Huntsville gazette., 1881-10-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

sprang up between Thomas Smith and his
two sons, Arthur and Mike, on one side,
and Charles Walker and Ed Palmer on the
other side. All began firing about the same
time. Palmer shot Arthur Smith dead, and
old man Smith killed Walker. Mike was
mortally wounded.
AT Spartanburg, S. c., b. w. Hicks,
a white man, was hanged for the murder Of
his wife last May.
FIFTY buildings in the business center
of Eldred, Pa, were destroyed by fire on
the 30th. Loss, 800, 900. .rttFEH ~,
AN entire passenger train, with the
exception Of the locomotive and tender, was
blown from the track of the Des Mones g.
Fort Dodge Railroad, at Perry, Iowa, dur.
ing recent gale. The coaches, which were
crowded with passengers, were overturned,
and number of persons were quite badly
bruised.
DISASTROUS floods have occurred
throughout the Northwest.
THE Wisconsin Prohibitionists have
nominated State ticket. T. d. Kanauz is
the candidate for Governor. =
A DISPATCH from Victoria, B. c.,
says the steamboat Elizabeth J. Irving took
fire at the town Of Port Hope, Frazer River,
and was entirely consumed. She had on
board the mails, eighty passengers and full
freight, railway and other goods. All the
passengers, it is thought, were saved, but
number of Indians are supposed to be lost.
The Robinson Furniture Warehouse,
Elmira, n. Y, went up in smoke. !. Loss,
100000.
L. P. O'CONNoR, prominent Land
Lacquer, is coming to the United States on
a lecturing tour under the auspices of the
League.
ABSTRACT Of public debt statement
issued Oct. i: Decrease Of debt during Sep
ternber, S17, ,4S3, GAL; cash in the Treasury,
$3.50, $50, ,547; gold certificates, $5,24S, ,920;
silver certificates, $64, ,149, 910; certificates OF
deposit outstanding, $S,315, 900; refunding
certificates, $639 $50; legal tenders outstand-
ing, $346, 741 ,056; fractional currency out
standing, $7,o9S,506.
JASPER -DELAUGHTER, under arrest
Ior burglarizing the store of t. J. Wright in
the southwestern part of the Choctaw Ma
ZION, was taken from the Deputy Marshal
NulC DCluS COHNcgtQ 10 Il OIb anu
hanged by a mob of masked men.
OFFICIAL notice is given that the i'm
portation into Russia of galvanic batteries,
induction coils and insulated wires will be
subject to the same rules Of inspection as
the importation of arms.
ANDY WRIGHT, a colored desperate,
confined in the Blakely (Ga.) Jail for hog
stealing, was taken out by mob and shot.
THE Swiss town of Nyon has been
nearly destroyed by fire of an incendiary
origin.
Hon. GEORGE w. FOSTER, Minister
to Russia, now home on visit, has rendered
his resignation. Mr.. Foster is an ardent
Blaine man.
JOHN MAaINNIs, a Philadelphia coal
peddler, shot and killed his wife and moth
er-in-law because they failed to notify him
Of the death of his child. The father and
mother had been separated for some time.
AT Bloomington, ILL.,, on the 1st,
Charles Pierce, awaiting trial for stealing
horse and buggy, snatched revolver from
Henry Franks, his jailer, and shot him
through the heart. A mob of some 1900
people surrounded the Jail soon after, broke
doors and windows, placed a rope about
the murderer, took him to convenient tree
and stretched his neck until life was ex-
tinct.
WHILE Mr.. S. Fl. Burton was in the
safety deposit of Lafayette Bank, Cincin-
natl, cutting coupons from four per cent.
bonds, three men came in. One OF them oc-
cupied the President Of the bank, another
engaged Mr.. Burton in conversation, while
third got away with ten bonds, each Of
a thousand dollars, making $4,000, and the
three men escaped undetected.
THE suspension of Preston & Nc
Henry, of Chicago, has squeezed several
grain firms. Half a million dollars in mar
gins are up and 100000 remain due to
different houses with which trades were
had.
AT Gray's Mills, Miss. the nine-year-
old grandson Of James Freeman, offended at
some action on the part of a two-year-old
daughter of Allen Harris, blindfoded her
and threw her down well, where she was
found dead.
HENRY METZAR was executed at
Titusville. Fla, on the 1st, for the murder
of an inoffensive old man named Moore. The
condemned confessed the crime, and said he
had killed seven men in his lifetime. He
was unrepentant to the last.
JACOB WHITMORE, a young farmer
residing near Belefontaine, o., recently
married 14-year-old girl. The other day
he took his wife into the woods on nutting
expedition, and while there forced her to
swallow a white powder, threatening to cut
her throat if she refused. Whitmore re-
turned home alone, but was soon followed
by his victim, suffering intensely from
cramps, from which she was relieved by
death at midnight, revealing her husbands
guilt only when assured she could not live.
A RURAL dance on the farm of Henry
Brichternicht, near Louisville, KY, wound
up with the murder of David Showers and
the mortal injury of Seula Walker. One of
these men previously insulted Dick Carico,
who on meeting them asked which was the
man who had insulted him. There was
grabbing for revolvers, in which Carico did
the quickest and most fatal work.
In New York City, the other day,