Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-06-18
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Since the 1st Of June 20 200 immigrants
have arrived at Castle Garden.
Woman suffrage received but one vote
in the italian Chamber OF Deputies-that
Of its proposer, Signor Fabri.
The total of coupon per cent. bonds re-
ceiVed at the Treasury Department for con-
tinuance at 31< per cent. foots up $42, ,000,-
600.
The mortgage on Congressman HYATT
Smiths church In BROOKLYN has been fore
closed and the church will be sold by the
Sheriff.
Dwight Kidder, Jr., the boy murderer,
who shot his half-brother, c. d. Kidder, at
Springfield, Mass, has been held for the
grand jury.
Hugh E. Mullen, clerk of the distributing
department of the Chicago post Office, has
been held In $1,000 bail on the charge of
stealing money from letters.
The Daily Telegraph says ''At a late hour
last night a telegram from Paris stated that
no objection to Foxhal as the winner of the
Grand PrlT had been received there"
The death is announced of Professor Geo.
Rolleston, of Oxford University at the age
Of 50, and of Sir Josiah Mason, the distin
guished manufacturer and philanthropist.
A Palestine, Texas, special says: "In the
case of G. G. Rogers, charged with the MUIR
der OF Bishop, about eighteen months ago,
the jury brought in verdict of acquittal.
A dispatch from Troupe. Texas, says :
"Shad to the number of 125. 900, sent out
bv the Fish Commissioners at Washington,
were deposited in Sabine river yesterday"
A dispatch from Dallas, Texas, says the
party of Mormons who immigrated from
England to Western Texas last fall, passed
through that city on their way to Salt Lake.
Work at the Pepperell and Laconia Mills,
Biddeford, Me-, is now practically stopped,
those not engaged In the strike quitting
work for want of material in the proper
stages Of manufacture.
Five sacks of mail matter which arrived
at the New York post Office from Bermuda,
were found to be without labels indicating
their destination. 1t is presumed that
steamer rats destroyed the labels, which
were of parchment.
Albert Felix Vogel, on trial at New York,
charged with attempted abduction of little
Rosa Strasburger, has been convicted and
remanded He will be tried on another
indictment next week, charging him with
attempted robbery.
The body of an unknown man was found
at the ferry landing on the Canada side of
Niagara Falls, with rope around the neck.
The body was unrecogDizable, having evil
IDENTIFY been in the water for some time.
Foul play is suspected.
Stephen A. Hurlbut, appointed Minister
to Peru, has decided to accept the position
He will sail on June 30ih. 1t is said the in
structions to Hurlbut will direct him to pre-
vent, II possible, further ABSORPTION and de-
struction of Peru by Chill.
An explosion of gas occurred in the Office
of the English Loan Company, at London.
Mr.. Elliott, the Secretary, was hurled
through window and severely burned
about the face and arms. The gas leaked
in the vault, and hence the explosion. The
building was badly shattered and the win
dows were broken.
As John Evans, of Wayne street. was
walking through Henderson street, Jersey
City, he was accosted by James Sullivan, a
travelling chiropodist, who, without any
provocation, struck him ia the face with
his fist. Evans retaliated by knocking his
sssailant down. When Sullivan regalned
his feet he pulled large knife from his
pocket and stabbed Evans six times in the
head.
On the eighteenth day Of his fast, John
Griscom weighed 17215 pounds, a gain Of Il
OF a pound In "a hours, during which he
drank 80 ounces OF water His respiration
was 10, pulse 81, and temperature 50 3 5.
A microscopic examination Of his blood
"showed it to be in an almost perfectly
healthy condition" It Is also stated that
"he pressed the dynamometer to its utmost
limit, and with a dead weight lifted 500
pounds"