The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-07-13

OFFICIAL returns give Moody, the Repub-
lican candidate for governor Of Oregon, 1,429
majority, and George Republican candidate
for Congressman, 1866 majority.
Two horse thieves-Jack Hite and Mike
Chambers were shot dead near Oregon City,
Or, while attempting to escape from posse of
officers.
COLONEL l. W. R. BLAIR, leader of the South
Carolina Greenbackers and their gubernatorial
candidate in 1880, was shot and killed by Cap
tain Hail during an alteration at political
meeting at Camden, s. O. Hail was put under
$4,000 bail.
PARTICULARS of the Fourth of July disaster to
an excursion boat on the Ohio river showed
that the catastrophe was of an appalling char
acter. The steamer Scioto, with q party Of 500
excursionists on board, came in collision with
the steamtug John Lomas about o'clock p. NJ.
near Mingo Junction, Ohio. The Scioto sank
within three minutes in fifteen feet of water.
The tug was only slightly injured, and saved a
great many of the passengers of the Scioto. The
Lomas ran her bow, which sat low in the
water, under the guard Of the Scioto, and
broke large hole in her bow. She sank in
went down like lump of lead, leaving about
five feet of water on the cabin floor. A scene
of the widest confusion followed. The COL
lision was entirely unexpected, and many
who sat on the guards were thrown over
board. None in the engine-room and lower
deck had time to escape. Men, women and
children were all struggling together in the
water crying piteously for help, and it was at
first supposed that at least 100 lives had been
lost; but many of those reported missing were
found to have escaped On the day after the
disaster fourteen bodies were recovered, and
about thirty persons who had been on board
were still missing.
AT the North Carolina Democratic State con-
vention in Raleigh full ticket, headed by
Thomas Ruffin, the present incumbent, for su-
preme court judge, was put in the field.
L. P. SHERMAN, internal revenue collector,
and brother of General W. r. Sherman and
Senator Sherman, Of Ohio, fell from tho roof of
his house in Des Moines, Iowa, sustaining
probably fatal injuries.
GREENBAoKERs and Independents Of Alabama,
at o convention in Birmingham nominated q
State ticket headed by j. L. Sheffield for gov
ernor, and it was adopted by the Republicans
at their convention, held in the same place on
the same day.
THE Arkansas Republicans have nominated
Colonel W. d. Slack for governor.
A WOMAN and two children were found
starved to death in lonely place in Van Bu-
rem county, Ark, in the mountains. 1t is be-
heyed that the woman fell sick, and the chill.
dren being too young to secure aid for her,
perished miserably. third child was still
alive and had gnawed piece of flesh from the
arm Of one of her dead sisters. 1t died soon
after the discovery was made.
A CYCLONE in Arkansas killed twenty head OIL
cattle near Van Buren,, and of three men who
we're herding them one was killed outright and
the other two fatally hurt
NEAR McAllister, Indian Territory, the Rev
W. J. Spaugh, Methodist minister who had
incurred the enmity of some young indiana
whom he had corrected in school, was sci
upon in lonely spot, and after determined
struggle, killed.
AFTER all the missing had been accounted
for it was found that the number of lives los
by the sinking Of the excursion steamer
Scoto in the Ohio river, was not far from one
hundred
Guy SMITH. the thirteen-year-old son of q
well-known citizen of Kirkwood, suburb OF
st. Louis, quarreled with his grandmother
about his food at the breakfast table and threw
the dishes around, whereupon he was whipped
by his father. After crying
spell Guy went into his grand
fathers room, and in a minute returned with q
double-barreled shotgun, and walking up tc
his father he deliberately placed the muzzle Of
the weapon within few inches OF his body and
fired. Mr.. Smith sank TO the floor and expired
The boy was arrested.
DISPATCHES from various points state that
the Western wheat crop has fulfilled all expec-
tations. 1t is one of the largest that has ever
been grown.
A wATERsPoUT in Taney county, NO., OK,
tended over half a mile in width and swept
away many fields of corn and wheat and much
stock.