Huntsville gazette., 1881-07-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Danbury, Stokes County, N. c., their crime
being against white women.
A CYCLONE in the district of Blois,
France, caused damage of several million
francs.
In fit of delirium tremens, Matthew
O'Donnell, laboring man, of East sagi-
nav, Mich, committed s'harikari" with
razor, cutting open his abdomen. He only
lived short time.
A DISPATCH from Tunis says the Bey's
steward has taken refuge at the English
Consulate with securities and jewels worth
a million francs, and that he embezzled the
accounts of the stewardship for many years.
The remains of Mrs. Henry Halter
man, of New York City, We're cremated in
LIE Moyne's furnace on the oath.
CHARLES G.. HELPHREY, confined in
the Ozark (Ark.) Jail under conviction Of
numbering young man named James, two
years ago, made his escape few nights ago
by saving bar from his cell.
DEPUTY COLLECTOR KEELY, of the
San Francisco Revenue Office, is defaulter
to the amount of $1,000, and has fed.
CHARLES A. ANCHIsI, who escaped
from the custody of Deputy Sheriff in
New York while under charge OF embezzle-
ment, and who, in the false guise OF secret
service officer of the Treasury Department,
swindled many persons in St. Louis, New
Orleans, Memphis and other places, has
been arrested in San Francisco.
JAY GOULD is reported to have pur-
chased the st. Louis Bridge and Union De-
pot, and to have obtained perpetual lease
of the Tunnel and Transit Railway across
the river.
SINGULAR fatality attaches to Klachi
Female College, near Shreveport, La. Two
Professors lately committed suicide, one was
killed by recent tornado, ,and now the death
of the President, the Rev. j. IL. Tucker, is
announced.
CHARLES WALKER, City Marshal Of
San Marcial, n. NJ, was shot and killed by
Paddy Ryan, who recently escaped from Jail
at Eel Paso del Norte, where he was confined
for shooting Mexican.
JOSEPH MoBREY, tramp, killed
James Guinty with brick at Wilmington,
Del, on the oath, for ejecting him from
motel Wnere ne asked IOr IOou.
WYATT HOLMES, colored murderer,
was hanged at Holly Springs, Miss, on the
24th.
DIR. CHAPLIN, for several years an in
mate of the County House, Charlotte, Mich,
cut his throat and died in few minutes.
He was supposed to be over 100 years old.
AT Union City, Ind, an old lady
named Cassiday was killed while crossing
the track under some freight cars standing
in the yard.
A DISPATCH from the Spanish Consul
at Oran says hundred Spaniards were mas
sacred by the insurgents during the recent
raid on the Esparto factors at Saida. Four
hundred persons were wounded and taken
prisoners.
CLARENCE j. DAVIS, cutter, killed
his brother-in-law, Alonzo Barrett, at De-
troit, Mich. while under the influence Of
liquor imbibed at the soldiers reunion on
the 23d.
SIDNEY M. STRAY, formerly a Metho-
dist minister located at Warrensburg. N.
Y, and for some time a resident of Leaven-
worth, Kans., where under an assumed
name he had been employed as bookkeeper
by prominent business house, committed
suicide by drowning himself in the Missouri
River. His body was recovered at Kansas
City. About three years ago Stray's wife
was wounded by the discharge of revolver
in the hands Of her husband. He then shot
himself, confessedly with suicidal intent.
Stray said the shooting Of his wife
was accidental, and she corroborated
his story at the time, but has since, it
is said, expressed her conviction that he in
tended to take her life, and her brother had
his intention of hunting
Stray out and avenging the wife's wrongs.
The church authorities investigated the
shooting and other irregularities of an i'm
moral nature charged against Stray, and
he was expelled from the ministry.
EUGENE GUYN, wealthy young
West Virginan, was fatally stabbed on an
Ohio River steamboat by a mulatto waiter
an alteration about trivial matter. Guyn
first struck Graves blow with his fist, when
the negro retaiated.
GEORGE WILLIAMS, proprietor OF a
restaurant at Cleveland, o., was killed on
the 25th by William Fritch, of Columbus,
who is probably insane. Fritch says he
went to the desk to pay for some refresh
ments, and discovering that he had no money
he felt an irresistible impulse to shoot the
VIM. TEUTEBERG, aged 70 years, was
almost instantly killed near Steubenville,
o. He was walking on the Cleveland &
track, when freight train backed
up on him, breaking his arm and leg and
his head in.
SEVENTEEN persons were killed and
five wounded by an explosion in the Louise
Tieffan colliery, Austria.
FRANK BRAGA, Secretary of the
Portuguese Protective and Benevolent So
ciety, San Francisco, CAL, has absconded,
being a defaulter to the amount of about
S1OO, 900.
AT Washington, d. c., on the 25th,
]. Y. Christmas fatally shot his partner, w.
6. Whitney. Whitney was the son of Mrs.
General Gaines by her first husband, and
Christmas her son-in-law. There had been
bad feeling between the two for some time.
C.P. CoYLE shot and mortally wound
al ToeI Phillins the other dav AFT Jasper