Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

MAJOR G. N. Bliss, Of Providence,
R. l., who was last week elected State
Senator, has become insane from the excite
ment of the contest.
THE mangled remains of John Hun
ter, of Fairview Iowa, were found on the
railroad. June 3. As he had been drinking
ON the day before it is thought he laid down
to sleep and train passed over him.
WIN. COLEMAN, a miner employed
by the Illinois Valley Coal Company, at La
Sale, lost his life in consequence Of rotten
wire rope, June 2. He was coming up in a
tub, when the strands parted and he was
thrown out, falling 12S feet.
NEAR Lamberton, N. c., the other
day, feud between Jane McKeller and
Frances McNair eliminated in a desperate
fight, the former being killed with bowie
knife.
The liquor firm of Charles B. Darling
& Son, of Boston, has filed petition in in
solvencv, confessing joint liabilities of $11S,-
S16, while the younger partner has private
debts amounting to $59,250. Various South
ern and Western distillers are Interested.
WoRKMEN engaged in digging hole
for telegraph post in the street at Alamo
sa, CAL, struck stratum of gold-bearing
dirt, and the citizens are marking off the
town into placer claims.
IT is alleged that gold in paying guam
titles has been discovered on the farm Of Mr..
Maxwell, in the town of Stockbridge, Wis,
and machinery to operate the mine has al
ready been purchased.
A WHOLESALE liquor firm of Boston,
in order to get a barrel of whisky to GUS
toner at Claremont, n. H., where prohibi-
ton is in full force, labeled it kerosene oil,
and painted it to carry out the deception.
Now they have been convicted Of violation
OF the internal revenue laws.
SIX chiefs of the Caughnawaga tribe
Of Indians have brought suit against the
cure of Notre Dame Parish, Montreal, to
recover loan. of $4 800, which is claimed by
/ the Government.
A PASSENGER train on the Missouri
Pacific Railroad was tagged in cut sur
rounded by dense tnickets near Denton,
Texas, June 5. AS soon as it stopped four
masked men boarded the mail car. AS they
appeared in the narrow passage the eX-
) press agent, the mail agent, the baggage
master, and one Of the guards, who, in an
ticipation Of a robbery, had armed them
selves before the train stopped, opened fire
on them. Taken at a disadvantage, the
l robbers fled without returning the fire. A
: Sheriff's posse soon after daylight went in
pursuit. A short distance from the scene of
the attempted robbery they found the dead
body Of man with his mask still on, who
proved to be S. p. Shelton. Joe Carter,
another of the bandits, subsequently sur
rendered.
SURGEONS pronounce not fatal the
wound received in the game in New York
by Gillespie of the Troy nine. His skull is
not fractured.
D. b. READY and George Dexter, Of
Point on the 4th.
/ CHARLES RIPLEY, aged Z, of Milton,
Mass, was fatally shot by playmate few
days ago. M $50 ~
FIVE workmen were badly hurt by a
collision on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway, near Muscoda, Wis, June 5.
A STORM extending from Halifax to
j Garysburg, N. c., on the 4th, leveled
houses, trees and fences. In the wreck OF
one house two children were killed. Hail
stones large as eggs fell, damaging crops
seriously and delaying trains.
A DISPATCH from Jacksonville, Fla,
says Mr.. Warburton, his wife, and two chill
dren were drowned in Lake Eustis on the
4th. They were in carriage, and Mr..
Warburton drove into the lake to water the
horse at dangerous spot. The bodies were
recovered.
The bodies of Washington and Fred
Fehrbach were found near Perham, Minn.,
June 8. The evidence is conclusive that
they were both murdered by John Tribbett,
boy fifteen years old, who has started to
join the cowboys in Montana. Tribbett
comes of good family. but is victim OF
blood and thunder literature.
THE schooner Industry, Of st. Joseph,
capsized off South Haven, Mich, the other
day, and all on board were drowned.
She was near the shore, and the
wreck was witnessed by hundreds Of men,
but'owing to the terrible seas it was impos-
sible to render any assistance. When first
seen the sailors were clinging to the rigging,
but they were washed away one by one un-
til all were lost.