Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-12-10
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

David Stephenson, of Napoleon. O., died
suddenly while eating bologna sausage re-
Gently.
Two Mexican officers across the river,
who had quarreled, fought with fatal re-
suit near Laredo.
Michael Wbeelan, manager of the United
Irel0nd newspaper, of Dublin, has been sent
to lkilmainham JAIL
On Thursday at Bristolville, O., M. d.
Phelps shot and killed his son, VIM. Phelps.
1t was an unprovoked murder.
The corporation OF Cork has, almost
unanimously, passed a resolution in favor
OF the release of the imprisoned suspects. +"
The Cotton Planters Convention recently
In session In Atlanta adjourned Thursday
night to meet at Little Rock, Ark October
| IL, 1882.
The post cemetery at st. Augustine, Fla.
| is announced as national cemetery of the
fourth class, and will be known as the st.
Augustine National Cemetery.
A dispatch FROM Corpus Christi saws !:
ut Is rgmored that a well-known drum
mer OF this section named Rurman and his
man have been killed near Rio Grande City"
The st. John, N. B., GLObe says Wallace
Ross is anxious to have the time and place
for match with Hanlan defioitely fixed,
ls
A man named Stephen Cook committed
suicide at New Castle, Ala, by shooting
himself. He was forty-fve years old, aad
had been considered deranged for some
time.
a special from Laredo, Texas, gives the
particulars of the killing of four men. One,
the watchman of an oil tank, was shot
through the heart, as was also a Mexican
employed by railroad company there.
At eight o'clock yesterday morning Hugh
Hayvern was hanged at Montreal for the
murder of VIM. Salter, fellow convict in
st. Vincent de Paul penitentiary. He was
dead in eleven minutes after the drop fell.
At the Pratt coal mines, 5errersou comfy.
Ala, an officer attempted to arrest negro.
Resistance was made, the negro refusing to
go with him and drawing a shotgun. Be
fore ne could FIRE, the officer shot him ia
tally,
Mary Howard, colored inmate of the st.
Louie city jail, lit cigarette in her cell and
| threw the lighted match over her head. Her
dress was ignited, and before the flames
could be extinguished she was so terribly
burned that she died,
a mob assaulted the family of Mr.. Consi-
dine, while they were leaving the chapel of
Temple Walden, Limerick. and pelted them
with mud and stones. Mrs. and Miss Con-
sidine were severely injured. The cause OF
the attack was because Mr.. Considine was
prosecuting his tenants for non-payment
OF rent.
In the United States District Court at
Philadelphia verdicts were given against
Benjamin B. Wiley for s., 200, IS, 900, 81, 900
and 81 600, the amounts of the bonds ac-
companying the principal for carrying mails
on the four routes for which be was bidder.
Verdicts were also given against Joseph
Frink, j. r. Black and H. G. Arbuckle.
A serious disturbance occurred at Wood.
land Plantation, Plaquemines Parish, La,
recently, between VIM. Stevens, the book
keeper, and number Of negroes, in which
Stevens shot and killed John Gilead, and
was himself badly shot and cut with a
hatchet. A mob of negroes, armed with
shot-guns, pistols and cane knives, took
possession of the place and made the whole
night hideous with their cries for his life,
but Stevens finally escaped to New Orleans,
where he vas arrested.