Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-24
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The dory Little Western, which sailed
from London on the 14th instant for
America, has arrived at Cowes.
There were anti-French demonstrations
in Palermo Wednesday, and there have been
several arrests in Naples for similar hostile
demonstrations.
The Washington monument of the national
capital has reached height of exactly two
hundred feet. When finished. the shaft is
to be five hundred and fifty feet high.
There have been quarrels and stabbings
between Frenchmen and Italians at Joigny,
Nancy, Vanvres and in some of the poorer
quarters of Paris, but without serious re-
suits.
Antoine Struckel, who won fourth money
In the recent O'Leary pedestrian match at
Chicago. has started from Chicago to walk
to New York (nine hundred and sixty miles),
in twenty days.
Capt. j. B. Eads, OF Missouri, has gone to
Toronto, at the request of the British Gov
ernment, to begin an examination of that
harbor with view of devising means for
its permanent improvement.
A man named John Chester was knocked
down by trsmps near Hamburg, Berks
county, Pa. They deliberately cut his
throat because he had no money. 1t is
thought that he will recover.
In Virginia City, Nevada, Alexander
Boyeite, while drunk, attacked with pis-
tol some friends who were taking him home.
killed one, seriously wounded two others,
and then fatally wounded himself.
Ex-Secretary of War Ramsey will be an
pointed one OF the committee to Investigate
charges preferred against Superintendent
Dodge, of the San Francisco Mint. The
two additional members will be taken from
the Pacific coast.
By the collision of freight train with a
COW, on bridge near Freeport, Penn, the
bridge, the engine, and ten cars were pre-
cipitated into the river. James E. Repine,
engineer, James DIETRICH, fireman, and Mai
Snowden, OF Freeport, passenger, were
killed.
j. M. Kaiser, a commercial traveller of
Quincy, H., was shot and dangerously
wounded without warning on q Hannibal
Keith, Of Columbus, Ind, who. is insane.
Keith then pulled the bell cord, the train
slowed up, and he jumped off.
The safe of Schroeder, Smith IL Stassen.
at Peotone, ILL.,. was blown open recently
and robbed of five hundred dollars in cash
and ten thousand dollars In notes, mort
cages, etc. The burglars then appropriated
horse and buggy and disappeared. Two
clerks who slept in a storeroom overhead
were SO frightened that neither of them
dared to 60 down.
A warrant has been served at Providence,
R. l., on David Black, one of the publishers
of the Telegram, OF that city, for alleged
criminal libel on W. B. Hallett, an attorney
at law. The Sheriff sought G. Z. Corbett,
the other publisher, and found that he had
transferred his interest to Black ana left
town. Two Of Corbett's brotheTs are at
present serving term Of imprisonment for
libel.
4 scene causing great excitement occur
red at the Ste. Curegonde (Roman Cstholic)
Church, Montreal, recently. A number
of young ladies, candidates for the
Association of the Virgin Mary, pre-.
sented themselves at the altar dress
ed in long lace wells. A lighted
taper coming IN contact with one of the
wells, set it on fire, and but for the presence
of mind OF some men who were present, and
who threw their coats around the girl, she
would have been burned to death. She was
severely burned about the neck and arms.