Huntsville gazette., 1882-08-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

qulre police escort to and from the mills,
and are subjected to all manner of abuse and
insult.
MRS. FORD, Martin johnson, VIM.
Bosrum,and John Fehrerman were drowned
in South Park Lake, Chicago, Aug. 4. A
pleasure boat upset.
The pedestrian contest at Boston re-
suited: Hart, 527 miles; Noremac, sos; Har-
riman, 500; Campana, 800.
Mrs. SUSIE RODGERS, of Kansas City,
Mo-, took fatal dose Of poison, Aug. 5.
IT is said that Frank L. Gould, the
young man who died of starvation at Port
land, Me-, few days ago, went without
food himself in order that his mother, three
brothers, and sister might live. He could
not get enough for all.
JOHN MILLER and John Holmquist
were burned to death in flour mill near
North Branch, Mimi, Aug. 6.
JOHN SHEA, a laborer living in Ham,
let, R. l., attempted to butcher his wife
with pocket knife the other day, but was
felled by a blow with a bed-slat in the hands
of his twelve-year old son. Mrs. Shea was
cut in four places, once near the heart,
but she may recover.
FOUR firemen were thrown into the
river and badly hurt while at work on
burning bridge at Lowell, Mass, on the
9th.
CHARLES HILGERT, wholesale sugar
dealer at Philadelphia, Pa, has failed for
half million. He had perpetrated for
geres to the extent of 100000.
A BOY named Huber and a colored
girl named Rodgers were killed by lightning
at Kickapoo, Kans., the other day.
A COURT Of inquiry has been ordered
in the case of Colonel Carr, Sixth Cavalry.
in reference to accusations growing out of
charges of insubordination preferred by
General Wilcox, commanding the depart
ment Of Arizona.
AN attempt is being made to induce
the New York 'longshorenen to join the
freight handlers in continuing the present
strike.
THE counsel for the star-routers have
decided to put none of the leading defend
ants on the stand.
WALLACE Ross has challenged Ed
ward Hanlan to a fve-mile race for $1,000
side and the championship OF the world.
A PRIZE-FIGHT occurred between ca
| diets at West Point, the other day, in which
one of the principals was knocked out of
time. The successful pugiiists and seconds
are under arrest and will be dismissed the
service.
THE striking telegraphers at Denver,
Colo. have received numerous offers Of aid
from labor organizations throughout the
country.
REV. DR.. BLYDEN, President of the
Liberian College, was refused accommoda-
tions at High Bridge, N. Y, resort, because
Of his color.
FIVE persons were prostrated by light
ming near Worcester, VT, on the 9th. Mer-
ton Young, aged IA, died. Charles Young
was seriously injured.
VIM. HALE, aged 35, was tarred and
feathered and driven out of Tarport, Pa.
the other night, for attempting to outrage
little girl.
The steamer Gold Dust was blown to
pieces by boiler explosion, at Hickman,
KY, Aug. Z. Seventeen persons were killed
and some forty or fifty injured.
Ten firemen were injured by falling
walls in Pittsburgh, Pa, the other morning.
John Green, Charles Little, Robert Kilhon
and Philip Mcguire may not survive.
WIN. PARKE, a laboref, was grossly
insulted by four bad characters as he was
entering his dwelling, in Chicago, on the
9th. They ordered him to bring down his
daughters, and tried to force their way in,
but Mr.. Parke happened to have pistol in
the house and Frank Thornton got fatal
bullet in his forehead.
GEORGE WILSON fatally stabbed John
Sheavy, a felow-convict in the Penitentiary
at Waupun, Wis, Aug. 6. George had
stolen something and John informed the
officers.
CITIZENS of Athens, Texas, have
started on the trail of band of young men
who have been plundering stores and doing
other mischief.
Miss JULIA LEVI, of Philadelphia,
was thrown from carriage and fatally in
iured near Davenport, Iowa, on the 9th.
AT camp-meeting of colored people
near Eastman, Ga, the other day, deputy
marshal shot fleeing prisoner named Jake
Tarropy, killing him. This infuriated the
mob, who ran the deputy in house, where
an innocent white man named James Har-
ward was shot and beaten horribly, resulting
in his death. The negroes mistook him for
the deputy.
THERE was a 100000 fire in Gar
diner Me-, on the 7th. Sixty dwellings and
several mills were destroyed.
ONE of the most frightful calamities
in the annals of Mississippi River steam
boating occurred near Hickman, KY, Aug.
I. The Anchor Line steamer Gold Dust, on
her up trip from Vicksburg. had just pulled
out from the landing, when her boilers ex-
ploded, tearing the upper works off and
setting the boat on fire. Seventeen persons
were killed outright and many more were
scalded and burned; and it is feared that
the deaths may reach thirty, as it is certain
MANY Of the wounded can not survive. I'm
mediately after the explosion the boat took
fire. and there was the greatest consterna-
tion among the passengers and crew. AS
sistance was rendered as speedily as pos
sible by the citizens of Hickman. The boat
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