Stephens City star. (Stephens City, Va.) 1881-1883, 1883-02-10
THE NEW S.

The majority of the bishops of the Protest
ant Episcopal Church have consented to the
conservation of Rev. nugh Miller Thompson,
D. D., as assistant bishop of Mississippi.
Robert II. May q Co., dealers in carriages,
harness and leather at Augusta, Ca, have
made an assignment for the benefit of their
creditors. The assets are, stock valued at
200, and notes and accounts So, 900; liza
bilities $4,000, with a possible liability OF
S25,000 through Endorsements.
The Milwaukee College was partially des-
troyed by fire. 1t was one of the finest shhool
buildings in the Northwest. All the young
lady inmates, sixty in number, were saved
by the efforts of the fireman and police. The
loss is estimated at $4,000, insurance $780,
900.
M. Armstrong & Sons, wholesale leather
ment. The liabilities are said to be about
100000.
In the investigation into tine causes OF the
Newhall House fire at Milwaukee, firemen
and insurance experts agree that the house
was dangerous fre-trap, on which the rate
charged q per cent was low enough. The
district attorney has decided not to present
all the evidence as to incendiarism before
the coroner's jury lest it prejudice the case
before the court.
General Charles F. Henderson, of Omaha,
was elected United States Senator from
Nebraska.
AtCrested Butte, CAL, occurred one OF the
II. Irx,ax in,
the Rocky Mountain regions. Late in the
nirht thirty men employed in the Howard d
Smith anthl acite coal mine, were startled
from their sleep by rumbling noise and
almost instantly the avalanche was upon
them. The building in which they were Sleep
ing was crushed, and the men we're hurled
down the mountain side. A rescuing party
started out from Crested Butte as soon as the
news was received, and after several hours
labor the men were all uncovered. Seven OF
the number were found dead.
State Senator Sabin has been elected by
the Minnesota Legislature as United States
Senator
Young Cobb, who shot and MORALLY
wounded Sheriff SheI ,nlan some days ago,
was taken out of Jail at Winfield, Kansas,
by a party of masked men and hanged to a
railroad bridge on the outskirts of the town.
He stated to Sheriff Mcintyre that he had
been influenced by reading of the exploits of
Jesse James and other desperadoes.
A fire broke out on the large pier owned
and occupied by the Inman Steamship Com
pany, on the North river front, one block
above Canal street. The pier was destroyed
and the steamship Egypt, which had been
temporarily locked alongside the pier, was
considerably damaged. The fire was dis
covered in pile of merchandise that lay in
the middle of the pier. Nearby was stored,
it is reported, quantity of vitriol, and in an
instant the flames had spread to this danger
Gus material. Carboy after carboy of the
fluid exploded in quick succession, scattering
the flames in every direction. Loss esti-
mated at S1,0oO,OOO.
Charles D. Bunker, commissioner of i'm
migration of the state of California, an ap.
pointive officer, has been arrested on three
warrants, each charging him with felony il
appropriating to his own use fees aggregatins
$4,000.
Deep snow has fallen in the Northwest, ex-
tending to the Rocky mountains. The trail s
on the Union Pacific and on the Northwestern
roads are struggling through snowdrifts. In
Wisconsin the snow developed into blizzard,
and spell of very cold weather is predicted
The continued cold weather in Kansas has
frozen some of the smaller streams to the
bottom, and the question of water for stock
will become serious one. The snow is
three feet deep at Cheyenne and from twelve
to thirty inches deep on the cattle ranges.
There being no wind, the entire surface of
the ground is covered. Cattle are suffering
for want of grass, and unless wind comes
within three days and blows the snow off the
exposed places the losses will be disastrous.
The Union iron and steel works at Chicago
have been closed. Two thousand men are
thrown out of employment. Judgments have
been entered up against the company
amounting to $1,066,S00