Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-24
THE NEWS.


cial notice of the capture of Captain Payne
and party south of the Cimarron river by
Lieut.. Stevens The party were on their
way to Oklahoma with one hundred wagons.
Captain Carroll, commanding the troops III
the Oklahoma country, will take the entire
party to Fort Reno.
ANAL robbery occurred at the Union Depot
in Cedar Rapids, Iowa. The east-bound
rain being Late the mail was carried into the
baggage-room, and while there the mail
pouch was ripped open and 40 registered
letters were taken out. One letter contained
ash 900 bill and 800 bill, the amount of
the postmaster's monthly remittance to the
department. There is no clue to the robbers.
Smith, the colored ravisher of a nine yeal
old girl at Paolo, Kan, cut his throat to pre-
vent all avenging mob from lynching him.
The mob was lead by leading citizens.
Reports from the cattle-range section of
Colorado say the loss of stock By snow storms
and cold weather will amount to fifteen per
cent.
The wife of Captain VIM. H. Mills, of Cape
May, N. j., has been arrested and held to
answer tho charge of setting fire to the
dwelling and workshop of her husbahd. In
the attic was lighted candle so arranged as
to communicate when nearly consumed with
a quantity of combustible material
The Ohio river is reported to be higher
than for years, inundating the lower part Of
Cincinnati and other towns along its banks.
Great destruction to property is reported.
Pensacola has been connected with the
Apalachcola river by the completion of the
Pensacola and Atlantic railroad.
Plumbago in paying quantities has been
found on farm near Schoenick, Lancaster
county, Pa. Recently discovered copper
deposits in Adams county are causing much
excitement, and several Harrisburg com
panies have been formed to develop them.
The negotiations between the Western
Union Telegraph Company and the Mutual
Union Company for an arrangement between
the two companies have been completed il
the lease of the Mutual Union lines to the
Western Union. The latter has assumed the
debts and dividends of the Mutual Union
Company.
Ex-Governor Marshall Jewell died at his
home in Hartford, Conn, of acute pneu-
monia.
fire at Rondout, N. Y, destroyed the
steamer City of Catskill, the railroad house
and other valuable property belonging Il
different parties, amounting to the uppre
cedented loss of $500, 900. No lives reported
lost
John Parker killed his wife Nellie in the
self. Parker was on trial for the murder OF
Michael Payton, in September, 1881.
Reports at Lynchburg Va, represent thai
a panic has been created throughout the
southwestern counties of that state, owing to
the prevaen 70 of smallpox in that section.
The scourge has abated at Salem, but tn,
disease has made its appearance at Bristol,
Rural Retreat, Central and several other
towns along the Norfolk and Western rail
road and in the interior counties. The people
are intensely excited.
w. S. Battle, of Raleigh, N. c., has made
S265,0OO. He owns cotton mills at Rock.
Mount N. G. The suspension of Battle does
not involve the Rocky Mount mills, those
being Incorporated, although he is a large
stock holder.
Jacob Hess, of Irvington, N. j., has been
sentenced to three months in the peniten-
tiary for selling COW from herd infected
with pleuro-pneumonia, which had been
.,uarantined by the State Board of Health.
The Ohio river continues to rise at Cincin
natl and Louisville. Business in both cities
is almost at standstill. There is much
suffering among the poor in the flooded
district, and relief com ittees have been or
ganized. The low lands along the river are
in deplorable condition and in some places
the river is ten miles wide
All the visible assets of the coal and iron
firm of Rogers Co., of Chicago, have been
attached by creditors. The liabilities of the
firm are estimated at S125.000.
The Bay State Iron Company of Bosto,
has failed The liabilities amount t.
$4,000.
Collender's seven-story billiard factory,
Stamford, Conn, has been burned. Tt
total loss is estimated at $225.000 One hun
bred and twenty five men were employed il
the factory.
Ex-Governor Morgan, OF New York,
dead. Both houses of the Legislature ad
iourned over Oh. the announcement of hi
death. He was in his seventy-first year.
Middle and Southern States