Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Cincinnati Board of Health

on the 18th, aged 64.
Mrs. REvAN and her daughter, aged
II, were killed by lightning stroke in Spar
tanburg, S. c.. Mr.. Revan, who was in au-
other part of the town during the storm, was
also struck by the same flash which proved
so fatal to his wife and daughter, and was
injured very seriously.
AT Rockport. Me-, Willie Cain, aged
10, was drowned by Ralph Richards and Ed
ward II. Gross, aged II and 10 years, to
whom he refused to give up % cents.
WILLIAM DODsON, Pleasant Adams,
Richard Bates and Joe Fenton, colored, con-
victed Of burning the Academy of Music at
Greenyille, S. c., December 7, 1879, have
been sentenced to be hanged.
Mrs. MARY KRAY and daughter, Mrs.
Alice Monahan, and Hattie Doane, aged u,
of Brooklyn, N. Y, were fatally burned by
the explosion of a can containing Kerosene.
They were using it in lighting the fire.
Mrs. SADIE STEWART, wife of Theo-
dore Stewart, of Silver Creek, N. Y, COM
mitted suicide by plunging into Niagara
Falls. She had domestic troubles.
A BERLIN dispatch says the official
estimates Of the probable yield of the Ger
man harvest are not sanguine. Scarcely a
medium yield is anticipated.
A ADARING noon-day robbery was COM
mitted in New York City on the 18TH AS a
man and boy from Reppert's brewery, Nine
! ty-second Street and Third Avenue, were
going down town in light wagon to make
| deposit in the Nassau Bank, vender's
wagon containing three men was run into
the brewery wagon, apparently by accident,
at Forth seventh Street. Immediately one
of the three men seized the brewers horse,
another pounced upon the clerk, while the
third seized the money package, containing
| $1,000 in bills, and bag of silver, the latter
OF which, however, was dropped as being too
heavy. They all brandished revolvers dur
ing the foray, which was over and the rob-
bers far away before the alarm could be
given.
Mrs. DAMARE was fatally burned at
Great Falls, N. H., while kinding the fire
| with kerosene.
| BONESETTER, a well-known trotting
stallion, dropped dead on the track during
race at Pittsburgh, Pa. He was owEed by
M. V. Bemis, of Chicago, and valued at $15,-
600.
The Mexican Central Railroad is
opened to Tula, about fifty miles from the
Capital.
FRANK BROWN and Jesse Meyers, the
last of the so-caled 'New Madrid outlaws"
were executed at New Madrid, Mo-, on the
18th.
THE Hardin House, at Mexico, Mo-,
burned on the night of the 14th. The fire is
supposed to have been the work of an incen-
diary.
The Italian Minister at Paris has pre-
sented his letters of recall. 1t is understood
that, owing to the ill-feeling existing be-
tween Italy and France, his successor will
not be nominated for some time.
THERE are now 200 persons imprison-
ed in Ireland under the Coercion act, in
Guiding one member of Parliament, one
priest, one Magistrate, several Town Coun-
cillors, and many Poor-law Guardians.
THE prosecution of offenses under
the anti-Socialist laws continue in Saxony
with much vigor. All of Herr Bebel's agents
have been imprisoned and seventy Social
lists were banished from Leipsig in a single
day.
A LARGE portion of Bradford, Pa,
burned on the 18th.
ISAAC GREEN and John Hardin, col
ored, were executed at Mariana, Ark, on
the 10Th. The execution of Willis Reeves,
for the murder of Joe Drake in February
last, took place at Van Buren,, Ark, on the
same day.
F. B. .BECHTOLDsHEIM,w who for several
years was Consul for Austria and Belgium
in st. Louis, and who departed very sud-
denly in February last, leaving behind him
obligations to the amount of $4,000, the
greater part of which was money embezzled,
has been arrested in Galveston, Texas, upon
a warrant for embeZZlement, and will be re-
turned to Missouri under requisiton of
the Governor.
j. j. DICKINSON, son of the late Ad-
jutant- General of Florida, confined in Lees
burg Jail for shooting a saloon keeper
named Beach, was visited by band of dis
guised men on the 10th, who shot him twice
in his cell and then took him out and riddled
his body with bullets.
REV. JOHN BROOK, engaged in mis-
sion work at the First Baptist Church, New
burgh, N. Y, and jamie r. Anderson, while
avoiding one train, stepped in front of an
other and were struck by the locomotive, the
girl being killed and Brook seriously
wounded.
THE French Minister of Marine has
received dispatch from Sfax announcing
that the French squadron bombarded the
town, attacked it front, and had occupied it
in spite Of vigorous resistance. The French
losses are eight killed and forty wounded
A Tucson dispatch says reports come
from Ell Paso that Gov. Terrassas, who was
en- route to Ell Paso, was attacked by Indians
on the 18th and thirty of his men killed.
BALTIMORE, Md, scores four more
deaths from lockjaw in consequence of the
toy pistol, making seventeen since the
Fourth.
jim BRIDGER, former noted hunter,
plainsman, pioneer and scout, the hero Of
many border romances, has just died of old
age at his home near Kansas City. He led
the Gen. Fremont Western exploring expe-
dition, and was his chief guide and scout.
Old Fort Bridger was named after him, and
his heirs have still heavy claim against the