The bee., 1883-01-27
THE NEWS.


suspicion that he set fre to the hotel.
Governor Cullum has been elected senator
from Illinois, receiving 107 votes, to ninety
five for ex-governor Palmer.
A fire broke out in the assortment room Of
Stephen Sqnford's cotton mill in Amsterdam
N. Y, caused by a spark from the picker ig
hitting cotton waste. A large amount OF
machinery was destroyed, together with
twenty tons of cotton warp. Loss $4,000.
Gebhard, Mrs. Langtry's faithful admirer,
announced publicly in st. Louis that ne would
not fight duel with one Cunningham who
had challenged him, and CunnlIg CHAM posted
him as a coward.
A west-b bound train on the Central Pacific
railroad was wrecked at Colfax, about nifty
miles east of Sacramento, Cal. Several
persons we're killed and injured. The mem
bers of the Madison Square EsmeralGa com
pany. en-route for San Francisco, were ON
the train. This is the company that mar
rowly escaped being burned to death In the
Neyhall house disaster at Milwaukee. None
of them were injured in the railroad accl-
dent
The Quincy house, one OF the largest hotels
in Quincy, ILL.,, hes been burned. The fire
was discovered by one cf the guests on the
third floor Many Of the guests were IN the
dining-room, but large number of them
were still asleep. Men, women and children
rushed TO the street, few waiting to dress,
and although the fire progressed rapidly, no
lives were lost. There were in the hotel about
fifty regular boarders, fifteen transient guests
and forty-two servants. Nearly all the guests
and boarders lost everything.
A desperate battle has been fought near
Tehuantepec between the seventh battalion
of Mexican troops and the Tehuantepec In
dians. The Indians lost eighty men killed
and many wounded. The troops lost fifty
men killed, including their lieutenant
colonel. The Indians were routed.
A run on the Peoples 25-eent Savings
Bank at Bath, Maine, has caused that insti-
tuition to stop payment.
It is stated on good authority that the
Prince of Wales and suite will visit Canada
in March next, remaining IN this country
until after the meeting of the Science Asso
citation. 1t is also said the party will proba-
bly, visit the United States.
The southern express train which left San
lraseipy has been wrecked near Tehaehapic
twenty people were killed and twelve badly
lljured. The train got away and started back
horthward down a grade of 40 feet to the
Lnile. The train consisted of two engines,
xpress, mail and baggage cars, two sleepers,
rne coach and smoker. 1t went down the
grade at a frightful speed for about four
niles when the hindermost sleeper jumped
he track and went over an embankment
bout fifteen feet high, carrying with it the
1ther sleeper and mail, baggage and express
ars, which we're piled in shattered heap.
They then took fire and were consumed.
It is reported that the British steamer
Creighton, Captain York, from Leith De
rernber IS for New York, which sailed on
January II from Greenock, where she had
put in with cargo shifted, has again returned
10 the Clyde. She had her decks swept,
steering gear demolished and boat ladders
rmashed. There are five feet of water in her
hold. Fifty Shetland ponies, forming part
of her cargo, were washed overheard and
crowned.
Seven explosions occurred in seven differ
ent buildings of the Giant Powder Works, at
Point Clement, near West Berkley, Cal. One
white man and forty or fifty Cinnamon were
clown to atoms. About eight tons of the
powder exploded. Nearly all the buildings
in the neighborbood we're set on FIRE.
fire at Nashville, ILL.,, about fifty miles
from st. Louis, on the Louisville and Nash
vile Railroad, destroyed nearly a block of
business buildings, with losses to the extent
of 100000.
The experts at Milwaukee, appointed by
the county authorities, have finished the ex-
of the forty eight charred remains,
that said remains answer for so
many human bodies. This makes the loss
bf life by the Newhall House disaster not less
than seventy four.
NJ. Eisenstadt & Co., wholesale jewelers..
7O3 and 705 North Fourth street, st. Louis,
Mo-, have assigned for benefit of creditors.
Their liabilities are said to be $4,000, and
a5sets $4,000.
were killed by the explosion of giant powder
at Berkley, California.
Boies, Fay i Conkey, wholesale grocers OK
Chicago, are in the hands of the sheriff, on
judgments recently entered against them for
S95,OOO. Their assets are stated to be $780,
600. Their liabilities are unknown, but it is
reported that they greatly exceed the assets. |
statement of the affairs of ghe suspended
jirm of Conrad & Co., manufacturers of Bud
v siser beer at st. Louis, puts the liabilities
at S543, ,478 and the total assets S4O7, 7,793. The
assets consist of cash on hand, machinery,
buildings, stock on hand and outstanding
A store at Gold Mountain, in Nevada, has
been robbed by mounted and masked men,
The proprietor and two clerks were killed /
The "road agents" then went to a store at
Silver Peak and robbed it, killing the pro-
prietor and one clerk. Two of the robbers
we're also killed.
Thomas Hilson, of Philadelphia, expressed
his trunk to Edwin Selwage, New York, and
was then driven to Goat Island, niagara
Falls, when he jumped from Luna Island
bridge and was carried over the falls. Hill
son was wool broker and carried on busi-
ness in Philadelphia.
and Southern States.
The East Tennessee Valley Zinc Company
organized short time ago with a capital Of
s5NO, 600 have let contracts for the erection
OF furnaces and buildings at Knoxville, Teun.
They have several thousand tons of zinc ore
already dug a few miles from Knoxville,
The furnaces will be in opsration naxt spr;po,