\ LANDSLIDE at Coffee's Cave, on the Russian
river, Cal, carried the house Of Charles L.
johnson in the water The occupants of the
house were Mrs. johnson, her infant, and a
white man employed as cook. All were killed.
MANY small farmers in the southern
and southwestern counties of Illinois are ap-
preaching starvation on account of the almost
complete failure of last years crops. Some
have been obliged to sell their stock to provide
themselves with means of subsistence.
J. II. RHODES, secretary of the Garfield Monu-
ment committe, at Cleveland, and near friend
Of Mrs. Garfield, reports that Mrs. Garfield re-
celyed letter from Mrs. ScovilIe, praying for
her intercession in behalf of Guiteau, and that
ho was authorized in Mrs. Garfeld's behalf to
say that toward the slayer of her husband she
chorishes no malice; he must answer only to
his God and the American people. For the
sister and all members of his family she feels
only profound pity. Further than this, she
asks to be left alone with her sorrow, and to
be spared being dragged into useless and tor
turing publicity. Mrs. Garfield will not an
sger tho letter.