The Savannah tribune. [volume] (Savannah [Ga.]) 1876-1960, 1888-10-27
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INTERESTING ITEMS BOILED
DOWN IN READABLE STYLE.
THE FIELD OF LABoR-sEETHING CAUL-
DRoN OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE-FIRES,
SUICIDES, ETC.-NoTED DEAD.

1hE FIELD OF MISUNDERSTANDING CAUL-
DRoN OF EUROPEAN INTRIGUE-FIREs,
SUICIDES, ETC.-NoTED DEAD.
Typhoid fever is epidemic at Fostoria,
Ohio.
The Derbyshire CEng.) GOLFERS are on
strike.
Russian troops arc maneuvering on the
Austrian frontier.
The Sultan of Turkey, has approved
the building of railroad from Jaffa to
Jerusalem.
The trouble in Rio Grande city has
been settled by the arrest of the Mexican
malcontents.
The forty-second annual meeting OF
the American Missionary Society was
held in Providence, r. l.
The Chicago s. Alton Railroad tracks
have been blockaded several times re-
Gently by train wreckers.
A heavy snow fell at Nebraska City,
Neb., lasting nearly all day. The ground
is covered to the depth of three inches.
At a meeting at Lyons, France, NJ. De
Lesseps declared that the Panama canal
would be opened for traffic in July, 1890
Justice Lawrence, of the supreme court
in New York, handed down decision
sustaining the will of Samuel j. Tilden.
The North German Lloyd steamship
Elbe, from Bremen which arrived at New
York, on Tuesday had several cases OF
smallpox among her SIS steerage pas
sengeis.
The Neus Free Press, of Vienna, says
that the idea of marriage between
Prince Alexander, of Battenberg, and
Princess Victoria, sister of the German
emperor, has been abandoned.
George Francis Train delivered lee
ture in Harrisburg, Pa, for the benefit Of
the yellow fever sufferers. The net re-
ceipts were $293 10, and a check for that
amount was forwarded to Jacksonville,
Fla.
A riot broke out at May, Ireland, be-
tween Orangemen and nationalists The
police were reinforced and charged the
mob with bayonet. Several policemen
were injured by stones thrown by the
rioters.
The national assembly of Hayti have
chosen Gen. Francois Denys as president
of the republic. Cape Haytien, Gonaives
and st. Marc having revolted against the
legitimate government, have been closed
to foreign commerce,
Charles A. Cutler, of Boston, Mass,
has received a verdict of So, 500 damages
against Nathaniel Hamlin. owner of the
house occupied by Cutler, where, because
Of defective drainage, plaintiffs family
became i'll with diphtheria.
The Pope, in donating 500, 900 to the
anti-slavery movement, has written to
Cardinal Lavigerie, in terms of praise
and encouragement of the scheme, In
which he was commissioned by the Pope
to invite the cooperation of Europe.
A dispatch from Potensa, Italy, says
ten cars of train, crowded with excur-
sionists returning from Naples fetes, were
crushed in a remote portion of that dis
trict by landslide, consisting of about
fifty metres of rock. Seventy injured
passengers and ninety corpses were taken
from the wreck
The minister of war, who has been
making tour of the Southeast of France,
has informed the budget committee that
it will be necessary to spend e400, 600, 00C
for the purpose of defending the Eastern
frontier against a possible German invas-
ion. The inspector found the present
defenses useless against the new explo.
Siyes.
The grand jury of Wright county,
Iowa, returned an Indictment against
Mrs. p. Bertha Diggle, of the Ford Dra-
matte Company, for the murder of her
husband, George Diggle, the cath of
May. Mrs. Dggle, prior to her engage
nent with the Ford Dramatic Company,
was the leading star in Andrews Opera
Company.
Albert a. Shaver, ex-county treasurer
Of Clare, Mich, is under arrest on the
charge Of appropriating between $1,000
and 81, 500 Of county funds during his
term Of office in 1884. On the night Of
May IA, 1884, Shaver was found bound
and gagged in his office, and he declarei
ne had been robbed Of 81, 900, but his
story was found TO he false.
The steamship Atlas, Of the Atlas line,
arrived at New York, from Port Simon,
and was on her way up the river to her
lock. When of Liberty street she was
run into by the New jersey Central rail
road ferry boat Painted, and ten min
ules later the Atlas sunk off Yesey street.
She rests on an even keel, and hcrtopmasts