Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-07-01
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The United States steamer Wyoming has
passed out from Norfolk for Port Royal.
A fire in Tuquegabao, on one OF the Phil
ippine Islands, recently, destroyed three
hundred and sixty houses.
The st. Louis Chamber of Commerce
voted yesterday to hold no meetings on Sat
urday and Monday nights.
The Interstate yacht race at New Orleans
Yesterday was won by the Lady Emma,
Silence second, and Albertine third.
The st. Petersburg GOlos announces that
the Ministry of Marine is examining plans
for additions to the feet estimated to cost
260. .O00, 900 roubles.
Zeckendorf's powder house, at Tucson,
Arizona, blew up recently, nearly demol-
ishing the County Hospital and breaking
most of the windows In the town.
Jimmy" Hope, notorious throughout the
country as an expert bank burglar, has been
captured by the San Francisco police He
was attempting to rob the bank of f. Ber-
ton & Co.
j. Allen Barger, ex-Congressman from
Wisconsin, died recently at Lancaster, in
that State. He served in Congress from
1872 to 1876. He leaves an estate valued at
81. .000, 900.
Edward McWilliams, lineman of the
Pennsylvania Railroad, died in Jersey City
from injuries received by falling from a
liberty pole, distance of eighty feet, while
arranging the halysrd.
At New London, In the Harvard Colum-
bia freshmen straightaway race yesterday
afternoon, the Harvsrds won easily by three
lengths. Time 9O5%. The distance was
about one and seven-eighths miles.
Fl. G. Cadmus, Postmaster at South Am
boy, New Jersey, shot himself through the
hodu fovu Hou 10 he
deed in presence of his wife and three chill
dren. His accounts were nearly 5000 short.
The people of San Rafael, California,
have been alarmed by the appearance of
sparks and smoke on the summit of Mount
Tamaulipas. A volcanic outbreak is feared,
though it may be nothing more than brush
fire.
William Gale, a Welshman, has started in
New York IN an attempt to walk 5000
quarter miles in 5000 consecutive ten min
utes. He has already done 1000 consecu-
tive quarter miles In as many consecutive
ten minutes.
Prof. G. G. Broadhead, State Geologist of
Missouri, has just returned from an inves-
tigstion in the mines In North Park, Colo
RADIO. Samples of the ore from one OF the
claims have assayed from So to 803 ounces
OF silver at depth of thirty-two feet
Captain Robert Hardie, said to be the last
survivor of the Dartmoor prisoners, has Just
died In Baltimore, aged eighty-three years.
He was a native of Philadelphia, and served
as midshipman on privateer in the war of
1912. He was captured by the British and
confined for some time In the hulk at Dart
moor. Until few years ago be was ship
master from Baltimore.
The Lumber Dealers Exchange of Chi
cago have advanced prices call along the
line ~ ERn0iuU haffpng aAHonood A
cents; shingles, 25 cents; siding, beaded,
ceiling, common and Gull boards, so cents:
thick clears and selects, ten and twelve inch
stock boards, box boards, nearly all kinds
of flooring timber and scantling and floor
ing strips, 81 per thousand.
The different insurance companies of Lam
caster. Pa, held meeting recently to de-
wise means for their protection. Owing to
the recent large number of fires, they be-
lieve in the existence of an organized band
of incendiaries. 1t was decided to recon-
mend to the councils the adoption OF paid
fire department, and, falling to adopt the
recommendation, they will withdraw their
patronage from the city.
The Denver and Rio Grande Railroad
Company Is advertising In England, Ireland,
Scotland and Wales for 10000 laborers to
work on their railroad extensions in Colo
RADIO and Utah. The company has estab-
lished an English agency which signs two
years contracts with laborers at their own
homes, engaging to give them steady work
at high wages and with subsistence from the
day they report themselves st Denver or
Pueblo.
Oliver j.: Smith, q bookkeeper of the
Merchants Loan and Trust Company, of
Cticago, is reported by the officers OF that
concern to be defaulter for $31, 600. aud
to have absconded. Smiths father-in-law,
Benjamin f. Baker, denies that the young
man mas absconded. saying that he has left
town for his health only. and will return
soon, and that 'sthe trouble, II there is any,
is with inexpert new bookkeepers aud not
with Mr.. Smith,