Huntsville gazette., 1882-07-01
PERSONAL. AND GENERAL.

| ride, went over the bank of the turnpike
near FELTON,, June 23, killing Misses Iva
| Crowdery, Eva Massey, Celia Scott and
Master George Scott, and seriously injuring
Masters Burr, Burling and William Mock
les.
| AUGUSTUS ROSENBERG and w. S.
Carpenter were drowned while bathing at
Big Rapids, Mich, the other evening.
AT Atchison, Kans., June "a, S. Har-
rison and w. Wilson, negroes, had a dis
pute about some money matters and ad-
| journed to basement to fight it out. While
Harrison was laying down his coat, Wilson
picked up chair and broke his antagonists
neck.
JACK SHELDON, Thomas Beeson, and
VIM. Beavers, in Jail at Neosho, Mo-, threw
some lime in Jailer Nutt's face, June "a,
knocked down the guard, and made dash
| for freedom. Nuts son shot Beeson down
| about 200 yards from the Jail. A hundred
citizens started after the others, and Beav-
ers was recaptured mile from Jail. Shell
don took refuge in the woods, where he was
surrounded and shot down.
The Mississippi Valley Amateur Row
ing Association races at Creve Ceur Lake,
Mo-, June % and "a, were close and exciting.
The Modocs won the barge prize. The Min
nesota, Burlington, Farragut, and Excelsior
crews all got trophy.
A WAVE nearly twelve feet high swept
along the shore of Lake Erie, from Paines-
vile to Cleveland, Ohio, the other morning,
accompanied by roar like thunder, the
wind shifting from south to north. The un-
dertow did great damage at Cleveland. A
lot Of steel rails weighing twenty tons were
| thrown back ten feet, and one man was
swept out into the lake and drowned.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN has pardoned
the St. Louis gamblers.
THE store-house of the Pacific Mills,
Lawrence, Mass, burned the other night.
w. A. Hodges and George Remick, firemen,
were suffocated. Loss on stock and build
ing estimated at 100000.
THOMAS J. FOSTER, representing Fort
Wayne in the Indiana Senate, and publisher
Of the Journal, killed himself with revolv-
er the other day.
THE Jones spice mills, together with
the Pacific docks, at Portland, Greg.
burned on the 25th. Losses will reach $780,
coo.
TERRIFIC storm swept along the
Platte River in Nebraska on the 25th. The
corn was badly beaten down IN the southern
part OF Saunders County, and the small
grain utterly ruined. Two houses were
blown down in Wahoo. A two-story barn
was carried fifty feet through the air. A
herd of 125 ponies were swept by the storm
eight miles southwark over the fields and
through wire fences. Not pane Of glass
was left in the windows facing west. The
school house at Clear Creek was completely
wrecked.
THERE is an outbreak on the Mesca-
lero reservation, caused by the killing Of an
escaped prisoner from Fort Union whom
the Indian police were attempting to arrest.
Lieutenant Llewellyn was shot twice while
endeavoring to quiet his wards, but is sus-
tanned by the principal chiefs. Three COM
panies of cavalry were dispatched from Fort
Stanton.
! A WATER-sPOUT chased train into
La Fayette, Ind. June "a. 1t whirled rocks
and immense trees along in its course, but
spent its fury before it caught up. The
steeple of st. Pau's Cathedral at Indianapo-
!
ings damaged on the 25th.
| H. SMITH, saloOn-keeper at Chico,
CAL, killed his wife, June %, and was taken
to Jail, where he took dose Of poison in
order to disappoint large party Of lynchers
who were trying to get at him.
| A BUGGY race near st. Joseph, Mo-,
on the 25th, ended in collision. Mr.. 81. t.
Below was fatally injured, and his wife and
| a lady friend were badly hurt.
ALL the anthracite coal companies of
Pennsylvania have made a voluntary ad-
vance OF 10 per cent. in the pay of miners.
DISGUISED assassins fatally shot
Thomas Magoghe, constabulary pension
er, while sitting in the lodge Of a wealthy
farmer at Kilkellar, Ireland, June %.
JAY A. HUBBELL, Chairman of the
Republican Congressional Committee, in an
open letter to George William Curtis asks
the latter to join him in requesting the Pres
ident to submit to the Attorney General the
question of liability under the law for max
ing campaign contributions.
ARAB PAsHA will resist to the death
any interference with the affairs OF Egypt by
her enemies, and can regard no settlement
as satisfactory until the fleets are with
drawn. He has had no thought OF ruling
without the Khedve.
TEN persons seated together in a
house in Detroit, Mich, the other day,
were prostratcd by lightning. Mrs. Zilaski
was killed. s.ssa
SIX prisoners in jail at Columbus, o.,
| dug through the ceiling, the other evening,
and passed through the Sheriff's residence.
Hundreds of citizens responded to the
alarm, and the runaways were soon back in
their cells.
A FEUD existed at Cimarron, Kans.,
between j. A. Shumate, merchant, and
J. w. Dixon, a hotel-keeper, the former de-
claring that he would kill his enemy. The
other morning the merchant went to Dix
on,s bar, and after few words, was hit five
times with revolver bullets, dying in the
street.
| JASON RICHARDSON, rich and re-
spectacle farmer near Leavenworth, kans.,
kissed his wife good-by, few days ago,