Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-01
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Another great land slip is threatened at
Elm, in the canton Of Gloius.
The banking firm of Wooden, Webb g.
Co., of Indianapolis, have failed. Liabilities
about $72 900.
The Senate yesterday confirmed the nom
inatiOn Of W. j. Bruton to be Postmaster at
Bainbridge, Ga.
The army worm has appeared in great
numbers in Louisville, KY, and is destroy
ing growing grain.
The Chamber of Deputies has adopted
the bill regulating commercial relations be-
tween Spain and her colonies.
Asbury Green was accidentally shot and
killed near Richmond, Ind, while setting
up the mark for party Of young men
shooting at target.
The Vienna Fre1aden6ydtt, a semi official
organ, says the international monetary
conference Is again postponed from the
coming autumn until April, 1888.
Thomas Rector a prominent citizen of
New Tacoma, Washington Territory, being
insane, shot and fatally wounded his wife
and then committed suicide, a few days ago.
A dispatch from st. Paul, Mimi, says that
In case Big Bear and his five hundred lodges
cross the border Major Illges, very able
Indian fighter, will probably operate against
them.
The steamer NankiD, which was sunk re-
Gently in the swash channel, New York bay,
was sold yesterday at public auction, with
her machinery. She only brought five thou
sand dollars.
A son of Tice Kugler, OF Branch Hill, O.,
while trundling a borrowed corn planter
along the road, ran it against an obstruction
aud was cut in the thigh by one OF the steel
blades, causing his death.
A man named Kttzmiller shot his daugh-
ter dead In Springfield, Ohio, recently, be-
cause she kept company with man whom
he disliked. He narrowly escaped lynching
before he was put in jail.
The two negro girls who poisoned the
child of Mr.. Il. 7. Ware, DR., near Cowles
Station, Ala, several months ago, aged
thirteen and fifteen years, have been SEN
fenced to the penitentiary for life.
During a meeting in a public hall in st.
Octave, Quebec, on Sunday morning, the
floor gave way under the weight OF two hun
dred people. A man named Forth was
killed, and two others were slightly injured.
The New York Assembly, yesterday, by a
vote OF u to 30, after long Cebate, adopt
ed the majority report of the Westbrook in
vestigation' n'committee It is to the effect
that the Judge has not been guilty of any
impeachable offense.
Dispatches from Fargo and Grand Forks,
ID. T., say there Is great excitement there
over the decision of Secretary Teller, open
ing to immigration the Turtle Mountain
district, including 100000 acres of the
finest land in Dakota.
Mr.. Reed, counsel for Gulteau, has been
unsuccessful in his application to Justice
Gray for writ of habeas corpus. The ap-
plication was made last Friday, when Judge
Gray said he preferred to wait until the case
had been presented to his associates.
The hearing in the University shooting
case at Minneapolis resulted in President
Gotwell's being discharged and Prof. Pike
held In 5000 to answer for an assault with
deadly weapon. Prof. Moore loaded guilty
of assault and battery and was fined $25.
A widow, named Kelleher, has been MUIR
dered at Dangan, county Cork. One hum
dred Moonlighters in North Kerry compelled
the tenants on the estate of Mr.. Hewson to
swear, on the muZzle of a gun, that they
would not pay their rents unless they were
reduced so per cent.
AT fire In New York a few days ago a
gallant deed was performed by a fireman
named Leonard. Leonard, by placing two
ladders together and resting the bottoms on
the shoulders OF his comrades, managed to
climb to within few feet of the third floor,
where man, woman and little girl were
calling for help. By catching the females
as they dropped from the window he was
enabled to save thea, the man climbing
down the ladder himself. vast crowd
witnessed the thrilling scene with almost
breathless interest, and their admiration OF
the heroic deed found vent in rounds OF ap-
plause,