The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-01-10
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| \ SENSATION was caused in Cincinnati
church by the detection OF thief while in the
act OF rifinz wonaan's portemonnaie. Services
! were suspended and nearly ali the members of
| the con reearion rose to their feet After a
! struggle ic The pew with the owner Of the bag
| the thief broke away and ran for he door. but
\ was intercepted and handed over TO a police
man.
| AN 1S-year-old Cincinnati boy wanting to get
married, ald, not having the necessary funds
| Appropriated $40 Of his brothers money and
| then jou neyed across the Ohio TO Covington,
| in Kentucky, ana had the knot tied. he has
| not since been seen. but the wife has BEEN ar
rested on the charge Of receiving stolen goods,
| It being alleged that she received SI2 of the
| stolen cash.
| A CENSUS Of the church-goers in New Haven
is being taken by the Yale theological students,
| who gain their information by travelling from
| house to house. Several interesting facts are
| obtained by this means and it is recorded as a
curious incident that nearly every family insists
| on being identified with some church. Pastors
are mucn surprised to find the long list OF their
| Pensioners, many OF whom they have never
| seen.
A LEADING topic Of conversation in Pittsburg
| financial circles is the statement of the direct
ors to the stockholders of the Bank of Pittsburg
| that, unless general Law be passed by the leg
| lslature, the bank will have 70 wind up its af
fairs, as its charter will soon expire. This bank
las never suspended specie payments since its
| charter was granted, in 1914, and it claims to
be the only bank in the United States that did
not suspend specie payments in the war.
JAMES ROBINSON lived alone in a cabin in Lin
coin Gulch, Deer Lodge county, Montana, and
was a confirmed opium eater. The other day
visitors to his cabin found his skeleton on the
floor. All tae flesh had been eaten from the
bones and the hands and head severed from the
body. On the table was some opium. 1t is
likely that he took an overdose of the drug and
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in his cabin until mountain lions entered, killed
him and devoure1 his flesh.
AT DR.. Skitchley's ostrich ranch, near Red
Bluff, Cal, is a pen in which hen ostrich is
| setting on thirteen eggs. She covers the eggs
nicely, and she sits there, with her long neck
and head laid at full length on the ground
| looks like moss-covered rock. Her husband
keeps guard over her in a very picturesque
| fashion, walking up and down the fence with
stately tread, his rich, glossy pumage gisten-
ing in the sunlight, aud his eyes flashing de
tiance he looks ready to tackle anything, man
| or beast. that should disturb the privacy Of his
home.
SINCE May s. 1898, the killing of deer on Cape
| Cod has been forbidden by law under a heavy
penalty, and the result is that the so 900 acres
/ of woodland between Sandwich. Falmouth and
| Plymouth are thronged with deer now quite
| tame When the law was not in force about
| POO deer were killed yearly. For over 200 years
| That region has been favOrite hunting ground.
| Among the relics in Pilgrim Hall, Plymouth, is
an old rifle, once owned By a famous hunter of
| Plymouth, and on the stock are 260 notcheS,
| each notch representing deer slain by the Pu-
ritan Nimrod.
| A FISH STORY that takes the championship
| badge is reported from Newark, n J. Two
| months ago Constable Moses Osborne, while
| getting out of boat neer the Belleville bridge
| ioSt badge in the water. The badge was of
| gold, about the size of quarter and had been
| presented by friends. The water was so deep
| that the constable gave up all hope of ever re
| covering it. EX-Fish Warden Frank COMMON
| went fishing on Tuesday. In preparing his fish
| for the table the badge belonging to Constable
| Osborne was found in the stomach of a carp
which weighed eight pounds.
HARRY MULLEN, near Ellenville, n. Y, while
cut bird shooting saw a big bear, but not being
loaded for bear he gave it a wide berth for the
| time being. The next day he set a trap and the
| day following he visited It armed with Wlnches
| ter rife. The trap was undisturbed but as he
| was going away he heard noise in the bushes
| and saw the bear running off. Harry fired and
/ the bear fell. It got up at once, however and
| started toward him. second ball fired at its
| broad breast did the work The animal weighed
| 42O pounds. The two bullets which had been
| fired into opposite ends OF the animal were
| found within eight inches of each other.
| A CHAPTER OF STRANGE Condolences occurred
in Toledo o., Friday. Two years ago that day
there occurred the terrible wreck of a passenger
train on the Baltimore and Ohio railroad ct Re-
public, near Toledo, By a strange happauink
| proceedings were begun Friday ganst the Bal,
| tlmore and Ohio in the United States court for
| $4,000 damages. The plaintiff was W =
! Gates. the baggagemaster who was injured in
| the wreck. He claimed in the petition that the
wreck was caused by the carelessnass of L. F
| Fletcher, conductor of the train. Tne petition
| had scarcely been filed when a dispatch reached
! Toledo that Fletcher, conductor of the Inflated
| train had just been killed bya railroad accident
| in Indiana.
| ACCORDING to Tanity Far, Queen Victoria
| has been extremely annoyed to learn that some
Of her gifts of fine linen to the London hospitals
| have been misappropyiated Her majesty has
| been in the habit OF presenting certain institu-
| tons with damask for the use of the patients:
| but one or two of these kindly donations have
| been turned to anything but their proper uses
| The trick, 1t Is said, has been worked in this
manner. As Inc queens monogram is on on.
| corner of the linen. those who nave distracted
| 1t have been under tle necessity of tearing this
| monogram across the corner of the square, and
| then sewing II TO q piece of cOarSer and almost
| worthless material. The damask thus rent mas
| been Systematically stolen
| CAPT. DAVIS of the ive-masted schooner Gov
| ernor Ames, recently built at Marlborough.
! Me-, had remarkable mother, says the Lewis
| ton (Nle. journal. She was not content with
| bringing up her own eleven sons and daughters
IN the way they should go, but adopted two or
| three other children. She was the doctor Of
| the whole neigIborhood. Physicians we're few
AID inexperienced as is usual in small country
places. and Mr.. Davis was always sent for in a
| hurry when any one was sick. Many were the
men she savej from death. one man. given un
for dead by everybody else. is now a very
wealthy citizen OF a western state. In one case
a couple of men carried her half mile through
snow waist deep to the sick bed of friend
So far as the navy department is concerned
Pttsburg is the great steel producing center of
the United States. Her mills haye furnished
in the last eighteen months, and are furnishing
to-day thTee-tourths OF the amount of steel used
in the construction Of armored cruisers moi
only upon the Atlantic seaboard but upon the
Pacific coast. With the exception Of some
shapes made by the Phoenix lron Company of
Phueuixvls and castings Oy the Standard com
pany OF Ihurow, Pa, all If the ste used in
the building OF twelve vessels for tho United
states navy has been supplied By Pittsburg
mills. Ihree-iOurtas Of tue entire force Of steel
tspect RS Of the navy department officers de-
talled for this purpose, are now located at Pitts
burg, fourteen in all
The Export Society Of Germany has decided
TO construct floating exhibition palace. hay
ing raised 100000 marks for the purpose II
prop ses 70 build a ship 10 be called the Kaiser
Nlinelm, wh.cn viii be j63 feet long G5J6 feet
VIDE and - feet deep. II will ave four engines
propelling as many screws. The material viii
be principally German steel The cost 81 a two
years tonr is estimated at 100000 marks The
income from TIE rented space 900 to l. qO1
narhs TOT each b3nth-Rll from sales will be
u Is thought, at least 1890 500 marks leaving a
palailcs OF 4,llu6,U, or over 1900. 800 marks an
nually. Emperor William 10 is said. has mon
i5eu as ald 70 the enterprise, and it is hoped