The bee., 1884-02-02
South and West.

JOHN BoDACHER, a young farmer, and
his wife, were found dead in bcI at their
home near St Lols. Their h a Is had been
split open with anax
THE national executive committee of the
Prohibition party has Issued q cal to hold
a anational convention to nominate pr aSideu-
tial candidates, iii Pittsb1rg, on May 81.
Much excitement prevailed as Ioadville,
Col, upon the suspension of the FIRST
National bank, of that city. The deposits
probably amount to %525.G0D with 10 tangi-
bic assets. MANY miners were depo itors.
A DISPATCH from GuuniSon, Col, says
that terrible explosion, presumably caused
by fire-3amp, OcrErred ii a ri mine at
Crested Butte. The fu force Cf the eX-
ploSion may bc r,aizel when it is known
that the engine and Hacline shops,
which We're located 100 feet from tie
mouth Of the mines, were totally wrecked.
There were SiXty-SeVen mel IN the mi ne at
the time of the explosion. Fo1r of these
escaped, but the rest were literally buried
alive A hundred miners employed in an
other mine at once set 10 work 10 recover
the bodies o. the victims, nelry al Of whom
were foreigners.
The re -oution asking United States Sen
atOF Malone to resign a sed tie Virginia
senate by twenty-throe yeas to ten nays-a
strict party vote.
GEORGE HARDIs IN and Harry Bronson
u W..
killed each other. Sixteen years ago Hardi-
sons father killed BronsJnS father with an
ak.
Two boys-John Anderson seventeen years
old, and Zach SNYDER, tweaty-o years Of
age-wcre hanged at Mount Vernon, Ind,
for the murder aud robbery Of James Van
Wye, q seveutcen-yeaT-old hoy. The two
murderers were shftle9s characters, and
their victim was stranger. An immense
crowd was present q q the hanging.
A DISPATCH from Winchester, Va, states
that Miss Elizabeth Rcbacca PaYne, who is
one of the best known lGdies in the Shenan-
doah valley, and WHO for thirty nlght years
has appeared as woman, turns out TO be
man The discovery was made by her APP
nlying fer a license 10 marry a Y ung woman
who had been employed in her family as
domestic PAYNE was brought up a. woman
and no one ever questioned his sex, and his
open avowal of ma 1cuinity has intensely as
tonished the community. Payne married
the domestic at Martinsbnrg, " Va.
THE Cleveland Paper COMPANY. of Cleve-
land. Ohio one of the Oldest ana most widely
known corporations of the kind in the coun-
try, owner of four paoer mills aud one pulp
mill, and employing 500 hands, has failed for
S250,0C0.
J. b. SIMPSON. the seven-y -year-old son of a
leading citizen OF Red CLAW Ga. died few
days ago in great agony OF hydroI hYbia. He
had been DlJten nOnun before by raolu
dog.
ILLNESS from a kidney trouble has led Biz
Horse, one of the most prominent of the
Chevenne chiefs i'm the Indian Territory, to
commit suicide by shooting himself in the
head with pistol
The Virginia house adopted without de-
hate the senates resolution ca ling upon
United States Senator Malone TO resign.
AT Mineral Springs, Ark, TWO judges of
the supreme court were hanged III effigy be-
cause they granted an appeal in the case of
three colored men sentenced to be executed
for murder
FRANK WILLIArfs and John Gray killed
Orion Kurtz. prominent citizen of BoSia,
Col and were in turn tazen from lau by
vigilants and lynched.
SAN FRANCISCO is to have a bronze statue
of Garfield.
THREE brothers named Wilburn, of Jack
son county, Ala, quarreled with and as
saulted a negro, when a man namet Neoo
inter.fered i'm the latters behalf Webb was
fired upon. and drawing his revolver he
emptied it at the Wiiburns. insta ltly killing
two of them aud mortally woundlng the
third.
EX-GOVERNOR JOHN LETCHER, of Nir-
pinia. whose death has lessenei the number
of men prominent during war times, was
buried at Lexington with military honors.
MRS. MANGO, of Cleveland, Ohio, lost four
of her five children within a short time by
diphtheria, and the other day her fifth child
was burned to death. The mother was so
affected by her teri. ble bereavement that she
became a raving maniac.