The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-10-24
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assist in ventilation.
The Empire State Bank is the name of new
financial institution about TO be started in the
city of New York, with capital of 900 and
authority to increase to 81 10000
UPWARD of 1900 men at present employed
along the water front at Tacoma, W. T., in
building grain elevators. wheat warehouses
marine railways, wharveS and mills
This has been a good season for bears in
Maine. Lewiston furrier says that he has
already bought tifty-hve skins and thinks the
crop will beat last years, which was 344 pelts.
WOLVES numerous in Marathon county,
Wisconsin. They invade farm yards and have
killed many chickens and calves. IIalsey
farmer lately shot two of the depredators and
lynx.
n. K. FAIRBANK, the millionaire lard operator
of Chicago, made 100000 in "Old Hutch's"
great corner in wheat Other spectators,
among them ex-GoV. Young OF Milwaukee,
made from 100000 to S250,00o
THE Australian yachtsmen have sent Walter
Reeks, a naval architect of Sydney, to study
the plans of the yachts Volunteer and May
| flower, with view to designing vessel to COM
pete with American flyers in 1890.
The YALE MEDICAL SCHOOL has opened with a
class of twenty'two-the largest since the re-
qurements were raised. The attendance in
| recent years has been small, but the present
| number is about so per cent. greater than last
year
| In party of eight to be returned to Europe
as paupers by the Castle Garden authorities is
a decrepit Frenchman who speaks several Ian
| guages fiuently. He has been in this country on
| four previous occasions, ana was sent back as a
| pauper each time.
The wife of Henry w Moore, the St. Louis
journalist, who some time since eloped with
| pretty Mrs Norton, the actress was left almost
| wholly destitute and is living at Camden,
| N. j: She will try to support herself and her
| child by the use of her pen.
THE Association of Woman Teachers in the
public schools of New York have signed a petit
tion requesting the board of education to fix
the mini salary of teachers in the primary
and grammar schools after ten years of service,
at not less than $3.50 per annum.
MRS EMMA P. EWING has been lecturing in
Boston on 1.-The Bread We Eat" She says we
are a nation of pancake eaters, and conse-
quently nation of dyspeptics. Mrs. Ewing
thinks there is a good opening for fully 10000
women to become professional bread-makers.
SPEAKING at Boston last week Gen. Greedy
said: There has been great deal of criticism
| of the signal service in Boston. I think they
can tell the weather as well here as Ia Washing
ton, and think your local weather prophets
| sometimes do better than we there. Once
in while do slip up"
IF the result of the presidential election de-
pended on the Methodist ministers of Mime
| sofa. Gen Fisk would have waIk-over At the
| Methodist conference at Winona, last week a
poll of the ministers was taken, which resulted
| IN 126 votes for FISK TO q for Harrison and
| not voting, while IA were for the prohibition
| candidate for governor and for the republican.
| GEORGE RUDD, the American artist, who was
| recently lost in the mountains near the Austrian
| Tyrol is supposed to have been murdered, as he
| had large amount of money on his person at
| the time of his disappearance He had insisted
1 on fo inc fPi nT not OIsN
| guide He is supposed to have carried with
him about all the money he had in the world,
and his wife and five children are left in Austria
| in an entirely destitute condition.
Count RoB1LANT, Italian ambassador to Eng
land, who has just died at Rome, was the
natural brother of the late King Victor
Emanuel, being the lille ultimate son Of King
| Charles Albert OF Sardinia. He was an accom-
plished diplomat and q crave soldier. II was he
| who while minister of foreign affairs for
| his government, negotiated the offensive and
| defensive alliance between Italy and Austria
and Germany. He was for a long time Italian
ambassador at Vienna, and was married to an
| Austrian countess.
BOLD ATTEMPT at wholesale robbery was
made last week at the smelling works on the
outskirts of Portland Me. The workmen have
| been working nights, and Monday night they
| were paid off. They went to work as usual
| there being six men ia one roon At about II
| O'Clock loud rap was heard at the door, aud
| before the workmen knew what was coming a
| gang of men with masks ever their faces rushed
| in. The marauders demanded the men S money
and began to assail them. One big workman,
| named O'Connell, was standing near the door
when the onslaught was made. He had large
| iron crowbar in his hand, and, taking in the
situation, he dealt one of the assailants a ter
rife blow on the head, Telling him to the ground
| One of the workmen then rau TO the rope con
| Meeting with the steam whistle and pulled it,
| BY this time the would be robbers were fright.
| ened and, taking their injured companil H. who
was insensible, they made of.
THERE was curious fox hunt in Norwalk.
| Conn, the other day. Daniel Connolly has a
fine collection of fowls and a large red fox
came into his yard in the center of the town.
| seized hen and started to run off with it, His
| 10-year-old son John objected He saw the fox
| as it cleared the fence with the hen in its mouth
and by well-aimed throw hit it on the head
| with a stone The fox was very much surprised
| and fell over. dropping the hen. Then it got up
| and tried to sneak off. Johns brother Char e
two arsolder, came to his aid and with another
| stone laid the chicken thief out apparently life
less. While the two boys stood over the fox it
| lay very still, but as they attempted to pick il
| up it made spring, and again tried to sneak
| OFF The boys chased it with clubs and as it
| was still somewhat stunned, they had no diff
| Guilty in pounding to death. The skin is now
| in process of curing, q I'd will serve as a bed
| spread for tue youthful hunters during the cold
| winter nights.
THE British warship Osprey is doing a good
| work and making fine record for itself in the
Red sea, having just captured three more
dhows, containing about 200 slaves. Scores of
boatloads Of these hapless victims have been
rescued within the last few years on their way
| from the East African coast, but the thousands
| thus saved bear a small proportion to the enor-
nous number successfully carried off. Arabia
| is, perhaps, the greatest foreign market in the
| world for these negroes, and the Osprey evil
IDENTIFY keeps up her watch near the strait of Bah
| ell Mandeb, where the narrowing of the Red sea
offers a shorter passage for the horrible traffic
| The region just west of the Nyauza lakes and
| of Lakes Tangynyika and Nyassa has been ter.
| ribly swept by the Arab man stealers who cor
| raj and kipnap whole villages at time No
statistics will ever tell the full story of these
| ravages in the closing years of the nineteenth
| century. to say nothing of q day when human
| bondage was more widely established
WE infer from some of the letters received by
lis from our young readers, says the New York
| Leiger, that a number of them cherish the
ridiculous opinion that to have small hands and
feet is a sign Of noble descent and high breed.
| ing. We can assure these deluded damsels
| that race and breeding have nothing to do with
| the size of the extremities The biggest hand
| that we ever saw attached to a human arm was
| that OF young officer, the scion of a family
ennobed six centuries ago, and we have seen
hands OF the most delicate size and texture be-
| longing TO persons OF the lowest origin wit.
/ ness also, the chubby paw of her mos, gracious