The bee., 1884-04-05
South and West.

A HEAVY fall in wheat at Chicago caused
an excitement almost amounting to a panic.
Nearly 00,00OO0O bushels of wheat changed
hands during the day.
DURING the recent heavy tormados Mrs.
BraughtOn and two children were killed in a
cabin at London, KY, and a brakeman's
neck was broken; at Budd. Ky, several per
sons were killed and many more injured
and at other points in Kentucky. Ohio
Indiana, the Caroinas and Georgia. more or
less lives Were lost and great damage was
caused TO property Several small villages
in the vicinity of Dayton, Ohio, were literally
torn TO pieces.
OPPOSITION TO the sale of LIQUOR in Kansas
is well illustrated by an incident which oc-
CURED recently in Canton. A man named
Harold opened liquor store i'm that place on
a Friday, and on Monday got into a quarrel
with one of his drunken customers and was
shot by the constable. A band of women en-
tered his place on Tuesday and poured all the
liquor into the street.
FIVE children of James Wilson (cooredl,
living near Brunswick, Ga, ate pork Tor din
ner. subsequently became ill and after lingcr
ing in great agony several hours died. Their
parents claimed that they were the victims OF
trichina i'm the pork, and the planters in the
county were much exercised in consequence
Many, however. were inclined to the belief
that the children were poisoned by their
parents, and this theory was strengthened 10y
the fact that the parents persistently refused
to divulge where the pork WAS obtained.
A GREAT crowd of 10000 persons attacked
the Jail at Cincinnati in an attempt to lynch
William BeIner, whose trial for the
Belf-confessed murder of William Kirk
had ended in a verdict Of mere man.
slaughter. An immense indignation meeting
ended by the crowds marching TO the Jail and
attempting TO force an entrance. The militia
was called out and in the firing which fol
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Others injured. Such excitement which pre-
vailed i'm Cincinnati has not been
known there in long time. On
the following night the rioting was
renewed with terrible earneStneSs: the court
house was burned down, bIITicadeS were
thrown up in the streets LEADING to the Jail by
the police and military, and TIE riotous mul-
titude were fired upon. More than thirty-fiye
persons were instantly killed and several
score wounded, many of them with fatal eff
feet The next night witnessed further scenes
of carnage; about fifteen more persons
were killed and sixty wounded. Among the
killed and wounded were several militiamen
and policemen Ii was only after Governor
Hoadley had summoned the militia from all
parts of the State that the semblance of
order was finally restored.
EIGHT murderers were hanged the other
day-flve at Tombstone, Arizona, one at
Placerville and one at San BeIuarilno, Cal,
and one at Sumter, 5. C. The five at Tomb
stone were masked marauders who had killed
four persons in a raid; the one at llacerville
had murdered two brothers; the San BeTna-
dino victim was a woman murderer, and the
one at Sumter was negro who had killed
another of his race.
AFTER quiet had been restored in Cincin-
natl an denomination into the number of casual
ties disclosed that about fifty men had been
killed and $50 wounded. The dead included
one militiaman-Captaiu Desmond-and one
policeman One Columbus militiaman
was also fatally wounded by the accidental
discharge of comrades rifle.
So great was the rush at Portsmouth, Ohio,
for Cincinnati papers containing accounts of
the riot that on one day when the express
train with the papers aboard arrived, almost
a riot ensued and the police had to be called
on. One news stand was torn to pieces, a boy
had his skull crushed and many persons Were
injured.