Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-22
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The Irish census shows population of
5.159,849, being a decrease of 252, ,536 since
1871.
Charters for 5000, 600 bushels of grain
have been taken from Chicagoto New York
by railroad companies at Is cents per hun
dred.
A dispatch from Constantinople SAYS:
"The local post here will be re established,
its suppression having been only temper
ary police measure"
General Weaver, the recent candidate of
the Greenbackers for President, has begun
a canvass of the State of Massachusetts in
the interest of his party.
Fritz Miller, German who had met with
reverses OF fortune lately. ended his life at
Chicago by laying his neck on the track in
front OF an approaching train.
Two boats were capsized by a squall on
Lower Saranac Lake, In the Adirondacks,
few nights ago, and young lady and
guide in one of them were drowned.
The first arrival of new crop wheat from
Virginia was sold on Change in Baltimore
yesterday. 1t was from Northumberland
county, and sold for 81 25 per bushel.
A dispatch from Sofia SAYS: "MM. San
coof, KaraVeroff, Slaveikoff and Liknaroff
have been arrested on the charge of insult
ing Prince Alexander, and attacking the
government in an electoral proclamation.'
Paul Boyton, who left st. Paul on the
Both of last month for a swim to Cairo, ILL.,,
has arrived at st. Louis, and was received
by large crowd on the shores and the
bridge. He will remain three DAYS in st.
Louis to recuperate.
In the Senate of New York Yesterday a
resolution, offered by Mr.. Astor, was adopt
ed whereby the Governor is directed to ex-
tend the courtesies of the State to the
French delegation who are designated to
attend the Yorktown celebration.
A young Office boy named La Londe has
been arrested in Montreal by detectives on
nineteen charges of robbery, principally of
stamps from insurance Offices. His brother
used to "let him down ropes from high
windows to rooms he wished to entern
a severe storm passed over northern
Ohio recently. In various places trees were
uprooted, bridges swept away, houses and
barns demolished or unroofed, and horses
and cattle killed and injured. The storm
lasted an hour, but its path averaged only
half mile in width.
In awarding contracts for certain supplies
for the Post Office Department. for the next
fiscal year, and for which Congress had ap.
propriated 100000, the awards We're made
at figures so much below those of last year
that $35 00G of the appropriation will be
saved without diminishing the quantities.
The Spanish Government has decided to
send the steamer Yulceno Immediately to
Oran, Algeria, to protect Spanish subjects,
and hopes are expressed that France will
chastise the insCrgent tribes who recently
raided, robbed and murdered the Spanish
employees of the Espart factory nesr saiida
A number OF dead bodies have recentlv
been found In the Missouri river at Kansas
City, and the existence of an organfzed
gang Of murderers is suspected. The latest
CHASTITY discoveries were the nude body of
young woman, found few days ago: the
headless body of a man, and the body of
man with the throat cut,
Charles Allison, Lewis Perkins and Henry
Walls, notorious highway robbers, for whose
arrests rewards aggregating Sl,400 were
offered, have been captured atAlbuaueroue.
New Mexico, by being enticed into livery
stable, where they were Immediately covered
by the revolvers OF twenty men, concealed
therein.
An official return states that there are
now five hundred and ffty-six blast fur
naces in operation in Great Britain out of
nine hundred and sixty seven existing.
Preparations are making to reduce the pro-
duction OF iron in the Cleveland and Dur.
ham districts to the extent OF nearly one
bHousduu tOn5 WEEKLY.
An investigation which has been going on
at Keokuk, Iowa, for two weeks, into the
affairs of the Keokuk elevator, owned by
John SEurgis, shows that since May 18th
100, 900 bushels of grain have disappeared
from the elevator. For this grain Francis
j. Kennett 81 Co., of Chicago, hold ware
house receipts. No trace of the grain can
be found, and both civil and criminal suits
are TO be COMMENCED. I
Patrick Lyon, :'reputed railroad man,
of Iowa." has been arrested In Anoka, Min
nesota, on the charge of robbing two |
brothers named Hayes. Fhe brothers were
found dead In their room, it is supposed |
from suffocation caused by the explosion of |
lamp, and Lyon first entered their room
after the explosion. The HaYeses had 5000 |
when they went into the room, and only 50 |
was found on them.
A telegram from the city of Mexico says
General Grant Will engage hotel room there |
from September for himself and party. The
hotels are enlarging in anticipation of an |
American influx in the fall. A trust deed, |
executed in New York by the Mexican Ma |
tional Railway and Construction Compa- |
nies. for 81 500, ,000, with Lewis Fl. Meyer |
and Andrew A. Green as trustees, has been
registered in the city of Mexico. 1t is the |
first time such was ever registered there.
John Arnott, aged 3s, who recently ar.
rived In this country from Scotland, and |
whe had been drinking excessively since |
his arrival. committed suicide in Earle's |
Hotel, New York. by cutting his throat. In |
his possession were found letter from his |
parents, addressed to him upon leaving |
home, giving him good advice, promising |
to forget his past shortcomings and wish |
ing him well, and letter from . young |
lady to whom 1t appears he was betrothed |
on the eve OF his departure for America.