Savannah courier. (Savannah, Tenn.) 1885-1979, 1885-10-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

Rev. PHILIP KRoHN, Prohibition leader
In Kansas, says st. John could not be
elected constable out there now.
OFFICER CREssINGER at Cedar Rapids,
Ia, on the 10 b, shot twice at highway.
man named Blood, killing him AMI NOR.
tally wounding bystan1er named Mann.
The Czarina returned hom, from Dem
mark with the Car The Grand Duke
Alexis will represent the Romanoffs at
the marriage in Paris of Prince Waldo
mar
The works Of the Lafayette Suga, Re-
fnery, eight miles south OF La'ayett,,
Ind, were struck by lightning on the IL ght
Of the 18th, and burned to the ground.
Loss, $4,000; insurance, 5000.
WM II. GRAVES, of Syracuse, N, Y,
committed suicide on the 10Th.
AN east.bound coal train on thu Lebigh
Valley Ra:lroa collided with freight
train at Blae, Creek junction on the 10Th
aud forty cars and the locomotive of the
coal train, were compile ely demolished,
causing loss of $500.
The latest phase of the Post-offi sc de.
falcation case of Decatur Wells, the Post.
Office clerk at Renova, Pa, whose steal.
ings amoun ed to Thousands of dollars, is
his resignation and flight to Canada.
Wells leaves behind him many creditors
and wife to whom he has been married
less than month.
VIM. BECKER, n citizen OF Ring.own,
Pa, was ground to piecas on the Catawissa
bridge of the Reading Railroad on the
18Th. He was walking on the track toward
his residence when a frei ,ht train
struck AMI ran over him. An hour was
occupied in picking up his rema rs, piece
by piece, VIII CT were scattered in every
| direction. He was seventy-two years of
age and was one of the founders of Shen.
andoah, Pa.
THE Rock Island Railway Company has
ISSUED an order forbidding its employees
,oxcating liquor.
RAPID CITY, Oak ia, has offered $75 00)
for the terminus OF the Elklorn Valley
Road, and expects to get il.
WALT. WHITMAN, the poet, is declining
in health and his eyesight is also failing.
BARTHoLDI, the French artist, had ar,
ranged TO sail for New Y York on the oath
inst.
The Pittsburgh (Pa.) window glass fac
tories are resuming work after six months
of idleness.
AT Emporia, Kas., on the Goth the
Walkup case was opened, the State pre-.
senting its case and The taking of testi.
mony wa' b,gun.
THE Servian Minister TO England, in q
letter TO MIR. Gladstone, defends his coun
try's action.
THE Pope has called meeting at The
Vatican to draft instructions to the Fl ench
Bishops.
EX-GOVERNOR WAsHBURN was the chief
speaker at the Yalo College Alumni ASso.
citation NEE ing at Springfield, Mass, on
the 20.h.
THE Traasary Department, on the Goth,
purchased 5000 ounces IF silver for de.
Ivory at tle New O.leans and Phia lei
ph minis for coinage into standard dol
lars.
IT is generally believed at Rome that
Al chb shop Gibbons of Baltimore will lie
made cardinal
MElNEcD UhNDLING, whose sister was
outrag d 10y negro named Taskel at In
d anapol.s, lid, some days since, shot
Taskel il court on the 90 h.
TrUE bills against Editor Stead of The
Pal MAI Gazette and the OF er prisoners
in tie Arms rong abduction case have
been found by the Grand Jury.
RIv nj ROoru Ra,t;,. OF
las been suspended IRON the church al
Srr ng iel !, Mass, for forgery and othel
decetful practices,
Mrs. LANGTaY has been summoned tC
appear i'll court in London for refusing tc
pay her household deb S, dressmakers
bills, etc. 1t is claimed that her husband
is re ponsible for the bills in question.
CHAs. GRANT, memLer OF the Hes
Opera Company, was probably fa'ally in
jured a. Troy, N. V, on the Goth, Will,
leaning out of car window, his heat
striking an iron pillar.
THOMAS A. EDISON, The inventor, wa:
granted one raten, on the 20.h for a com
muta'or for dynamo electric machine
and three raten fer improvements il
electric lighting.
PRIMES ALEXANDER has summoned III,
whole National militia of Bulgaria and
Eastern Roumelia for service in delens,
of the country.
| 1IIG Gusuit of the suppiem sntary eleo
tions in F. ance shows that there will b.
39l Republicans and 205 Conservative;
in the new Chamber OF Deputies.
nf bo fn, L.
ment of the Caroline Islands question have
been sent to the Spanish and German gov
ornments by the Pope.
TIE Fortifications Board met on the 2Otl
at the office of the Secretary of War
Nearly the whole day was spent in read
ing and discussing the plans submitted by
inventors.
CANON FARRAR speaks in glowing term
of his reception in this country and pays
high tribute to our educational institu
tions, which he says ars superior to thos'
of England.
Tom MULDooN, a fourteeu-year-ol 10y
robbed his mo.her of over $2 900 at Youugs
town, o., on the .Oth, and went to sleep il
a woodshed, where he was captured an
the money recovered.
TROUBLE is brewing in Denmark OWN:
to the refusal of King Christian to dismiss
the E'trupp Cabinet in compliance with
vote OF Parliament.
MICHAEL DAvIrT addressed a larg
meeting at Glasgow on the 20 b, am
urged a union of the Irish with the Rad,
cas-.
THE session OF the Cabinet on the cot
vas almost entirely devoted to matter.
relat ng to the Postal Union. Certai,
notifications of existing regula ions wer
agree to and the documents signed b,
the Pres dent, AL the members of tn
Cab ne. were in attendance.
W. A. Mcdowell, of st. Louis, No, i
reported to have eloped with Miss Miami
Donnelly, clerk in a pho ograpi gallery
at New Haven, Conn. Mcdowell gra