The bee., 1882-06-10
THE NEWS.

In Billings township, Mich, Mrs. Anna
Stevenson shot her husband William, dead,
for trying to gain access to- their house after
she had barred him out. Tn couple, though
married a long time, had often quarrelled.
The Nashville Banner takes cheerful view
of the educational work being done in Tennes-
see. 1t says that the Vanderbilt University is
fast assuming its proper place OF the head OF
Southern educational institutions, and that 1t
is destined to be tremendoHs power in the
South and Southwest, and to extend its area OF
influence throughout Kentucky, Missouri.
Kansas, Southern Illinois and indiana.
The following losses by fire arc reported by
telegraph: At Ogdensburg n. Y, Touring
II ills of Henry Rodee, $4,000, insurance s43,-
600; at Pocahontss, Ark, a large number of
business houses, inflicting ss5ayy loss; at
Leadville, Col, IN the shaft Of the Mike &
Starr mine, destroying the derrick, i've men
supposed to have been suffocaEed.
Franklin j. Moses, Ex-Governor of South
Carolina, pleaded guilty in the Court of General
Sessions to petit larceny. The plea was ac-
eepted by the district attorney, and Judge
Glldersleeye sentenced Moses to the peniten-
tiary for six months.
The will of the late John B. Eldridge, of
Hartford, Conn, bequeaths $4,000 to the
American Board of Foreign Missions SO, 900
to the Missionary Society OF Connecticut; s10,-
600 to the Woman's Christian Association of
Hartford; $4,000 to the Mount Holyoke
Female Seminary, South HadleN @ass.; $15,-
600 to Carleton College, Nortf ~, Mimi and
SIC, 900 to the American Missionary Association
of New York for the education of the colored
people of the South. About s1O,O90 is given
to his brother and $4,000 to each Of five
nephews and nieces. The residue of the
estate goes to the Hartford Hospital and Hart
ford Orphan Asylum. The entire estate
amounts to about s225,C0O.
Thirty-five lodges Of starving Indians are en-
camped within three miles of Fort sisseton,
Oak. They are unwilling to return to their
reservation because there is no food for them
ut the agency.
Captain Tenneck, of the British steamer
straitherly, has been arrested in San Francisco
for bringing 326 more Chinese than the law
allows.
Fifty applicants for admission have arrived
at West Point, and there has been but one re
ioction.
A fire at Grand Haven, Mich, destroyed
Boyntoa Ackley's shirsle mill loss s125, 900.
A duel was fought in ST. Bernard parish,
near New Orleans, between Major E. A. Burke.
of the Times-Democrat, and c. H. Parker,
editor of the Picayune. Pistols were used
and five shots exchanged. At the fifth shot
Burke was shot through both thighs, though
no bone was broken, and the wound is not
considered dangerous
Another train-robber was overtaken by the
officers about ten miles from the spot where
the robbery of the Missouri Pacific train, in
Texas, was attempted recently. He resisted
arrest, and was killed and buried on the spot
where he fell. The officers are in pursuit of
Charley Carter, anescaped convict, who plan.
ned the train tstbe1y.
STwenty frame dwellings, occupied by fami-
lies on Brown and Ravine streets, Cincinnati,
were burned. One. child was burned 10 death.
Twenty families are hsmeless and all their
effects in ashes. Loss not less than s25 900,