Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1882-01-14
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

Seven prisoners escaped from the 1afl at
Huntingdon, Tenn, few nights ago, by
burning hole In the walls of the building.
In an explosion at the torpedo arsenal at
Constantinople, two persons were killed
and thirty Injured.
Lieuts Rubertin and Andemand fought
duel with revolvers, at Saigon, Cochin
China. Rubertin was shot through the
body.
Ferdinand Perfetu called on Francesca
Massa, shoemaker on Hamilton avenue,
Brooklyn, 70 collect bill. a quarrel fol
lowed, and Perfetti was fatally stab bed.
The steamship Oxbelholm, from Liver
pool, arrived at New Orleans recently con-
siderablY damaged by fire caused by the
explosion OF an Internal machine which,
with q number Ike it, was found seoreted
in the cargo while unloading in the Gulf of
Mexico.
Rev. A. A Trempner, pastor Of the Lu-
theran church OF Lawrence, Kansas. was
brutally assaulted in the street recently by
German named Urban, plasterer. Tremp-
ner Is a man about seventy wears old
and universally beloved by the whole city
He Is not dangerously hurt, but the shock
to him NAV be worse than his injuries. Ur-
ban has been arrested.
An unknown timer applied for lodgings
at a hotel in Carver, Mimi. and, being de-
MED admission, stepped out to the side
walk, drew a revolver, and shot into his
head, which killed him instantly The body
remained on the sidewalk all night and
until late hour in the morning. The un-
fortunate man had been in town two days
soliciting work without success.
Emma Browuett, young lady seventeen
years Of age, living 10 Essexville, Michigan,
took strychnine with suicidal intent. A
physician found her beyond the reach of
medical skill. She died in a few minutes
She obtained the fatal potion from her
fathers toOlchest, where it had been for
twenty years. She was a handsome young
lady, and her rash act is attributed to disap-
pointment in some love affair.
Joseph KOlavi, an insane Bohemian, COM
mitted suicide in Milwaukee by suspending
himself from tree with clothes line. His
body was discovered by Officers Spengler
and Mshm, who conveyed it to the mOrgue.
Kolavi is the man who attempted suicide
last Saturday by cutting his throat. At the
time the authorities desired to send KOlavi
to the insane asylum, but his friends would
not allow this to be done.
An old man named Fred Deske, living
near Milwaukee, beat his sons brains out
with an axe helve and club during family
row. The boy was eighteen years old
After the murder Deske tried to hang him
self, and was, in ct, suspended when an
officer came to arrest him. He was cut
down, and then stated that his son came
home drunk and quarrel ensued.
Senator Logan's bill to appropriate and
expend the entire income derived from the
internal revenue taxes on the manufacture
and sale OF distilled spirits for the education
Of all the children living in the United
s ates, provides that the national school
fund thus created shall be distributed among
the several States and Territories, pro rata,
according to the census statistics of illitera-
cy, but prohibits any State or Territory from
receiving the proposed benefits which does
not provide by local enactment that all
children between the ages Of seven and
twelve years shall attend school at least six
months in each year.