Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Ano oHSiuccT, Jack hlrkSDy, nremdn
Chamberlain, and one other employee took
the terrible plunge, but strange to say two
OF them escaped without serious injury.
Engineer Kirkby was either killed by the
1ali or drowned. His fireman came
out of the cab to the surface and
was rescued. Several stock men leaped
from the caboose in time to save themselves
as they saw the front of the
train plunging into the abyss.
1t was two years ago on the
Sth of November that similar disaster oc-
Cured. That time it was the third span;
this time it was the first span that sue
cumbed.
A DETACHMENT of troops mas been
ordered from Fort Omaha to the vacated
reservation of the Otoe and Missouri In
dlans, in Southeastern Nebraska, to drive
of and warn away from the reservation
small bands Of squatters who are setting out
to repeat the Oklahoma adventure on lin
tied scale. The Indians were removed to
the Indian Territory few weeks ago, and
the lands OF this reservation were to be sold
for their benefit. Meantime the squatters
have begun pouring into the reservation,
and this being reported to the Secretary of
the Interior, at his request the War De-
partment ordered the movement Of troops
as indicated. 1t is hardly anticipated that
there will be determined resistance.
ADDISON and William Burns, on trial
at Clarion, Pa, for completely in Missouri
land frauds, have been found guilty and re-
manded to Jail pending sentence. Many
persons in Pittsburgh and Northwestern
Pennsylvania have been swindled out of
large sums, ranging from 81, 1000 to $25, 900,
through these transactions. The Burnses
were the chief ringleaders Of that part OF the
country, and are all well known in Pitts
burgh, VIM. Burns having been President
of a bank there for many years. The case
has been prosecuted by the United States,
although tried in the State Court, by reason
Of a want Of jurisdiction in the Federal
Courts.
A RAILROAD boarding shanty on the
Pittsburgh & Erie Road, about seven miles
below Pittsburgh, Pa, was destroyed by
fire on the morning Of the 10th, and sixteen
men, sleeping in their hunks in the second
story, perished in the flames. The fire was
lamp by one of the cooks sssiiIe pseparins
breakfast The building was constructed of
material, and almost in an in
slant the entire structure was enveloped in
flames. Some fifty men lodged in the build
ing. Many of those who effected their es-
cape were shockingIy burned.
By collision on the North London
Railway, near Canonbury, England, seven
persons were killed and seventy injured.
IT is reported that the medical ex-
perts called as witnesses in the Guiteau case
are practically unanimous in their belief of
the prisoners sanity so far as to render him
for the Presidents murder.
To the hypothetical question put them
by Scovile while on the witness
stand they were compelled to an
swer in such way as to apparently favor
the prisoner, but privately they say if they
had been asked directly whether they con-
sidered Guiteau responsible or not, they
would have felt bound to answer in the affir-
native.
D. M. OSBORNE & Co., harvesting
machine makers, Chicago, lost over $500, 900
by fire on the 10th.
ANNIE HALL, aged Is, fell dead while
dancing in Newton Township, o.
RUNAWAY horse near Carlisle, Ind,
fractured Mrs. Anna Pearce's skull, killed
an infant, and seriously injured two other
children in the buggy.
SENECA V. HOLLOWAY, Paying Tel
ler of the Poughkeepsie On. Y.) National
Bank, is arrested, charged with embezzle-
ment. A partial examination OF the books
shows shortage Of between $40, 600 and So0,-
600. Holloway was recently elected Coun-
ty Treasurer.
SIMON KoTH, of Chicago, while care
lessly handling a revolver at the house OF his
brother-in-law, Bodenick, shot and in
stantly killed the latter's four-year- old
daughter.
THREE little boys, whose ages range
from eight to twelve, all sons OF Mr.. John
johnson. of Manitowoc, Wis, were drowned
by the ice giving way.
HID. JONES, of GAINESVILLE, Wis, en-
ployed in the Cargill elevator at La Crosse,
while at work on some machinery was
caught by his clothing in the betting, from
which he could not escape, and was huried
around in the machinery at the rate OF loo
revolutions per minute, being horfioly
mutilated. The wheel made 800 revolutions
before the engine could be stopped. tie
died shortly after the accident.
Two aged maiden sisters, Mary and
Louisa Means, who resided in Franklin
Township, Westmoreland County, Pa,
were murdered the other night in their beds.
They had the reputation OF being very
wealthy. and this was doubtless the incen-
tive to the crime.
HATHAWAY, City Engineer OF Cold
water, Mich, has pleaded guilty to the
charge Of being accessory to setting fire to
the Coldwater Armory last June. He said
that three other persons were concerned
with him, that they had planned four dis
tinct fires in different quarters, and that the
motive was to rouse interest in the fire de-
nartment in order to raise funds for the
State tournament which was to be held
later on. -,
AN explosion occurred in Cockrill
Colliery, Belgium, causing the death OF
sixty six persons.