Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-10-05
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Congregational Union of England
/ and Wales, assembled at Manchester, and
consisting of sixteen hundred delegates,
| yesterday passed resolutions OF coincidence
with Mrs. Garfield and the American
national woe.
The miners of the North Wales coal field
have given notice, which will expire on the
15sh inst, demanding an advance In wages
OF ~ per cent.
A Berlin dispatch says: "The most i'm
| portant Chambers of Commerce in the vari-
Gus States Of Germany have published re-
| ports for 1880. The great majority, con-
ssting of free traders and protectionists, re-
| ject Bismsrck's new protectionist olicy."
Sir Stafford Northcote, speaking at Hull
Monday, said he wished the land act to have
fair trial. With regard to ''fair trade" he
was not quite in favor of all the proposals
made by his Conservative friends.
Mrs. Mary Knight, aged thirty years,
while crossing the track of the West jersey
Railway at Centreville, near Camden, New
Jersey, was killed instantly by train. She
carried baby in her arms at the time, and
the child was saved.
Bishop O'Hara, In the Cathedral at Scran-
ton, Pennsylvania, and several of the Catho-
lie clergymen in the suburbs, severely de-
nounced the graveyard insurance sharks'
was heavily insured after death and the as
sessments collected, and warning the people
against this class Of insurance men.
l.. Ferry Young, son of Brigham, died
on board the steamer Knickerbocker, from
Mexican ports for New York, and was
buried at sea on the 28th ult. He was sick
when be went on board.
The Bear Swamp, three miles from Tren-
ton, N. j., on the line of the Pennsylvania
Railroad, has been on fire for week The
peat is burning at depth of five feet, and
the adjacent woodlands are in danger.
Presley Cowan, an amateur balloonist,
made his first ascension at fair, in Wash
ington, Ohio, recently, and was killed in COM
tops, and he jumped or was thrown out.
He was nephew of ex-Assistant Secretary
of the Interior Cowan.
Heavy rains have done great damage in
Minnesota, and caused washouts and land
slides on many Of the railroads. At Mime
apolis much uneasiness has been caused
bYa jam of 20, ,000, 900 logs In the Mississippi.
Along the Minnesota river the farmers have
lost heavily, and in the Coon Valley there
is almost repetition of the disasters of last
spring.
Jacob Whitmore and his wife-both very
young and recently married-went into the
woods near their house at Huntsville, Ohio,
one day last week, to gather hickory nuts.
After returning in the evening the wife died
in convulsioDs, saying that her husband,
threatening her with drawn knife, had
forced her to swallow a white powder. The
husband said that his wife "took poison
voluntarily" An analysis of her stomach
will be made.
The four-year old son of George Sensfel-
der, residing on Hudson street, near Bridge
avenue, IN Camden, N. j., was run over and
killed by freight car recently. He was
playing on the car, when the engine sud-
denly started up and he was thrown under
the wheel. The body was so horribly
mangled that several men who stood by re-
fused to carry 1t home, and the unhappy
mother had to put the remains in a sheet
and carry them herself.
There was stampede of Indians from the
San Carlos Agency on Saturday, which has
occasioned some commotion in Arizona.
According to dispatch sent by Agent Tiff
fany to the Commissioner Of Indian Affairs,
Colonel Biddle came from Camp Thomas to
the agency to arrest two of the chiefs
George and Bonito. After a parley with
Colonel Biddle the chiefs ran to the Chira-
cahua camp and told the Indians that the
soldiers were coming, and would murder
their women and children. Some of the
men broke away, and mounting horses be-
longing TO freighters started south. Agent
Tiffany is of the opinion that the soldiers
ought not to have been brought to the
agency on tissue day."