Huntsville gazette., 1881-11-12
Personal AND GENERAL.
HERR J. Won SCHOONER, at pres

HERR j. Won SCHOONER, at present
| Diplomatic Agent and Consul General Of
Austria at Alexandria, has been appointed
Austrian Minister at Washington.
MRS. SARAH WOLCOTT, of Brown
Township, Madison County, O., lost her
life by the explosion of can Of coal oil
which was accidentally overturned and ig-
nited.
A FIRE at Olean, Ny, destroyed the
American House and five small buildings.
George Brooks and wife, in jumping from
one of the buildings, each had a leg broken.
and Mrs. Brooxs was injured internally, and
it is thought fatally.
DURING storm at Manzanillo, Mex
leo, recently, four large vessels and all small
craft in the harbor were wrecked, and sew
eral stores, the Custom house, and other
buildings were demolished.
SMALLPOX Is epidemic in Stearns
County, Minn., and the physicians of the
State Board of Health are bending all their
energies to confine it to districts now infected
and to eventually root it out altogether.
| They encounter considerable difficulty on
account of the ignorance Of the inhabitants,
who look on the disease as visitation Of
Providence.
HENRY KING, who murdered Michael
Hugelin in Clinton Prison last July, was
hanged at Plattsburg, N. Y, on the 4th.
Henry Lovett and Tom Belts were legally
strangled on the same day-ihe former at
Wilmington, N. c., and the latter at Jones'
| boro, Ga.
CHRIS. PRYOR, farmer and stock
raiser, was killed in a saloon brawl at Web
ster, Ohio.
A MOVEMENT is on foot among the
leading milers of the country to shut down
all operations for thirty days. 1t is claimed
that wheat is now held at speculative prices,
and also that the supply Of flour on hand
largely exceeds the demand, both of which
wrongs, in the view of the millers, can be
righted by the temporary suspension Of
milling operations.
GOVERNOR CHURCHILL. of Arkan-
sas, granted a reprievo IN the cases OF two
colored murdercrs, jackson and Hill, sem
fenced to be hanged at Hamburg, Jackson
County, on the 22d ult. All preparations
| had been made for the execution, and a
crowd ST several thousand persons, mostly
colored, had gathered to witness the affair.
Their disgust was so great at being cheated
out of the CHASTITY spectacle, that many
wanted to lynch the prisoners.
JOHN F. KERRATT, formerly Assistant
Postmaster at Little Rock, Ark, has been
sentenced to thirty months Imprisonment
at hard labor at the Detroit House, of Cor
rection, for embezzling nearly $4,000 in Gov
ernment funds. He made written state
ment in the courtroom acknowledging that
he had stolen the money, but asserting that
parties who had been instrumental in pros
ecuting him were equally guilty. The con-
fession has produced a genuine sensation.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR has designated
November "a as a day Of national thanks
giving and prayer.
PINKNEY M. KING, aged 20, has been
convicted at Little Rock, Ark, of counter
feiting, and sentenced to two years. i'm
prisonment at Detroit and to pay fine of
1000.
THE trial of B. X. Scott, formerly
of Warren G. Drury, drug clerk, at Ma
poleon, o., on Christmas morning last, re-
suited in a verdict of not guilty. On the
morning OF the killing Scott went to a store
in which Drury was employed, in search of
his son, who, in company with Drury, had
passed the night in carousal, and had been
taken by Drury and put to bed in a room
over the store. Drury met Governor Scott
in the store and attempted to dissuade him
from going upstairs. The latter then shot
Drury, killing him instantly. Governor
Scott maintained that the shooting was acci-
dental, and the Jury seems to have coincid-
| ed in this view.
Col. WATSON B. SMITH, Clerk of the
| u. S. Circuit Court, Omaha, was found dead
outside his office door on the morning Of the
5th, with bullet through his head. Col.
| Smith has been very prominent in enforcing
the new liquor law, and the opinion is uni
versal that he was assassinated just as he
was leaving his Office. His body was cold
when found. A citizens meeting was held
and it was agreed to raise $40, 600 to be used
| in hunting down the assassin. The great
i est excitement exists. Col. Smith was a
quiet and highly esteemed citizen, and had
| been an officer of the United States Court
for eight or nine years. He leaves wife
and six children.
A. STEIN, prominent figure in po-
lice circles at Iowa City, Iowa, cut his wife's
throat, chopped up his mother-in-law, and
| killed himself by poison. Stein and his wife
are dead, but the mother -inlaw may recoy-
er. Jealousy, insanity, and liquor are the
| cause.
THE Opera-house building at Joplin,
Mo-, burned on the night OF the 9Th. Two
stores occupying the lower floor were de-
stroyed with all their contents. Total loss
about 1000, partially insured.
ENocH EMORY, formerly editor of the
Peoria Ill.) Transcript, was stricken down
on the 9th by an apoplectic stroke and not
expected to live.
Miss ELLA JUDD, aged 18 years, a
popular and handsome young lady, of Mon
roe, Wis, was fatally burned by the explo-
sion Of kerosene lamp. Her clothing was
set on fire, and before assistance could reach
her she was actually roasted by the flames.
A DISPATCH from Kankakee, H.,
says: Ludwig Benke and Peter Kohner,
laborers in the employ Of the Illinois Gen.
traI Railroad hridre department were ear.