Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-02
Brief News summary.

strike for 50 per day April 4.
There were forty-tbree deaths In Philadel-
phia from smallpox last week.
The Chamber Of Deputies has voted co.
600, 900 francs TO indemnify the sufferers by
the coup d'etat in 1851.
General Grant and family arrived at Gal
weston at IL o'clock yesterday morning.
They will leave for Vera Cruz to day.
F. 8. Powell, Conservative member of the
House of Commons for Wigan, who was
elected in January last, has been unseated
for bribery.
The principal organs of the Vienna press
publish articles entirely unfsvorable to the
scheme for an international entente against
political refugees.
Harlan P. Hale has been arrested in New
Haven for attempting to poison a whole
family named Sanborn, by putting strYch.
nine in their tea kettle.
Advices from Sitka state that the Indians
at Hoochenoo have burned two of their
number. The show is Is feet deep In the
Yukon mining district.
About fifty suits have been brought in the
Superior Court at San Francisco by wealthy
! citizens to contest the new tax law. Property
worth Sl9O, 900 600 is represented.
The directors of the Northern Pacific
Railroad Company, at meeting in New
York, decided to vigorously contest the suit
OF Henry Willard for an Injunction.
The Irving Hall Democracy of New York
have approved the plan of organization of
the New York County Democracy recon-
mended by the committee of one hundred.
james Hart, young man, was murdered
near Texarcana, Ark Monday, and placed
upon railroad track, where the body was
horribly mangled by train. A man named
johnson has been arrested on suspicion.
A telegram from Ottawa says instructions
have been sent to intercept the steamer
Australian, at Sable Island, Nsva Scotia, 1t
being supposed that she has on board one
or more OF the Mansion House conspiratore.
The New York Aldermen have passed
resolutions requesting the commissioners of
the several city departments to increase the
wages Of mechanics and laborers in their
employ to the standard In ordinary busi-
ness.
While preparations were making for the
launching of a repaired schooner at Jordan
Run, Nova Scotia, the vessel was blown
over by the wind and fell upon the men
beneath, killing one and injuring two
others.
Daniel Reistier, stock raiser, was shot
dead by renegade Indian in San Bernardo
no county, Cal, on account Of some triflng
difficulty. The murderer was arrested, but
soon after number of masked men took
him out and hung him.
Specials to the Cleveland Herald from
100 points In Ohio, regarding the wheat crop
prospects, show general increase in acre
age ranging from 10 to 25 per cent. The
winter has been, almost everywhere, f0vora.
BILE to large yield.
Secretary Blaine has decided not to give
letters of Introduction to Americans going
abroad, government officers travelling on
Official business excepted. 1t has been
found that ''indiscriminate letters of intro
duction are subject to abuses"
Mrs. Henry Ingram, of Battle Creek,
Michigan, had some teeth drawn last Oeto-
Der, and has been unable to eat ANYTHING
since. She has been kept alive by beef tea
and milk baths acting by absorption, the
quantity thus absorbed being nearly quart
day. 1t is said that her stomach is para
lyzed.
The Governor Of Wisconsin has signed
the bill recently passed by the Legislature
prohibiting the practice of treating in that
State. 1t provides that any person who
shall ask another to drink at his expense,
or any person cOnsenting to drink at an
others expense, shall be liable to arrest and
punishment.
During the trial of the Steamboat Inspect
ors, James and Matthews, Wednesday. in
the United States CIRCUIT Court, In New
York, for granddaughter In connection with
the seawanhaka disaster, several boiler
makers testified to the unsoundness of the !
boilers. One of them said the boilers should |
have been condemned three years ago.
Seth Mckinney was shot dead bv Ira
Miller, IN quarrel, at Gilman, Indiana, on |
Monday night. Miller escaped. Hezekiah |
Jones was killed 10 fight with two brothers |
named Cornett, at Morehead, Kentucky, last |
week. Timothy Kearney waylaid and as /
saulted Lawrence FagaA, at Ferryville, Con- |
necticut, on Monday night, and received a |
shot from Pagan. from the effects of which /
he has since dead.
At San FIaucisco Wednesday, Judge Sui |
livan, OF the Superior Court, decided one of |
the numerous suits instituted by Burke |
against the Bonanza firm. The suit decided |
is that of Burke vs. Flood ct al, and is in /
favor OF Burke. The amount WLieh Flood |
ct al. Will have to pay under this decision,
II thew conclude not TO appeal, VIII be about /
$SaO, 800, and the decision will have an Inn
portant bearing on other suits pending, in
VolviDg about SlO.OOO,OOO.
In the "Morey letter. case the District !
Attorney OF New York city has resolved to
abandon the criminal proceedings instituted
against Kenward Philip, the alleged writer
of the article commenting on the letter, and
Joseph Hart, Louis f. Post and Charles A.
Byrne, publisher and editors of the sheet
In which the libel was published. A noIls
will be entered on the indictments
and the bondsmen released from their oblf-
cations. James 0'Brien, alias Robert Lind.
say, who swore on the examination that he
had seen the mythical II. L. Norey, to
whom the forged communication of PresI-
dent Garfield was addressed, is now and has
been for months confined In the tombs, and
VIII soon be sentenced for perjury.
1t is settled that the next contest for the
Ashley belt will take place in England.
Rowell, the holder of the belt, and Westop'
the challenger, baging met at
The oflce of the 1arf, Field and Farm ana !
affixed their signatures tS the articles ~
agreement. According to these the contest
= SO 20 commence at l a. m Monday, June %,
1901, ana end at Ii p. m. the following sat-
aroay. The precise locality is to be de-
claed 5T weston before the 23d of May,
wwhen the final stakes are to be deposited.
hoWel sails for Europe next Tuesday, and
ais friends are Preparing to give him q live
y send off," Weston will leave In May,
previous to which he says, he will give an
exhibition at WashfnQtOl Pa tff0 shnux. an |