The Red Cloud chief., 1884-01-11
THE WEST.

AS Sheriff Thompson and Jailor Will
Jams were visiting the cells at Walla
Walla, Washington Ter, the other night,
for the last time, they were attacked by
Elfus and Owen, two condemned murder
ers, who knocked them senseless with
bricks they had secreted. Williams show
ing signs of recovery they took a Knife from
his pocket and hacked him to pieces andthen
fled.
THE other evening a fire broke ont in the
dust room of the -Etna -four mills, at
Akron, o., owned by George w. Mcneil
and James n. Baldwin. The workmen bad
TO run for their lives, the flames spread so
fast, and the entire structure Was con-
sumed. The mill was recently enlarged to
three hundred barrels daily, and rebuilt for
the roller process. 1t wa valued ut S.J,-
900: stock on hand at 500; insured for
$4,000.
A BOY named Adams, eleven years old,
was recently accidentally killed while gum
ming in Ray County, Nc.
THE bursting of a mill dam at Houghton,
Mica, recently, resulted in the death of
Charles B. Raymond, teller of the First
National Bank of Houghton, his son and
servant girl and Howay Raymond, wife
and son.
The town of B~reckinridge, Mimi, was
nearly destroyed by fire the other evening,
including the county ofiic es and records.
THE jury in the Emma Bond case, in
which the three men, Montgomery, Gle
menti and Petus, We're tried a: HillsborO.
H., for the outrageous assault on Miss
Bond at Taylorsville, in June. rendered a
verdict of acquittal.
THE steamers Colorado and City of Alton
burned at st. Louis the other day.
THE paint, carpentering and upholstering
shops of the Missouri, Kansas s. Texas
Railroad, at Sedalia, Mo-, burned the other
morning. Loss about $4,000; fully in
sured.
A~PAssENGER train on the Illinois Cen
trail struck a broken rail between Manson
and Barnum, Iowa, the other morning. A
sleeper and two passenger coaches were
thrown down a fifteen-foot embankment.
Mrs. ]. II. Smith. of Ohio, Barnum County,
ILL.,, was instantly killed and seven per-
sons were more or less injured.
ABNER BOND recently committed suicide
by hanging, at Ta~vlorville, lii. He was
one of the most respected citizens il the
county, and considered an exceedingly sem
sible mantle very last to commit sricide.
He was n relative of A. D.. Bond, thef father
of Miss Emma, the victim of the unhuman
outrage last June. He had worried a good
dealover the affair, and the general opinion
was that the mental anxiety over the trial.
in progress at the time, had added to his
physical debilities, and had something to
do with the final tragedy.
THE terrible Crouch family murder near
Jackson, Mich, some weeks since, was sup
plemented recently by the suicide of Mrs.
Dan Holcomb, daughter of the murdered
man. She locked herself into a room after
dinner, undressed, went 20 bed and, it was
believed, tool laudanum, as an empty hot
tie which had contained thai drug was
found in her room.
JAMES WILLIAMS, alias O'Drien, con-
fined in Jail At Ottumwa, Ia, recently
escaped, after shooting dead the turnkey.
How the prisoner obtained a pistol was a
mystery.
JUDGE LUKE, of the Circuit Cour OF ST.
Louis, lately decided the lonS-staniing
case of James Andrews against the St.
Louis Tunnel Railroad Company, Barton
Bates and Charles E. Tracy, for money
claimed by Andrews to be due him as con.
tractor for building the tunnel from the
bridge to the Union depot, ten years ago.
The Court awarded a special judgme 1t for
the plaintiff for $119.22
EARNEST DIX, of Bloomington, ILL.,, died
recaptlv from trichiuoSic AZ n MARTY caxr.
eral weeks ago min persons ate of smoked
sausage quite heartily, and We're soon after
taken i'll. On examining the 1~nceokeu
meat they had eaten of. millions ofthe para
sites were found. Gull, the man who raised
the swine and prepared the meat, and his
wife dice three weeks afterwards, and sew
eral of the sick, it was thought, would die.
A post mortum examination showed that
Dix's body was literally alive with
trichine.
SEVERAL weeks ago the body Of a lady was
stolen from the graveyard at Sycamore.
LII. Later three men were arrested @:
claimed that they belonged to an organized
gang of body-snatchers.
THE west-bound express on the Wabash
Road struck awagon containing five young
men near Napoleon, o., the other night,
killing Frank Long and William Rhores
and badly injuring George Arps. Long
left a wife.
THE thermometer ranged from thirty to
thirty-five degrees below in Minnesota and
Dakota during the late cold snap.
STANLEY GRIFFITH was recently arrested
at Salem, o., upon the confession of having
murdered his father.
THE SOUTH.
T. Fl. WEATHERBY, Sheriff of Madison
County, Miss, died recently Of h~ydrohobia.
He was bitten by a mad dog two months
ago. 1
THE Abilene (Tex.) stage was halted the
other night near the Colorado River by
two masked men with drawn %revOlvers
and nine passengers, comprising a variety
troupe, were robbed of $500.
AT Yazoo City, La, the other night about
fvo huudrod armod mon proceodpd IN the