The bee., 1884-03-15
South and West!

MARTIN E. VAN FLEET, treasurer of Huron
county, Ohio, decamped for Canada with
about 500 10 of the county funds.
Hon KENNETH RAYNER, solicitor of the
United States treasury, died few DAYS since
in Washington, aged seven y-~ix years. He
was born in North Carolina in ls0S, had
served two terms in Congress and was author
of life of Andrew johnson.
OHIO Prohibitionists assembled in State
convention at Columbus and q ed dele
gates to the national e0nveny On a. Pitts.
burg on May n.
AT the Lou siana Republican State con-
vention. held i'm New Orleans. q delegation
TO the national convention and tate ticket.
beaded by John A. Stevenson or governor
were chosen. The nationa dele n ion is un-
derstood to be for Arthur for first choice.
DURING a quarrel at San Laandro, Cal,
William Scollard drew revolv r and shot
Aleck Dietrichsen, saloon-keeper. dead
When Scollard's father Yves told of his sons
act, he exclaimed: My God, can this be-
and fell dead.
The California legislature has been sum
moned in extra session for the purpose of
taxing and governing the railroads through
out the State.
Two men were killed and third was fatal
ly injured by the explosion of a saw-mii
boiler al 0n9ndaga, Mich,
JOHN GRIFFIN, a Maryland ca tie dealer,
and one of the best known and wealthiest
men in the State, was found mur Tered and
robbed near Frederick At first it was
thought natural causes had led TO his death.
Two men were arrested on suspicion.
DURING a fire which DESTROYED the main
business block of the little town of Memnhis
No., three persons were killed by falling
walls, and three others fatally and four more
badly injured.
FRANK RANDE, the notorious desperate
and convict who madean attempt upon the
life of deputy warden in the State pani-
Tertiary at Joliet, ILL.,, and who was nlacel
in solitary cell, hanged himself Rande,
whose real name was Charles c. Scott, killed
no less than five men in 1871 land is supposed
TO have murdered thirteen persons in Indi-
ana, Illinois and Missouri.
LONG-CoNTINUED rains have caused much
damage to property and great delay in travel
in Southern California.
A SPECIAL posse of twelve pic';ed men,
armed TO the teeth and commanded by State
Constable Richhourg, proceeded secretly
Colonel Cash near Cheraw. Colonel Cash
was captured, but his son escaped into the
adjacent swamp. A posse of fifty men from
Cheraw was sent after young Cash.
A SNOW slide half a mile wide at Alta.
Col, swept away the works OF the New
Emma mine, killing Gus Lybecker, foreman;
d. ID. WaSson, ma"hinist and brother:
Samuel Prethers, Charles C1lgreen a ID
wife: Edward Crockett, Iottie Peon. o. J.
johnson. n S. Delano, Willard S ephenson
and John ri harrison. This is the worst
slide ever known in the Little Cottonwood
district The snow was piled forty feet
high. The dana Ire TO the mine is Sl5, 0)0.
BISHOP r. II. CLARKsON, born in Gettvs-
burg, Penn, in 1896 died the other day in
Omaha, Neb He was c0nsecrated Episcopal
bishop of Nebra ika aud Dakota in 1866.
JEFFERSON DAVIS. before a Joint conver-
ton of the Mississippi legislature. delivered
a eulogy on Sergeant S. Prentiss, the famous
Mississippi orator.
The appearance of the foot and mouth
disease among cattle in Maine and Kansas
has created alarm among the cattle men Of
the West.
GENERAL DELOCH, who ha: Just died at
Valadosta, Ga, at the age of eighty seven,
won his title in the Indian wars. He was
the father of twenty-four children.