Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1882-03-04

cotton being nearly destroyed. Loss about
$4,000 on cotton and $1,000 on building.
Henry Balzer, employed at Carnegie Bros.
rolling mill, at Pittsburg, Pa. while examining
an electric light machine, placed his hand on
one of the wires, and received shock that
killed him instantly.
The Chief Signal officer of the Army furn-
ishes the following special river bulletin to the
press "The Ohio river is above the danger
line at Cincinnati feet II inches, with 8 feet
2inches rise at Louisville feet 6 inches,
with 80 inches rise. The Mississippi is above
the danger line at Cairo feet inches, with
5 inches rise; at Memphis II inches and
stationary; at yiksburg feet 8 inches. The
rain-falls during the past three days in this
basin are as follows: Pittsburg 1.24, Columbus
1892, Cincinnati $3.50, Indianapol is 4.58, Louis
vile ASS, Nashville 100, Memphis 1, Spring.
field, ILL.,. GAS, st. Louis 6.72 Cairo 1.67, Fort
Gibson 1872 Dennison 1.49, Shreveport | 49,
The weather will clear in the basins of the
Ohio and Lower Mississippi, and will be fol-
lowed tonight by sharp freeze in the Mis-
sissippi River and Ohio Valleys and Ten
nessee.
Two wards of Flatbush, N. Y, Insane Asy-
lum were burned out. During the progress
OF the fire some of the lunatics became
greatly excited, and it was with difficulty they
could be kept under control
Samuel 0. Owens, Past Grand Master Of
the Masonic Grand Lodge of Missouri, GRAND
High Priest of the Grand Chapter Roya
Arch Masons, and Grand Treasurer of the
Ancient Order of United Workmen of Mis-.
surf, died in st. Louis.
Rev. John Francis Walsh, a Catholic priest
of Memphis, died at Jackson, Tennessee,
Sunday night. of smallpox. He was re-
garded as one of the most promising priests
in the country, and had passed through two
yellow fever epidemics without contracting
the disease
The steamship Illinois arrived at Phlla-
delphia, bringing 1876, Jewish refugees, mostly
IRON Kleff, Warsaw and Odessa, who have
left their own country to escape persecution.
Most of them are tradesmen, only few being
farmers.
In the suits brought in the United States
Circuit Court at st. Louis by the Southern
Express Company and the Adams Express
against certain railroads to compel them to
carry their freight, Justice Miller has decided
that the railroad companies are bound to
furnish express companies with transporta-
ton facilities at fair and reasonable rates.
For the first time in.the history of Chicago,
not gambling house in Chicago was open.
They were closed by order of the Mayor.
Herman and Henry Batter, composing tho
firm of Herman Batter Il Bro, New York,
have mace an signment to James Mclean,
giving preferences amounting to S105, 791.
despach from Battleford, in the North
west Territory, says the Blackfeet and other
Indians in the vicinity of Reddeer river are
committing numerous depredations, and
driving off and killing cattle. In the Bow
river country, American whiskey traders have
been killed by them, and several other Amer
leans found dead in the neighborhood are
supposed to have been killed by the same
| Indians.
| The indicted star-routers are beginning to
| feel alarmed, and have almost come to the
I conclusion that the government is in earnest
| tn its. expressed intention of prosecuting
Them.
L. L. and j. W. Prussing, of the Vinegar
farm, near Chicago, whose financial difficult
ties have been known for several days, were
arrested on capias, but were subsequently
released on 100000 bond. Their liabilities
are $4,000, and their assets about SAC, 900.
fire occurred in the Parker building on
South Charles street near Pratt, Baltimore.
damaging the building to the amount of s1O,-
600 and the stock to the extent of about
| $4,000.
A female medical college has been incor-
porated in Baltimore, and a building will at
once be secured and the institution opened
for students.