Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-10
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

One hundred and forty-eight persons died
in New York city between Saturday and
Sunday noon. Sixty of these deaths are
ascribed to the effects Of the heat.
The steamer Cortes, bound for st. Johns.
Newfoundland, has been wrecked while go
Ing out OF Halifax harbor by striking on
Thrum Cap. She will be total loss.
man, supposed to be Hartmann, the
Ntbilist, has arrived in Montreal and regis
tered at one Of the hotels under another
name. Meantime a detective is watching
his movements.
telegram from Tucson, Arizona, says
the statement of Lampreux, the engineer
recently captured by Apaches, sis false In
detail as to numbers and movements of the
savages and presence of Victoria"
Two large mills of the OLD Colony Com
pany, at East Taunton, Massachusetts, were
destroyed by fire. The loss is estimated at
about $4,000, and nearly three hundred
men are thrown out Of employment.
Two bodies, which had been mangled be-
Yond recognition by coyotes, were found
about ten miles from Tucson, Arizona. They
were supposed to be those of two Indians
lVnched for murder about a month ago.
AntiJewish disturbances have occurred
at Justrow, West Prussia, during which
Rabbi was wounded, his assailants escap-
ing, after a regular fight with the police
Further disturbances Of the same character
have occurred at Bublitz, In Pomerania.
The Indian chief Spotted Tail has been
shot dead by Crow Dog, captain Of police,
at the Rosebud Agency, in Nebraska
There had been i'll feeling between them
for some time. Crow Dog has gone to Fort
Niobrara, Ito await further developments. I"
A dispatch received from Oroville, CAL,
says: 81. P. Noakes was taken from the
Jail by body of masked and armed men,
conveyed a short distance from the town,
and hanged to a tree. Noakes had murdered
an old man named A. j. Crum, at Chico,
three weeks ago, by kicking him to death. {"
1t is proposed to send out an expedition
or expeditions of observation of the transit
OF Venus, which again occurs In 1882.
Nothing definite has yet been arrived at,
however, in this connection. An appropria-
ton will have to be made by Congress be-
fore the work can be undertaken. The sub
ject will be called to the attention of Con-
gress by Secretary Hunt.
The contract of the Spanish Government
for the American tobacco needed this year
in carrying on its monopoly has been
awarded to Louis Araujoy Costa, of Mad
rid, whose American agents are Galwey &
CasadO, Of New York. The contract is for
9,OOO,OOO Kilograms, equal to about IL, 500
hogsheads, Of Kentucky and Virginia to-
bacco In four grades-selections, medium
leaf, common leaf and lugs.
Constables at McKeesport, Pa, arrested
two men near Deadman's Hollow who are
thought to be the leaders of the gang of
desperadoes who murdered Mcclure. They
gave their names as Shorty and "Reddy,"
and the former is thought to be the leader
of the gang. An immense crowd gathered
around the jail and threats were made of
lynching the men as soon as 1t could be
definitely settled that they were the persons
who committed the crime.
The residents of Queenstown, near Wash
ington, d. c., are Mortified over the discov-
cry of iendish murder. Two children of
a gentleman named Fisher were found MUIR
dered, with fearful wounds in the head in
tiicted with an axe or club. An old negress
and her daughter are held for the crime.
From the evidence adduced before the
Coroner, it is thought that the old woman
killed them in fit Of drunken rage. The
children were aged three and five years.
A cold booded and terrible murder is re-
ported to have occurred recently on rail-
road train at Shannondale, small station
on a branch Of the Wabash Road, between
Salisbury and Glasgow, Mo. While sitting
Ia one of the coaches, George Wright,
passenger, was approached from behind by
two men, one of whom buried hatchet in
his skull, and the other fired pistol ball
into his head. The murderers then rushed
from the car and escaped into the woods.
Mrs. Kate Adams attempted to commit
suicide recently by jumping into the Niagara
river from in front of the pulp mill just
above the American Falls. She was noticed
by an attendant in a curiosity store near the
spot to act strangely, but not enough to ad-
NIT of interference. Shortly afterward
Mrs. Adams made the fearful leap. The
alarm was at once given and Mr. W. A.
PhflpOt, who happened to be near, threw
off his coat and vest, ran down the bank
some hundred feet, where the lady had
drifted into the stream, and brought her
safely to land.