Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-21
Rrfef News Summary.

The sub Treasury at Manzanillo, Cuba,
has been robbed OF SIS, 900 In gold.
Nearly all the mechanics and laborers in
Newport, Rhode Island, are now on strike.
John Errierdo, trapeze performer, fell
aud broke both his legs while rehearsing at
Hoboken.
dispatch from st. Petersburg to the
London Morning Post says: "Russia intends
to ask England to extradite Hartmann"
A dispatch from Szegedn, Hungary, says:
CATER two weeks of almost superhuman
exertion, the danger of an inundation is
passing away"
Almost the whole of the business part of
the town of San Marcial n. NJ, was des-
troyed by fire Tuesday. Loss on the build
ings $4,000.
The conductors and drivers on the horse
railroads in Boston have demanded an in
crease of 20 per cent. in their wages. The
South Boston Road has increased the wages
81 s.. It's drivers and conductors from q @ 70
There were ten cases of smallpox among
the Chinese immigrants on the steamer
Oceanic, which arrived at San Francisco on
Sunday from Hong Kong. The vessel is
kept at quarantine, but the mails have been
fumigated and sent ashore.
The storm of Friday night In Nova Scotia
was almost unexampled in violence along
the western shore. No lives are reported
lost, but the destruction of property was
great, nearly every person on the coast
being loser by the wind and waves.
The hearing of argument on the legality
OF the issue of deferred income bonds by
the Philadelphia and Reading Railroad Com
pany, took place yesterday afternoon in the
United States Circuit Court before Judges
McKennan and Butler, at Philadelphia.
While at work repairing bridge on the
Montreal Railroad at East Concord, few
days ago, forty men were swept off the
bridge by the swinging round of large
piece of timber, and fell fifteen feet to the
track beneath. Four of them were seri-
ously injured.
Margaret Pryor, an unmarried negro
woman, is now in jail at Harrisonburg, Va,
charged with attempting to poison the
family of T. L. Williams, of Rockingham
county, on the 18th of February last, by the
use of strychnia. The prisoner put the
poison in pitcher of milk to be used by
the family at breakfast.
At meeting of the stockholders OF the
Texas and Mexican Railway on the 18th
instant, the following officers were elected:
Charles P. Hinchman, of Philadelphia,
President; Captain NJ. Kennedy, of Corpus
Christi, Vice President; Captain John Pratt
Secretary, and w. w. Hungerford General
Superintendent
The appeal of Thomas A. Edison in the
interference case of Maxim VS.. Edison has
been decided by the Examiners in Chief of
the Patent Office In favor of the owners of
the Maxim patents. The Examiner of In
references decided last February in favor
of Maxim, and the Board of Examiners in
Chief affirm his decision. A final appeal
may be taken to the Commissioner Of
Patents.
The following officers have been elected
for the Corpus Christi, San Diego and Rio
Grande Railway: CHARLES 2. .Hinchman,
President; John Pratt, Vice President; W.
w. Hungerford, General Superintendent;
James w. Wood, Secretary and Treasurer,
and George W. Risline, W. E. Thurber, A.
G. Hunt, w. A. Harris, z. w. Baldwin, M.
NJ. Reynolds, M. Kennedy, r. King, Geo.
Reynolds and j. s. McCampbell, Directors.
A murder was perpetrated at Rural a
village on the Ohio river, in Clermont
county, Ohio, last week. At a singing
school taught by young Kentuckian
named Carr, Alf. Reed and Harvey Hicks,
both roughs, created a disturbance, and
were reprimanded by Carr. Atterward, on
the way home, Reed met and whipped Carr.
Later Reed went into a drug store where
Carr was, and the latter struck him with
scale weight, killing him. Carr escaped.