Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-25
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

EUGENE STEVENSON, young man
connected with Roberts Park Church, in
Indianapolis, shot himself through the heart
the other day because Miss PRESLEY did not
| reciprocate his affections.
KoNALD's gin distillery at Grapevine
Point, near New Haven, Conn.,, burned on
the 18th. Loss, $4,000; insurance, $4,000.
Before the engines were called away another
alarm was caused by the burning Of the
Calvary Baptist Church. Only the steeple
and walls were left standing. Loss, $75,-
600; insurance, $5O, 900. Both fires were in
cendiAry.
A SHOCKING accident occurred on the
Cleveland & Marietta Railroad, near Wes-
ley, o., March 10th, which resulted in the
injury Of thirteen passengers, several of
whom, 1t Is feared, can not recover.
| Spreading rails threw a coach down an en-
bankment.
D. OWENS, an Englishman, made an
assault upon young lady, at Tampa, Fla. ;,
March Is. inflicting knife wounds which
will probably cause her death. He was
captured and placed in Jail, but within an
hour was taken out by mob and hanged to
tree in the Courthouse yard, where the
| United States Court was in session. The
Mayor and Sheriff protested, and Lieut..
Davies, of the Third United States Artillery,
ordered out the garrison to rescue the pris-
oner, but before the troops arrived Owens
was dead.
P. DEvENow, H. Pfueger, and S.
Trent were seriously injured by the explo-
sion of a gasometer in the German Hospi-
tai. San Francisco, CAL, the other night.
JOHN MATT, telegraph operator and
station agent at Glendale, Mo-, was arrested
on the 10Th by Detective Gorham, of New
York, on a charge of participation in the
Chicago & Alton express robbery, at Blue
Cut, September I, 1881. Gorham states that
he has not only overwhelming proof Of
Matt's guilt, but also Of the guilt of the 9TH
ers Of the gang now awaiting trial. He says
further that Jesse James was the leader Of
the gang, and remained in the immediate
vicinity of the crime for several days after
the robbery and was in Independence dur
ing the trial OF Bill Ryan. The intention at
the time was to rob not only the train, bnt
also the Independence banks and rescue
Ryan, but the two latter plans were frus-
trated by the prompt uprising Of the people.
ROBERT NAVARRO, saloon-keeper of
Newport, Monroe County, Mich, has en-
tered suit in the Circuit Court against Rev.
Father Guthrie, pastor of the Roman Cath
Ollie Church of that place. Navarro, who is
Il member OF the church committee, charges
the priest with having denounced him from
the pulpit as ga drunkard and a bad man,"
and asks $40, 900.
J. N. KLoDT, German, was found
dead in bed at his residence, near Topeka,
Kans. on the 18th. There was bullet
wound in his right temple. The ball passed
through his head and came out back OF bis
left ear. 1t is supposed that he was MUIR
dered for money.
NIMROD Bowen, his wife, Miss Borlin,
and several Indians were buried by snow
slide at Genoa, New, the other day. Some
of the bodies were recovered.
POND & Co., Williamsburg, N. Y,
| lost 500, 900 by fire, March 18th. Other oc-
cupants of the building also lost heavily.
MORGAN carp was assassinated while
playing game of billiards in a saloon at
Tombstone, Ariz., the other night. A shot
was fired through glass door. His brother
Wyatt, who was sitting near, was also shot
at, but was not hit. The assassin escaped.
carp died at midnight. There is great ex-
ctement. The tragedy was not unexpected,
as since the fight between the carp brothers
and the cowboys last November threats of
assassination were frequently made.
THE central organization of the United
Trades and Labor Unions Of New York City
have denounced Minister Lowell for declin-
ing to interfere on behalf Of American citi-
zens in English prisons, and ask his recall.
The German and English socialistic labor
party celebrated, March 10Th, the eleventh
anniversary Of the Paris Commune.
CAPT. JAMES TAYLOR, prominent
politician of indianapolis, wound up long
debauch, March 10, by falling down in a
congestive attack which terminated fatally.
In the celebrated trial of Warren Tate for
the murder of John Love, Taylor was the
witness who pretended to have heard Love
threaten Tate, and his testimony contrib
uted more than any other to the acquittal
of Tate. Since that time he has been more
or less under the ban, and his downfall was
rapid.
ROBERT RODDICK and James Lacy,
safe blowers jailed at Rawlins, Wyo., were
hanged by masked men on the 10th. VIM.
Carter, also taken from the Jail, was allowed
to escape.
AUGUST GUENGEL, an old miser of
DUBUQUE, Iowa, was found dead in his resi-
dence, day or two ago. He died from want
OF proper food and other comforts Of life.
He had not taken a warm meal for months,
although abundantly able to do so. He
leaves property estimated at s., 900.
THE household of Thomas Walton, of
Grant Precinct, Lancaster County, Neb., has
been terribly afflicted Of late, five members
of the family having died in as many weeks,
from diphtheria. The youngest daughter
was first attacked, following which in rapid
succession four other members of the house,
hold we're taken down, the last one to fall a
victim to the grim messenger being an in
teresting daughter, who passed away on the
10th. Another child is illwith the same mall
| ady, and will probably die. Strange to say,
the fatal disease has attacked no other family
| in the precinct, and is not prevalent any
wbera else in the county.