Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-06-13
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The situation in the iron trade at Pitts
burg remains unchanged.
The iron mills In Cincinnati, Coviigton.
Newport and Aurora were all under head
way yesterday under the agreement made
on Saturday.
Mr.. Levy, the English claimant TO the
Enfida estate, is dead. 1t was the difficulty
about the possession of this property which
precipitated the French movement against
Tuuis.
The funeral of Rinaldo NJ. Waters, for
many wears cotton broker and banker in
New York city, took place yesterday morn
ing from Trinity Chapel. Mr.. Waters was
native of South Carolina.
The National Mercantile Travellers Aseo-
sociation will begin its session at Cincinnati
to-day. The chief object of the meeting is
to create an impression in favor OF legal
measures to protect the rights of travelling
statesmen in the South ard West.
Two sons OF Eli Charlebois, aged re-
spectively four and fourteen years, were
drowned in the river at Clayton, New York,
recently, while getting a pail of water. It
is supposed the younger boy fell in, and the
other perished In trying to save him.
A break occurred a few days ago in the
reservoir at Portland, Maine, which let out
a torrent of water that plowed up the
street, carried away shade trees and flooded
cellars. SIX million gallons of water
escaped. The reservoir had lately been in
spected and pronounced safe.
Mrs. Melville denounces Dlnenhower's
treatment of her. She says he failed to visit
her, and passed her home on the train to
Washington, but would not stop off a
moment, although her family were on the
platform waiting for him. She has not re-
ord ~
Engineer Melville's message to his wife and
family.
Rev Mother St. Bernard, Superior OF the
Congregation of Notre Dame, in Montreal,
has been elected Superior General of the
Converts IF that Order throughout Canada
and the United States. Rev. Mother st.
Victor, lately Superior General, and Rev.
Mother st. Jean Bap iste. lately Superior of
the Convent at Ksnkskee, Illinois, have
been chosen First and Second Assistants of
the Superior General.
Tom Holloway, farm hand on the planta-
ton of Col. Sid. Farrell, near Durham, N.
c., went to collect his pay from the Colonel,
as he had decided to leave his employment.
Colonel Farrell was in the field at the time,
and Holloway went up to him and demanded
his money for four days. work. Farrell not
complying with the request Immediately,
Holloway raised a shotgun and shot and
killed him. The murderer escaped.
Three burglars broke into a rear room of
a store kept by Michael Scanlou, in New
York, a few nights ago. The latter got out
o. his bed, asked what they wanted, and
thereupon received blow from jimmy In
the hands of one Of the thieves. Scanlon.
however, nothing dsunted, showed fight, at
the same time screaming for assistance, but
before the latter was available he was
stabbed twice by the ruffiaus, who also
effected their escape. The doctors say 1t Is
more than probable that Scanlon will die.
A dispatch from Cairo, ILL.,, states that J.
Y. Bayles, a farmer, between so and 60
years of age. living about three and a half
miles from Vienna, Ill, on the Wabash Rail-
way, has been murdered. l. seems he had
been sitting by small lamp, reading. when
the assassins entered and tied him to his
chair, and then fastened his bands behind
him, and also tied his feet together. When
found, his feet were burned to q crisp by
the lamp which had been held under them.
After splitting his head with an axe they
searched the house.