Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-09-10
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Archbishop Henni, of the Roman Catholic
Archdiocese of Milwaukee, Is dead, aged
seventy six years.
A Geneva dispatch says: "The village of
Reichenbach, in Bernese Oberland, has
been almost destroyed by fall of stone"
George Hoover, aged thirteen years, who
shot and killed his sister Lottie, near Sun
bury, Pa, In May last, has been convicted
of manslaughter. Sentence was deferred.
John Caspar Deitzel was arrested near
Ten Mile Run, New Jersey, for stealing
grain. He and his family resisted the
officer, and he was shot in the melee. His
dead body has since been found in the
woods.
The North German Gazette, of Berlin, says:
ga judicial investigation confirms the sup
position that the vessels Diogenes and So
crates, built at Kiel, where they were seized
more than month ago, were intended for
warlike purposes"
-Four prisoners, named Lawless, Hoag-
land, Schoop and White, escaped from the
county jail at Sunbury, Pa, by cutting
through the iron plated stone ceiling of
cell, and getting into garret from whence
they rushed down the main stairway.
The herdsman in the employ of Capt.
0'Callsghan, of Tulla, county Glare, who
was shot fortnight ago, has died from his
wound. The bitter vindictiveness of the
persons concerned in the murder is shown
by the posting of notices cautioning the
people against attending the funeral.
A dispatch from the "CantoDment on the
Uncompaghre, Colorado reports that the
Ute Indians have all been removed to their
new reservation. They were not In hurry
to start, but the presence of a military
force, under Colonel Mackenzie, accele-
rated their departure. The Indians had
not all left before settlers and nining
prospectors began to crowd in an their old
lands,
NJ. Gambetta, speaking at q banquet at
HOnAeur, said! "My convictions have not
changed. You are strong and ingenious
enough to sustain competition with other
nations" In conclusion he expressed the
wish that treaties consecrating free trade
might be speedily concluded The speech
was received with loud and prolonged
cheering.
Charles Rust, William Benton, Charles
Tharshir and Charles Crause were killed at
Sawyer City, near Bradford, Penn, recently
by the premature explosion of a torpedo,
a. an oil well. William Satterly and Edward
Wilson were fatally injured by the same
explosion. The explosion was caused by
the recklessness of Rust, who, finding the
shell, knocked IT down twice with his fist.
An extensive conhagration, caused by the
protracted drought, is raging in the Dismal
Swamp, destroying large quantities of val
liable timber and doing other damage. Tha
smoke from the fire overhangs Norfolk dav
and night. The dry.weather prevailing in
North Carolina below that point has / ! some
sections 50 scorched the corn crop that the
farmer2 ere cutting it off and stacking it up
Tor fodd sr, and the rice crop is entirely cut
of in that State.
Tuesday was "daIk day, ia portions of
New England. A telegram from Spring
held says that "the atmosphere throughout
western Massachusetts until nearly two
O'Clock was first of reddish and then OF
yellow hue; and it gave blue tinge to the
grass, and in some cases wholly changed
the color of the 5owers. 1t was so dark
that all places of business were lighted.
and some OF the public schools aud large
manufacturing concerns were closed. Gas
burned with blue light, and electric
lamps had still more sulphurous appear
ance." Whether the phenomenon was
ceusod BYa peculiar haze in the atmos-
phere or by the smoke from the buraipe
forests in New York and Ontario is not
known.