Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-24
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

NJ. Lefsuere (Rep }, member of the French
| Chamber from Crense, who contracted fe
yer while on tour OF investigation in Tunis
is dead.
a block OF buildings in Aspinwall, about
twenty in number, was destroyed by fire OF
the evening Of the 10th inst. The loss fl
about SIS 600.
Mr.. Morton, the United States Minister
conferred with Premier GsmbetEa yesterday
with reference to the importation Of Ameri
can pork into France.
The United States Consul at Bremen re-
ports to the State Department that the mum
Der of emigrants leaving that port for the
United States from January lst to October
31st, 1881, was ia, ,7S9.
The grand jury at Washington has pre-
sented seven additional indictments against
Captain II. w. Howgate, one for forging 8
voucher for s., 500, the other six for embez
Elements aggregsUing S49, 80.
Henderson LsSaler was murdered by
masked men, near Harrison, Arkansas, q
few days ago. They broke down the door
Of the house and shot him three times, in
presence of his wife and five children.
David Hummel, Of Orwigsburg, Pa. left
home on Sunday morning. Not returning,
his friends went in search of him, and found
him in the mountains in a dying condition.
1t is believed be was WaYlaid and robbed.
A detective has arrived in Buffalo from
Cass county, Michigan, with UTish Meyer,
charged with completely in the murder OF
John and Rachel KintEier, an aged couple,
a. Troxelville, Penn, on the night OF De-
cember Sth, 1877, for $1,000.
Two hotel keepers and their families
Francis Cuppernul, his wife and two small
children, and Charles Wilson, his wife and
TWO children-Were drowned in Eel Bay,
Lake Ontario, recently, while going to
Gananoque, Ontario, In a small boat.
While a wrecking crew on the Port De
posit Railroad were hoisting an engine from
the bottom OF an embankment the hoisttng
ropes gave way, and the whole mass fell to
the bottom, injuring five men, one OF them,
Adam Fahlinger, of Columbia, Penn, IA
tally.
In the quo warranto proceedings instituted
By the State against the speculative tnsuT=
ance companies, at Harrisburg, Pa, counsel
for the defense were granted until Deeem
Der 10 10 prepare their reply, It being under
stood that no further dilatOry motions shall
be made.
A scaffold, on which five men were work
ing, in the elevator hole of a new building,
on Broad street and Exchange Place, New
York, few days ago, fell. precipitating the
men from the fourth story to the ground.
All were terribly injured, and two were not
expected to survive.
At stafford, New Hampshire, on Sunday,
the wife OF Jonathan WaldrOn, while sick
in bed, called her granddaughter to her by
Offering a piece Of candy, cut the child's
throat with a TsZor, and then cut her own
throat. Both are dead. Mrs. Waldron was
60 years of age. She had shown symptoms
OF insanity.
At Lockhsven, Penn, the jury in the case
OF Mrs. Margaret Snllivan, found last Sat-
urday lying at the foot OF the stairs In her
house suffering from injur es that resulted
In her death, rendered verdict that "she
came to her death by m ans OF some blunt
instrument in the hands of her husband,
Eugene Sullivan" The latter is in jail.
VIM. B. Tstum, a well known planter, OF
Brunswick county, Va, was killed by the
accidental discharge Of his gun while out
deer hunting recently. 1t Is supposed that
in attempting to raise his guu the hammer
caught in his boot strap, causing the dis
charge Of the load, which entered his neck,
causing death In q few minutes. The de-
ceased was thirty-eight years old, and
leaves q wife and six children.
By the fall Of the elevator from the top to
the basement door Of Yenable & Co.'s to-
bacco factory, in Petersburg, Va, John
CREIGHTON, colored, received Injuries OF
which he subsequently died, and James
Coleman. colored, received injuries which,
It is feared. will prove fatal. The two men
were on the elevator with i've cases OF
licOrice, which they were carrying 70 the
casing room, and were within two or three
feet of the stopping point when the rope
broke and they fell to the basement.