Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1885-03-10
NEWS IN \ NUTSHELL.
Interesting Little Flashes from the
Wires Printed in Condensed Form.

At Jackson, Miss, in the case of DR.. r. J.
Penn, for the murder Of k. B. RIals at Hazel
hurst, Miss, last year, the Supreme Court has
affirmed the Judgment of the lower court.
Penn is now under sentence of death.
The establishment of Russian Consulate
At Seoul, the capital OF COrea, anG OF vice
consulate at Tche MulpO, COrea, is projected.
Three mills at the Latin & Rand powder
works. f0ur miles west of Sewburg, y. Y.
exploded yesterday morning, killing two men
and severely WOunding another.
A heavy force Of troops left Guaymas sun
day to tight Cajemi, the faqui Chief, and his
forces.
Last Saturday four negroes were drowned
at AlinOcks landing in Red River parish,
Louisiana, while attempting TO cross the river
in an oYercrOwded skin which was swamped.
Announcement is made that Queen Victoria
will arrive at Darmstadt April 1.
The Spanish Governor of the Philippine
Islands has been ordered to annex the Caro-
line Islands on behalf of Spain.
Fire in a cotton shed at the Penn press at
New Orleans yesterday damaged quantity
Of cotton belonging to ). l. Harris. The loss
is estimated at $4,000. The property is fully
insured.
The fishing schooner solomon Poole which
sailed from Gloucester. Mass, Jan. !, for the
Newfoundland Banks, has been given up for
lost with her entire crew of fourteen men.
She Is the first vessel lost with all hands this
year.
Tie st. Petersburg police have succeeded
in tracing and arrestlng several dangerous
Nihilsts By means OF information contained
in papers found in the apartments or the stu
dent who reeeRtly killed himself in Dorphat
when the police called upon him to seize ter
rOrists' phamlets, etc.
At Eufaula. Ala, sa incen diary fire at 10
O'Clock yesterday morning consumed the
dwelling and OuthOuses OF Mrs. Jennings, q
mile and a half from the city. The fire was
the result OF two attempts. The first was
made yesterday, but the fire was discovered
in time to prevent damage. The loss is $4,000,
and the insurance 81. z5O.
In the House OF Commons to-day, Lord
Edmund Fitzmaurice, Under Secretary for
Foreign Affairs, stated that the government
does not regard North BOrneO as under
sovereignty.
Gen. L. H. Foote, United States Minister to
COrea, was among the passengers on the
steamer City of New York, which arrived at
san Francisco sunday from Yokohama.
At the opening Of the Swiss Parliament yes
terdav the President congratulated the red
eral Council upon the de cree eNpellIng anar-
chists, who, he declared. were regarded by
the people Of Switzerland as merely ordinary
criminals.
At Pearlington, Miss, the residence of Mrs.
Jane SnOpps was burned last night, and her
three little boys. the oldest II years OF age,
persisted in the flames. Mrs. SnOpps was at
tending church at the time.
At Durant, Miss. last Saturday, three col
Ored children were burned, their parents
having locked them in house while they at
tended log rolling. One OF the children is
dead another will die and the third may re-
cover, Two white boys were badly burned
about the hands while trying to release the
burning children.
The steamer MemnOt, from New York Feb.
:. for Liverpool, and which lost her rudder on
the voyage as before reported, has been toWed
into Liverpool. Her cabins were Hooded.
Fire at MurfresbOro. Tenn. early yesterday
morning burned three buildings. The loss Is
$4,000 and the insurance $4,000. Engines
from Nashville were telegraphed for and ar
rived in time to prevent disastrous confa-