Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-25
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The sprague injunction case will be heard
In Providence on September 26.
Captain Howgate's securities have been
accepted, and he has been released on bail.
The net earnings of the Denver and Rio
Grande Railroad for July were at the annual
rate of $3.50 per mile.
Ex-Congressman John O. Whitehouse
died in Poughkeepsie, n. Y, yesterday, in
the sixty-fourth year of his age.
VIM. Riggs, of Naugatuck, Conn while
intoxicated, stabbed his sOn-in-law, R0lltn
Bunnell, above and below the jugular vein
and in the abdomen. 1t Is feared Bunnell
will die. Riggs then cut his throat with a
razor, but severed no important artery.
The Richmond and Danville Railroad
Company having bought the Richmond,
York River and Chesapeake Road, are now
engaged in building extensive wharves and
warehouses. When completed their storage
capacity will be excelled by no seaport on
the Atlantic.
A man named Murphy, aged about twen-
ty years, was shot and killed at Lawrence,
Kansas. by two colored policemen. He had
attempted to rob hardware store, and, on
being discovered by eX-Policeman Harmon,
fired two shots at the latter, both taking eff
feet. Harmon's injuries are not serious.
Charles Davenport, about Is years of age,
has been committed to the Camden county,
N. j., Jail for attempting to wreck train
on the Camden and Atlantic Railroad, by
placing a tie on the track near Waterford,
where the boy lived. The tie was discover
ed and removed in time to prevent disaster.
Mrs. Blanchet, wife of post office en-
plOYe in Ottawa, left her sisters house at
Prescott last Friday to return to Ottawa in a
railroad train. Nothing has been heard of
her since, and it is feared she was kid
mapped by desperate gang of trampS who
have lately been depredating around Pres
colt.
The term of John E. Poindexter, sent to
the penitentiary from Richmond for two
years for the murder Of Charles (. Curtis,
will be out about the middle of February,
but three months will be deducted from
this on account Of good behavior, and this
will cut it down to about the middle of No
vember.
All Yep, Chinsman, employed as fire
man ON the steamship Bensrdy, has been
arrested at New York on the charge of
smuggling eighteen packages of tobacco
from China. He claimed that the to-
bacco was for bis own use, but he was held
to answer by United States Commissioner
Osborn in default of one thousand dollars
bail.
Davis Miller, of Bedford county, Va, a
deaf mute, on his way to the Deaf, Dumb
and Blind Institute, was sitting on the track
of the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway re-
Gently, when he was struck by passenger
train No. and instantly killed. His neck
and one arm were broken, and cash was
cut In his temple. The train came upon the
unfortunate man suddenly as 1t turned a
curve, and, therefore, the engineer did not
see him in time to stop.
A gang of burglars have been busy in
Luzerne county, Pa, since Saturday last.
The Delaware, Lackawanna and Western
Railroad depot and freight house, and the
shovel works, at Wyoming, were entered at
the latter place, and the safe was pried
open. In West Pittston three residences
and Wisner g. Strong's foundry were Wis
tied. At Nanticoke entrance was gained
into D. P. Crockett's mill, and the safe was
blown open and robbed of its contents.
Detectives are working up the affair, but
are reticent.