Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-09
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Count De Douhet, life Senator of France,
is dead.
The Turner's festival at s. Louis closed
Tuesday with a picnic at Forest Park
and a grand ball at Masonic Hall in the
evening.
A retired Colonel of the Russian army
has shot and killed, in the streets of Sebas-
topol, Cspfsin Costomaroff, hero Of the
Crlmesn war.
The Grand Circuit races open at Pitts
burg on the 18th inst, where $50, goo is hung
up in purses. st Julien and Maud s. are
booked for the 14;h.
telegram from Vienna, published in
Paris, asserts that the European powers are
comforting with a view to secure complete
neutrality in the Panama Canal.
1t is reported that Brady, Gorbam and a.
c. Buell., the editor of the Washington
Capital, are about to stsrt an anti ad-
ministrstion afternoon paper in Washing
ton.
Gen. Schofeld has written letter. which
is published in the Chicago Tribune,
claiming that he fought the battle
of Franklin against General Thomas or
dars.
The steamship Choug, manned and off
cered entirely by Chinese, sailed from Hong
Kong for Victoria, British Columbia, on the
1st inst, with five hundred Cinnamon to
work on the Canada Pacific Railway.
A terrible storm occurred at Gatschina,
Russia, on the 4th inst, killing policeman,
Overturning the granite column OF the monu-
meut of the Emperor Paul, and otherwise
doing an enormous amount OF damage.
The storehouse of W. L. Burton, at Lewes,
Del, was entered by means of false keys,
and large fire-proof safe was blown to
pieces and its contents, consisting of five
thousand dollars in checks, notes and bonds,
were taken away. There is no elew to the
perpetrators.
Mrs Catharine Crave, who on January 90
was shot by William Stiemsn, a boarder
whom she had shown the door, died at her
home in Charlton street, New York, few
DAYS ago. The bullet had lodged in Mrs.
Graves skull, and it was wonder to the
physicians that she lived so long after the
assault.
That portion Of the building of the Robin
son Wagon Company, in Cincinnati, which
was saved from burning when the other
buildings we're destroyed two or three
months ago, was totally destroyed by ire
Tuesday night, with a large quantity OF
property and machinery. Loss $50, 600.
Insurance $4,000.
A Detroit woman of seventy covered her
hair with wig, pat on close mask, and
went TO fancy dress bail In the costume OF
a fl over girl. She enjoyed the fun OF fool
ing the young fellows, and kept it up
vigorously half the night. Then she tainted
from over exertion, and had to be taken
home, where she died before morning.
Lewis Helmer, aged twsntY-six years,
ousrreled with some boys In butcher shop
in Cincinnati few nights since, and one of
them, named MahoneY, threw piece OF
window glass at him, which struck him in
the head. Next morning HelmeE was found
In the shop lying in pool OF blood, ana he
died while being taken to the hospital.
Lee Chin, a CbinamSn, and Mrs. Eva H.
Lee, a white woman, have been indicted at
CheyenGe, Wyoming, for marrying each
other, statute OF that Territory forbidding
such marriages. They went to Denver to
get married, there being nothing prohibiting
it in the laws of Colorado. The Chinese
Consul at Denver, by direction OF the Chi
nese Ambassador at Washington, will con-
test the indictment. Meanwhile, the Chi
nese Ambassador is preparing full state
meut of the case to be presented to the Sec
retsry OF State.
A man named John Soard is serving life
sentence In the Kentucky penitentiary
under conviction of the murder OF l. B.
Whitney, who, It has 1lst been discovered,
Is living and serving as Constablef In Cleve-
land. Ohio. Soard was convicted FIVE months
aoo on cIrcumstantial evidence, dead
body having Eeen found in Casey county,
Ky.' and falsely swoFn TO be WhitneY's.
Whitney was employed for sot.le Hne In
the government secret service, with head
ousrters at Cincinnati, and Soard had been
his assistant, but he knew nothing OF his
trial and conFi5ticn until the other oay'
when he received letter rfoEl Hiq1'