Huntsville gazette., 1881-12-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,


tanned robes to market. Many of the Indians
speak English, and an educated member
serves as interpreter for the band.
THE steamer d. T. Lane, descending
the Ohio River, collided with the propeller
w. +. Gaylard, at Ashland, Ky. The Gay
lard was sunk out Of sight almost immedi-
ately and Mrs. Mead, the cook, was drowned.
The rest of the crew escaped with difficulty.
A misunderstanding Of signal is said to be
the cause Of the accident.
Col. L. v. b. HOWELL, o mining
operator from San Francisco, meeting with
no success in New York, killed himself with
a revolver.
AN investigation into the affairs of the
tax Office at Philadelphia has revealed
wholesale robbery of the State and City
Treasures.
AT Milwaukee, Wis, John Schroeder,
a carpenter, was instantly killed by falling
from a scaffold.
THE Indian Territorial Legislature
has voted the right Of way for new railroad.
HATTIE LEE, a white child, years
old, while playing in front of a Fireplace
at Vicksburg, Miss, was SO badly burned
that she died in few hours.
THE pensionerolls for December de-
mand ST 900, 900.
A FoUR-YEAR-oLD daughter of Mr..
and Mrs. James Peeks, living at Seldomseen,
a mining town in Rock Island County, Ill.,,
was burned to death by the explosion OF a
lamp. Her grandmother was seriously
burned in her efforts to strip the clothing
from the little girl, which she sue
ceeded in doing after brave fight with the
flames.
7 The wife of ex-senator Christiancy,
while suffering from alteration Of mind, ran
out into the street in Washington the other
night in her night dress, and was with diff
Guilty returned to her home. The charges
against her in the divorce proceedings are
the cause of her trouble.
! NEAR Greenwich, Conn.,, five work.
men were killed and three seriously injured
by the premature explosion of blast.
FOUR murderers were hanged on the
25th: Henry Johnston, at Sumter, S. G. /;
Sauk Armor, at Crawfordylle, Ga; Rich
ard James, at Marion Courthouse, S. G.;
Joe Harris, at Rogersville, Tenn. The latter
was the only white man.
THE extensive tannery of Keifer,
Stiefel & Co.. AlleahenY. Pa hl,rnAd on tho
25th. Loss, S125,0oo.
LOUIS RAAB, q farmer living near
Perrysburg, o., killed his wife and then
shot himself.
IT is reported that Mr.. Jay Gould has
secured control of the New. York & New
England Railroad Company. 1t is further
reported that he has perfected plans for
| connecting the line directly with New York
and with the elevated railroad system.
THE Corpus Christi CTexas) stage
was again robbed the other night near Oak
vile by two masked men. The only pas
senger had no money, but the mail pouches
were cut open and the registered letter
packages taken.
newed for a year the prohibition of the i'm
portation of pork from the United States
and several European countries.
THE wife and six-year-old daughter
of M. Clewis were murdered at Thomasville.
Ca, on Thanksgiving Day, and the house
robbed in the absence of Mr.. Clewis.
AYoUTH, under pretense of urgent
State business, obtained audience on the
26th at the Ministry of the Interior, st. Pc
tersburg, with Gen. Tcherevine, presiding
over the commission for mitigating the SEN
tences of exiles. As soon as admitted he
fired revolver at the General, but the ball
passed harmlessly between his arm and side.
The General secured and disarmed the
youth, who said he was merely the instru-
ment Of another person. He was subse-
quently identified as Nicolai Sankowski, re-
Gently arrived in St. Petersburg from Grad
ma. and his accomplice, and probable insti-
gator. was a person named Melinkoff. The
latter is also under arrest, and is suspected
of being an important member OF the Mill
ist Committee.
PPOF. F. B. HUGH, Chief of the. Di-
vision of Forestry Of the Agricultural De-
partment, has returned from Europe, and
at an early day will make report OF his in
vestigations, with recommendation to
Congress for the planting, preservation and
maintenance of forests on prairie and desert
lands of the United States.
THE resignation of Assistant United
States Treasurer Hillhouse has been re-
ceived at the Treasury Department.
EZEKIEL SMITH and wife, an aged
couple residing in Huntington, Vt, died
suddenly at the same moment on the 10th.
Foul play is surmised.
ANNIE S. HOVER, on trial at Cedar
Rapids, Iowa, for poisoning her husband in
order to marry lover, has been sentenced
to eighteen years. Imprisonment in the
Fort Madison Penitentiary, the jury finding
a verdict of murder in the second degree.
Mrs. GARFIELD has placed the liter
arv estate of her husband in the hands OF
Col. A. f. Rockwell, charging him with its
care, preservation and disposition.
A COMMITTEE appointed to investi-
gate the suitability OF the Arkansas Grant
in New Mexico for colony of colored peo-
pie, after thorough examination OF nearly
eyery part of the region embraced in the
grant, report against advising the colored
people to emigrate thither. The land was
found to have been untitled for farming.
and generally fitted only to the growth OF
stock. Had their report been in favor OF the
emigration of the colored people, it is said
that $4,000 of them would have gone into
Now Mexico before the winter set it. In