Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-15
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

There were AIS births, 214 marriages and
693 deaths in New York city last week.
A very perceptible earthquake shock, in
the valley of the Upper Rhone, extended as
far as Geneva.
A man was shot and killed In a shooting
scrape in church at Hulstring, Ellis coun-
ty, Tex, Monday.
6. w. Gray, brakeman on the Texas
Pacific Railroad, was run over and killed at
Gordon. Tex, yesterday.
Pleasant Gray, aged thirteen, shot dead q
colored boy named Russell, of about the
same age, at Arkadelphia, Arkansas, re-
Gently.
A recent issue of the London Times had
seVenty-oDe columns of advertisements
There are rarely less than sixty from Feb.
ruary to August.
John Kline and his brother in-law, the
latter q boy of twelve years, were suffo-
Gated by foul air in an abandoned mine near
Caldwell, Iowa.
w. III. Wheeler, Collector OF Internal
Revenue for the Fifth district of North
Carolina, will transfer his office to Geo. B.
Everett on the 18th inst.
Furnum's cotton mills at Morristown, Pa,
stopped work Monday indefinitely. the pro-
prietors not being able to obtain sufficient
AeANS w A0A AC nduQ6 OVER
a month ago against reduction In wages.
The largest single plate of steel ever cast
in the world has arrived at Washington
from the foundry of the Otis Company.
Ohio, and is to be used for the top section
of the boiler Of government vessel.
Japhet Fennimore, aged eighty-six years,
committed suicide at Retreat, near Mount
Holly, New Jersey, few days ago. 1t was
his third attempt at suicide that day, he
having twice attempted to drown himself.
Three Connecticut wheelmen, mounted,
passed through Philadelphia on their way
to Marietta, Ohio. They claimed to have
covered two hundred and ten miles In thirty
hours, including the time for sleep, meals.
etc.
In Belgium, postage stamps Of two, five,
and ten centimes are to be receivable as
savings bank deposits, but the two centime
stamp is to be available only by school chill
dren, and postage stamp deposits are limited
to ten francs month.
The aggregate number of votes cast at
the meeting of the four groups of the Left
party in tue French Chamber of Deputies
yesterday show that 10 members voted for
advancing the date of the dissolution of the
Chamber and $50 against it.
A young man named E stes, while bathing
IL 'Sh VAtlC GACChs lCAdEB ROb DoYOuQ MS
depth, when man named Globe SWAN to
his rescue, and, as Estes was sinking for the
third time, he caught Globe around the
body, and both were drowned.
W. L. Beardsley, Of the firm of Beardsley
q Frost, of lineup and Ashen, Col, has
been arrested at Denver, charged with hay-
Ing swindled j. Y. Farwell IL Co., of Chi
cago, In business transaction. The amount
is said to be between $4,000 and $4O,O 900.
At meeting of members of the different
trade organizations held at New York under
the auspices of the Socialistic Labor party,
resolutions Of sympathy with the striking
brewers were adopted, and it was resolved
to do everything In their power to make the
strike success.
A Paris dispatch to the London DaiIy
AeaoS says: "The decision of all the groups
OF the party OF the Left In the Chamber of
Deputies against advancing the date of the
dissolution or the Chambers is greater re-
bun to NJ. Gambetta than even the vote of
the Senate on the rejection of the scYutis
de HSte"
AS gang OF men were at work at
Lafayette, Ind, tearing down the old court
house, preparatory to the erection of new
building, the root fell In, burning four
men. Three OF these-William Huey.
samuel BuckDer and Peter Cook received
fatal injuries, while the fourth escaped with
only slight bruises.
The whaling schooner Edward Lee, of
Provtncetown, Mass, was spoken recently
oil Cuttyhunk. She reported that "she
sent boats crew after q whale, aud, after
making fast to it. that the bCAt and crew
suddenly disappeared" The schooner sail.
ed around the sPat for some time, but saw
no trace OF the men.
a break, caused by defective eulveyt.
occurred In section 10 Of the Erie canal two |
miles west OF Albany. Forty feet Of the |
canal bank soon gave way, and the water |
Aooded the country around, sweeping away |
fences aud bridges. A woman and children !
saved themselves by getting on top ~ a
pig pen, which fioated about a mile hefore |
they were rescued. The total damaTa ts
at sS0;nS0.
horrible plot to kin WoIkaen was dis.
covered In the Chicago Stove Works a few |
nights ago. Just as two moulders, named |
FIGURE and Sessions, were about to pour |
molten iron into one of the moulds. one of /
shem saw that 1t had been tampered with, |
and al examination showed that two |
pounds OF gunpowder were hidden in the |
mould. Had It not been discovered the |
iery metal would have been blown over all /
he men In the foundry. The crime is at. /
r1buted to striking moulders who have |
been hanging about the foundry for months.