Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-16
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Massachusetts, Paper Company, Of
| Springfield, has failed with liabilities
am ounting to S3O0000.
William Robinson and two others were
| poisoned at Ripley, Maine, by drinking rum
in which aconite had been put for horse
medicine. Robinson is dead.
John Mshan, driver of an ale wagon, was
killed in jersey City by barrel OF ale,
which he was delivering, rolling over upon
him from the wagon.
A Chicago dispatch says the prosecution
of the Wisconsin Central Railroad conduc-
tors for alleged embezlement ended on
Saturday by the cases being thrown out Of
court.
A dispatch to the London Standard from
Rome says: "An explosion OF gas occurred
In a sulphur mine at Gessolungo, near Cata
nissetta. Forty persons were killed and
forty-one injured"
There has been another severe storm at
Mazatlan, Mexico. Seven vessels were
driven out to sea, two schooners were
besched, and two petroleum RATS DESTROYED.
No lives were lost.
The house and farm buildings of Matthew
Ash, near Madison Station, Mississippi, were
demolished by tornado few days ago. Mis-.
Ash, two of her children, and four other
persons were severely injured.
DIR. John NJ. Leonard practicing physi
clan for forty years, was arraigned before
the United States Commissioner in Detroit
for circulating counterfeit silver coins. He
pleaded guilty, and was committed for
trial.
In the Spanish Senate the Marquis of
Scoane announced an Interpolation relative
to the exclusive control of the Panama Ca
nal, claimed by the United States Govern
nd ha 90 do of g.,
thereto.
An iron fy-wheel. weighing one and a
half tons, and measuring fourteen feet in
diameter, burst recently in joiner shop a.
Harlan d HolliDgsworth's ship yard, 10
Wilmington, Del. Two men were injured,
but not seriously.
"Bnly" Lynch and "Joe" O'Neil in
dulged in prize fight near East st. Louis
recently, which resulted in both brutes be-
ing 80 badly injured that they had to be
carried off the field in wagons, O'Neil,
especially, being ''nearly dead"
Theodore Tyrer, loan and insurance
agent at Alberlea, Minnesota, disappeared
few days ago, after committing forgeries,
as alleged, to the amount of $4,000. He
was arrested in Forest City, Iowa, taken
back to Alberlea, and committed in default
Of So, 900 bail.
Ah dStCnpb WAS uau6 TeC61LlY 10 tuFOW
an express train from the track of the Wal
kill Valley Railroad, near BinneWater
Station, New York. Several iron rails were
placed diagonally across the track, but the
engineer saw the obstruction Just in time
to avert disaster.
j. A Poormsn and two children were
poisoned, at Paw Paw, Michigan, q few days
ago, by eating pancakes In which arsenic
had been used in mistake for baking pow
der. Poorman is dead, and, at last ae-
counts. one of the children was not ex
pected to recover.
Ten boilers In the lumber and salt factory
of Hamilton, Mcclure & Co., near East Sag
inaw, Michigan, exploded a few days ago,
destroying $25, 900 worth of property and
killing four fremen-Michael and Joseph
Lehan, Francis Blanchard and Charles Car
penter. The explosion was caused by low
water.
The bed Of Prairie creek broke through
Into one OF the mines of the Chicago, Viii
mington and Vermillion Coal Company, at
Streator, Illinois, recently. Only four men
were at work In the mine at the time, and
all escaped. The bed of the stream at the
point where the break occurred is 'sonly
eight or nine inches above bed OF twenty
eight feet OF quicksand," and the break
was caused by Fridays heavy rains. The
loss to the companYis is estimated at 800, 600
-Four or five weeks will be required TO pump
out the mine and repair the break.