Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-04-19
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Mr.. MacDonough, who defended the
traversers in the late State trials in Dublin,
is dead.
1t is said that France has recently made
overtures with the view to the appointment
of Salim Pasha as Khedive of Egypt.
The brig Newton, from Galveston, has
been sunk off Beachy Head by a collision.
The crew were rescued and taken to Dover.
Roche, bailiff in the service of the Emer-
gencV committee, was shot dead Yesterday,
while returning home from Limerick to XII
teelY.
Lewis Marks, aged five years, shot him
self, in Albany, New York, recently, while
playing with loaded revolver, and died an
hour after.
A telegram from Windsor reports that q
Colonel of the Life Guards has received an
anonymous letter, making threats Of blow
ing up the cavalry barracks.
Mrs. Susan P. VeszIe, a wealthy widow,
in Bangor, Maine, died suddenly few days
ago from the effects Of poison put up In a
prescription by blundering druggist.
Joseph McClees, aged ninety-Oue years,
died recently, at Wilmington, Delaware,
from injuries received on the 31st ult., by
being jammed between a railroad train and
the station platform.
of the late Jesse james, a diamond pin,
watch and chain, valued at 5000. taken by
him in stage robbery near Hot Springs,
Arkansas, eight years ago.
The number of gallons of distilled spirits
not made VI fruit produced In the United
States since 1868, is upward Of 1000, 600 900,
and the total amount of tax collected from
all distilled spirits since that year is nearly
1885,, 100000.
Sir Charles Dixie, Under Foreign Secre.
tary, replying to a question by Sir Henry
Urummond Wolfe, in the House of Com
mons last evening, stated that correspond
ence with reference to the imprisonment OF
American suspects was being printed and
would soon be presented to the House.
Wednesday two masked men, armed with
revolvers and steel bars, entered the factory
| of Eaton, Cole d Burnham, in Bridgeport,
| Connecticut, and murderously assaulted
| Patrick Sullivan, the watchmsn They
were frightened away before succeeding in
| their object, which was robbery, leaving
some burglars tools behind. Sullivan may
recover.
Carl Helfeldt, sixty-three years of age, q
| iourneYman tailor in Hoboken, took pistol
! from bureau drawer before going to bed,
and told his wife that he intended to Kill
her before morning. She managed to gel
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hall bed room. Helfeldt tried the door
several times during the night, but could
not get in, and in the morning, after drink
ing large glass Of liquor and sgain trying
the door of the room in which his wife took
refuge, he went into the kitchen and shot
himself dead.
The Mayor of Polk City, Iowa, R. w.
Stubbs, was murdered in his own house at
O'Clock in the morning by parties who
were evidently bent on robbery. He apd
his wife were sleeping up stairs and were
aroused by footsteps. In response to the
| inquiry as to who was there, he was told to
| be still or he would be shot. He sprang out
of bed, and one of the intruders turned q
dark lantern upon him and fred a pistol
shot. The ball passed through his heart.
He staggered to the top of the stairs and
fell headlong down the flight. The muir
derers fed through the front way, and
mounting horses which had been tied near
| the gate, disappeared In the darkness.