The bee., 1884-01-05

At Walla WalIa, W. T., as Sheriff Thomp-
son and Jailer Williams were visiting the
cells at the Jail for the last time they were
attacked by Elfus and Owen, two condemned
murderers, who knocked them seuseless
with bricks they had secreted. On the jailer
showing signs of recovery they took knife
rom his pocket and hacked him to pieces.
They then fed. A committee of action was
promptly formed and started in pursuit.
The celebrated ejectment case of Elisha
A. Packer, of New York, against Ira F.
Clement, of Sunbury, Pa, was conducted in
the United States Court in Pittsburg by the
jlry returning a verdict in favor of the plain
IF. The suit involved property valued at
Ialf million dollars.
AT Joilets ILL.,, the wire manufactory OF the
Lambert & Bishop Wire Fence Company has
been burned out The factory employed go
men. Loss S225.GG.
At Jamesto%h, Dakota, the entire block
facing the railroad, including the Dakota
House, the NJ, 'Ginllis block, the Northwest
CT. Hotel, the North Dakota Bank building,
and several other small Office buildings were
burnt out The total loss is about 100000.
The thermometer at the time marked 20 de-
,rees below Zero
A fire at Moroe street, Chicago, burnt out
The following proEerty: Shober & Carque-
vile, $75.0i0; National Printing Company.
S50,0o0: Bradner Smith & Co., S40,0 0; E. H.
Myers u Co., 5000, and TO the owner of the
Montaunk block. 5000.
John Flanagan has been arrested at Bev-
erly, West Va, charged with the murder OF
Mrs. Symmetrical Rasaa. child, whose remains
we're discovered in the ruins of their burned
house on the farm of Job Parsons.
A dispatch from San Angela, Texas, says
the Abilene stage was halted near the Colo
RADIO river by two masked men, and the nine
passengers, comprising a variety troupe.
were robbed of S4C0.
Joseph Longworth, of Cincinnati. Ohio,
died, aged 10 years. He was a phllanthro-
pist in art, making valuable presents of pic
lures to the museum of that city.
Il Advices from Harbor Grace, N. F., state
that the Orange procession, while passing
Ships Head, was fired upon by crowd. At
first the Orangemen thought the firing was
from powder guns carried by their friends
until they saw three men fall, four being
killed and some ten or fifteen wounded.
There is great excitement in the neighboring
villages, and many arrests are expected.
The miners in the Connellsville coke region
met at Scottdale, Pa, ano, after passing ii
series of resolutions denouncing Hungarian
serf labor, appointeda committee to prepare
petition to Congress requesting the passage
of some law against the wholesale importa
ton of such Hungarians.
Near Dover, Tenn, Rev. Josiah Cook shot
md killed Mrs. Joseph Glasgow, who was
waiting on his wife. Cook has been suffering
from pneumonia, and he says he thought
Mrs. Glasgow was mixing poison to kill his
wife.
The steamer Carrier sunk at the head of
Little Hurricane Island, three miles below
Owensboro', Ind. She struck during a dense
fog and stove in forty feet of her hull. One
deck hand and two deck passengers, Italians,
we're drowned.
The Rye Beach Hotel, noted as a famous
summer resort for New Workers, has been
burnt to the ground with all its contents.
Loss S25,000 to $4,000.