Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-18
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Anson Eldred's large saw mill at Oconto,
Wis, with quantity of lumber was burned
yesterday morning. The loss is 100000.
Ferdinand Pitcher, ten years of age,
hanged bimself in Newport, Quebec, be-
cause his mother asked him to set the table
tor supper.
While Isaac Fenninore and his hired
woman were driving near Mount Holly, n.
j., during storm, the carriage was shat
tered by lightning, and the woman and
the horses were killed. Mr.. Fennimore es-
capped without serious injury.
During Il quarrel In low dance house on
an island opposite Hannibal, Missouri, John
Gibbons was killed by Winston Barnes and
Boyd Robinson. Barnes shot Gibbons
through the body and Robinson severed
his jugular vein. The murderers escaped.
Alphonse Choose, formerly of Quebec,
but latterly residing In the United States,
took train to return TO Quebec. His wife,
who was very ill, died on the cars, and six
miles further on his little child expired In
his arms. The stricken man took his dead
to Riviere du Loup for interment.
Hugh Brandt tied a fifty-pound rock
about his neck and filed his pockets with
stones and drowned himself in three and
half feet of water in the Mohawk at Cohoes,
N. Z. He had been unable to secure work
to his landlady, bidding her farewell for
eternity"
In the White River bottom, twenty miles
southeast OF Vincennes, Ind, Luke Mosby,
from the ambush Of hedge, fired two rifle
balls into the body of Lawson Hewitt, while
the latter was ploughing In his field. Hew-
lit was killed. They had each lost corn
cribs by fire, and mad each accused the other
of incendlarism.
The British ship Erin's Isle, which arrived
at San Francisco from Shields, England, on
the Both ult., had sixteen out of a crew of
eighteen men sick of scurvy. One died,
four remain sick on board, and the rest are
convalescent. The disease was caused by
bad and insufficient food, bad water and the
absence Of anti-scorbutics.
Edward Sherman, aged twenty-seven
years, an engineer in De Wits hub factory
at Pond Eddy, N. Y, was instantly killed by
the cars at that place the other evening. He
had stepped out of the way of one train but
directly in front of passenger train No. s,
the locomotive Of which struck aud hurled
him many feet into the air and against the
rocky cliff at that point.
O.. The Emperor William granted to Mr..
Andrew d. White a farewell audience at
the Castle of Babelsberg. His Majesty was
extremely kind and courteous, expressing
INC elHCSICSJ I6RdTU LOT Ir6Siu6nG darU6Iu
and stating that he watched the progress
of the Presidents case with the deepest in
terest. He rendered his most cordial good
wishes to the United States.
Great preparations are making for Land
League Convention at Newcastle, on the
29th inst, over which Mr.. Justin Mccarthy
will preside. Messrs. Parnell, E. Dwyer
Gray and Dillon are expected to attend.
Delegates from each branch of the League
in Great Britain will be present. Mr.. Par
nell will make a statement in regard to the
future policy and action Of the Home Rule
members of Parliament.
The authorities of Lancaster, New Hamp-
shire, have announced their determination
to have the bodies of Mrs. Bugbee, Hattie
Bugbee and Hannah Regan, servant, ex-
humed and an analysis of the contents of
their internal organs made at the same time
as those of DR.. Bugbee and Mrs. Towne,
which will be completed the present week.
Their deaths were attributed to diphtheria,
but this action of the authorities would in
dicate a suspicion that they were poisoned.