Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1881-10-15
THE NEWS.

missioner Bundy on the charge of en-
bezzling 5000 from the government.
The star-routers gave bail in the
Criminal Court pending their filing of
a motion to quash the information filed
against them at Washington.
The discovery of another comet has
been reported to the Smithsonian Insti-
tute.
An enthusiastic meeting in the inter-
est of the proposed Garfield memorial
hospital was held at Washington.
The indictment against Guiteau con
tains about twelve counts.
Dispatches from various points North
west represent heavy rise in the rivers,
owing to the long continued rains, and
that much hay and wood have been
washed away. Farmers are suffering
seriously. Reports from Gainesville,
Ill, say the railroad bridge at Macoupin
is gone, aud the Chicago and Alton
trains are water bound.
The following State ticket was nomi-
mated at the New York Convention:
For Secretary of State-General Jos.
B. Carr (the present incumbent.) For
Comprehensive. Davenport, of Steu-
ben. For Attorney General-Leslie W.
Russell, of St. Lawrence. For State
Engineer-Silas Seymour, of Saratoga
(present incumbent) For Judge of the
Court of Appeals--Francis M. Finch, of
Tompkins.
The Massachusetts Democratic Con.
vention has nominated the following
ticket:
For Governor Observation-Disclosures 2,
Thompson, of Gloucester. For Lieu
tenant Governor-James Ell. Carleton, OF
Haverhill. For Secretary of State Gen.
Michael 7. Donahue, of Somerville.
For Treasurer and Receiver General
Colonel Francis J. Parker, of Newton,
For Auditor - Charles r. Field, OF
Greenfield. For Attorney General
General Patrick A. Collins, of Boston.
At the Baltimore Permanent Loan
and Savings Bank partially successful
attempt to rob the institution was made
by two men, one of whom were captured,
and the available funds amounting to
about $3.50 stolen were secured. The
other robber escaped with about 81, 900
in checks, which are worthless as pay
ment has been stopped.
A train of fifteen oil tanks belonging
to the Union Tank Company, on the
Erie Railroad three miles west of Port
Jervis, and near the bridge crossing the
Delaware river. There were fifty cars
in the train originally, but when the fire
commenced the oil tanks were cut loose
few rods from the bridge and an en-
CINE in the rear drew the other cars
across the bridge and out of danger. As
the cars exploded one by the volumes
of flames shot up hundreds of feet into
the air, and fragments of the tanks were
thrown fully one thousand yards. Re
slugs were fired into the tanks not
reached by the fire, so as to allow the
oil to escape, thus preventing explosion
and permitting the fire to exhaust itself.
By this means six of the tanks were
perforated, and no explosion occurred.
Dispatches from all parts of New
England indicate the thermometer be-
low freezing point, and considerable
damage done to crops. A despatch from
Stowe, VT, states it was showing and
fruit is frozen on the trees. A slight
snow squall occurred at Bangor, Me.
The government of Porto Rico, in
telegram to Captain General Blanco,
states that the director of the conserva,
tive paper, BOletim Mercantil, published
at the capital, has been treacherously
assassinated. The assassin, who is I'M
known, escaped.
Insurance Commissioner McFee, of
Delaware, is about instituting proceed
ings against graveyard insurance agents.
They have been operating quite extern
sively, having secured policies on the
lives of quite number of aged people.
A popularity of the Delaware insurance
law gives the commissioner jurisdiction
over all agencies. The agents are
alarmed, and at present their operations
have been suspended.
Hazing has been renewed at the u. s.
Naval Academy, and Commodore Rogers
has placed the recreants in "durance
vile," until promise is made that haz-
ing will be considered among the sports
of the past
The investigation set on foot by the
government Secretservice officials, aided
by English detectives, has led to the
discovery that the shipment of internal
machines to England on the White Star
Line was fraud, by which clever
lrishman of this city was enabled to
obtain ten thousand dollars from the
English government.
A special to the Star from Lincolnton
says "a man named church, confined
in Jail at Newtown, Catawaba, county,
North Carolina, charged with the MUIR
der of Miss Thompson, in Alexandria
county, last August, was taken out and
hanged by mob. It is feared
that man named Rockbery, implicated
in the same murder, and now in jail at
Statesville, will also he lynched."
A special from Kansas City, Missouri,
says: "a terrible plague has broken
out near Waldron, Platte county.
Eleven persons have died in five days,
and none of the victims give signs of
recovery. The bodies of the sufferers
are covered with black eruptions. After
death the flesh falls from the bones, so
that the bodies cannot be lifted into
collins without falling to pieces"
President Garfield's private secretary,
IL Il