Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-10-07
THE NEWS.


tennial Association.
A shock of earthquake was distinctly felt at
Springfield, H., September 81, and at Cen
tralia half hour liter. The shock seemed
to come from the West, and was accompanied
by rumbling sounds.
There we're five new cases of yellow fever
at Brownsville, Texls, September 81. but no
deaths. Sixty new cases and six deaths are
reported from Pensacola, Florida.
The late Caleb G. Dickinson, of Hatfield
Mass. lett about sl,0OO,OOO for founding
charity hospital at Northampton, Mass.
H.&H. N. Arnold, dry goods merchants of
Greenville, Ohio, have failed. Liabilities
s23, ,O00; assets $500.
Rev. Mr.. McClenitiem, pastor Of the United
Presbyterian Church of Avondale, Coshocton
county, Ohio, has been assaulted and brutally
leaten with club by Robert Hood, one of
the elders OF the church, on account Of i'll
feeling growing out of church trial.
The Dominion government viii pay out
$6,0OO,OOO in redemption of five per cent.
Dominion stock. This will relieve the tempor-
ary stringency of the mono y market in Canada,
caused by the moving Of the crops.
Gen. Crook and his staff are at San Carlos
investigating the Indian situation. Gen.
Crook has expressed his determination to get
at the bottom of the disaffection with which
several bands are troubled.
Secretary Teller has decids I'd to reopen for
settlement q tract of some ten million acros of
land in Northern Dakota, which was with
drawn by Secretary Schurz on account of a
claim set up by the Turtle Mountain Indians.
This claim has been dismissed as invalid, and
the lands are again open to settlement.
The commission appointed to select site
for marine hospital at Cincinnati has sub
mitted report recommending the purchase
of the Klgore building, in the centre Of the
city, for $4,000.
John H. Rinker carrier in the New York
department for fifteen years, has been arrested
charged with stealing money from letters
addressed to Boyd & Co., of 224 West Fifth
street. He confessed, and was held to bail
for trial.
Twelve thousand dollars worth of diamonds
and valuable jewelry were stolen at the ex-
position building at Cincinnati shortly after
the doors opened.
! The steamer Pennland, from Antwerp,
which arrived at New York, has on board the
mail bag of the steamship Edam, before
reported lost, which was picked up by pilot
boat Phantom No. II on September 23d.
The general passenger agents of the Eastern
trunk lines, have decided to issue continuous
trip tickets from differential points West to
differential points East, similar to those now
in use from East to West.
Philip J. Wunderle's candy manufactory on
Market street. Philadelphia, has been destroy
ed by fire, incurring a l,ss Of about $4,000.
Fully insured.
telegram from Tehuantepec, Mexico, says
there is no occasion for great alarm on account
| of the cholera, that it is not of the Asiatic
type, and that it is confined to Tuxtla.
The resignation of Dr.. W. P. Wickersham,
United States minister at Copenhagen, Den
mark, has been received at the State Depart
ment.
The board Of directors Of the Philadelphia,
Wilmington and Baltimore Railroad Company
held meeting at Philadelphia, at which the
resignation of A. J. Cassatt as vice president
and director was accepted. Frank Thomson
was elected to fill the vacancy and Charles E.
Pugh was chosen general manager.
| While Amasa ], Parker, Jr., member of thu
New York Assembly, was driving at Albany
accomp ,nied by his wife and two ether ladies'
lis horses took fright and ran away. Mr..
Parker was thrown from the carriage and it il
feared that his skull is fractured. Mrs. Louis
Rathbone was instantly killen, and Mrs. Par
ker and Mrs. @. H. Strong, of Savannah, Ga.
we're slightly injured.
| 1t has been decided by the Illinois Supreme
Court that freight determinations, under
which shipments to given point are charged
higher rate than shipments to the same
point from more distant station, are illegal.
General Stoneman has resigned from the
amy to accept the nomination of governor Of
California on the Democratic ticket.
A fire at Marquoketta, Iowa, destroyed
nearly dozen business houses; loss $32, 900;
insurance $4,000.
At the National Farmers Congress in st.
Louis resolution to send committee to the
| tarlH COMMISSION was passed. lb cnaraCter-
ICES the present tariff as burden to agricul-
turaI interests, and declares in favor of making
the commissioner Of agriculture cabinet
officer.
A west-bound passenger train on the Atchi-
son, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad was stop
ped one mile west Of Granada by armed men,
who helped themselves to express matter, but
took nothing from the passengers.
At meeting Of the contributors to the Irish
skirmishing Fund, held in New York, it was
said that the investigating committee were in
possession Of evidence sufficient to send the
board of trustees to State priso-.
Professor Edgar Frisby, of Washington, who
is conducting the observations Of the comet
from the Naval Observatory in this city, says
the impression of some observers that the
comet struck the sun in its journey through
the heavens is incorrect. He says from the
: observations made the other morning the nu
cleus appeared to be from Is to 20 degrees il
the direction of the tail and about three OF
four seconds broad, and very bright. TIL,
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