Huntsville gazette., 1882-05-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

~. N4. NOhAONf dSOu OIL
known and once very prominent man Of
Louisville, Ky, sent o bullet through his
brain on the 18th. Business failures some
years ago had plunged him into q gloomy
frame Of mind, and he took dose Of poison
but was saved by stomach pump. f.sAtf "a
GEORGE FARRow, an old resident Of
Peoria, H., attempted suicide the other
night by means of strychnine. On his per-
son was found letter severely denouncing
the Overseer of the Poor for refusing to as-
sist himself and wife, and saying he would
haunt him after death. " grv
A TELEGRAM from Portland, Oregon,
reports a serious fight at Harrisburg, Alas
ka, among white miners. A number were
killed. 81 s.>Sg -, p Fsss.
r. A. SMITH, City Marshal of Mount
Vernon, H., killed Charles w. Yost. ci-
gar. manufacturer, the other day, and
escaped fromtown on a horse. a
THE Allan steamer Progress was pro-
visioned at Montreal and sent to the relief of
the Peruvian, which was disabled in the
Gulf of st. Lawrence by ice. While the
Progress was off Rivierc du Loup, a few
days ago, flames broke out, and so rapid
was their progress that three of the crew
were burned to death and the steamer was
destroyed. The loss will exceed 100000.
THREE murderers were executed on
the 10Th: w. w. Rea, at Pulaski, Tenn;
Stephen G.. Effler, at Marion, Ga; A. d.
Leighton, colored, in New York City.
THERE was a $3.50, 900 blaze at Lead
vile, Colo, on the 10th. Arthur Ballour
and an unknown man were burned to death.
Incendiarism is suspected.
AN explosion of sulphur in the Buck
Ridge Colliery, near Shamokin, Pa, May
20, caused the death of James Lawrence,
Frank Osman, David Green, and Frederick
Hoffman,.
Two gentlemen living near Boston,
Mass, were made seriously i'll by sleeping in
anewly .papered room. A strip Of the pa
per was submitted to chemist, who de-
tected the presence Of arsenic.
Il JOHN MCAIENOMON, a farmer living
near Muscatine, Iowa, was shot and killed
by his 15-year-old daughter the other day.
The two were quarreling, when the girl's
brother, aged Is, handed her revolver, with
which she shot her father through the
breast. 1t is supposed the children desired
1 to get possession Of their fathers property.
The mother is in the insane asylum.
+, JACK BRUMMAGE and Charles Axline,
of Roseville, Ohio, quarreled on Mus
kingum Valley train, May 20. Axline was
stabbed in the breast, and knocked Brum-
mage off the platform while the train was
in rapid motion, and in falling his head
struck telegraph pole, knocking his brains
out. Brummage died in short time. Ak.
line was not expected to live. 8
GEORGE KNICKERBoCKER, a furni-
ture- dealer of Minneapolis, Minn., set ta-
bic in front of his store, a few days ago, and
attached placard stating that it had been
taken away from DR.. M. E. Woodling be-
cause hewould not pay for it. The doctor
went into the establishment with huge
knife and slashed Mr.. Knickerbocker and a
clerk named Neil Berry in the arm, but was
seized and lodged in Jail.
The jury at Fort. Madison, Iowa,
found Polk Wells and Charles Cook guilty
Of the murdersof penitentary guard, and
fixed their punishment at Imprisonment for
life. 80 N
FIVE of the best brick blocks in Wax
ahachie, Tex, valued at Slo0, 900, were swept
away by irethe other day. A ~
Mrs. HIRAM WILLIAMS, of Young
Hickory, Ohio, was drowned in Lake Erie,
May 81. She was visiting relatives in Cleve-
land, and her brother-in law, named Ernst,
took her out fishing. The skiff capsized,
and Ernst was found clinging to the keel.
PRICE, the .Englishman who was
serving life sentence for the murder Of a
fellow -countryman named Neaves, died in
the Canon City (Colo.) Penitentiary the 9TH
er night. He committed suicide by starving
himself to death. He had not partaken Of
solid food for three weeks. He drank
water, but resisted all attempts to force him
to eat. He claimed to be an English mobiles
man. Price was an expert -thrower,
and had killed five men in this manner.
AT Cleveland, Ohio, May 21, Alfred
Robinson, aged 81, shot his wife, aged so,
from whom he had been separated since last
September. The wound may prove fatal.
Jealousy was the cause.
HARRIET w. DARE, a teacher at the
Ohio Institute for Deaf and Dumb, fell
dead the other evening while gathering
flowers near Shadeville. Apoplexy was the
supposed cause. M TMT&E
a LARGE crowd gathered at Schuetz-
en- Park, Davenport, Iowa, on the 21st, to
witness the children's annual shooting con-
tests. Just after the eleventh shot had been
fred the target-wiper, VIM. Kuehl, arose
from his pitand dropped forward as if life
less. He had been hit in the forehead, and
physicians pronounced the wound mortal.
WIN. WHITE, feeble Irishman, with
out home or friends, threw himself in front
OF train at Indianapolis on the 21st. The
engine knocked him aside, breaking his left
leg and arm, and inficting internal injuries
from which he died in a few hours. He had
recently been discharged from the Insane
Asylum. INV ss a ~,
+ SAMUEL MAY & Co., of Boston, Mass,
the largest iron-house In the country, have
made an assignment to William F. Jones.
Ample assets are claimed, but the concern
owes $500, 900 Or more. Uk@S
FORTY.SEYENTH CONGRESS.
/ CoNsIDERATIoN OF the five per cent. land