Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-05-31
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Major Randall Is reported on the way tc
Wichita with the notorious Captain Pavne
and twenty "boOmers" captured in the IT.
dian tract OF Oklahoma.
Willie Haley, eleven years OF age, died re-
Gently In POwnall Vermont, from the effects
of three tahlespoonfuls of Paris green, swal-
lowed with suicidal intent. His father COM
mitted suicide year ago.
Several hundred Communists made de-
ration on Monday in the cemetery OF
Pere la Chaise, in Paris. Louise Michel was
among the speakers. The tomb OF Blanqui
was visited and adorned with flowers.
A swiudler is victimizing people in jersey
City selling a powder he alleges is made by
Edison for the purpose Of increasing the
Illuminating power of coal oil to that Of cleo
trio light. 1t is selling readily at SO per box,
$50 per dozen.
Judge Houston rendered his decision in
the case Of JAS. Mcconnell VS.. the city OF
New Orleans in favor of the plaintiff for
$5l 900, exclusive of interest and costs,
for professional service rendered the city in
Mrs. Gaines case.
The steamer Friary, from Newport, Eng
land, for New York, put in recently at st.
John, Newfoundland, for repairs, her
bows and large portion forward of her
water tight bulkhead having been stove In
by collision with an iceberg.
George and William Matthews were
killed, aud Marion Wilson and Homer
Sharp wounded, the former seriously, hy
being fired at from an ambush near Lee
banon, Missouri, few nights ago. There
had been bad feeling between the deceased
and some Of their neighbors.
There was picked up near Wreck Hill
Bermuda, on the 1st of May, a ships quar-
ter board, about four feet 10 length, painted
durk- blue, with the name Chilly" IN yellow
letters. The board had some very large bar
nacles upon it, showing 1t must have been
in the water a considerable time.
While the firemen were endeavoring to
extiuguish fire I'm a Philadelphia grocery a
large barrel of coal oil took fire" and expio-
ded with terrific effect, the burning fluid
being scattered over the firemen and a crowd
OF spectators who were watching their op-
erations. Many were burned, and several
have died.
A snow slide in the Big Cottonwood Canon,
Utah, a few nights ago, passed over the Te-
resa mine. crushing the shaft house and
carving Robert Greaves. lessee, four hun
dred feet and burving him under seventy
feet of snow, rocks and ore. A party is
searching for the body. Greaves' son was
buried In the house, but was rescued before
life was extinct.
Edward Shieffelin, a well known prospec-
tor of Arizona, has organized a party of
five, himself included, to make a prospect
ing tour of the valley of the Yukon river, in
Alaska. He believes that Alaska is within
the mineral belt which extends from South
America nortbwsrd through Mexico, the
United States and British Columbia.
G. A. Woods, pork packer, of Jersey
City, reported to the police recently that a
man entered his store and tried to sell him
a safe. Mr.. Woods replied that his safe,
though old, answered his purpose The
stranger asked to see It, and Mr.. Woods
showed 1t to him. On re.entering his store
the next day Mr.. Woods found that the safe
had been forced open and robbed of about
5000.
News has reached Salt Lake Of terrible
tragedy near Milford, two hundred miles
southwest of that place. John A. Smyth,
an old ranchman from California, quarreled
with his wife, and, seiZing a double bar
relied shotgun, fired at her twice, both
charges taking effect. He then coolly re-
loaded the weapon, went out doors, fastened
a string to the trigger, placed the muzzle
against his breast and fired six navy bullets
into his liver. He died two hours afterward.