The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-01-26
South and West.

Nh. LAMAR has been reelected TO the United
States Senate by the Mississippi legislature.
@ INDIANoLA, ILL.,, has lost its business part by
fire. The courthouse, postoflice and several
other buildings at Abilene, Kansas, have also
been destroyed by the flames.
ANOTHER terrible tragedy is reported from
Kentucky. James r. Wilmot, farmer living
near Lancaster, killed his mother, aged eighty
nine, his wife and two daughters, agel about
nineteen and fifteen, made an unsuccessful
attempt to kill q son Of twenty and then
hanged himself in his barn.
TIE flood at Nashville, Tenn. inundated
more than 1000 houses and compelled no less
than l,5O0 persons to abandon their homes
The city was surrounded on three sides by
water. All the principal streets were flooded,
and houses and barns were continually passing
down the swollen river.
FIRE broke out in the house occupied by
George G. Smith and family at Clinton, No.,
and Mre. Smith, with four daughters, ranging
in age from six TO seventeen years, perished in
the iiames. Mr.. Smith, with an eight.year- old
daughter and a neighbor's child, escaped.
AT Seattle Washington Territory, James
dered a young man named Reynolds, were
taken out of court by crowd of 400 men and
hanged. The crowd then proceeded to the Jail,
overcame the guards, took from his cell Ben
janin Payne, under arrest for killing police
man, and strung him up in company with the
other two men.
/ ANDERSON JONES (colorod) was hanged at
Augusta, Ga, for numbering young merchant
named Haralson, and at Franklin, Idaho,
Michael Mooney met a similar fate for the muir
der of j. Hinckley, station agent.
JOHN WAGGoNER, in Jail at Ironton, Ohio,
on the charge of having murdered DR.. Joseph
A. Be9gs, bookkeeper and chemist for the
1,tna iron works, was taken from his cell by
a body of masked men and hanged TO tree in
the courthouse yard.
An unsuccessful attempt was made to wreck
special tain on which Jay Gouli and party
were going norhward toward Sedalh, Mo
The obstruction placed on the track was dis.
covered a few minutes before it was reached by
the train. A farmer was arrested for the act
and stated that some of his stock had beer
killed by trains, and that he attempted to wrccl
the train in revenge.
HEAVY rains caused an increased rising OF
the Cumberland river at Nashville, Tenn, and
the inundation hemmed in the city on nearly
all sides. Ten thousand families were driven
from their homes. In many instances the
people were imprisoned in their houses by the
flood and had to be rescued by boats. Many
acres of business houses and private dwellings
were inundated, and the pecuniary damage is
very heavy.
The bark F. L. Carney, from Navaesa, West
Indies, to Baltimore, loaded with guano, sunB
three miles south of Hstterss inlet, n. c., and
eight OF the ten men on board lost their lives
A LARGE candy aud cracker factory and seven
adjoining buildings in Atlanta. Ga. have been
destroyed by fire, causing loss of $500, OOO
One man was burned to death.
Mrs. REBEccA RANKIN, a wealthy old widow,
living near Newcomerstown, Ohio, becoming
possessed with the idea that she would die il
poverty, arose in the night and hanged herself
A COLLISION between two trains on the
Charleston and Savannah railroad, twenty-seven
miles from the former place, resulted in the
death Of two men and serious injuries TO sev.
eral more.