Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-05
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

M. Gambetta arrived at Tours yesterday.
He was enthusiastically cheered by an i'm
mense crowd Of people.
There is great scarcity of labor in British
Columbia. Carpenters, drivers and laborers
are wanted on the Yale and Ssvona Railroad.
Hon. Franklin Reed, Of Bath, was nomi-
mated for Congress yesterday by the Demo
Gratis of the Second Maine Congressional
District.
A telegram from Mauch Chunk, Pa, says
the burning mine at Lansford fis now closed
in, and the fire is so penned up that its ex-
tinguishment by steam is certain"
In Quincy, Illinois, Charles Cross and Geo.
Lane, Is years old, bootblRcks, quarreled
and fought. In the melee Lane stabbed
Cross in the neck, severing the jugular vein
and causing instant death.
August and Antonio Garcia, natives of
Peru, and said to be sons of ex-President
Garcia, have been arrested in New York for
disorderly conduct and carrying concealed
weapons, to-wit, sword cane.
Benjamin B. Wiley, accused of conspir-
ing with McDevitt. Legrand, Price and
others to defraud the United States Govern
ment in the letting of mail contracts, has
been arrested in Philadelphia and held for
hearing.
John 7. Welch, Edward Brady, Michael
Moore and James Brown were badly burned
by an explosion of fire damp at the Ph@uiX
Park Colliery, near Pottsville, Pa. Welch
was Labor Reform member Of the last
Legislature.
The freight engineers, conductors and
brakemen on the Illinois Midland Railroad,
from Peoria to Terra Hauts, have Quilted
work, because three months back pay is due
them. Freight service on the road is conse-
quently at q stand-still.
James Leghorn, of Wythe county, Va,
who had been absent in North Carolina for
some weeks, on his return home few
nights ago found negro named Jim Tailor
in his bedroom, Mrs. Leghorn being In the
same apartment. A fight ensued, in which
Leghorn was killed.
The bark Exilda, Irregular liner" be-
tween Montreal and West Indian ports, was
one hundred and thirty days making her
last trip. She sprung leak on the voyage;
her cargo Of sugar was almost DESTROYED by
water, and it required hard work at the
pumps to keep her afioat.
Ten of the men injured in the explosion
at the Woolner distillery, Peoria, Ill.,, have
died. Only four of the eighteen who were
exposed to the shock are expected to re-
cover. The Coroner's jury found a verdict
to the effect that the explosion was caused
by too great a pressure Of steam in the STILL
dispatch from Tucson, Arizona, states
that a party of Mexican traders, on their
way from the interior of Sonora, Mexico,
were ambushed and fred upon by cowboys
July 26, near Los Animas, while eating
breakfast. Five of the MeXicans are sup
posed to have been killed. The rest fed,
leaving a pack train and $4,000 behind
them. A large force of Mexican troops are
In pursuit of the cowboys.
A dsstardly attempt was made to murder
Henry Lehman, Treasurer OF Greenfield
township, Ohio, recently. A masked man
approached him at the door of his Leh-
man's) residence and fired both barrels of a
double barrel shotgun at him, inficting dan
gerous wounds In the neck and chest. The
assassin then shot him three times with
revolver, each shot taking effect. The
injured man succeeded in getting into the
house, when the assassin left. Mr.. Leh-
man, who is a wealthy farmer, thinks that
robbery was not intended, but that the fel-
low only wanted to take his life. The
wounded man lies In a critical condition,
but the physicians say he will recover.
Ambrose Lomprox, of Natchitoches, La,
who claims to have been with the surveying
party recently attacked by Apache Indians,
south of FL Paso, in the State Of Chihua-
hud, Mexico, has arrived at San Francisco,
en- route for Washington. He says that
thirteen surveyors were killed. He him
self was about a half a mile behind the
party when the attack was made, and did
not see the fight. Soon afterwards he was
captured by the Apaches. A Mexican boy
who had been in his employ told the In
dians that their prisoner was very rich,
and that a ransom would be paid for him.
This saved his life, and he subsequently
made his escape. The story needs confir
nation.