The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-04-23
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AT PESFIELD, Pa, W. f. Piper, ,.-,,,.
for natural gas, at depth of $50 n
| local nsr,e- .,o,,t s,,,sbeS enon,b tto the 4
! continuous stream to furnish motive ~ q &
/ a saw MILL yer for q
! WoMEN's RIGHTS are evidently reed .
! Lexington, Miss, where at least thT .;a
| occupy positions almost always filledf
| Miss Emily Wright is the postmaster Meh,
/ is express agent and Miss Mole HoskRie
charge of the telegraph office at the depd"
| JAMES DoNNELLY only 10 years of ag@.
arrested in San Francisco the other DAT |
pocket lifting. He is considered one d
| cleverest thieves in the business-so cleveH
DEED, that, although he has been arrested sctl
| of times, his connection with theft could mel
be definitely proved. III
GEORGE RoTH, of Virginia, Col, received d.
of the Esquimau breed from San Francisco. l
bull dog took after him on the street and chased
him 70 his owners house. The animal ran id
at the open door, which was at once closed.
The pursuing dog with such speed against
the door that his neck was broken, and he drop
| ped down stone dead.
Two ToMBsToNEs in Greenwood Cemetery,
New York, located on different lots, bear the
name of John f. Mason with the record: DIED
Jan: 30, 1893, aged 81 years family quarrel
explains the double memorial Mr.. Mason being
really buried IN only one grave. His widow
erected one of the gravestones, and his children
| by bis first wife the other.
WEST POINT, NEB., bridegroom is spending
his honeymoon in jail. A party of young men
went to give the newly married couple a char
| ivari, which so incensed the bridegroom that
| he emptied shotgun loaded with salt into their
midst. The entire charge was received by one
OF the party in the face. He will lose both eyes
and be otherwise dishgured for life.
KING THEEBAws REVENUE from the famous
ruby mines of Burmah, it is said did not aver
age $50, 600 rupees annually. All precautions
which were practicable were taken to prevent
smuggling, and stones of the value of 1000
rupees were royal perquisites, but they were
generally secreted or broken up by the finders.
The English have stopped all work at the mines
since they conquered Burmah.
THE STORY comes from Shamokin Pa, that
James Bailey, miner, with wife and seven
children, went ont in the Reading strike. was
afterward unable to get work and became a
burden on the town. ) few days ago he got a
letter from an English lawyer who wrote that
Bailey uncle, who had disowned him because
he had married a poor girl, had Just died, leav-
ing him fortune of S1,600,0O0.
WILLS T1BBITs. of San Anton's Canyon. Cal,
| saw a monstrous bird descend and fasten its
talons in kid. In endeavoring to arise the
| bird caught itself in a wire fence, and, being
unable to eXtricate itself, Mr. Tibbits procured
rifle and shot it. 1t measured feet inches
| from tip to tip, and was sort of cross between
broken, and had been shot at on several occa-
| sionS
A REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH was taken in
Shelbyvile, Ill recently The picture repre-
| sents group of five generations, from the aged
great-great- grandmother to the little child of
but few months. The parties to this remark
able sitting were Grandma Catherwood, aged
| So; DR.. T. l.. CatherWood, her son. aged 81; Mrs
Maggie Hoxey, her granddaughter, aged 80;
her eat-granddaughter Mrs Eva Corrington.
aged 10, and little Harry Newton Corrington,
her great great grandson, aged months.
THE shooting of big dog by French custom
house officer in the north of France the other
day, has given rise to some queer dog stories in
the French papers The officer shot the dog be-
cause he was Suspiciously fat The post mortem
examination revealed the fact that the dog wore
leather coat made to look like his own skin,
and skillfuly fastened at the shoulders and
launches in such way as to completely con-
ceal the ends of the hair. In this coat the dog
carried several hundred cigars.
CONSIDERABLE excitement has been caused by
the discovery of electricity in the water works
well at Lebanon, Mo, Some time ago, during
the dry weather, the Frisco Company put a
pump iu the well, but before connection was
made with their tank water plenty and the
well was abandoned. An attempt was made to
remove the pump when it was found some part
of the pump was fast to the piping. which ex-
tends down about 800 feet II was also found
Jndl Dy Tile apDlC3JlOn OF small steel articles
that the pipe is highly magnetic and steel
readily adheres to it, The well is 1900 feet
deep and has 800 feet of water in it. 1t has
filed in and been drilled out three times.
On the Casa Granda river, in Northern Chi
huahua, some miners made queer discovery
the other day. The mine is called the San
Pedro, and there is on it an old incline going
into the mountain at an angle of 45o, and evi
IDENTIFY following the richest ore streak in a zig
gag manner. At the end of this incline a sub
terranean chamber was found which had been
fashioned into a Catholic chapel The chamber
is some 30 feet in diameter and about 200 feet
high. Seats have been cut from the solid rock
running all around the chapel, and so has been
an altar and pulpit. The whole was found
neatly whitewashed, and presents a peculiar
aspect The ancient chapel could be used at
moments notice as place of worship.
THE medicine mans lot is often an unhappy
one, and recent occurrence on the Simcoe In
dian reservation attssts this. As related by
San Francisco paper: "a child of Dick Wyneco
prominent chief, was sick and the Indian doc
tor was treating it in the quaint and horrible
custom Of the Indian race. Several children
have died lately, and Wyneco came to the con-
clusion that the learned doctor was the cause
of their taking away and as the child was grow.
ing worse each hour he decided to kill the doc
tor, and, by so doing, restore the little one to
health and prevent the death of others. Acting
upon this decision, he shot the medicine man
with Winchester rife Death was instanta-
and the child died The murderer is in jail at
Fort Simcoe.
A PAPER has been started in Chicago as the
organ OF the bakers of that city part of it is
printed in English another part in German and
a third part in Polish. The prospectus, as given
in English, is verbatim as follows: las you
Will see the purpose of this paper is to lay bar
several existing malpratitices in the backing
business We only take this last STEP because
we are forced to take it. We ask the reader to
put the responsibility to those persons who
muved by the greed of money making, ignore
all due regards for Clean ness, health and hui
mainly, and who also conspire to bring in to
Jail those persons, who desire to alter this CON
ditions. We shall prove in the following arti-
kels, and we shall Illustrate aur arguments by
appropriated examples, thatthe baker -bossesi'
in making the bread, to not have any regard
for the nessecary cleanliness. This Is a danger
GUS affair for the public, and the unions are
willing to guard the interest of the Public"
A MERIDEN, CONN, clothing dealer recently
offered spring overcoat to any person solving
the 'anti-rattle box" puzzle This consisted of
a short cylindrical wooden box, securely sealed.
The point was to shake the box without rattline
the contents. On the box was printed: lyon
can't do it; but II can be done" Those who got
hold of the boxes. after shaking them in differ
ent ways. cut them open and found the contents
to consist OF pieces Of tin of different shapes
AS no method of doing the trick could he
thought Of, il was generally supposed that the
puzzle could not be solved Charles H. Fair
child of the Meridpn Electric iuht Cornnany