Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-25
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The present population Of Chicago is esti-
mated In that city at about $50 900, or 1876
900 more than in 1880, when the last census
was taken.
William Robinson and James Goodell
were severely wounded in a fight with six
drunken men whom thew encountered while
sleighing near North Adams, Mass. Goodell
died of his injuries on Saturday night.
A delegation Of prominent citizens Of Da-
kota, about seventy-fve IN number, passed
through Chicago recently on the way to
Washington. to urge the admission of the
southern part of that Territory as a State.
Mary Harrington, a servant girl in Sirg
Sing, New York, oeing sick of typhus fever,
Jumped from a second story window few
days ago and then ran down to the river and
plunged in. Her body was recovered soon
after.
While a son Of ex Sheriff Hankenson was
handling loaded gun, at his fathers house,
near Mount Holly, New Jersey, the weapon
was discharged, killing a woman who had
been in the employ OF the family for several
years.
Joseph Ehm and wife, of Lebanon, Pa,
have been arrested for cruelty beating their
children, one of whom, George, aged eight
years, has died from the effect of blows on
the head. The parents say the blows were
Fl ficted by comrade.
Judge Westbrook, at Kingston, has grant
ed the motion on behalf of ex-senator
Sessions, to transfer The indictment against
him for bribery from the Albany Sessions
to the Albany Oyer and Terminer, which
meets next month, for trial.
An old man named Maher and his daugh-
ter were murdered near Cumminsville, On
tario, last Friday night by Michael R0urke,
J,C daH Xui Mahpr7E w G
also attacked, but he drove ROurke off with
a club. Rourke has not yet been arrested.
John Smith, farmer of shelborne, On
tariO, was shot through a window of his
house by an unknown assassin. Robbery
is supposed to have been the motive of the
crime. nephew of Smiths, the only
other occupant of the house, fed to a
neighbours on hearing the shot.
Robert Bailey, teacher in a school near
Red Bud, Illinois, was stabbed to death a
few DAYS ago by a James E Mcbride, a
seventeen-year-old pupil, whom he was
attempting to chastise for breach of disci-
plinp. Mcbride was arrested and held in
IS 600 bail, to await the action of the grand
jury.
It is officially announced that all the
shares of the National Bank OF Mexico have
been subscribed, and more than 50 600 600
paid up or the shares, so 900 are held IL
Paris, IS 900 in Mexico and 1900 In New
York. Under the terms Of the concession
the bank can now begin business, and the
last week in February has been appointed
for the opening.
George Payne, well known to visitors of
museums throughout the U1ited States as
''the man without arms" died recently at
his home in Williamsburg, N. Y, aged
twenty-seven years. From his birth he was
compelled to make his legs and toes do SER
vice for arms and hands, and he fed himself
like other people. He also shaved himself
and was good penman. he leaves wife
and child.
Enoch Pratt, a prominent capitalist of
Baltimore, has contracted for the erection,
at a cost of 1925 900, of a fire proof build
ing in that city, capable of holding two
hundred thousand volumes, for free pub
lie library. The building is to be finished
In the summer of 1888, and Mr.. Pratt pro-
poses to deed tito the city with an additional
gift in money of $3.50, 900, provided the city
will create an annuity of $50 900 for its sup
port. 1t is to be known as the pratt Free
Library.n
While VIM. l.. Howe, of Portland, Me-,
and jos. H. Flint, of Concord, n H., class
mates in Dartmouth College, were walking
down one of the streets of Hanover, n H.,
6nOtgun, caFTleu Dy FHnb, was OlScDdfgeO,
and, the contents entering Howe's back,
caused a wound Of which he died in a few
hours. 1t seems that Flint was going out to
hunt, and, supposing his gun unloaded, put
on a cap and pulled the trigger holding the
weapon at such an elevation that Howe re-
ceived the discharge.
At Dallas, Texas, II A. Little, for several
days a boarder at the St. George Hotel,
went into the Office when no one was there
except Ford Parker, the night clerk, and a
colored waiter. Little handed Parker a
parcel, asking him to put it in the safe.
Parker turned to do so, when Little sprang
at him with drawn revolver and ordered
him to throw up his hands and keep still,
The ruffian then attempted to ROB the safe,
but Parker rushed at him, and wrenching
the pistol from bis hand shot him through
the body, inficting mortal wound.
August Johanemeyer, a farmer living
near Rockville, on the Missouri Kansas and
Texas Railway. has been arrested on the
charge of attempting to wreck a special
train, on which Jay Gould and party went
north to Sedslia, on the 9 h inst. Johane-
meyer confessed his crime, saying the
attemp was in revenge for the killing of his
stock by trains. He was committed in de-
fault of SO 600 bail. The obstruction placed
by him on the track was discovered and re-
moved only few minutes before the spe-
cial train went by at speed of forty miles
an hOur