The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-06-15
South and West.

South and West.
TH1nTEES-YEAR-oLD girl was assaulted by
three colored men at ButlGrville, Ark. The
three men we're caught, identified by the girl,
taken from the officers by q crowd of men and
hanged to tree.
SEVERAL persons we're killed and the cotton,
wheat and corn crops were completely ruined
by hail storm in Northampton county, N. @.
THE thirteenth annual convention of the In
ternational Typographical Union was held at
st. Louis, delegates from all parts OF the Uni
ted States and Canada being present.
SEVEN hundred delegates were present at the
ihirty-third annual convention of the American
Medical association, held this year in St. Paul,
MINI.
The steamer Evansville, running from Evans
vile, Ohio, to Bowling Green burst her boilers
near Calhoun, fatally injuring her mate,
Owen Gilmore, and fireman, and slightly
scalding some nine or ten others.
JOHN JACKSON and wife, living near Harris
Station, on the Missouri, Kansas and Texas
railroad, went to church, leaving their four
children, the eldest fourteen and the youngest
two years old, locked In the house. The house
caught fire, and when the parents returned they
found the remains of their children lying in the
ruins Of their home
TIE Ohio Greenbackers at their State con-
vention in Columbus adopte resolutions op-
posing monopolies, and nominated the follow
ing ticket Secretary of state, George L.
Hoffer; supreme Judge, L. G. Tuttle member
of the board Of public works, L. B. Stevens.
A waa fnt,ubf a. la L1o bo,, a.,
New Oleans between Major F. A. Burke, of the
Times Democrat, and C. II. Parker, editor of
the Pjcdyune. Five pistol shots were cx-
changed. At the fifth shot Burke was wounded
through both legs though no bones were
broken. His wounds were not considered
dangerous. Major Burke, who is State treas.
nrer of Louisiana, was the challenger,
feeling aggTievel at certain editorial articles
which had appeared in the PicayIne.
TIE o 10 Republic ans in State convention
Columbus nominated q full ticket as follows:
Secretary OF state, Oh srles Townsend, re
nominated; justice OF the supreme court,
Judge John II. Doyle, OF Toledo; member OF
the board of public works. c. A. FIJI ,kinge',
D fance. The resolutions recognize, in the un-
timely death of General Garfield, n grear
national calamity; contain an expression of
confidence in the administration Of the Presi-
dent; indorse the administration of Governor
Foster; condemn the outrages upon the jew
in Europe; affirm the principle of protection
demand that by specific taxation the traffic
in intoxicating liquors shall be made to bear
its share Of the public burdens" and demand
the enforcement. Of the laws.
An explosion OF powder in q railroad tunnel
at San Antonio, Texas killed three men and
wounded five.
SIX mounted men robbed the Brookfeld
bank, OF Linneus, Mo-, of $4,000.
TEE Republicans were successful this year
in the Oregon election, eleeting their State
ticket and Congressman.
TWENTY frame dwellings filled with families,
near Cincinnati, were destroyed by fire few
days ago, and one child was burned to death.
CHARLES J. GUINEA, receiving teller of the
Bank OF California, committed suicide in San
Francisco. The act is attributed to losses in
stocks.
A GANG of four counterfeitcrs have been
caught in Chicago.
A COMBINATION has been formed in Chicago
having for its object "corner" in wheat.
J. TAYLOR and ]. A. Peterson, partners in a
niue near San Bernandino, CAL, had a quar-
rel about the method of conducting operations
in the mine. Taylor fired three shots at Peter
son. He then fred at bystander, and de-
liberately shot hirself in the breast Peter
son died in few minutes and Taylor was NOR
tally wounded.
IHE Alabama Democrats held their State
convention in Montgomery and nominated
Gen'ral E. A. O'Neil for Congress. The plat
form adopted d, maAds a strict cons---s-Ton OF
the FedeIal Constitution, denounces the ten
dency TO Capitalization of authority in the
hands of the Federal government, and declares
in favor of pub ic education and the free ex-
ercise of the elective franchise.
PARTICULARS of the Brookfield bank robbery
in Missouri arc as follows: At about $3.50
o'clock in the afternoon, just as the Bank of
Brookfeld, on the Hannibal and St. Joseph
railway, was closing for the day, six men lode
into the town, and, dismounting, entered the
bank, and covering the clerks with their re-
volvers they went through the safe and money
drawers, securing about IS, 900 in cash. They
then backed out, still covering the frightened
bank people with their weapons, and. remount-
ing, departed in the way they came, firing their
revolvers and shouting like demons. The
men were all masked, and the bank people
think that Frank James Was the leader Of the
gsss.