The Newtown bee., 1880-07-21
Western and Southern Statea.

At Chicago Mccormick & Co. s elevator, containing 50,000 bushels of oats, 10,C00 bushels of corn and 2,000 bushels of wheat, together with an adjoining warehouse filled with stoves was destroyed by fire. causing to:al loss of $S75 t00.
 Several farmers near Wabash, Ind, have been arrested for cutting the dam which sup plies that city with water. They deslred to stop the back-water overflow on thelr farms.
 A St. Louis di patch says the scheme to in wade the Indian Territory and settle on the government lands is gaining strength daly; that thousands of families are preparing to enter the Territory and tbat if the military are instructed to eject them there will prJb- ably be a conflict
 Peter Sullivan was killed and another boy had his leg broken by an explosion of blasting powder in an old lookup at Ho!yoke, Mass. Sullivan's body was blown through the roof.
 While s. Rickley, president ot the Capital City bank of Columbus, Ohio, was sitting at his desk he was shot in the forehead and probably fatally wounded by Andrew Eichen- berg, dyer, who then shot himself, dying almost instantly. MT. Rickley's refusal to loan Eichenberg money was the cause of the deed.
 Memphis, Tenn, has been visited by slight shock ot earthquake.
 The official census returns of Detroit, Mich., show the population to be ll6,O27.
 Colorado has been visited by a damaging storm The river at Pueblo rose eight feet ln less than an hour, and the emigrants camped along it's bottom lost nearly everything. Ten miles of the Denver and Rio Grande railroad were washed away between Pueblo and Colorado Springs, and every bridge, culvert and cattle guard for a distance ot twenty-one miles was more or less damaged. Hailstones fell to the depth of from two to three feet
 Prentiss Nelms and Tom Monkey, both colored, while being conveyed to tue jail at h pgtCr s4nr ken from the officers by band of men and killed.
 Colonel Cash, the surviving principal in the recent duel in South Carolina. has been ar- rested charged with the killing ot Colonel Shannon.
 Mrs. Brown, on tris1 for killing her hus- bad at Indianapolis, Ind, has been found guilty and condemned to death for murder Tn the first degree.
 General Weaver, Greenback candidate for President, has opened the campaign in Ala bama by speech at Scottsboro.
 During a storn in Michigan a boat con- taining a man named Miller, his wife, two Lake Winnebago. Tie boy Rose wGs drowned Tae rest chung 10 the bottom ot the boat twenty hours, the woman having a fiiteen-year-old boy lashed 10 her back. Tho boy died the next night and the others at last accounts were in critical condition. Inc census returns for Wisconsin snow mat the population of some counties hasdecreased | since 1870. Jefferson county has population ot 32, 137 for 1880, against 34040 for 1870. Dodge county has A, l22, about 4,0o0 less than in 1870.
 Pat Of the city of Waterloo, Iowa, was flooded by a heavy rainstorm. Two boys and oue girl were drowned, and an estimated damage Of ss25,oU0 was done to property. An Irish Republican national convention laes Ana, hnld of Jr6sa JsS A noti Der from each State and Territory, was appointed and an address was issued giving reasons why the Irishmen oi tLe United States should swear allegiance to the Repub- lican party.