The Elk County advocate. [volume] (Ridgway, Pa.) 1868-1883, 1882-12-14
South and West.

The steamer Enterprise was burned of
Mauds Point, n. c., and Captain w. A.
Thompson, ". II. Hancock and colored
man were drowned.
TIE National Dairy fair was opened at
Milwaukee, Wis, with large display Of ex-
hibits. Nearly 80 delegates, representing
all parts of the United States and Canada.
os well as Great Britain, attended the teath
annual convention Cf the Butter, Egg and
Cheese association, held after the opening of
the fair.
at Louisville. KY, John Trinler, of Chi
cngo, killed his wife by cutting her throat
with r0zcr, ami then pat aa end to his own
existence.
The boiler of the propeller Morning Star,
which plies bet ! New Orleans and Mag
nD-ia PhntaL II, exploded with terrible
elect. OF the twelty-one persons on board,
three were killed outright, eight drowned
and six badly if not fatally scaldel.
II The course of 4 dramatic performance
given by the young men of Makando, H.,
in the village school house, James Perl had
to FIRE revolver at his brother John. He
hal neglected to Withdraw the ball cart
ridges with which The weapon was loaded,
and when lie fred his brother fell to the
floor of the stage, shot in the head, and ex.
pired.
SPEAKER TrsoH, Of Mississippi, was shot
and instantly killed at Baldwin il that State
by Edward Saunders. A dispatch from
Jackson, Miss, gives this account of the
affair: domestic trouble in tie family o.
Colonel Tison's brother eliminated in an
attack on Edward Saunders, q merchant in
Baldwin, by the two Tiaons and Il son OF
each, which resulted in Saunders being badly
beaten and injured. While confined to the
hoUse lie was repeatedly informed that
Colonel Tison had threatened to kill him.
Going out rthe first time on Monday he
carried his shotgun and shot Tison On sight
killing him instantly"
A COLLISION between passenger md q
freight train near Hinton, w. Va, resulted
in the death of one engineer and two firemen
and serious injuries to five other men. .
AT Il Mexican wedding feast in Saballo, q
small Mexican town near Las Vegas, n. NJ
Francisco Notan, a drunken guest, shot and
killed two brothers named Roval. Notan
then proceeded to his home and cut off his
wife's ears. lie was arrested.
AN explosion of giant powder in a railroad
tunnel in Oregon killed four Cinnamon and
dangerously injured four more.
THE Philadelphia tug George w. Childs
and the steam yacht Idle Hour, which left
Norfolk, Va, some weeks ago for Florida
have foundered at sea, with all on board.
The intensely co1 weather which pre-
vailed in various portions of the United
States was particularly severe in Dakota,
whore the Thermometer regiiterel thirty
seven degrees below zero. Near Grand
Forks, Dakota, woman and her child were
frozen to death.
FIVE men were hanged the other day in
different localities, as follows: Hong A.
Duck, Chinaman, at San Rafael, CAL, for
the murder of fellow Chinaman and fellow
convict in the State prison Charles Gustave,
1t Donaldsonville, La, for numbering Eve
Thompson Albert Sanders, at Charleston.
No., for killing Moses Wing; William
to-ter, at Perry, Ca, for the murder of
boy named Swift, and Edward Conyers, at
Swainsboro, Ga, for the murder of another
negro-all four last-named murderers and
their victims being colored.