Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-16
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Prince Bismarck is improving in health.
The son of an Ohio Supreme Court Judge
has gone to State prison for forgery.
The merchants of Vera Cruz are Indignant
at the proposed increase of quarantine at
New Orleans.
The Berlin correspondent of the 81. James
Gazette mentions report that America and
France intend to form a bi metallic union.
Officer Timothy Mahony, of Chicago, was
shot and killed by burglars whom he at
tempted to arrest. The murderers escaped.
The boy preacher, Thomas Harrison, is
now conducting revival in Indianapolis,
Ind. The total number of converts is re
ported to be nearly 1000.
Hereafter if British soldier is killed in
action or dies of wounds within six months
after being wounded, his widow is to receive
gratuity of one years pay.
In the suit of Brown against the Western
Union Telegraph Company at Fort Worth,
Texas, for $4,000, for non delivery of
message, Brown recovered S., 600.
The government house at Toronto, Cana
ds, was entered recently and tin box,
with papers, was removed. The papers We're
found in the grounds where they had been
scattered.
The trade and navigation reports at Cal
distribution of trade, one OF the most note
worthy facts is the falling off in the trade
with America.
During the sixty days between the middle
Of March and the middle of May, the value
of seals captured and killed in a relatively
small area OF the Newfoundland fisheries
was about 5000 600.
The government telegraph operatives at
London and at Leeds have resolved to cease
work. g overtime on the 9th lust as
preliminary to obtain reduction of their
hours of service.
Two butchers known as Rube and Sidney
Patrick, living twelve miles west of Golden,
Col, quarreled over the ownership of a
dog, when Sidney shot aud killed his
brother. The murderer was arrested
The scheme of employing volunteer
clerks to carry on the census work has sue
ceeded beyond expectation. The Temporary
or volunteer roll is complete, and many
more persons have applied TO be retained
than were needed.
Seven thousand wild pigeons from the
Indian Territory are now in the coops at
Jersey City, and 5000 more Will arrive on
the 18th inst. The birds are for the use of
the New York State Sportmen's Associa-
tion's tournament, which will be held at
Coney Island next week.
During the usual exercises at the San
Francisco Sand Lot on Sunday, DR.. O'Don-
mel, who runs every Sunday an opposition
meeting to Denis Kearney, in the course
OF his harangue, produced the British and
Chinese flags, and, rolling them in a bundle,
burned them on the platform.
Michael j. Houstin, aged sixty-six, and
his son Michael H., aged thirty, were both
suffocated at Frederick, Md, by foul air
from well. They were taking out pump
stock, when the son went down and fell
into the water, and the father followed to
rescue him, and both lost their lives.
Chief d. w. Bushey, head of the Chero-
kee Nation, has issued a proclamation for
general election on the 1st of August. The
contt S. between the two opposing factions,
styled National" and "Union,n is most
bitter. Several murders have been reported.
The most brutal is that of D. B. Adair, can
didate for the Solicitorship, who was shot
down by man with whom he was drinking.
His body was tied to horse, and the ghast-
ly burden was borne home to his wife and
children.
The discovery of the supposed real heir
to the Tichborne estate has been made at
Winnipeg. He is an invalid in the hopital
from injuries received on section A of the
Pacific Railway. His name is James Riches
Coles, Riches being his mothers maiden
name, and Tichborne the title of the es-
tate. He says he is fifty-two years of age,
and admits, what is perhaps useless to deny,
that he is uneducated. His story is that he
left England when between nineteen and
twenty years Of age to follow the sea- He
came from Australia, via Euglands to
Canada.