Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1883-01-16
BRIEF NEWS SUMMARY.

The loss by the fire at Neenah, Wis, on
sunday, will far exceed 100000. The
fire was undoubtedly incendiary.
Joseph Sailor, for many years financial
editor of the Philadelphia Public Ledger.
died yesterday morning in Philadelphia.
Representative John w. Shackelford, of
the Third district of North Carolina, is w.
ing seriously i'll in Washington, and fatal
results are feared.
About O'Clock yesterday morning the
Duggar & Parker Hardware Manufac-
turing Company's works were burned in
st. Louis. Loss $40, 900; insurance about
$4,000.
The President of the court now engaged
in trying the anarchists at Lyons has re-
ceived nineteen threatening letters, sever
al of which were from Switzerland, Ger
many and Russia.
The works of the Chicago Smelling and
Refining Company, Conner and Clark
streets, were totally destroyed by fire at
O'Clock yesterday morning. Loss $10O, 900:
insurance $4,000.
The elegant private residence of Samuel
c. Lewis at TarrytOwn, n. Y, was burned
Sunday night. The loss on the building
and contents is $130,O00. The inmates
barely escaped in their night clothes.
Senior Francisco Pelaez, District Attor-
ner of the Upper Court of Havana, was
assassinated in his own house Yesterday
morning by two mulattoes. 1t is sup
posed that their motive was revenge.
Baker Pasha reports that the police or
ganiZatiOn of Alexandria is utterly bad,
and suggests the Introduction of a small
body of highly trained cOnstables, chiefly
from England, and the remainder to be
natives.
A Jersey City dispatch says: ''Presi-
dent BOice, of the City Bank, has been
committed to Jail in default of $lO 600 bail,
and his sOn-in-law and Cashier Shaw
have been sent along with him in default
of $50, 900 bail"
Prisoner Gautier, one of the anarchists
on trial at Lyons, has admitted that he
had relations with Elisee Reclus. but he
says he had as good right to see Reclus
as ROchefOrt had to see Parnell, or GAM
BETA the Prince of Wales.
An neXtensive strike of employees of the
Caledonian Railway has taken place.
Only ten of the forty engines in the Ham,
Ilton depot can be used. Five hundred
men paraded in Hamilton yesterday prior
to quitting the town for Glasgow.
The journal deS DebdtS, of Paris. saws:
England has practically taken possession
of Egypt. We may regret this, but we
have no right to protest against exclusion
from an arrangement since justified by
our own abstaining from intervention"
The police have closed the Jesuit church
at Lemberg. 1t is reported that the rector
has received anonymous information that
Socialist demonstration was intended in
the church yesterday. Another version is
that an attempt with bombs was contem-
plated.
Major Frederick Roth, of the Swiss Con-
federation, was arrested on board the
steamer Rhineland, at New York on
Sunday, on the charge of misap-
propriating funds of that government
The Swiss Consul New York was notified
of his flight and caused his arrest.
The Rappel, of Paris, referring to Prince
of Wales address on unveiling the statue
of the Prince Imperial on Saturday at
Woolwich, stigmatises the English nation
as herd of cattle and the English army
as an army of women. Other newspapers
make splteful comments on the affair.
The guests have all returned to the
Planters House in st. Louis, and, so far
as is known, none of them were hurt nor
were their personal effects lost or injured.
The insurance on the hotel amounts to
SS7 800, and on the furniture and supplies
to $4,000. Black, Tyler & Co.'s loss is
$4,000; insurance $1S,000.
John b. Hoffman, who shot his son
eooOi Ou Iludy, III cincinnati, was De-
fore the Police Court yesterday charged
with shooting with intent to kill. The
hearing was postponed to await the
result of his sons injuries. Hoffman
admits the shooting, and says he is only
sorry that he did not also shoot his wife.
Mrs. Eliza j. Hilgert, wife of Charles NJ.
Hilgert, of the firm of John Hilgerts' Sons,
of the Girard sugar refinery, Philadelphia,
died on Saturday afternoon of Bright's
disease. She had been ill ever since the
disappearance of her husband in August
last, leaving the firm involved in liabiIi-
ties amounting to over half million dol
lars. Mrs. Hilgert never heard of her
husbands whereabouts after his sudden
departure from the city.
The wrecking steamer Victoria J. Peed
returned to Norfolk yesterday from the
stranded steamer Egypt, bringing some of
her deck load of cotton. The agent of the
underwriters reports that the steamer is
lying brOadside ON the beach in about
eleven feet of water, with her rudder head
gone and her stern badly thumped, and is
leaking. With good weather, she can be
gotten off in few days, but if a storm
comes up her position is perilous.