Huntsville gazette., 1882-04-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


A NUMBER of railway employees were
arrested in Buffalo, N. Y, on the 22d, in
| connection with recent wholesale stealing
from freight cars by an organized band.
The Mayor of Long Island City, a
| suburb of New York, has been arrested for
the misappropriation of $4,000 from the
| sale of bonds.
PARTICULARS of the recent tragedy
near Richardson, Texas, have just been re-
ceived. Mrs. Brown Pearce, in~the absence
of her husband, stranged her two small
children to death and then took large dose
OF morphine and hung herself to one Of the
jOists of the house. Her husband came
home in time to cut her down before life
was extinct. He summoned a physician,
who declared he could do nothing for her,
and she died in short time. Mrs. Pearce
was subject to fits of temporary insanity,
and it is supposed that it was during one Of
these that she played the unnatural part in
this shocking tragedy. She was very esti-
mable lady, the wife of a well-to-do and
highly respected farmer, and the terrible
affair has cast gloom over the entire COM
munity.
The steamer Little Eagle, raft boat,
struck the bridge pier at Hannibal, Mo-. on
the 23d, and Jerome Vallam, Silas Cooper,
and Henry Hauseman were drowned.
Captain Dawson, realizing the impending
danger, gave orders for all on board to Jump
to raft in tow, but remained in the
pilot-house himself until the crash
came, expecting to jump from the
hurricane deck to the bridge. A second
later the boat struck the pier and parted
near the pilot-house, and he fell head long
down the break and into the water, but
came up some distance below the bridge
and was rescued by men in a skiff. John
w. Young, the cook, jumped headforemost
into the river and dived as deep as
possible, with the intention of going
under the boat and coming out be-
low. While down he felt the hot
boilers and endured few terrible moments
Of suspense. His head struck the pier and
he came to the surface few feet away and
swan to the raft. His escape is a miracle.
The Little Eagle is a total loss. She was
valued at $1,000 and was uninsured. Most
of the wreck still lies against the pier, just
where it struck, part Of the debris having
foated down the river. This is the second
accident Of the kind at this bridge. Six
years ago the steamer Dictator struck under
somewhat similar circumstances and seven
| lives were lost.
JOHN A. WILL, an Ohio farmer, was
rudely jostled by drunken man named
fr noonas uisl hey, On lsalo9'pn street, Gheaso
changed, and Kelly struck the farmer, who
drew pistol and shot his assailant in the
head, killing him instantly. Many persons
were on the street at the time, and the ocho
of the shot had scarcely died away before
throng collected around the dying man and
his slayer, and threats Of lynching were
freely made, but the farmer, pistol in hand,
marched off. He was subsequently arrested,
but not until he had been well clubbed.
AN inmate of the Cook County Qll.)
Insane Asylum, named George w. Reynolds,
drowned himself in pond the other day.
At the outbreak Of the panic of 1857 he was
successful packer in Chicago. In later
wears he was a member of the Board OF Su
pervisors, and served as chairman OF the
building committee which supervised the
years has been his only home.
DURING the recent storm in Chicago
some freight cars were blown from siding
to the main track and Baltimore & Ohio
train crashed into them. The engineer and
fireman were severely hurt, and Joseph
Hanenan, a resident, was killed.
The Mansion House stables, Brook
hu fro no
23d. Stephen Cutler, the hostler, and twen-
ty-six horses, perished in the flames. De-
pere, Wis, had 100000 blaze on the same
day.
A PARTY of bridge builders took pos
session Of the town of Greenfield, Mass,
April %, assaulting citizens, breaking into
stores, etc. John Flynn, a railroad fireman,
was fatally stabbed.
JAMES B. DEPUTY was killed at Mil
ford, Del, April %, by c. A. Hallet The
murdered man had saluted young woman
who was with Hallet, whom he had mis-
taken for his cousin.
AT Tradewater, KY, April %, Will
liam Hewlett, Marshal Of Nortonville, was
assaulted by father and son named Men,
| ser. and IN SELL uo uscu ACfOlfCi,
killing the latter and mortally wounding
the former. Hewlett had previously ar
rested the Mensers for gambling.
A. D. MASON, prominent attorney
OF Grass Valley, CAL, was shot the other
NIGHT by E. A. Roberts, son OF Judge E. w.
Roberts, an old and leading lawyer.
Mason's wound is pronounced necessarily
fatal.
The residence of Mrs. Annie Hardin,
Atlanta, Ga, was struck by lightning, April
%. and little daughter killed. The mother
was probably fatally injured.
NINE lives were lost by the burning
of the steamer City of Sanford, off the Flori-
da coast, April "a.
ONE of the warehouses OF the j.
Matherton Distilling Company, New Haven,
Conn, gave way on the 23d. About 1000
barrels of whisky fell together, crushing
200. and it was feared that the whole build
ing. containing Il, ,OOO:barrels, would fall.
Losses so far estimated at 100000.
THE residence of Mr.. Redout, at Sal
mon River, Me-, burned on the 2Sd, and
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