Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-21
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY,

Charles Herbert, a carpenter. was fatally
sunstruck at Charleston yesterday.
The crops in the neighborhood OF Ouebec
were badly damaged by frosts last week.
Ihe trial OF the assassins of the late Sui
week,
Mrs. W. II. Current died of fright in
Farls, NY, In consequence of her brother
James 0ffutt, attempting to kill her nus.
band.
Two workmen fell from the new canitol
at Albany Saturday. One of them was
oadlY injured; the other, named Baxter,
from Syracuse, was killed.
The Bank Commissioners of New Hamp.
shire, In their annual report, state that the
total deposits in sixty-four banks amount to
S32, OOO 700. The banks have surplus of
81, ,225 900.
The number of mercantile failures in the
United States and Canada, reported last
week, was sixty five, decrease of twenty
from last week, and the smallest number
reported for any single week this year.
John MillroY, Thomas Killroy, Thomas
bennington, Edward Canval, Edward Hanev
and Thomas Quinn, whose ages range from
SIX to eight years, were arraigned In JERSEY
City for robbing factory and were com
mitted for trial.
The COroner's inquest IN the case OF VIM.
Boucicault, the brother of Dion Boucicault.
who died suddenly in q railway Carriage
near 4london, showed that he died of heart
complaint, aggravated by his hurrying to
catch the railway train.
Lizzie Mcguire, sixteen years old. of oaS
East Eighty sixth street, New York. at
tempted suicide by Jumping iato the East
river because sAe failed so obtain admissiny;
to the 43etnai School. She was rescued bv
one oil the blackwelPs Island guard boats.
William e. Candy, formerly of Salisbury.
Mass, was hanged few days ago at Col.
orado Springs, Col, for tas murder of
Deputy Marshal Perkins at Buena Vista in
April lass. st was stated, but denied, that
ne wAs the nephew of General B. T. Butler.
Mrs. Catharine Healey, the saloon keeper
at Hartford, Conn, who struck a drunken
man named James +. Farrell blow on the
head with bottle for refusing TO leave her
place on the 10th OF March last, has been
found guilty Of manslaughter in the Supe-
rior Court and sentenced to jail for two
years.
Captain Higginson, Inspector of Lights at
Baltimore, has notified vessels that on last
Thursday two canal barges ran iato a sunken
barge in the main channel off Turkey Point,
and were sunk. They are now in the way
OF passing vessels and will be buoyed as
soon as possible. Turkey Point is at the
mouth Of Elk river, Maryland.
Seven of a gang of convicts in transit
from the st. Vincent de Paul Pennitentiarv
to the Kingston Pennitentiary, in Ontario.
escaped recently by slipping their handouts
and jumping from the railroad train while
1t was going at full speed on q down grade
near Prescott. one OF the fugitiyes was
captured the others at last accounts were
still at large.
The trouble between the white settlers
and the Indians In the Choctaw Nation,
growing aut Of the attempt OF the whites to
eYade payment of the tax imposed under
the "PeFmit Law" is reported to be in
creGsing. 1t is announced that the militia
OF San Bois county will meet at the court
house Wednesday to take steps for the ex-
pulsion OF the whites who refuse to pay the
tax.
George D. RumseY, u she prominent
grain commission hoase of Rumsey Bros. q
CO., 0f Chicago, died few days ago In that
.sitY, aged sixty years. He was i native of
TROY, n Y, and settled in Chicago in 1886.
He soon engaged with his brother Julian in
the grain trade, and In time the business of
the firm grew so large that they have Desn
known to ship 2,SOO,0O0 bUshels 0t grain in
a single month,
4he .fiFtsRHrg Telegraph says unknown
m1aasked nen, one night recently, In a
drunken freak, tarred and feathered Eli
Green and wife, OF spriDghill, Greene coun-
tY, Armstrong Sexton and wife, living near
by, and Sarah Roads. They also unsuccess-
fully tried 1t on John Petit in the neigh
borhood, but were foiled, and, crossing the
river to West Virginia, they went through
the same performance with several psraons
RACES,