Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


W. Va, three persons were killed and sew
erai others were injured few afternoons
ago.
The house of Col. VIM. Harris, of
Cleveland, o., was ransacked by burglars
the other night, and So, 900 worth Of jewelry
was taken.
ROYAL D. SToRRs, wooden manu-
facturer Of Dedham, Mass, who failed re-
tly for $500, 900, has been indicted for
obtaining $4,000 from a national bank under
false pretenses.
JOE COBURN, the prize-fghter, who
was sentenced at New York in 1877 to ten
years. Imprisonment in Sing Sing Prison
for an assault upon two policemen, has been
released.
THE wife and child of Russian Jew,
named Gelenger, froze to death on their
claim between Grand Forks and DEVILS
Lake, ID. t., few days ago.
CHARLES DECKER, founder of the
village of Deckerville, Sanilac County, Mich,
prominent citizen, was instantly killed in
his grist mill, the other day, while adjust
ing belt. Both legs were torn off below
the knee. He was fifty years old, and leaves
wife and children.
WILLIAM F. THOMPSON, who some
time ago was discharged from the employ OF
Farnham & Lovejoy, lumber dealers at Min
neapolis, Mimi, has been arrested for the
embezzlement Of $4,000 from the firm.
THE tug George w. Childs and steam
yacht Idle Hour foundered off Hatteras in
recent storm. All on board were lost.
THE vegetable soup works of II. G.
Zero, at Lyndonville, N. Y, burned the
other night. Loss, $40, ,000 The adjoining
building were saved by the free use OF cider
from the tanks near by. One thousand GAL
Ions were used by the bucketful.
IT is reported that frauds amounting
to over 100000 have been discovered in the
management of the financial affairs of Louis
vile, Ky.
FOURTEEN inches of snow fell at
Watertown, n. Y, on the 10th, and the
storm was still in progress.
PETER PHELAN, an expert, was the
other day called to examine an old steam
boiler at Bayview, CAL He had completed
his examination, and decided that it was
not dangerous, when the thing exploded
and killed him.
IT is announced that six men were
drowned recently while attempting to cross
the ice on Moosehead Lake, in Maine.
THE Potomac River was on the 10th
frozen solid from Anaostan Island to Little
Falls, fact unprecedented within the
memory of the oldest river men.
AN incendiary fire few mornings
ago, the second within week, destroyed an
entire block of business buildings at Peters
burg, Ind.
By the capsizing of an oyster sloop,
used as a mail boat, near Fort Myers, Fla,
the other evening, three sons of John Bright
and the son of Margaret Tierce, whose ages
range from eight to fifteen years, were
drowned.
THE inventor of the turbine water
wheel, William F. Blakeney, died at Day.
ton, o., a few nights ago.
A NATIONAL Convention of Woman
Suffragists will be heldin Washington Janu-
airy 90, "a and %.
MICHAEL GALLAGHER and John Nc
Allister fought in Brooklyn On. Y. saloon
a few days ago, and both received fatal
wounds.
RECENTLY the Marietta & Cincinnati
Railroad was sold under foreclosure. Robert
Garrett, of Baltimore, was the purchaser.
EIGHT buildings on the public square
at Bradford, Pa, and three on an adjoining
street, valued at $4,000, were destroyed by
fire few days ago.
Four colOred resurrectionists were
recently arraigned in Philadelphia court
and committed in default of 50, 200 each.
Twenty five policemen were required to
protect them from a mob of their own race.
The demonstrator of anatomy at Jefferson
College testified that he had been furnished
about $50 bodies per year.
THE residence of Newell Jolly, near
Gallipolis, O., was destroyed by fire few
nights ago. Mr.. Jolly, who was quite aged,
was burned to death, and his wife was also
probably fatally burned.
SIR HUGH ALLEN, of Montreal, the
great Canadian ship-builder and vessel
owner, died suddenly in Edinburg, Scot
land, the other morning. He was born in
AYRSHIRE. Scotland, in 1910, and emigrated
to Canada ri tue aye Oh slAtceH' 1lc lOaFCS
eight daughters and four sons and fortune
of S15, 100000.
A THIEF in theater at Barcelona,
Spain, raised false alarm of fire few eve
nings ago. One person was killed and
eighteen injured in the panic which fol-
lowed.
JUDGE LAWRENCE, Of the Supreme
Court of New York, having decided that
magistrates can Only impose fines Of ten dol
lars, two Police Justices have released over
two hundred prisoners from Blackwell's Is
land, and if the example be followed by
other magistrates fifteen hundred disrepu-
table characters would be turned loose upon
New York City.
THE Denver (Col.) Fire Insurance
Company, which was organized in 1880 with
a capital of 81, ,000, 900, has collapsed. 1t was
said that there was never any money in the
treasury, and that the only assets were un-
secured notes and unimproved lands with
imperfect titles.
AT Belle Vernon, Pa, the other morn
ing a copper still, containing twenty-five
barrels OF whisky, exploded, destroying the
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