Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-12-03

sey City, N. j., and began to abuse the
landlady, Mrs. Sweeny, and wound up by
pouring kettle of boiling water over her,
scalding her SO severely that her recovery
Is impossible.
SEVERAL workmen were severely in
jured by the burning of the Rubber Paint
Company's building at Cleveland, o., on
the 22d.
JOHN W. LANERs, of Omaha, Neb., shot
and killed his wife on the night on the 2lst,
claiming to have mistaken her for burg
lar.
A TERRIBLE cyclone swept over the
Philippine Islands ON the 2ist. Eight
thousand buildings, including numerous
churches and school houses, were de-
stroyed and twenty-five persons were
killed.
SUSIE SHELTER, four years of age, was
burned to death at Atwood, Pa, on the
22d, by her clothing catching fire from a
CRATE.
A DISPATCH of the 22d from Calcutta says
that 5000 people have been drowned and
15O villages submerged in Orissa by cy-
clone, and that 1,24l square miles in the
Moonshedabad and Huddea districts have
been devastated.
SAMUEL and John May, farmers, were
robbed and brutally beaten on the night of
the 2lst by seven highwaymen in Wash
ington County, Pennsylvania.
JOSEPH McCoNNAUGHTY, Town Marshal
of Bridgeport, o., was fatally shot ON the
21st by Silas Conway.
| MASKED robbers at Marion, Pa, poured
| coal oil on an old man and set him on fire
| to extort money.
| A CONVICT In the Nebraska Penitentiary
confesses to the murder of Colonel Watson
B. Smith, Clerk of the United States District
| Court, at Omaha, whose death has been a
mystery since 1881.
On the 23d George Stevenson, confined in
Jail at Fort Dodge, Ia, for murder, hanged
himself in his cell.
! On the 23d a peddler named Hanfield
was robbed of $1,000 in money and his
stock of goods by highwaymen in Holmes
County, Ohio.
On the 23d Mary Tialka, a Bohemian
widow, and her two children were burned
| to death in tenement-house fire in New
York. Henry Kohot has been arrested for
setting fire to the building, which involved
loss of 100000.
ON the 23d Joseph Groblewski, convicted
of the murder of his wife by poison at
Brooklyn, N. Y, was sentenced to be
hanged January ID, 1886.
| On the night of the 22d, John Sharpless
one of the most prominent Orthodox
Friends in Delaware County, Pa, was
foully murdered in his barn, whittier he
had been enticed by a negro under pretense
of getting some straps to mend broken
carriage.
WILLIE DESMOND blew off his thumb and
finger with dynamite at Williamston
Mich, and the fright caused the boys
grandmother to fall dead from heart dis.
ease.
| THE police of Philadelphia have arrested
a negro answering the description Of the
murderer of John Sharpless, at Chester. He
| gives his name as Isaac Lewis, and says
he has no home.
NEAR the town of Franklin, W. T., on
| the 22d, three men were killed during q
wind storm. A large tree was blown down
and fell directly across the house, crushing
| it to pieces. Three men,. B. Gaul, John
Cannon and James Smith-were in the
house at the time. All were instantly
killed and their bodies fearfully mangled
MRS. LOUISE STIEGER, in a fit of tenn.
porary insanity, jumped from fourth
story window of her home in Jersey City
N. j., with her babe in her arms, on tn;
23d. The little one was dashed to death OF
the pavement and the woman received
probably fatal injuries, being dreadfully
lacerated by striking an iron railing. Wher
her husband discovered what had beer
done he endeavored to cut his throat, bu
was prevented by the police.
AT Bismarck, d. T., on the 23d the e wa
found on a piece of floating Missouri Rivel
ice the body of man, and beside him wal
found a note purporting to be from hi
wife in London, England, and which read
"My dear husband, you must hurry hom,
If you expect to find your little Nelli,
alive. l am doing all in my power to say,
her, but she is very low. Hoping you vii
return soon, remain, with love, your owl
Mary" The note was addressed to Cap
tain John Bannock, Fort Assinaboine
M. 7.