Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-17
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Ned Maddox was run over by a railroad
train yesterday in Atlanta and instantly
killed.
Swedish mail steamer sank in Carmar
sound while on trial trip. Fifteen persons
were drowned.
United States Marshal Wharton. of Louisi-
ana, is confined to his room In Washington
with rheumatic gout.
The Boston University Methodist College
has come into the possession of 50, 900, 900,
which was bequeathed ten years ago to
Isaac Rich.
At Fort Wayne, Ind, Mrs. George W.
Hodges tried to kill her child by cutting its
throat She was laboring under a fit of in
sanity at the time.
Pittsburg and Allegheny City yesterday
reported thirty new cases of smallpox
in forty eight hours, fifteen in each city.
Thre was one death.
D. NJ: Linder, at one time a member of
the medical profession, but of late chronic
tnebriate, was killed by falling into a coal
shaft near Brazil, Ind, recently.
Fred. Streiff was overcome with deadly
fumes arising from powerful acids used in
the nickel plating department of the Buck
eye Brass Works, at Dayton, Ohio. His life
is despaired of.
At the annual meeting to-day of the
stockholders Of the Cincinnati, New Orleans
and Texas Pacific Railroad Company.
lessees Of the Cincinnati Southern Railway,
the present board Of directors was reelected.
A few nights ago at Mills station, Ind,
there was a terrible wreck, caused by col
lisiOn, a Baltimore and Ohio train being run
into by a Lake Shore train. The CO..
engine, TELEGRAPH Office and tra",., were
nearly demolished. Trains were all DELAYED
No lives are reported lest. w
A quantity Of painting material for the
Engllsh navy, known as "nerotine sicative. :"
exploded in the paint room of Her Msiestv's
steamer Triumph, cruising off the Co
quimoo coast, Chill, and nine men were
kliIed ana wounded. The explosion had no
possible connection with dynamite.
AT lrondale, III, man named Edward
Mueller, who was suffering with smallpox,
was cared for by Ralph Johnson and his
wife. When he was approaching GONZALES
eence he robbed johnson of what little
money he had, and then outraged the per
son OF his benefactor's wife. He succeeded
in escaping.
Rlch mineral discoveries have been made
near wilcox, Arizona. Specimens Of ore
from the ledges ASSAY from six hundred to
twelve thousand. The district has been
named Cochise. The excitement has
reached Tombstone and Los Carleson.
Large numbers are coming in from sur
rounding districts.
A few days ago there emerged from the
prison walls of Anamosa, Iowa, a man who,
for seven years, has borne the infamy and
punishment Of crime he did not commit.
His name is VIM. Lunger, and he was sent
from Benton county on conviction for
incest. This foul charge was sustained by
perjured witnesses who wished to get his
property On their deathbeds they confessed
their perjury and Lunger's friends fastened
to secure his pardon.
Rauchmen recently arrived at Browns
Vile, Texas, report a terrible disease whose
progress is thus described: First pimple
or red spot shows itself upon the face near
the nose. This at once spreads, swelling
the whole head up in terrible manner, and
death is certain to ensue In a short time.
The disease is said to resemble in its symp-
toms the terrible Asiatic plague, and it
battles the knowledge of the medical men.
There is fear of the disease spreading, and
much CONSERVATION is said to exist among
some of the ranchmen.