Huntsville gazette., 1882-07-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A CHINESE company mas created con-
sternation at Victoria, B. c., by proposing
to manufacture clothing, boots, tinware,
and cigars.
AN old man named j. B. Teaulett
was killed and three persons were badly
shocked by lightning at Denver, Colo, on
the 22d.
GERsON KINGsBURY, II years old,
jumped from train at Sedalia, Mo-, July
%, and fell under the wheels. His head
was cut from the body and his shoulder and
legs Wee crushed.
| J. MCLANE and o. Fellows, rivals for
the hand Of young lady, fought duel near
Collinsvile, Texas, on the 22d. Several
shots were exchanged and Fellows was
killed.
saved the lives of three women and eight
children in a blazing tenement house, the
other day, holding onto window and catch
ing them as they dropped.
THE crops in Bohemia have been
nearly destroyed by rains, and no less than
forty seven lives have been lost in the
storms.
Four mills and four factories at Fair
field, Me-, valued at 100000, and the Cass
avenue planning mill, st. Louis, Mo-, $780,,
600, burned the other day.
THE Cleveland strikers have gone to
work.
FLORA TILMAN, of Fort Wayne, Ind,
16 years of age, nearly killed herself with
razor, the other day, giving as reason a
coll from, tar 10 n father t0 noma RI hin,
THERE was collision on the Little
Miami Railway, near Fosters Crossing,
Ohio, on the 23d. Engineer Lyons was bad
ly bruised. E. HI. McCalb, Judge Advo-
cate General of Louisiana; j. w. Cock
sedge, of New York; d. A. Rindheem, OF
Pittsburgh; j. W. Jones, Of Columbus,
were slightly injured. The engines were
wrecked and some freight cars were thrown
into the river. Two freight trains on the
Chicago & Alton colided near Blooming
ton on the same day. The engineer,
young man named Eli Fisher, was killed,
his body being terribly mangled.
THE mystery surrounding the disap-
pearance of Ernie Spencer, son of r. c.
Spencer, of Milwaukee, Wis, has been
solved by the discovery Of the body of the
missing boy in the lake, near the pier where
he was last seen.
SHERMAN MILLER, a hotel-keeper at
Mierstown, Pa, was killed the other night
by VIM. Wagner. A white man and a ne
gro were quarreling and Wagner took sides
with the latter. Afterward Wagner entered
Miller's bar-room and Miller attacked him
for defending the negro. In the fight which
ensued Wagner shot Miller dead. Miller's
son tried to shoot Wagner.
THE bodies of three American pros
pectors have been found near San Antonio,
| in the Sonora Valley. The natives say the
men were murdered by Apaches, but it is
| believed the deed was committed by Mexi-
cans found working the prospectors' claims.
VIM. BUEL and Robert Fleming were
killed by lightning ina field near Industry,
Kans., on the 22d.
| THERE is great excitement in the re-
gion of Windsor, Ont, over the mysterious
| disappearance of Alexander Mann, COL
ored Baptist preacher, and his wife, who
| had received threatening letters, and whose
house was burned few days ago.
AN attempt to burn the town Of Seat
tie, w. t., the other night, brought the
vigilantes together and twenty prominent
roughs were notified to leave. Payne,
whose brother was lynched last spring, was
arrested.
! HENRY HUDSON, aged Y, was killed
by train while walking home from camp
meeting near Indianapolis the other night.
A. j. KINLoCH, the dissipated
Younger son of Scottish nobleman, has for
three years been in the clutches of hotel
keeper at Kansas City, who managed to Sc
cure the allowance of $1,000 per annum regu-
larly forwarded from Edinburgh. When
Kinloch became too i'll to move about Coyne
had two negroes place him on the train for
New York, where he died at a police sta
tion.
Miss EMILY MACTAvISH, of Balti-
more, a granddaughter OF General Winfield
Scott, entered convent last May, and has
lust been invested with the nuns habit, un-
der the name of Sister Mary Agnes. The
lady is exceedingly handsome, finely edu-
Gated, and has a private fortune OF $500, 900.
THE works of the Brown Manufacture
ing Company at GAINESVILLE, O., covering
railroad and river frontage Of five hundred
feet, were swept away by an incendiary fire
the other day, causing loss O. S125, 900, in
cluding twelve hundred wagons and culti-
yatorS.
FOUR drunken men, three American
sea captains and an Austrian, while on
spree in Ningpo, China, nearly murdered
the captain of war junk, and placed in
great peril the lives of all foreigners. The
Americans have been committed to await
the result of the officers injuries.
JEREMIAH MAHoNEY, for many years
teacher in the public schools of Chicago,
and ready and caustic writer, chiefly on
educational topics, took fatal dose of
laudanum the other day. The Press Club
passed resolutions of respect to his memory,
and appointed committee Of five to attend
| the funeral.
FORTY-SEVENTH CONGRESS-.
THE tax bill came up in the Senate on the
| 10th and Mr. Reck's amendment reducing the