Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-04-29
THE NEWS.

Inc harmony MILL bplHue1e, III SOuOen, ~ |
Y, have decided not to accept the 10 per cent
reduction, and this will cause complete ces-
sation of working. The upper mill at Law
renee, Massachusetts, has been ordered closed
for six months the men having refused to re-
turn to work. This throws $500 persons out
of work.
The Ford brothers, the slayers Of Jesse
James, were indicted at st. Joseph's, Mo-, for
murder in the first degree. They were
brought into court and pleaded guilty, and
sentenced to be hanged May 10. This was fol-
lowed by an unconditional pardon from Gov
ernor Crittenden.
The bill to redistrict the State of Ohio for
congressional purposes, giving the Republic
cans fifteen and the Democrats six districts,
has become a law.
The bill allowing women to vote for pres-
dental electors was defeated in the lower
house of the Massachusetts, Legislature.
The Providence, Rhode Island Tea Com
pany has suspended. The plant cost the CON-
pany over 100000. Indebtedness not given.
Most of the peninsular papers have some
thing to say, both locally and editorally, about
the effect of last weeks cold snap upon the
peach buds. The general conclusion drawn
is that if the buds escape any further damage
there are enough left to make good crop all
yer Delaware and the Eastern Shore.
At Cleveland, the electrical conditions
which produced the extraordinary auroral dis
play, affected more or less seriously great
many persons here, particularly those
troubled with nervous disorders. Rev. o. L.
Binkley, pastor of the Prospect street M. E.
church, was Frustrated in the pulpit while
praying, by what was at first supposed to be
paralysis. Ladies tainted in churches during
the service, and people who were out of
doors, as well as those in, complained, gen.
orally, of strongly oppressive sensations, sim
liar to those said to be attendant upon an
earthquake.
At Chicago the atmosphere was so charged
with electricity from the remarkable brilliant
aurora borealis that the telegraph wires would
not work with the batteries connected The
wires between Chicago and N. Y. Chicago and
Milwaukee, and Chicago and Omaha were
worked on the strength of atmospheric cleo
tricity, without batteries.
Recently on top of the mountain west of
Highland Falls, N. Y, Napoleon Rose, aged
80, and a boy were blown to pieces while max
ing giant powder. The cause of the explosion
is unknown. Fragments of their bodies were
scattered over q considerable area and in the
trees.
The action of the puddlers in demanding an
advance in wages looks at present as though
1t would breed great trouble in the iron trade
at Pittsburg. If the present indications are
indicative IN I'll q racuIt ara will ba -,roo4
strike, which will render 10000 employees
and $500 600 Of capital idle.
The announcement of the arrest of Route
Agent Parke, at st. Louis, was hailed with
delight. Eighty-seven complaints of lost
drafts, etc., have been made to the inspector
during the last three months. 1t is thought
the purpose of the thieves was to secure sig
natures for gigantic scheme Of forgeries.
Two hundred and ifty-two cities and town
in Massachusetts voted against liquor license
seventy-three in favor, while in two there wal
tie. The aggregate vote was 165, Ss9 /; SO, 24t
being against and 50, GA in favor of license.
An Associated Press dispatch from Law.
renee, Massachusetts,, says considerable
excitement is caused here by the disappear
ance of Rev. Daniel S. Healey, pastor of st
Patrick's Roman Catholic Church, who has
had charge of large smount of money used
as a building fund"
The correspondents of the New York Herald
Siberia report the burning of the United
States ship Rodgers which went to the Arctic
ocean to search for the Jeanette. Lieut.
Berry, OF the Rodgers, and thirty six of his
hau ut 10
Serdge fHl
large find Of bonds in an old safe sold t.
junk dealer is reported at police head
quarters. ~
An enthusiastic meeting was held IN Bal
timore to celebrate the centennial anniversar,
of Grattan's Irish Parliamentary Independ
ence, and speeches were made by Mayo
Whyte, Judge Black, of Pennsylvania, an,
Congressman Robinson, of New York.
consignment Of ninety-four bales of ra,
silk arrived in New York recently, from Hon
Kong, but when opened were found to contai
nothing but sea-weed and grass. The shir
pers were the notorious vogel Bros, who ha
been paid SAT 900, the value of the raw silk.
Two boys, aged respectively eighteen month
and four years, sons of Thomas Ryan,
Camden, N. j., are dying from what the do,
tors pronounce trichinosis, caused by eatin
ham a week ago. The doctors say the trichin
have penetrated every portion of the children
bodies.
Thomas Moran, an ex-policeman, was sci
fenced in New York to twenty years in th
state prison for an atrocious assault upon hi
fourteen-year-old daughter.
The cyclone at Brownsville, No., destroye
the hotel, railroad depot, a large number
stores, and the best business building in IL
place. Besides those heretofore reported kille
James. Jackson was fatally and a number
others seriously injured.
shocking murder was committed at We
Somerville, the victim being Mrs. Mary Ru
sell, aged seventy mine, who was killed by h
son-in-law Edwin R. Prescott aged sixty-si
Mrs. Russell's daughter, who is Prescott
second wife, went to Boston this forenoon, al
on her return was met at the door of her hou
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