Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-04-05
Rrief News SUMMARY.

A mild form of typhoid fever has become
epidemic in Havana, and the disinfection of
the sewers there has been ordered by the
municipality.
The Massachusetts, House of Representa-
tives, on Thursday, struck from the prohibi-
tory bill the section referring it to the peo-
pie, and then defeated the bill.
It is reported that the Dominion Govern
ment have handed over to the Syndicate the
Pembina branch and completed portions of
the Canadian Pacific Railroad.
The strike of machine moulders and stove
moulders in Pittsburg, which was to have
taken place Friday, was averted by granting
the advance in wages asked by the men.
William Hensley was killed and another
man severely injured Friday morning by an
explosion of giant powder in the Lehigh
Valley Coal CompanY's new shaft at Pitts
ton, Pa.
The State Department is informed that
1000 emigrants left Bremen on Wednesday
for the United States, making over 20, 900
from that port during the first quarter of
this year.
John Roberts, one of a gang of rufflans
who have long been the terror of southern
Colorado, was captured few days ago and
hanged by a band of vigilants. His last
crime was a murder committed two weeks
ago.
Mr. Nichol. whose nomination for Com
missioner of Indian Affairs is pending in the
Senate, is recommended by his physicians to
go South for the benefit of his health. His
nomination will, therefore, be withdrawn
and another name sent in.
A locomotive attached to Clearfeld pas
senger train exploded at Tyrone, Pa, Friday
morning, damaging the new depot and ad-
iacent buildings. A number OF persons
were injured, four of them severely, but the
engineer, who was on the locn"'~-'
capped uuhurt. --.Vvlve, es
IN. S. Bates, United States Marshal,
was fatally stabbed in barroom fight near
Somerset, Ky, one night last week. An
other Marshal, named Cooper, was killed
the same night in Littleton, ten miles dis
tant from Somerset. Both men had been
active against the ''moonshiners."
Taylor & Boggie's foundries In Cleveland,
Ohio, employing 200 men, "shut down" In
anticipation of a strike. The men held a
meeting and decided to hold out for an ad-
vance of ten per cent. A general strike is
anticipated, as the prices against which the
men struck rule in the other foundries.
Richard II. Brewer was fatally shot by
his brother. j. s. Brewer, in quarrel near
Mount OliYet, Kentucky, on Wednesday
evening, and died in few hours. j. s. Bal
lard was shot dead by his brother.i in law,
Lewis Boyle, In Leadville, Colorado, on
Wednesday evening. Ballard, it is said, in
tended to desert his wife; hence the murder.
An ingenious merchant in Konigsberg,
Prussia, has been making money by adver-
tising for feminine correspondents with
view TO matrimony, and then threatening to
publish the letters received by him unless
the fair writer's paid him to refrain. He was
arrested in the post Office at Hanover while
taking money thus extorted out of letter.
The Duke of Sutherland, and other Di-
rectors of the London and Northwestern
Railway, will leave Liverpool on the 10Th
inst. for New York. The party will visit
the wheat growing regions Of the North
west, and will make special study of the
mineral, agricultural and other resources of
the States, also of the railroad system over
the principal roads of which they will travel.
The Registrar of Vital Statistics an
nounees that the whole number of deaths in
New York city from December 81 to March
81 was Jos. The number of deaths In the
city for the corresponding time of last year
was $500. Hence the Increase of deaths of
1881 ever those of 1880 during the same
period was 2, 1903, or more than thirty y-three
per centum. The population Of the city in
1870 was a little under CSC, 900. In 1891
it is set down at about l, 100000. The in
crease on the decade was, therefore, at the
mean annual rate Of about two and one-half
per centum.
The method by which the Brush Electric
Light Company proposes to illuminate the
city of Cincinnati, If the Board of Public
Work accepts the offer, Is to erect towers
200 feet in height and place on top OF them
lamps with capacity of from 5000 to 49,
600 candle power, and on IS foot posts
lamps of from 1900 to 4, 900 candle power.
A central station has been Established, five
machines, with a total capacity of 106,OOO
candle power, are now being manufactured,
and the company expects to be ready to
commence operations within month from
this date. According to the contract, the
cost is to be "a per cent. less than the price
now paid for gas.
Secretary Window, accompanied by At
torney General McVeagh, Comptroller Knox
and Assistant Secretary Upton, had an in
formal conference with leading bankers in
New York on Friday, in regard to taking up
so much of the maturing public debt as Is
practicable with the means at the Secretary's
command No formal propositions, it is
said, were presented, but the views of the
bankers viii be presented and discussed in
the Cabinet. The Secretary's intimate
friends, however, are reported as saying
that he will pursue conservative course;
that under no circumstances will he draw
upon the coin held to protect legal tenders,
and that refunding win be restricted to the
use Of the proceeds Of the bonds which he is
authorized to issue, either as IS or AIS,
and to the employment Of the surplus rev
enue.