Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-11-29
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.


BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.
A snow storm began at Raleigh, N c.
at $3.50 yesterday morning, with cold
weather.
Daniel Bros, paper dealers of New
York, have made an assignment. Liabili-
ties 100000.
Disorders have been renewed by the stu
dents of the university in Moscow and of
the Demidotf Lyceum in Jaroslay.
NJ. Jules Guesde, editor of the EaqIeite,
has been arrested in connection with the
Socialist movement in Central France.
\ telegram from Madrid reports that
additional arrests of Socialists have been
made in Barcelona, Terregona and Seville.
II. A. Pitts Sons, makers of farm imple-
ments, of Chicago, have made an assign
ment. Liabilities $3.50, 900; assets $3.50, 900.
A fire at Henderson, n. c., yesterday
morning, destroyed three stores and resi-
dences. Total loss $1S,000. Insurance
$4,000.
Graham & Actken, dry goods merchants,
at 392 Broadway, New York, have failed.
Their assets are said to exceed the iia-
bilities.
The Navy Department is informed that
Rear Admiral James IL. Strong, retired,
died at Columbia, 5, c., Yesterday morn
ing from hemOrrhage of the lungs.
NJ. De Lesseps, receiving the delegates
from the English trade unions now in
France, declared that he was confident
that the Panama canal would be finished
by 1888.
Hiram Shepard was murdered by Eras-
tus Page at Hunts Hollow, Livingston
county, New York, on Sunday night.
Page was drunk and stamped his victim
to death. He was arrested and remanded
to Jail.
VIM. Donovan, aged twenty-four years,
fatally stabbed his father with carving
knife, in Jersey City, a few days ago, be-
cause the old man interfered to stop
quarrel between him and a younger
brother.
Advices from st. Petersburg state that
1S0 of the students engaged in the recent
demonstration at Vienna have been ar
rested. The troops fired into crowd of
kaZan University students and killed
three of them.
The Diocesan Council of the Episcopal
Church of Mississippi assembled at Jack
son yesterday, and unanimously elected
the Rev. Hugh Miller Thompson, of New
Orleans, Assistant Bishop of the diocese.
Bishop Green presided. Twenty-fOur
parishes were represented.
H. l.. Lombard was arrested in Baliti-
western district of North Carolina,
charged with having used the United
States mails for fraudulent purposes. He
was turned over to the United States au-
thorities, to be taken to North Carolina for
trial.
The French Senate yesterday ratified
the De BrazZa Congo treaty. The Senate
also passed bill prOlQnging the powers
OF the commission appointed to settle the
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citizens for damages sustained during the
civil war in America, and the Franco
Prussian war of 1870,
At Syracuse, New York, yesterday, in
the United States Circuit Court the jury
in the case Of Il. Porter Lee, the default
ing President of the First National Bank
of Buffalo, returned a verdict Of guilty,
and Judge Wallace sentenced the prisoner
to ten years imprisonment. The jury
were out one hour,
Mrs, Abel Haldeman, of Centre Square,
Montgomery county, Pa, died a few days
ago of burns received on Friday night bv
her clothes catching fire while trying to
light a lamp suspended from the ceiling.
She struck match under a table, setting
the fringe of the cover ON fire, and the
flames caught her dress,
Morris Berwald, aged eighteen years.
while going home, in New York city.
few mornings ago, was followed by two
men and impOrtuned for money, After
repeated refusals they stabbed and shot
him in an obscure street and made off
with his weeks wages, amounting TO six
dollars. 1t is feared the young man will
die.
u, A. Hawley has been arrested in
jamestown, n. Y, for forging the name of
Lieut.. j. p. Story, of the Signal Office at
Washington, to q telegraph money order
on Sergeant Flynn, of Buffalo, for $50.
Hawley IS alleged to have swindled many
people in jamestown by collecting money
Ostensibly for the benefit of the village
poor.
Lieut. Col. @. A. Gilmore, of the Engi-
neer Corps, Z. >, A, has, at his own
request, on account of illness, been re-
lieved, by direction Of the President, of his
duties as a member Of the Mississippi
River Commission, and Lieut.. Col. Cyrus
b. C0mstock, of the Engineer Corps, has
been designated to be President of the
commission.
Hauce IL, Cant, a wealthy farmer, resid-
ing near OsbOrnville, New Jersey, was re-
Gently found dead in his house with a bull
let hole in his body, The ramrod of his
gun was lashed to a child's cradle beside
the body, but the gun was found in room
below. His wife and children saw they
did not carry the gun down stairs. De
tectiyes are investigating tue matter.
The Committee of the New England
Manufacturers and Mechanics Institute
who are ON a tour through the south in
the interest of their institute for the pur-
pose Of securing exhibits from the South
ern states Tor their annual fair in Boston
next September, have been in Richmond
since last Saturday and left yesterday for
Raleigh. They We're the recipients of
courtesies from Governor Cameron and
many other influential men, and expressed
themselves as highly pleased with their
visit.