Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-08-04
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The public debt statement shows a de-
crease of SIC, ,07S, ,O23 during July.
Boyce's baggipg factory at Muncie, Ind,
has been destroyed by fire. Loss $4,000.
The deaths in New York city during July,
numbered 1880, against 1880 during July,
1880.
The corn crop in Illinois and Iowa is re-
ported light, and many localities anticipate
but half crop.
The total coinage Of the United States
Mints during July, including 2,250,000
standard dollars, was valued at 50, ,S96, 200.
Rev. VIM. G. Campbell, an aged and ex-
tensivelY known Presbyterian clergyman,
died in Harrisonburg, Virginia, On Tuesday
night.
Hon. VIM. G. Fargo, President of the
American Express Company, and once
Mayor of Buffalo, died yesterday at Buffalo,
aged sixty-three years.
Burglars entered the Office Of the City Tax
Collector in Wilmington, Delaware, and
blew open the safe, but were frightened off
without securing any plunder.
Three dispatches. from Sturgeon Bay,
Wis, say that the northern part of that pc
ninsula has been damaged considerably by
forest fires, and immense damage is threat
ened.
Annie Powers died recently In New
Brunswick. n j., "from the effects of tar
taIic acid poisoning from lemonade" She
drank fifteen glasses of the beverage at an
excursion few days ago.
Miss Belle Runyon, of Cincinnati, was
killed at Keokuk, Iowa, by the fall of a
carriage over the canal embankment, dis
tance OF eighty feet. Two others riding
with her escaped uniniured.
Two daughters of DIR. South, of Coteau
dV I aO Ouahpp anpd racnaafixyalv
and twenty years, were drowned recently
while trying to rescue their younger sister,
who got beyond her depth IN bathing. The
latter was saved.
Chancellor Menzies, at Cincinnati has
quashed levy made by the Circuit Court
of Kenton, KY, upon the Cincinnati South
ern Railroad, with an order for its sale to
satisfy Judgment. The Chancellor holds
that the railroad was Lot subject to a levy
and execution sale.
While Lord Lorne's party was crossing a
portage between Black river and White
Fish Bay, in Manitoba, few days ago,
Alexander McManus, driver of the baggage
wagon, fell from his seat while going down
hill, and a wheel passed over him, iniur-
| ing his spine so badly that he died in a few
minutes.
| At Hughestown, suburb of Pittston, the
ground was observed sinking over the old
| workings or the seneca Mines, about three
hundred yards in length and fifteen to
twenty in width. The house of John
| FeeneY, miner, was wrecked, and the road
leading through the place is considered un-
safe, it being Visibly sunken.
While Mrs. Simpson, boarding house
| keeper in Detroit, was returning from mar
| ket, she was shot by a man hidden behind
fence, who Immediately ran away. She
died yesterday morning, and her husband,
| from whom she had been for some time
separated, and whom she charged with the
crime, was arrested on suspicion.
William A. Stuart, county clerk of San
| Francisco, Cal, who, it is alleged, has in
volved himself in financial difficulties, is
said to have left for the East on Friday.
The public funds were not touched by him.
| His mode of procedure is said to have been
to get power Of attorney from his depu-
ties, of which he had over hundred, with
salaries ranging from 800 to $3.50 per
month, and draw their salaries or hypothe-
cate the warrants. If deputy got fmpor-
| tunate for his salary Stuart would give him
duplicate warrant, which, In most cases
were sold to brokers. One broker loses
| $4,000.