The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-29
Tputh and West.

Four cowboys were killed in a fight with
Indians on the borders Of the Indian Terri
! tory.
HENRY HUDDEsroN (colored), charged with
assaulting white woman, was hanged by a
crowd at Winchester, Tenn.
Mrs. LINaUIsT, residing near Genesee, ILL.,,
took her five-year- r-old son to corn-crib near
the house, cut his throat and then killed her
solf. The woman is thought to have been In.
sane.
THE Arkansas Greenbackers have nominated
r. K. Garand for governor and full State
ticket.
BY the recent tornado in Iowa 800 families
had their homes totally destroyed, 1900 people
were rendered homeless and damage exceeding
s2,000 600 was inflicted. About 100 persons
were killed and 500 injured. An appeal for
help has been issued.
A FRIGHTFUL marine disaster is reported
from San Francisco, the steamship Escambia
capsizng with hardly a moments warning. OF
the twenty-nine persons on board only four,
including the captain, were saved. 1t is
claimed that the steamship had been loaded
unslillfully and that she was unseaworthy.
CAPTAIN J. Ross, with his command of fifty
rangers, who left Tucson, Arizona, two months
ago, has returned. The rangers trailel the
remnant OF the renegade Apaches 200 miles
from the Arizona line down into chihuahua,
Mexico. They counted nearly 800 dead Indians,
many Of whom were found near the noun
tain trail. They had evidently been wounded
in the fight with the Mexican troops under
General Garcia, and had fled for safety. The
rangers, while in Mexico, were taken prisoners
by Mexican troops and disarmed
A BOILER explosion occurred in q sawmill at
Williamsfeld, Ohio, wrecking the mill, in
stantly killing Thomas Thompson and Charles
Durham, and 80 wounding Almond D. Brooke
and Frank Chamberlain that they died soon
afterward
Or the Emancipation grounds at Houston,
Texas, Charles F. Witham was fired upon by
negroes and instantly killed. AS Deputy
Marshal Glass was lifting the body OF the dead
man he was fired upon, a bullet entering his
right shoulder and coming out OF the side of
his neck. A colored boy was killed by stray
bullet. and negro named Spencer was shot in
the back OF the neck.
The following is the estimate of damage
done by the cyclone in Iowa. In Boone county.
$4,000; Poweshiek county, $4,000; Keokuk
county, 100000; Henry county, $500, 900;
Mount Pleasant, Henry county, s70O, 900; Grin
nell, Poweshiek county, 100000; Malcolm,
Poweshiek county, $50, 900; Fonda, Pocahontas
county, s1O,0 the Chicago and Rock Island
Railway company, merchandise and property.
s41, 900; Iowa Central Railway company, &c.
GOO; scattering damage, $3O5,0OO. Total,
s2,576,000.
ALLIE MILLS, aged fourteen years, Mary
Jones, aged twelve, and Mary oglie, aged sew
enteen, committed suicide at Danville, ILL.,,
by taking arsenic. Allie Mills gave as her
eason that her father lived with a shameless
woman. Mary oglie's reason was that she was
an orphan, and Mary Jones took the drug be-
cause the others did.
DURING a thunder storm in South Carolina
the house of J. Wilson Glover, about twenty
miles from Charleston, was struck by lightning,
and Mr.. Glover, who was sitting near an open
window, was killed instantly, his three-year-old
daughter received injuries, from the effects OF
which she died in an hour, and an infant in
the unfortunate fathers arms was fatally hurt.
The handsome Confederate monument in the
State house grounds at Columbia was also struck
by lightning, and the life'size white marble
statue of soldier surmounting ii was thrown
10 the ground and shattered.
TIE Tennessee Democrats have nominated
General William B. Bate for governor.