The bee., 1883-03-17
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Hood & SCOTS lodging shell at the Brown
Vile woodcamp, at the terminus OF the BLACK
Hills and Fort Pierre Railroad has been
burned. JAS. Chalmers, Thos. Finless, X. O.
WRIGHT. Lewis Hanson, Peter Hanson, A.
Tennecliffe, Harvey Wood, W. Fl. Andrews,
Charles Hammontree, Fred. I. Peters and
somue, Havs were burned to death. Four
others, whose names were not learned, were
seriously injured.
Moses T. Ray, bookkeeper and assistant
cashier of the Merchants and Planters Bank
ut Montgomery, Ala, committed suicide
,rsa,, aoo. Mr.. Curtis, national bank exam
iner. has finished his examination OF the ac-
counts, and finds the money short SlO,OOO
Rav,s bondsmen are said to be amply able to
pay the loss.
Mr.. James Gilfillan, Treasurer of tie
United States, has rendered his resignation
TO the President through the Secretary of
he Treasury, to take effect upon the first
prox. Mr.. Gilfllan has accepted the posi-
ton of treasurer and mara sr of the Mutual
Trust Company of New York, at a higher
salary.
N j.. Dukes has been acquitted in Union
town, Pa, of the murder of Captain A. C..
Mutt. There was great public indignation at
the verdict, and Dukes sought pr 3tection of
the sheriff. Duing the evening Dukes and
the jury were hung in effagy by the in
furiated people.
Robert V. Dodd, formerly a prominent
citizen of Petersburg, Va, was shot and
killed at Hunnewell, Kan, on Thursday
evening, during difficulty with an unknown
man. The deceased was a Confederate
soldier.
The tobacco factories of w. L. Clark, w.
= Patton andL. l.. Strause at Danville. Va,
valued at $4,000, have been burned out;
fully insured. The buildings were tenanted
nv eight firms, who lest stock and nxtureS
estimated at $4,000; insured.
The floods on the Mississippi, below Mem
,his, are doing unparalleled damage. Houses
and stock are carried away, and but three
,o;nts Of dry land are to be seen for forty
miles between Memphis and Helena
It has been ascertained that DR.. Bidlock,
OF Philadelphia, acting as the agent of Prince
Bismarck, is negotiating for the purchase of
several million acres of land in Mexico for
the settlement of German emigrants. The
land selected is said to be rich in ores and
plants
The Rev. John Jasper, of Richmond, is not
without good company in his opinion that
the world is fat, and that ''the sun do
move" This is the doctrine held by the
Zetetic school of philosophy, which some
years ego made quite stir in England.
Colonel J. S. Gambler, of Governor Boyn-
toms staff, of Georgia, in attemptir TO jump
from train at Atlanta, was run over and
both his legs were cut off. 1t is thought that
. he will die.
The completion OF the telegraph line on
the Pensacola and Atlantic Railroad gives
Maranna, one of the oldest towns in Florida.
teleEraphic communication.
c. N. B. Evans, of the Milton IN. c.
Chronicle is dead He commenced editorial
life about forty years ago, and was the
author of the 'TThe Fool-Killer Letters. -
He was a member of the Senate of North
Carolina.
Major Edward D. Muhlenberg, late OF the
fourth artillery. United States army, died a.
Lancaster, Pa, at the age of 81. He was
.raduate of Yale College and civil engineer
of eminence.
A Legitimist meeting was held at Lille,
France, Sunday. Addresses violently at
lacking the republic were made. The memo
rial tablet in honor of Prof. s. F. B. Morse
have been unveiled in Rome.
Work on the new International Railroad
rom Jacksonville, Fla, to Tampa and Key
Vest will begin to-day. General John B.
Gordon, president of the company, is here
directing in person.
Inc wnIsKey and wine house of Ives,
Beecher & Co., at SO Front street, New York,
have failed for nearly $5p,000 The paper
of the firm has ranked as the best on the
market.
n dispatch from Butler, Pa, says Colonel
John M. Thompson, congressman, has
been arrested on charge of raising note
from S400 to $4,000.
Rose Clair, ILL.,, had been entirely covered
: Y water The committee found family of
Ten persons-the father and mother sick
living in the engine-room of an old saw mill.
Secretary Folger was given instructions
that the word "cents'' be added to the new
five cent piece, in order to meet the require
ments of law.
Fire broke out under the roof of the St.
Nicholas Hotel, at Cumberland, Md. BY
prompt efforts of the fremen it was extingu-
ished, but not until the entire roof was
burned and much of the building badly
damaged by wa Z.
j. D. Watson, convicted at Columbus,
Ohio, of offering bribes to Representative
Bloch, has been sentenced to the penitentiary
for one wear.
D. R. Musselman & Co., tobacco manu-
facturers, Of Louisville, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities $4,000; assets $4,000.
New Liberty, H., had been entirely sub
merged, and sickness to an alarming extent
prevailed.
Foreign News.
LONDON, March ga number of revolvers