Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-12-16
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Al Newport, Tex, son of DR.. Welcb
committed suicide yesterday.
w. T. Henley, the well-known English
telegraphlc engineer, is dead
A special from Hickman. XIV. saws:
"A Ilre here on Thursday destroyed three
blocks IN the business part of the town.
Loss 100000. Insurance S42 900.
a large meeting took place at New York
/ Yesterday TO insist upon a reduction in the
tarl1t on sugar, which, it is maintained.
should be but one cent, on all grades.
The Hall block, one of the finest in To-
! ledo, ONO, was destroyed by fire yester-
1 day. The loss is estimated at 81 .60O. 900.
/ Inc Ire started at two a. M, and was eX-
| tinguishOd at seven a. m.
The mayor of Decatur, Tex. was at
tackled IN that town by negro in resent
ment for fine. The mayor struck the
negro with a stone, breaking his neck.
The negro died instantly,
/ a dispatch from Palestine. Tex. saws
/ that DeGley Il Sons foundry works We're
burned yesterday, The machinery and
building were completely destroyed, Loss
S20,OOO, Insurance $4,000.
At Chicago yesterday morning the iurv
III the Teresa Sturla trial rendered a
verdict that Miss Sturla was guilty of
manslaughter, and that her punishment
The Central and South American Tala-
graph Company gives nOEice TO the public
that dispatches for Panama, Lima and
valparaiso VIII secure prompt and cor
rect transmission, if marked '1yia Calves
tom
r., FOrt Worth, Texas, special saws that
simon Gabert shot and killed w. c. Cater
yesterday. Both were cotton buvers
Ihey had had a qnarrel, and Gabert
cialins that Cater had been following him
all day, ''i'i'
The Cologne gazette publishes a letter
ehtheratlng eight railways which are
OelnS constructed on the western frontier
Oh hussla, and which, so far as can he
purposes.
=, %. Pennington, late postmaster at
ROCKY Mount, North Carolina. charged
VIII. Win robbing registered packages in his
once was yesterday acquitted. The
trlal, covering two Indictments against
am, consumed five days.
Snow having fallen to a depth of six
inches on level IN Northern WISCONSIN.
ala{oranle season for logging is expected
ir aG tRe Chippewa and Eauclaire pineries.
me Whole lumber business in WISCONSIN
IS reported in thriving condition.
The grain receipts at Chicago during tbe
- 10 Z bCCu AJ.UUU,UUU DuSnelS less than
IooI' Inc reasons assigned for the de-
crease are THE increased ability of farm-
ers TO hold stocks, the low priees since fhe
new crop was harvested, and fbe raDid
increase If milling capacfty,'
SuIclles are alarmingly heuent in the
RUSSIAN army. Recently cadet shot
himself at Richterfeld; Lieutenant
SilIeu S, nlihSeli with pistol at "a pall at
opandau, and another Frussian officer
com5Nsittea suicide in Paris. deaths bv
dpeIlmg have also been frequent OF late.
Inc President has sent to the H0use n
communication from the Secretary Of
state, showing that the compulsory Con
sular lees for a vessel of 800 tons burden
are as follows; United States. S5. Great
bbrItalh' nee; France, $40 46; Ita1v. $40:
55 denmark, IL SI0;. Norway, 81 80: Germany.
pJ; brazil, free: Spain, $40; Holland, $40.
President Garnet, of the Baltimore and
uhio Railroad, states that the Baltimore
and OHIO Telegraph Line, between BaIti-
more and New York, was opened Thurs
day, and that in a few days ''it will be in
tull operation and enter actively into COM
petition for the business of the country
between New York, Philadelphia. Balti-
more, Washington, ST. louis. Cincinnati.
Chicago and the leading Western, North
western and southwestern cities conceal
ly." -'-''~r"l-
Ole thousand dollars reward is offered
iof information as to the whereaheuts or
Iate OF Mr. Frederick Wagner, wholesale
dealer III American wines, 20 First ave-
Nu9, New York, who started for California
IN August last to make his annual pur-
chases. 1t is known that he was alive
and well as far as Laganda City. cal but
beyond that point he seems to have myste-
rlouslY disappeared When he left home
he was subject to distressing
headaches, and it Is feared
that he may have become demented. a sus-
pleion that is strengthened bv the testi-
mohy OF railroad conductors who remem-
per seeing nm on their trains. Traces of
him were subsequently discovnred a+
Demminge, n. NJ. At the station fbere
his overcoat and raYeling bag were found.
the latter, curionsly enough, still contain,
ing the lunch that had been put into il bv
his wife before he left home.