Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Teller OF the Montreal Bank, Canada, mas
been arrested at Santa Fe by Canadian de-
tectiye who has been hunting him for some
months. Pelton ahsconded in April last
with $4,000 in cash, but it is believed was
himself robbed of the larger part of his plum
der by woman who accompanied him in his
flight and who subsequently ran off with
handsomer man.
A REPORTED oil discovery near May
flower, Ark. twenty miles from Little Rock,
is causing great excitement among prospect
ors and spectators.
JOHN WILSON, while in state of
5sonldz, !, oulism, walked out Of the second
story window of a hotel in Dallas, Texas,
and sustained fatal injuries.
A YACHT containing six young men
belonging to South Boston, Mass, capsized
in Squantum Gut on the Goth, and all were
drowned. The bodies were recovered.
The open cut of the Caledonia mine,
at Terraville, d. T., caved in on the Goth,
burying seven miners VIM. Gill, Daniel
Cameron and Andrew Latson were taken out
alive. John Costello, James Roach, Pat
Hawkins and L. I'll. Hamilton are supposed
to be killed.
AN express train on the Delaware &
Hudson Railway struck rock, near Dres-
den, N. Y, on the 2lst, three cars leaving
the track. Charles Carswel, engineer, was
! killed, and the fireman and two passengers
were injured.
THE vicinity of Hadlyme, Conn, was
visited by a terrible hail and wind storm on
the 2lst, destroying entire crops of corn, to-
bacco and other products.
FIVE miscreants removed a rail on
the A., I. & S. F: Railroad, near Law
renee, Kans., ON the 21st, by which an emf
grant train was thrown from the track and
badly wrecked, but fortunately no one was
injured. 1t is believed the intention was to
ditch the express train from Pueblo, which
was due a short time afterward, for the pur-
pose of robbery.
In the Cork Assizes the trial of GRIM
inal agrarian eases was stopped at the request
of the counsel for the Crown on the ground
that juries persistently declined to return a
verdict of guilty despite the plainest evil
dence.
THREE executions took place in Mis-
souri, on the 22d-the Talbot brothers,
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vile for the murder of their father, DR..
Perry Fl. Talbot, in September last and
John w. Patterson was hanged at Clinton
for killing James g. Clark in December, 1868.
At Yazoo City, Miss, Brook Boyett,
alias Tobe Bell, paid the death penalty for
the murder of DR.. Williams. At Green
wood, Ark, George Green, colored, was
executed for the murder of his wife in Au-
gust last.
THE Matanzas branch of the Spanish
Bank of Cuba has been robbed of S200, 900 in
specie by two employees, who made good
their escape from the island on steamer
chartered by confederates ostensibly for the
purpose of bringing a cargo Of cattle from
Mexico.
THE Perryville (Ark.) vendetta has
broken out afresh, the latest victim being
Mr.. Matthews, editor of the Perryville
Times, who was shot while standing in front
of his Office on the evening of the 21st, six
teen buckshot entering his side.
Col. VIM. MILNER ROGERS, noted
| American civil engineer, died recently at
Rio Janeiro, where he held the position of
Chief Engineer of Public Works under Dom
Pedro, at salary of $4,000.
SENATOR HILL, of Georgia, has re-
Gently undergone at Philadelphia surgi-
cal operation for dangerous disease of the
mouth known as epitheloma. The surgeons
say the operation was entirely successful
and the patient is in fair way of speedy re-
covery.
| AT Arkansas City, Ark, on the 21st,
Robert Costello settled a quarrel with
neighbor named Gathering by shooting him
while he was plowing field, the ball pass
| ing through his victim and killing horse
two rods distant. Costello was held to await
the result of the wound.
AT Fall River, Mass, Andrew john
son, John Howard and Joseph Yates, all
BOYS, were drowned while bathing. An IL
year-od son of M. FL. Cushing met the
same fate at Middeboro.
ANToNITO, Colo, has been infested
for several months with gang of robbers,
who have held up and robbed all the stran-
gers coming into town. The gang has been
broken up by the hanging of the principal,
George G. O'Connor, who, in his capacity of
Justice Of the Peace, shielded them and had
citizens arrested and fined without the least
provocation. On the ODD O'Connor rode
through town on horseback, with Win
chester rifle and two revolvers, threatening
everybody. A Vigilance Committee caught
him in his saloon and hung him in an old
slaughter house.
SECRETARY WINDOW has telegraphed
Sherman o. Houghton, San Jose, CAL, and
Congressman Thos. L. Young, Ohio, now on
the Pacific Coast, requesting them to act
with ex-Secretary Ramsey in examining the
charges preferred against Superintendent
Dodge of the San Francisco Mint.
WESTERN Wisconsin has been nearly
inundated by terrific rainstorm that occur
red on the 2lst. In Coon Valley, Vernon
County, woman and six children, named
Jansen, were drowned, and young lady in
Pine Greek Valley met similar fate. Bridges
and mill-dams were swept away and much
farming property destroyed.
ADAM HARTRANFT, a Russian Nihilist,
who was engaged in the Winter Palace plot,
by which ten men were killed and many
wounded, has arrived in New York. His
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