Huntsville gazette., 1882-11-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


other day. Nearly every bone was broken.
NEAR Geneva, Ca, the other evening,
Captain Samuel Daire, a prominent poIit-
clan, fatally stabbed Calvin Calhoun, re-
Gently candidate for the Legislature.
ROBERT MEEKIN, commercial trav-
eler, pocketed some watches and silver forks
and spoons while inspecting the stock OF a
1eweler in Wheeling, W. Va, the other day,
and when arrested pleaded the opium habit
as an excuse.
JOHN HEIsER, trunk-maker, has
disappeared from Milwaukee, Wis.,, with
S25, 600 and young woman, leaving fami-
ly in want.
DENIS BOHLEN and Joseph Holman
were blown to atoms by boiler explosion
on the tug De Soto at Memphis, Tenn, the
other morning.
JOSEPH REINHARDT's saloon at Pal
estine, Ind, was blown up with dynamite
the other day. Several other buildings were
shattered.
JOSEPH TODD, a farmer, of Bloom,
Wis was killed by falling tree the other
day.
DR.. ELLIOTT, recently from Almonte,
Ontario, was tarred and feathered by a
party of citizens at Grand Forks, Dakota,
the other night. He had insulted some
schoolgirls.
Two burglars entered drug store in
West Brookfield, Mass, the other morning,
and were chased out Of town. After shoot
ing an officer they stopped train on the
Boston & Albany road and made the con-
ductor carry them to Charleston, where they
cut the bell-rope and took to the woods.
ALOIs REGER, grocer at Buffalo, N.
Y, his wife, and three children, soon after
eating some potato pancakes the other day,
exhibited all the symptoms of arsenical
poisoning. Mrs. Roger and one son died in
great agony, and the others were in a crit
ical condition. Mrs. Gertrude Miller,
neighbor, visited the house after the poi
soning and ate morsel of the remaining
cake. She also was soon prostrated, but
physician got her out of danger. The
sugar bowl showed traces of some for
eign substance, and its contents were Sc
cured for analysis.
THE tug Wetzel was completely de-
molished by the explosion of her boiler
while racing, north Of Racine, Wis.,, Oct.
%. f. E. Lowell, VIM. Kelly, and Patrick
White were killed.
THE engine and baggage car of an
express on the St. Louis Air Line were
ditched by -wreckers near Boston,
Ind. the other night. John McSwain, fire.
man, was killed under the engine as it rolled
over. Several passengers were bruised, but
only one was severely hurt.
o. w. BISHOP, a conductor on the
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Rail-
way, fell between cars the other morning
and was killed. The remains were for
warded to Cleveland, Tenn, where he leaves
a wife and four children.
RECENT fires: The Flint Mill, Fall
River, Mass, a magnificent granite struc-
ture, valued at $500, 900, employing 800
hands in the annual production Of thirteen
million yards of print cloth. The extensive
works of the Eureka Cast-steel Company at
Shamokin, Pa, valued at S150, ,0C0. The
American Hotel, Sheriff. House, Odd-fel
lows Hall, and other property at True
kee, CAL, to the value of 100000.
About $50, 900 worth of lumber in the docks
of Hamilton, Mcclure & Co., East Saginaw,
Mich.
INSPECTOR POLLOCK, who was sus-
pended by Secretary Teller for arbitrary acts
at Pine Ridge Agency, claims that more
than year ago he made report to the Com
missioner, accusing Agent McGillicuddy OF
selling annuity goods to whites, and that it
has been suppressed. The forthcoming in
vestigation into the affair will take wide
range.
SHEPARD F. KNAPP, a son Of the
millionaire carpet-dealer Of New York, went
fishing in small boat on the Hudson River
the other day. A watchman saw him spring
to his feet. clutch at his throat, and pitch
forward into the water, sinking out OF sight.
LEWIS LYON, President of the Third
Avenue Railroad Company, OF New York,
was twice fired at the other day by his
nephew, who then blew out his own brains
THE residence of General Sturgis, at
the Soldiers Home in Washington, was
robbed of diamonds, silks and laces to the
amount of S5,0O0 The missing property
was found in the trunks of a French gov
erness.
J. w. MIX, a rich corn-canner OF
Conestoga, n. Y. has fed to South Ameri-
ca with one Of his factory girls, leaving Ia
bilities to the amount Of $4,000.
FRANK A. CRoLL, assistant postmas-
ter at Wellsboro, Penn, was caught rifiing
registered letters the other day and held in
SO, 900 bail.
A SHELL filled with powder and scraps
of iron and glass was thrown into the tailor
shop of August Gockel, in Philadelphia,
Pa, the other evening, and exploded
as the proprietor sat at work, but without
injury to him. His wife's step-father is
under arrest for the crime.
JUDGE GRESHAM, of the United States
Circuit Court at Indianapolis, has given
Judgment against a railroad company for
Sc. 900 in the suit of a brakeman whose arm
was crushed in consequence Of the coupling
apparatus of cars being out Of repair.
WILLIAM PARENT, of Iron Mountain,
Mich. /. Jumped into the lake, at Milwaukee,
the other day. He was rescued, but after
ward leaped from the third-story window OF
his hotel and broke both his feet.
TIE bark Melville, from China, Aug.