The bee., 1883-11-10

The livery stable of James ODonneli, ae
Logansport, Ind, and sixteen horses have
been destroyed by fire.
| Apaekage valued at $1,000 has beer stolen
from the Office of the American Express
Company at Portage, Wis.
highwayman stopped the Milton (Cai')
tage Saturday and took the Wells-Fargo ex-
| press bag containing $4,700.
AT Paris, Ky, fire destroyed K. b. Hutch
rats four-story warehouse, filled with
aeTnp, wool, bluegrass seed and grain. Loss
| 5000.
The British steamer Spearman put into
! hey West, Fla, with her cargo of cotton on
are. The dry cotton was taken out and the
ship was flooded
1t has been announced at Grand Rapids,
Mich, that W. j. Bond a prominent ium-
herman, had failed, with Liabilities at S175,-
! CO0, and assets which may be made to yield
S200,OOO. The assets consist of interests at
Chase and Clear Lake, Mich; 1900 COO feet
of sawed lumber, and 5000, coo feet of stand
ing pine. The failure is attributed to the
/ decline In prices, and to over-production in
| the lower grades of lumber.
Adespatch from Cleveland.---A fire started
III the new barn of the hotel and destroyed
1rge part of the village of Willoughby, Ohio,
twenty miles east of here. The high winds
increased the force of the flames, which con-
sumed about twenty stores, dwellings, sheds
and barns on Spaulding and Erie streets and
also six horses and one span of mules. The
confagration was finally checked by the
Bond block, in which there is bapk, the
Opera House and offices. The brick walls of
this block proved a successful barrier. In
several instances the flames Tapped up an en-
tire house so suddenly that nothing was
saved. The aggregate loss is 100000 and
the insurance may possibly reach half THAI
amount.
The round house and repair shops of the
Toledo, Cincinnati and st. Louis Railroad,
ut Dayton, o., were totally destroyed by fire
Saturday. The buildings had been completed
only two weeks, and were not insured.
The noted counterfeiter, Corner, alias
Faulkner, and his wife, have been arrested
near Frenchtown, Ind, by Detective Hen
.lerson, who had been living with Corner for
some time under the pretense of being
fugitive from justice.
The production of precious metals in the
United States during the fiscal year was S32,-
100000 gold and nearly $40 10000 silver. In
The arts and manufactures were used &12,-
COZ, 900 gold and $500 eco silver. The total
Osl- m
silver, of which S2s, Ill ,119 was in standard
silver dollars.
At Danville, Va, an attack was made by
negro mob upon party of white citizens,
which resulted in the instant killing of three
men and the wounding of many more The
excitement of the heated contest in Virginia
between the readiuster-republican coalition
party and the democrats has been nowhere
more intense than in Danvile The negroes
have considerable majority over the whites
of the registered voters of the town, and are
nearly unanimously republican in politics.
The whites are at least nine-tenths demo
cratic, and belong to what is called the fun
Ter wing of that party.
A report from JdckSODSllle, FLORIDA, states
hat Hamilton Disston, of Philadelphia, has
.old all that remains of his 1000. eco acres of
Florida land to an English syndicate at S1.25
per acre Mr.. Disston sold 9, ,000 COD last year
TO Sir Edward Reeds syndicate, of London.
Disston's agents have sold or reserved for
ihe company about 1000 acres, and the
English syndicate have paid good price for
the remaining 1,1}O,000 acres. Disston will
realize huge profit on his investment. be
ides retaining about half million acres of
The reserved land.
In his report to the Secretary of the lnte'
rior upon the condition of affairs in Dakota,
Governor n. G. Ordway says the progress
and development of the territory during the
past year has been almost phenomenal. he
estimates the increase in population during
that time at 10000, while the assessable
property has increased in a still greater pro-
portion. Agricultural pursuits and stock
raising have prospered exceedingly.