The Newtown bee., 1881-01-05
Ar smithville, Va, party of oolored men

Ar Smithvile, Va, party of colored men had met to organize militia company when an altercation arose between some of them and white man named Duun During the row Dunn drew 8 single-barreled pistol and shot dead negro who had slapped his face. Dunn then ran into store and loaded his pistol. crowd headed by Dan Cook, who carried a drawn sword, broke in and attacked him. Cook was shot dead after which Duan seized 8 butchers knife and cut his way out One man named Drew was fatally cut in the abdomen and others were more or less in- jured. Dunn gave himself up and was lodged in iail at Williamsburg
 INTENSELY cold weather has prevailed throughout the West. On one day the ther mometer at various points showed the follow ing figures below zero: St. Paul, Minn., IS; Milwaukee, Wis, 19; North Platte, Neb., 23; Leavenworth, Kan, l3; St. Louis, Mo-, IS; Detroit, Mich, 10; Indianapolis, Ind, 12; Cleveland, Ohio, 4; Cincinnati, Ohio, zero
 SPECIAL dispatch from Fort Buford says that Gall, one of the chiefs under Sitting Bull, has surrendered unconditionally to Major Iges. The savages are poorly clad, have few guns and ponies and are in no condition for an engagement with well-equipped troops. It is now believed that Sitting Bull will march toward this point without further hesitation, and that his final exploitation will occur within short time. He has with him about one hundred lodges. In leaving Canada Sitting Bull burned the bridges behind him and stole ponies from numerous bands of half-breeds.
 md fha nh ooI1 children of William and Fannie Johnson were frozen to death, despite the efforts of their mother to keep them warm. The parents are very poor.
 AN Australian steamer which has just arrived at San Francisco brings the particu. lars of the massacre of Captain Romer and four of the crew ot the Sand Fly in the South Sea islands. The natives of Rito surprised the boats crew while in bathing, and pursued them into the woods or killed them in the water, mutiating the bodies of the slain and torturing those captured alive by roasting them at 8 stake.
 THE weather at Columbia, s. O., has been the coldest ever known in that region, the thermometer going down to one degree below | zero. The ponds in and about Columbia were all frozen bard, and the people enjoyed the | novelty of skating. The coldest previous | day was in 1882, when the thermometer fell tc seven degrees above zero. At other points 1T the South, also, the weather was intensely cold. Near Richmond, Va, a colored man was frozen to death.
 | ON account of the unprecedented colC | weather fears are entertained for the safety O the Florida orange crop, only one-third O which has been gathered. The weather Ina! | been the coldest there since 1857. The orange on the trees at Jacksonville, where the ther mometer fell to nineteen degrees above zero l were all tTCzen.
 Cincinnati is to have the electric light stool to the amount of $500, ,0OO having been sub scribed fer the formation of company.
 John Bruens, twenty-five years old, whi
 coating the inside of @ cask with brewer | pitch, at Memphis, Tenn, was killed by th
 explosion of the cask Two other person
 were injured.