Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-10-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

HIGH-TONED burglars at Boston entered
an art gallery on the night of the 4th and
stole number Of very fine paintings.
THERE was mistrial, the jury failing
to agree, in the case of Chesley Chambers
at Bloomington, Ind, charged with shoot.
ing an express messenger on the Monon
Route.
FRED lRIcK FIsHEL, book-keeper for
Bernheim & Bauer, New York, has disap-
peared, and is charged with defalcation to
large amount.
Mr.. A. B. DICKERsoN, of New Jersey,
has been appointed chief of division in
the office of the Comptroller of the Cur.
rency, vice F. A. Miller, resigned. Mr..
Dickerson was recently appointe chief of
division in the Sixth Auditors office.
The Treasury Department is receiving
an increased demand for small currency,
which is regarded by the officials of that
department u, sign of revival of the
business of the country.
The Texas convicts working on a rail.
road at O'Brien's camp, near Lubkin,
Tex, mad, a break for liberty on the
9th, when twelve were killed an | larg e
number wounded.
SOME drunken tramps fred the cattle
sheds at the Fort Wayne (Ind.) fair
grounds the night OF the 4th, AMI an un.
known tramp was burned to death. An.
other, giving the name of Griffin, was
rescued horribly burned. Loss to the Fair
As'ociation is slight.
WILLIE RosE, five.year.old son of a
prominent citizen CT Evansville, Ind,
whilst playing around new house in pro.
cess of construction, on the 9th, fell from
the second story to the ground and was
fatally injured.
THE schooner Annie Tomine from Mus.
kegon for Chicago, loaded with lumber,
became water-logged AMI capsizsd the
morning of the 5th about five miles west
of Grand Haven, Mich. The crew of six
men were saved by the life-saving crew.
The issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended Oc-
tober 8 was $2i, ,120. Tie issue during
the corresponding period of la Il year was
S49l, 1913.
Ir is now state thai the Chinese set fire
to their own houses at Rock Springs to
prevent the white miners from getting the
money buried underneath them.
MARY ANDERSON arrived at New York
on the 9th.
TEN thousand volunteers have been con
centrated in Macedonia for service in Bull
garia.
A TRAIN was boarded and robbed by
four men near Altoona, Pa, on the 9th.
THE London newspapers are greatly ex-
ercised over Parnell's Wicklow speech.
Mrs. WALKUP's case at Emporia, Kas.,
has been set for trial October 10Th.
ABOUT seven hundred glass blowers are
on a strike at Philadelphia.
The nail mill of Kemberly & Co. at
Sharon, Pa, has resumed operations.
IT is officially denied that Belgium has
withdrawn from the Latin monetary con.
vention.
KILLIlG frost, in the Northwest and a
snow storm in Dakota were reported OH
the h.
Mr.. THoMAN, of the Civil Service Com.
nilsson, w Ii resign in few days.
The steam barge II. G. lngersoll burned
to the waters edge on the 9th at Point au
Sable, Lake Miohigan.
THE Labrador fisheries have proved a
failure, AMI the people along the coast are
in starving condition.
JUDGE SAwNIE ROBERTSON, of Dallas,
been appointed member of the Supreme
Court of Texas.
FREEMAY BARNUM has been appointed
Collector OF Internal Revenue for the First
Missouri ID strict.
CHAs. DAVIDSON, painter, was killed
at Evansville, Ind., on the 9th, by falling
from scaffold down an elevator way.
THE Bulgarian question and affairs in
Ireland were discussed a. meeting oil
the British Cabinet on the 9th.
AN attempt was made on the 9Th to
wreck train on the Air Line Railroad
between Huntingburg and Rose Bank, Ind
OWING to the number Of French Cabinet
ministers defeated at the recent election
it will be n C SIS ,ry to remodel the Cab
met.
A LETTER purportiag to be from the
President, criticising TIE New York Stat,
Democratic ticket, is pronounced for
| gerry.
! COMM ssIoNER SPARKS of the Genera
| Land Oflic, has discovered extensiv,
frauds on the part of several land.gran
railways.
MRS. BRUSH, who murdered her hus
band and burned his body at Little Falls
| N. Y, has been sentenced to be executed
| November 25th.
| GEO. w. SARGENT, a carpenter, wa
found hanging to tree in Kansas City ol
the evening of the 6sh. He left farewell
letters saying life was not worth living.
DRIVERS aud conductors on several o
the st. Louis car lines quit work on the 9Th
causing some inconvenience to travel
They demand twelve hours asia days work
| fifteen minutes for meals and S1.15 an
| 800 day for drivers and conductors re
spectively.
The Treasury Department on the 9Th
purchased 200, 900 ounces of silver for de
livery at the New Orleans and Phils
delphia minis for coinage into silve
collars.
The Indian Bureau has awarded th
contracts for Indian supplies for th
Southern Ute Agency in Colorado as fo
lows: N. w. Miles, Schuyler, Neb., 62,OO
lbs. -four at 1915 per 100 lbs; ].
Hughes, Hughes, o., G45,0o0 lbs. beef q
S2.Sl per 10) lbs.
c. D. LESTER, stock dealer, committe
suicide on the 9Th at Burlington Junctio
Springs, la. He was we'll known ma
and an old friend of President Cleveland
having been Deputy Sheriff of Fri
County, New York, when Cleveland wa
Sheriff. No cause is assigned for th
deed.
Tbs Postoffice Department has receive
number Of reports from Postmasters q
to the first three days working of the sp'
cial delivery service. The reports sho'
that the system is receiving support, an
indicate that it will be fairly successful.
IT is said that Mr.. Fosters successor q
Minister to Spain has been fully dete
mined upon; thathe halls from Southe I
State, and that his name will soon be al
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