Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-27
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY

Six inches of snow fell at Omaha on
Monday.
Bishop BensOn's acceptance of the Arch
bishOpric of Canterbury is officially an
nOunced.
terdam for New York, has put in at Fal-
mouth for coal.
Floods in the Province of Gotta Cafes.
Bolivia, have destroyed large stocks OF
cascarilla and cocoa coffee.
Thursday night Robert Woller, while
intoxicated, was run over and killed by a
passenger train near Lake Charles, La.
Charles Wryly was found beside the
railroad track near Atlanta yesterday,
having been run over and killed on Mon
day night.
A Pulaski, Tenn, dispatch reports the
burning of the Herald office and the Peo-
pies National Bank. Loss $4,000, in
surance $500.
An Aquilla, Texas, special says: 'Joe
Smith shot and killed Billie Gresham on
Monday. Smith was captured a mile
from town.
The steamer Horsely, from West Hartle-
pool for New York, has put back to Ply
mouth with her machinery damaged, She
will be detained several days,
An Amite City, Miss, special says
''The Methodist Church here was burned
on Monday. Cause defective tlue. Most
of the furniture and the organ were
saved"
Four twO-story brick buildings, extend
ing from 377 to 1888 Dryades street, New
Orleans, were burned with their contents
yesterday. The loss is estimated at $10,-
900. Fully insured.
A Lake Charles La. special says: cat
GilPs Enterprise, last night, John Booth
shot four men. Two were seriously
wounded, Booth escaped, but efforts are
being made to capture him."
A dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph
Company from Paris, says it is rumOred
that plot has been discovered to secure
the escape of Prince Krapotkine. His
guards have consequently been strength
ened,
There were $4,000, ,469 gallons of whisky
in bond in Kentucky on November 1,
This is about twO-thirds of the amount in
bond in the whole country. Cincinnati
whisky last year.
The Pope received the Cardinals on Sun
day, who presented their customary con-
gratulations, nreplying to their address
his H0linesssaid. 1.-the Papacy is proclaim
ed to be a great moral force, and the Pow
ers are reknitting their relations with it."
The boiler at Silas Mason e. Sons saw
mill, in Hartwellville, VT, exploded
yesterday morning, killing one of the
owners, Marshall 5, Mason, aged "A years,
and Engineer Fred Williams, aged 80
years. 1t is feared that two other men
were fatally hurt.
Prince Krapotkine, under arrest at
Lyons, was examined for three hours by
the Judge of instruction. He answered
''No'i simply to all questions put to him.
The Prince is kept in solitary confine-
ment, not even the police in charge of him
being allowed to speak to him.
A dispatch from Berlin says: 'fThere
is great stir among the German press in
consequence of the arrest at Vienna of a
Berlin journalist, who had fled to Austria
in order to avoid the fulfillment of his
sentence to eight months Imprisonment
for libelling Prince Bismarck"
On Wednesday afternoon a difficulty
occurred at Troy, Alabama, in which
Folman shot and killed Frank Holliway,
Several shots were fired by both parties
but only one took effect. The difficulty
grew out of an old fend. Both parties
were well-knOwn business men, and the
tragedy created considerable excitement.
A man was seen struggling in the river
at Chicago, recently, but he was drowned
before help could reach him. He was sui,
seduently identified as Colonel David G.
Cox. a cousin of Representative s. S. Cox.
of New York. He was pension Agent AT
Washington under President Grant. and
Assistant Attorney General of Ohio.
under Governor Cox.
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