Huntsville gazette., 1881-09-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Two negroes were hanged on the
26th-Andrew Sanders, for the murder of
white man named Miller, at Covington,
Tenn, and Ben Perkins, for the murder OF
Gif Roberts. colored, at Livingstone, Ala.
JOHN c. HATELY's packing house,
Chicago, was destroyed by fire on the 26th.
Loss, 100000.
AT Greensburg, Ky, George Gaines
was killed and several persons injured by
the explosion of boiler. t,s.
NEARLY ton of powder blew up the
building in which it was stored at Warren,
Me-, the other day. Samuel Mank, a work
man, was blown nearly four hundred feet
and instantly killed.
AT Forest City, Ark, Tate Wallace
invited s. D. Apperson, City Marshal, to
take cigar, and while standing at the coun-
ter of the saloon Apperson drew his pistol
and said: 81 believe Pll shoot You." Tate,
thinking he was jesting, replied "Shoot
away" Apperson fired, killing him in
stantly. No cause can be assigned for the
murder, for the two men were apparently
on the best Of terms. Apperson was intoxi-
Gated at the time.
THREE men were killed and two 9TH
ers seriously injured in New York City the
other day. Some electric lights were about
to be tested, the hosting gear at the top Of
the pole broke just as the lamps reached the
top, and the lamps and their carriage, a
mass OF iron weighing over 600 pounds, fell
with crushing weight from height of more
than 100 feet
Mrs. SMITH, a widow living near
Kaufman, Texas, several members of her
family, and some tenants, ten in all, were
poisoned by eating cooked peaches contain
ing arsenic. Medical assistance was sum-
soned, but at last report there was little
hope Of recovery Of any of the injured par
ties.
A COLLISION on the Milwaukee, Lake
Shore and Western, near Burnham, between
gravel and wood trains, wrecked both en-
gines and killed engineer Michael Gray, fire.
man Robert Bethinger, and brakeman.
AT Leadville, Colo, on the 9th, some
assassin placed large quantity of giant
powder under the bay window of Judge j.
l.. Pendery's residence and fired it with a
long fuse. The front part of the house was
demolished, but fortunately no one was in
cal deed, and no clew has been obtained to
the perpetrators. s
/ A DISPATCH from Tombstone, A. T.,
says Indians attacked the town of Eureka,
/ New Mexico, and killed the citizens, said to
be about seventy in number.
CAPT. w. w. Ross, the official re-
porter of the q gricultural Bureau for North
ern Texas, has completed his report. 1t
shows about one fourth corn crop. Wheat is
all threshed, and crops fair and Of good
quality. Oats from forty to eighty bushels
per acre, and of best quality. Cotton will
hardly yield above one-third of an average
! crop.
! ROBERT WARREN was killed by jump
ing from the fourth story of burning build
4 ingin Cincinnati. A number of persons We're
partially suffocated and slightly injured in
effecting escape.
BETTE, the 11-year-old daughter of
Anthony McGee, residing near Marshall,
1 Tex, attempted to kindle a fire with coal
oil, when the can exploded, enveloping her
| in flames, from the effects of which she died
in three hours.
IT is said that the Government is go
ing to treat Sitting-Bull and the warriors
who surrendered with him as prisoners of
war, and that their transfer to Fort Randall
| has been resolved upon.
EDWARD .MUsGBAvE, Treasurer of
the Alpaca Company at Chicopee Falls,
Mass, is a defaulter to the amount of $780,
900 or over, and has absconded.
ARTHUR MORTON, with many aliases,
swindler and bigamist, has been taken to
Richmond, Va, for trial.
| THE following has been anonymously
sent to the Chicago papers. 1t is regarded
as hoax: "Americans and friends of Ire
land are hereby warned against embarking
upon any vessel flying the British flag after
Thursday, September /. Many may reach
their destination, but none are safe. By or
der of Central Committee"
THE Merchants Exchange of St.
| Louis, through its Executive Committee,
has issued a call to the people Of the Missis-
sippi Valley for the selection OF delegates to
| Convention to be held in their city on the
25th day of October, 1881, to deliberate on
the question of improving the great Missis-
sippi River and its navigable tributaries.
A DISPATCH from Berlin says that
Herr Won Schlosser, the German Minister to
Washington, has been commissioned by Bis
marck to 90 to Rome to conduct negotiations
with the Vatican. DR.. Korum, the newly
appointed Catholic Bishop Of Treves, has ar
| rived at Berlin and been granted an audi
ence with the Emperor. According to relia
Bile information Bismarck and DR.. Korum
have agreed upon the principles of COM
promise between the Government and the
Vatican, which is thought to be entirely sat-
| isfactory to both sides.
A BOLD robbery was committed the
other night in the Southern edge Of Stephen
son, near Carroll County, ILL., Two men at
! a late hour called at the residence Of farm
| er named O'Brien, reprenting that their
wagon had broken down in the road. While
O'Brien and one of the men were proceed
ing to the supposed wreck, the other slipped
back to the house, gagged the farmers
wife, and robbed the premises OF $4,000 in
/ cash.
DrSASTpOJ-S storm occurred a1onp