Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-11-02
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The registration of voters in New York
shows total of 170,419 against 217, ,023 last
year, and 167, ,S37 in 1879.
The official vote of Iowa gives Sherman,
Republican, SO, 929 plurality over RInne,
Democrat, and q, ,123 majority over both
his opponents.
Rev. J. M. Spargrave hanged himself to
bed post in hospital, at Pittsburg, re-
Gently. Pecuniary embarrassment is sup
posed to have caused his suicide.
William T. Craddock, from Cecil county,
Maryland, blew out the gas in his room in
a hotel in Baltimore few nights ago, and
was found dead In bed in the morning.
The boiler Of a threshing machine ex-
ploded at Montville, near Auburn, New
York, recently, killing Frank Millman and
seriously iniuring eight others, two Of whom
are not expected to recover.
All the collieries in Southwest Lancashire
have stopped until Thursday. The colliers
have decided that II the demand for an sd-
vance in their wages is refused they will
only work four days weekly.
Edward Mclean, alias Hamilton, noto-
Tious sneak thief, has been arrested in New
York on suspicion of having, on Wednes-
day last defrauded diamond cutting COM
pany Of Boston out Of 81, 700 worth of dia-
monds.
The State and City Boards of Health in
/ dianapolis are dead locked owing to the
appointment of some homeopaths among
their members. Meanwhile Indianapolis is
suffering from almost an epidemic of ty-
phoid fever.
The total number of lost by the sinking
of the steamer Jennie Gilchrist, at Rock
Island, Illinois, is now reported at eleven
seven men and four women. Two bodies
have been recovered by a diver from the
sunken wreck.
The engine of passenger train on the
Missouri, Kansas and Texas Railroad was
thrown from the track near Sedalia a few
nights ago by a mule. The engineer was
killed, and the fireman and his eleven-year-
old son were badly injured.
In the Criminal Court at Washington,
counsel for General Brady served anotice on
the government attorneys in the star route
cases that they were ready to commence
argument on the information filed by the
Postmaster General and others.
In Halifax, Nova Scotia, Mrs. Bethune's
dress caught fire from the stove, and she
rolled herself on the floor to extinguish the
flames. An infant crawled towards her and
caught fire from the burning carpet, and
both mother and child were burned to
death.
The British bark Zelina Goudy, at Balti-
more from Liverpool, reports that ON Sep
tember 30, in latitude 474, longitude q so,
she sighted derellct bark, waterlogged
and abandoned, with only the mizzenmast
standing. The atmosphere becoming thick
the GoudY could not get near enough to
learn anything about her.
H. II. Mcclure, tobacconist OF st. Louis,
was closed out by his creditors recently.
He was about $11 900 short, owing chiefly
to embezzlements by a plausible Young
scoundrel named Haas, who had been act
ing as clerk for about year. Haas disap-
peared recently, leaving a six-page letter
"full Of good advice" to his employer.
The Sunday law being now rather strictly
enforced in Indianapolis, the Germans who
do not wish to be deprived of their favorite
beverage on the day of rest are organizing
so-called "literary clubs" for the purpose
OF evading the law. On Saturdaythe Scar
field Literary Club" was formed, to enable
its members to drink as much beer on Sun
days as they wish.
Major Downing, engaged in the timber
trade in the Chiricahua mountains of Ari-
zona, reports, at Wilcox, that he has been
compelled to suspend business by raid of
COW boys who have stolen nearly all bis
stock. 1t is said the civil authorities seem
unable to cope with these robbers, who have
practically taken possession of all the ter
ritOry lying south Of San Simon Station and
east of Tombstone"