Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-02
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

An official dispatch from Manila says one
hundred sailors were drowned during the
recent typhOOn.
The work OF grading the Ysz0o and Mis-
sissippi Valley Railway commenced yester-
day. There is large force at work.
The Pennsylvania Railroad Company yes
terdaY declared a semi-annual dividend Of
"A per cent, 215 per cent. of which is
payable in scrip.
The Gar has commuted the sentences OF
death passed by the Kszln military tribu-
nal on she political criminals PolivanOff and
Novitsky to penal servitude IN the mines.
1t is reported st Paris that two English
men have passed nearly 100000 francs of
counterfeit English bank notes for French
money to bankers and money changers OF
Paris.
The thirteenth annual meeting of the
Executive Committee OF the Woman's For
etgn Missionary Society was opened in
Wesley Hall, Philadelphia, yesterday morn
iug.
Blanche Gardner, aged years, of Waynes-
vile, Ohio, while playing by a saw mill
was killed, and four others wounded few
night ago by log rolling over them and
mashing them.
a Pullman sleeping car attached to an ex-
press train which recently left st. Pancras
station, London, for Glasgow caught fire
from the stove, and one passenger was
burned to death.
The exports from the Sandwich Islands
during the twelve months ending September
30 last were a little over $l7 900, ,OO0-a
larger export IN proportion to the pOpula-
tiOn than that OF any country IA the world.
a sixteen-year-old female pupil at the
EsstOn High School in Philadelphia recently
swallowed dose OF laudanum while using
the drug for the tO0thsche, and her life was
only saved by the prompt efforts of a physi-
clan.
A break has been made In the combina-
tiOn OF dIstillers at Cincinnati. One of the
leading establishments refused to be bound
as heretofore in fixing prices. No sales of
high wines we're reported, and the under
rules quotations Of Tuesday prevailed yes
terday.
Ex-Governor James F. Robinson. of
Kentu6ky, dieu on tuesday night at bis
home Ia Scott equity. He was born in the
same county October 4, 1900. His funeral
will occur to morrow. Governor Blackburn
has issued an executive order, closing the
public offices Of the State on that day.
Mrs John Schuff died recently at Marietta,
Ohio, from fright OccasiOned by a light
fever which she had taken. Several of her
family having died lately with typhoid
ease, and in spite OF all her physicians could
do she grew worse and died from fright.
a Rochester, n. Y, special Gays: "Jsy
Gould and party stopped here Monday
morning on their return from the West. Mr..
Gould, on slighting from his special car al
the new depot, stepped on the side track in
front Of locomotive, and would have been
run over but for the outcries Of those stand
ing near"
Richard K. Fox has deposited with Harry
Hill 5000, and has issued challenge offer
ing to back Tom Allen, ex-ehampion pugt-
list Of America, to fight any pugllist, John
L Sullivan preferred, for the championship
of the world and 81 900 to 81 500 a side,
within 100 miles of New Orleans, within
three months after signing articles.
A largely attended meeting of planters
was held on Tuesday at the Robinson plan
tsHOn, Louisiana. Resolutions were adopted
urging the government to remove the raft
from Bayou Pierce, q tributary of the Red
river. The government engineers caused
the formation of this raft, which results in
the overflow Of some OF the largest planta-
tions on Red river.
James Campbell, ''croOkn from Buffalo,
N. Y, was arraigned recently at Bradford,
Pa, charged with counterfeitiug. Three
counterfeit dollars and molds were found on
him. He claims TO be one OF an extensive
gang, all from Buffalo, with headquarters at
New York, who have made thousands OF
counterfeit dollars, halves and quarters and
s. gold pieces. He has promised TO betraY
his comrades.
Colonel Tom BuFord who, some three
years ago, killed Judge John NJ. Elliott, of
the Court of Appeals OF Kentucky, and who
was acquitted, but sfterwsrd was declared
insane and confined in the Central Lunatic
Asylum near Louisville. Ky, escaped last
Saturday, going to Jeffersonville, Indiana.
l. is the opinioniof lawyers that he cannot
be brought back to Kentucky on a requisi-
tioR, as there is no longer a criminal charge
against him.
At a meeting of the walkers in the late
match at New York, the management an
nounced that the receipts were 500, 373 aud
the expenditures S21, ,443 50, leaving a bal
snce Of S4, ,929 AZ, less Is per cent, which
went to the-mans cement. This left S99S 4S
and the stakes 10 be divided. Fitzierald
received SO 649 "a; Noremac, Sl,l49 81;
HertY, S599 76, and Hughes, 800 So
Hughes refused to take this money. VII
liam Young, of the Sun, and Joe Elliott, OF
the Herald, each received $500 for assisting
to supervise the walk.