Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-23
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

President Garfeld's mother, who is now
In SoloD, Ohio, is reported to be doing well.
Levi P. Morton, our new Minister to
France, has sailed from New York for
Hsvre in the steamship Amerique.
The Treasury Department has rendered q
decision relative to the counting of passen-
gers on steamboats,, according to which
each child on board must be counted with
the rest.
One thousand lumber mill iaborers at Eau
Claire, Wisconsin, and its vicinity have
struck for q reduction of the time OF daily
labor to ten hours. They have been re-
quired to work twelve hours.
Col. John G. Wood, seventy years of age,
was found murdered a few days ago near
his house, where he lived alone, at Grag's
Summit, in Franklin county, Missouri. The
motive for the deed is unknown.
While a Hudson river steamboat was
passing Cornwall, two blasts started by rail-
road laborers scattered large stones upon
her deck, causing q stampede among the
passengers and injuring two of them.
The body of young woman, apparently
about 20 years of age, which had been in
the water five or six days, was found float
ing In the river at Lewiston, New York. 1t
is supposed she went over Niagara Falls.
i've MFs into IGs1 Pe t.as TcstpSr n D esn ntsd sS
tist, at his Office in Louisville, aud it is
feared that his eyesight is destroyed. She
alleges that he betrayed her, but he denies
the accusation.
The head of q colored woman was seen
floating In the canal at Highspire, near
Harrisburg, recently, and search wac made
for 1t yesterday. 1t is supposed to be the
head of Mary Andrews, believed to have
been murdered by her husband at that
place.
The Prohibition State Convention of Mis-
sissippi met recently In jackson. Two hun
dred delegates were present from thirty
seven counties. The object of the convention
is to induce the next Legislature to submit
to the people prohibitory amendment to
the State constitution.
The Government of Mexico has received
from the United States two silver goblets
and one gold and three silver medals, to be
given to two Mexican Captains and three
sailors, for having rescued the crew of the
American schooner Teutonia, wrecked near
Mszatlan, in December last.
A telegram from Providence says the
General Butler syndicate, which has had an
expert examining the A. & w. Sprague
property, "intimated an offer" of 50 347 900
for the entire estate. or little less than 80
per cent. of its Indebtedness. The commit
tee of creditors did not approve the offer.
The body of man recently found in the
Niagara river, below the Falls, and sup
posed to be that of Oliver Rowell, who has
since turned no In Ohio, is now thought to
be that of II. 7. Raymond, miller of Mani
toba 1t is believed he was murdered for
his money, as he had large amount while
In Buffalo.
A telegram from Cincinnati says the
Columbus Cleveland syndicate will increase
the capital stock of the Columbus, Hooking
Valley and Toledo Railroad to $40 900, 600.
At the time of their sale the stock of the
three roads, the Columbus and Toledo,
Columbus and Hooking Valley, and Ohio
and Western, amounted to not quite ST.
100000.
The wife of Henry J. Freeman, of Low
ingtop, Illinois, died last Friday evening,
after an hours illness, with symptoms of
poisoning. A coroner's jury, after holding
post-mortem and hearing evidence, found
that she died from the effects of strYchnine,
probably administered by her husband.
The latter is in jail. They had been married
only six weeks.
A telegram has been received in New
York from Rome announcing the appoint
ment of Rev. DIR. W. NJ. Wigger, of Madi-
son, New Jersey, to succeed Archbishop
Corrigan as Bishop of Newark; also of Rev.
Nj. j. O'Farrell, OF ob. refers CnurcD, new
York, as Bishop of the new Diocese of
Trenton, New Jersey. DR.. Wigger is a
native of New York, and graduate of
Seton Hall College. Father O'Farrell was
born in Limerick, Ireland. The Diocese of
Trenton, of which he is TO have charge,
has been formed outof the western part of
the present Diocese of Newark.
1t is reported that the Indians on the
Navajo reservation, in New Mexico, are
ready to revolt because Rev. Galen East
man has been reappointed agent in place of
Captain Bennett, 'for whom they have great
respect" II appears that Eastman's ''first
move" on assuming charge at the agency
was to endeavor to compel TIE Indians to
attend his church aud stop using tobacco.
There are 5000 "bucks" among the Nava-
joes, and If they rise they cannot be quieted
by the troops down in New Mexico. 1t is
believed that in any event Mr. Eastman,
should he remain at the agency, will be
killed.