Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-12-28
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The French Chamber of Deputies will ad-
jOurn on Tuesday.
Paquet, the infdel, who was recently par
alyZed while denying the doctrine of eternal
punishment, at Toronto, died in the hospital
Yesterday.
The two chief members of the firm of
Woliitz Bros, of Lemberg, Austria, gram
merchants and large importers and maltsLers,
have committed suicide owing to business
troubles.
News reached jackson, Miss, yesterday of
the killing near Oakland on Christmas day of
L. W. Jones, who was shot dead by his
brother Clint Jones. In fit of remOrse Clint
killed himself the next day.
An unknown man stepped on the track of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad in Baltl-
more yesterday to take drink from flask
of whisky. He paid no attention to an APP
preaching train and was instantly killed.
An anti-rent strike is in progress at Ltm-
erick, Ireland. Tenants demand reduction
in rents of 20 per cent. Agents of the land
lords OBJECT to the reduction. The tenants
have therefore refused to pay their rents.
At New York yesterday additional subpG-
macs were issued from the District ATTORNEYS
office, one to each of the twenty four Alder
men in the city, requiring them to appear be-
fore the grand jRry on Monday and testify
regarding alleged bribery.
While a party of twenty men in Peters
county, Mo-, were treating newly married
couple to q charivari with cowbells, horns,
pistols and shotguns, the leader of the party
received load of shot In the side ana died
instantly. The shot was accidental.
At Bucker, Mo-, Christmas. Noah Best
City Marshal, ATTEMPTED TO arrest w. S.
Akers for drunkenness and disOrderly con-
duct. Akers resisted and was shot by Best in
the forehead. lie died yesterday morning
from the effect Of the shot. Akers was a
prominent and Well-to-do farmer.
The withdrawal from the Reform Club of
the Right Hon. George J. Goschen, Liberal
Member of Parliament for Ripon, is due to
dlscoutent at the predOminenCe of Radical
membership in the club. The Duke of Ar
gyle. Mr.. GOschen, and other moderate Lib
erals, are aiming to form Liberal Conserya-
tive coalition.
At meeting at Madrid yesterday. attended
by fl members of the Chamber OF Deputies
and "a Senators of the Constitutional party,
Senior Sagasta presiding, it was decided 10
attack the ministry on the Cuban loan. mill
tary administration and the recent manifesto
tions by students. Discussion of the CONNER
cial treaties was avoided.
The Irish Executive at Dublin has ordered
the Chief of Police to inquire into the charac-
ter of the appointments to the detective force
which were made under the regime of James
Ellis French, the dlsgraced Inspector, who
was convicted the other day of having been
guilty of abOmlnable practices. Such mem
bers of the force as are found to be without
a clear record are to be dismissed.
In the Supreme Court at Cambridge, Mass,
yesterday, the jury in the noted Stone will
case T6buTucu q ferulCb 10 the eHeCL LlaE the
will was drawn in proper shape, and that
Mrs. Stone was of sound mind. On the
question of undue influence over Mrs Stone
on the part of Rev DR.. Wilcox, one of the
executors, the jury disagreed, standing to 6.
On the Northern Railway extension, near
Brace Bridge, Ontario, two or three days ago
the foreman of a gang of rockmen was en-
gagged IN ramming dynamite into drill hole,
when it exploded, throwing him clear over a
derrick, killing him instantly, his body being
blown to pieces. Three others were terribly
injured, and are now lying in a temporary
hospital atBrace Bridge.
J. III. Macarthur, District Attorney of Arm
nibago county, Wis.,, who was shot by Paul
Steimel Monday evening. died Yesterday
afternoon. Stelmel gives as his reason for the
shooting that Macarthur had been getting
money from him for legal services until he
tSteimeD had lost his farm. The prisoner is
in Jail at Oshkosh, where he was taken imme-
diately after the shooting, as fears were en-
tertained that he would be lynched if he re-
manned at Neenah,