The bee., 1882-12-23
TIE NEWS.

Pacific freight mouse at hansdo cilJ, AnO
freight cars loaded with merchandise, and an
elevator containing 10000 bushels of wheat,
the total loss being estimated at $4,000.
The principal business portion of Hopkins,
AlIeaant county, Mich, has been burned,
loss R1, 600.
A fire at Gallipolis, o., destroyed several
buildings.
The Baltimore and Ohio Telegraph Con1-
pany has opened their line to New York.
, John Spengler murdered his wife snd
killed himself at Baltimore.
Hon. Robert Ould, distinguished lawyer,
of Richmond, Va, and Confederate com
missioner of exchange during. the war, is
dead.
There have been very heavy rains in Oregon
and Washington Territory for three days,
and much damage has been done to rail-
roads, bridges, &c. by the flood. The Pendle-
ton river rose 30 rapidly that many Of the in
habitants were forced to take refuge in trees,
where they remained all night. MiGs, houses
and other property were carried away. No
loss of life has been reported.
Mrs. Einsteln, her two children, and Mar
garet Buehler, q servant, living IN New York,
were poisoned by eating sausage. 1t was par
taken of for supper, and shortly after eating
it they all were attacked with severe &ness,
which lasted all night.
The Governor of Jamaica has teIegraphed
TO New York that six hundred houses were
destroyed by the great 6<e at Kingston and
many people are homeless. A relief COM
mittee will be appointed in New York.
The Chicago Times says Mr.. Vanderbilt is
the leading spirit in the construction of the
South Pennsylvania Railroad, which Will
give the Reading road line to Pittsburg.
MIR. William FL. W. Reed, of Reisterstown,
was fired at from an ambush a few nights
since, presumably on account of his activity
in attempting to detect the murderers of Mr..
William A. Russell four weeks since.
Twenty cars of a freight train on the Read
ing railroad were thrown from the track
near Gilberton, scattering the freight in all
directions. No trains passed during the day,
the passengers and mails being transferred.
George, alias 'Babe" Jones, who killed
John Foster, was convicted of murder in the
first degree at Pittsburg. He is but sixteen
years of age, and is one of a family of eleven
children whose parents reside in Washing
| ton. D. G.
A pouch at the postoffice, containing mail
matter for the East, suddenly burst into
flames from spontaneous combustion at De-
troit, and was destroyed. 1t was filed with
merchandise of all sorts.
The postofice at Monroeton, Bradford
county, Pa, was entered by burglars. The
safe was blown open and several hundred
dollars in stamps were taken, together with
some registered letters.
The New York Police Commissioners re-
ceived communication from Mr.. Henry
Bergh, asking why sparring exhibitions and
prize fights are allowed to continue, and pro-
testing against ''these detestable exhi5i
tions" The board directed the letter to be
delivered to Superintendent Walling, with
instructions to enforce the law.
Near Middletown, Del, Robert A. Coch--
rams stable, twelve horses, twenty five head
of cattle and twenty lone head of hogs, val
ued at 5000. were burned to death.
An east-bound passenger train on the
Pittsburg, Cincinnati and st. Louis railroad
collided with west-bound passenger train
on high curve between Foster and New I.e-
banon, about thirty miles from this city
Engineer Poke Peters, of the east-bound
train, had his head cut off. Postal Clerk w.
W. Wharton, living IN Urbana, was also
killed; W. III. Hanover, NJ. Hollingshead.
Harry Madison, and Adam Goebelo, postal
clerks, we're seriously injured. Kiralfy's
troupe escaped uninjured. Their elephant
Bamboo was killed.
The steamship Wisconsin, from Liverpool
for New York, collided with the bark Ella,
of Portland, Buenos Ayres, for Boston, on
December H. The steamship laid by the
disabled bark thirty hours, and put the chief
mate and seven men on board to assist
in pumping her out and to bring her into
port
-Four charges preferred against George @.
Rice, ex-president of tho Utica, Ithaca and
Elmira railroad, at the Tombs Police Cour
in New York by Henry S. King, of London,
England-one for embezzlement, two for
forgery, and one for larceny,
There was great fire at Canton, China.
on November and 8. Eight hundred houses
were destroyed and many lives lost, includ-
ing firemen, who were burned to death. The
vicerory visited the scene with a body of
soldiers to prevent robberies, and fierce
fights occurred between the thieves and the
citizens.
The range of county lying between the
western limits of Minitoba and the eastern
boundary of British Columbia has been di-
vided into four territorial divisions named
AsEinboia, Shakerstown, Alberta and Atha-
baska.
August Mast, German, living IN Cresco,
Howard county, Iowa, died from trichna,
caused by eating dressed pork. His wife
and three children are all sick from the sam.
cause.
An earthquake shock has been felt in parts
of New Hampshire
Eight true bills of Indictment were found !
by the grand jury in Philadelphia against
DIR. VIM. s. Forbes, demonstrator of anato-
my at jefferson Medical College, for com
pllclty with resurrectionists in the despolia-
ton of graves in Lebanon Cemetery.
Thomas Doyle and Katie A. Morgan, Civ
ing the names respectively of William Latis
and Katie A. Latis, who had been boarding |
at house in Rochester, N. Y, were SNIFF. |