The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-07-15
ITEMS OF INTEREST.

| FARMERS down in Jersey are about instituting
| bug days" wherein concerted effort will be
made to exterminate the insects that Just no"
are playing havoc with fruit and vegetables.
JOHN TooLE of New Haven, who for thirteen
years has been mourned as one of the unidentl-
fled victims of the Ashtabula railroad horror,
walked in upon his friends the other day alive,
| hearty and proSperous-out in California
| IN San Francisco suit has been brought against
| the estate of one Loewenthal, who committed
| suicide last winter upon the day set for his
| wedding, by the father of his hancee, for the
! 81, 900 claimed to have been spent in prepare
ton for the marriage.
JUSTICE CHARLES Of Liverpool recently SEN
fenced man to.seven years penal servitude,
| and his wife to the same punishment for life.
| for cruelty to their child "a little girl, whom
| they had imprisoned in a dark cellar ana mad
| beaten, burned with hot poker, and otherwise
| abused
THIRTY THREE PERSONS were killed and GF
| injured by railway accidents in England last
year There were 81 collisions between pas
| senger trains, in which 25 persons were killed,
| and II collisions between passenger and freight
| trains, by which one person was killed, In 1856
| II persons were killed and 696 injured on
| English railways.
LOUISA MARY BLAKE, aged ~, a London mid
wife, who died recently while under the iutu-
ence Of chloroform, is said to have been the
| largest ChlOroform taker in the world" She
| had been addicted to the habit for many years,
| and is said to have frequently taken as much as
| a pint day She would pour the drug upon
blanket, cover her face with the blanket, and go
| to sleep
A PITTsBURG MAN has invented q glass conduit
which he thinks solves the problem of under
ground electric wires. Plates of glass are
grooVed on the upper surface, and the wires are
lald IN the grooves and cemeuted there with
| pltch lnen other plates of glass are laid over
the hrst. and wires put upon them in the same
| way. When all the wires are laid the whole is
! enclosed in a wooden box and embedded in
| cement.
PARIS proposes to have workmens tenement
! houses after the Peabody plan, and the first
| stone of the first house was recently laid The
building VIII have seven stories, and be divided
luto MONIES or two rooms and kitchen, and the
| weary rent OF a suite on any floor will be $50.
Inc money to build the house was given by
! Mess $. Michel and Heine, both of whom have
| studied and become much interested in the sys-
| TEN o. the great American philanthrop8t.
| AsolDGER named Michael Schmidt was hanged
| in the Alser barracks of Vienna for the crime
| OF wilful murder, amid somewhat fancful
| military ceremonial. The infantry company to
| which he belonged was drawn up in a square
/ around the gallows; two adjutants went through
! the comedy OF applying TO the general in com
msnd OF the army corps for a pardon, which the
| latter had no power TO grant, and after the man
| mad been hanged, general salute to the corpse
/
| STATISTICS show that the proportion of
women engaged in agriculture to those earning
money otherwise, is one to thirty; and to those
| engaged in agriculture about one-fourth are in
| Iowa. Great numbers of women take up gov
| eminent lands, more often unmarried women
| than unmarried men Betrothed couples have
| been known to go from the east and after living
| on adjoining claims join the two by marriage,
| and possess together a farm Of 430 acres or
more. Tree claims are also taken by women,
| especially in Dakota.
| AN Austrian officer, bearing the Russian title
| of count, was arrested in Russian Poland on
suspicion of being one of twelve Austrian
| officers who, after spending six months in
| various DISCUSSES along the frontier, completed
/ an excellent map, giving the present position of
| every corps and battalion along the whole line
| OF the Russian frontier where it meets Germany
and Austria, which map, when 1t appeared in
| Russia, caused great cons ernation. The officer
protested against his arrest and it has been
asserted that he was released, but as kilograms
| to him remain unanswered, it is feared that he
| is still in custody