The bee., 1883-01-06
THE NEWS.

On the ground that the recent elecuons In
Tennessee were, in effect, an expression of
the opinion on the part of the people that
another settlement more favorable to them
as taxpayers should be made by their credit
ors, Treasurer Polk announces his determi-
nation not to pay the interest falling due on
the funded bonds of the State on January l,
1888.
On New Year eve night while watch-meet
ing services were being held in the Reformed
Evangelical Church at Reading, Pa, large
cannon, filled with stones and powder, was
discharged. The front wall was broken in,
and nearly all the window panes shattered.
Great excitement was caused among the au-
dience, but no one was hurt. Eight arrests
have been made.
Mrs. Stillwell, of Mt. Vernon, Ohio, wife
Of Jay v. Stillwell, employed on the Chica-
60, Burlington and Quincy Railroad, has
made confession on her death-be of three
murders. She is at the house of relatives in
Knox county. The first was Benjamin Sgi-
gart, her first husband, whom, she says, she
killed in Maryville, Mo-, in March, 1877,
with the aid of her mother and brother.
The second was stranger, whom the same
parties killed for his money while stopping
at boarding house. The third was her own
daughter, aged II years. whom she strangled
in the presence of her mother at Rulo, Heb.,
in May 1880. She also confessed that she
attempted to kill her husband three times to
obtain his life insurance. These confessions
were first made to her husband and since to
others. She is dying of consumption.
While party of boys were playing on the
ice in brook in Hyde Park, Boston, the ice
broke and five of them fell into the water.
Johnny Burns aged Z; Charles Burns, aged
9, and Johnny Carney, aged 7, were drowned.
William Baldwin. chief commissioner o.
highways, of Philadelphia, died suddenly OIL
January /.
Three hundred prisoners were released
from the Baltimore Jail on New Years Day
on account of the smallpox breaking out IN
the Jail. Seventy-one deaths occurred i'll the
same city during the week ending Deoem-
Der 81.
In the Tennessee legislature at Nashville,
slight sensation was caused by q passage
in the opening prayer of Rev. I. A. Hoyt, as
follows: "From reputation and from ali
forms of dishonesty, good Lord deliver Us.
Dave Roberts, colored, confined IN the ja:i
at Abbeville, s. c., ON a charge of cotton
stealing and murderous assault, has been
taken out and lynched.
The Inauguration of Governor Cleveland
in Albany was quiet and not q noteworthy
ceremony.
There was decrease of 466 liquor saloons
in Georgia in 1882 compared with the previ-
ous year, which the temperance advocates
insist indicates decided falling of in the
consumption of liquor.
shock of earthquake lasting thirty sec
onds shook the buildings in Halifax. A
shock was felt at Rockland, Me-, also.
A heavy snowstorm set in at San Francisco
with great violence. Snow fell to the depth
of five or more inches. Old pioneers state
that they never saw storm of equal violence
and duration for the past thirty years. A
number of sleishs, the first ever seen in this
city, were out on the streets.
During lecture by the Ford Brothers in
Boston rough expressed the opinion that
the brothers were ''no good" His reflection
upon their prowess was Immediately taken
up by the Fords, who drew their revolvers
and leaped from the stage. The audience
stampedsd.
Friend & Bros. wholesale manufacturing
q
out at loss of $50O,000.