Huntsville gazette., 1882-08-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

and brick work surrounding the boiler. A.
IL. Hall, the engineer and superintendent,
was badly burned, but has chance for life.
He made his way out into the road and tore
off his burning clothes. George Edgecomb
and Ferga McArdle were burned beyond re-
cognition.
CHESS THOMAS was hanged at Pales-
tine, Texas, Aug. II, for the marder OF
Houston McManus.
NEAL HARRIS, a prominent planter,
living near Oak Bluff, Clay County, Ark,
while insane, the other day, took his little
son. bright and handsome fellow, in
to the woods, as he said, to kill squirrels.
His wife and daughter followed him, believ-
ing he would do something rash. There was
no one near on whom they could call for as
sistance. They had gone but short dis
tance when Harris stopped and deliberate
ly shot the boy dead, emptying the con-
tents of one barrel of double barreled gun
into his head. He then fired the other barrel
at his wife and daughter, but fortunately
without fatal effect. He next drew a revolv-
er and killed himself, firing bullet through
his heart. The sad affair causes a great SEN
sation in Northeast Arkansas.
The Steamer Buckeye State sunk at
Louisville, Ky, the other day.
JOHN THOMPSON was killed by James
Neal at the recent Confederate reunion at
Glenn Springs, Upton County, Tenn.
j. H. HUNTER has embezzled from
the estate of Charles Hunter at Montreal,
Cana, from 100000 to 100000, and con-
facc nf VIII; oh I,
was the manager are also thought to have
suffered. He was a highly esteemed citi-
zen.
ELIJAH FRANKLIN was hanged at
Silver City, N. NJ, Aug. IL, for the murder
of Deputy Sheriff Johnson.
POLICEMAN DOYLE, of Fort Wayne,
Ind, was terribly beaten while attempting
to arrest two roughs on the 18th. Doyle
killed George Alexander and dragged the
other to the station house, where he fell
exhausted from his own wounds
MINNIE KRUGER, an eccentric old
maid, has been arrested at Canton, Ohio,
for firing gun-load of pebbles into bed
room occupied by Mr.. and Mrs. Gottlieb
Summers. Minnie complained that boys
disturbed her rest by firing guns near her
house; but the story seems to have been in
vented to divert suspicion from herself.
JOSEPH BARTLETT, a retired minister,
of Gorham, Me-, committed suicide
by drowning while temporarily insane.
JOHN METZGER, a molder,w was fatally
stabbed by his step-son, Charles Wagner,
aged II, at Columbus, Ohio, on the 18th.
The boy was defending his mother. All
three were intoxicated.
THE Campbell brothers, desperadoes
Of Caldwell County, KY, were smoked out
Of a house by mob the other day and rid
died with bullets. One of the besiegers was
killed.
MRS. A. LAUTCH, of Leavenworth,
Kans., was terribly burned by coal oil the
other day. Her son was melting lead, and
thought oil would be an improvement,
whereupon the can was held over the fire
with the usual consequences.
VIM JOHNSON has been arrested for
attempting to wreck a Chicago & North
western passenger train near Milwaukee,
Wis.
AT pigeon shooting match in Shen-
andoah, Pa, on the 18th, Robert Parker
was accidentally killed by Hiram Neiswin-
ter.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, was intensely ex-
cited on the morning of the 18th by the dis
covery that Alexander Weber, German
saloon keeper, his wife and his little son,
seven years old, had been butchered in bed.
The heads of all three were crushed with
hatchet, and their throats were cut and
mangled in a most brutal manner. An in
FAINT of six months was found unharmed in
its crib, smiling and growing, unconscious
of bereavement. The house in which the
tragedy was enacted was formerly owned
by German named Krugg, who was killed
there about six years ago by negroes. His
widow married George Lenhart, Ger
man laborer, who has done little or no
work since his marriage. He has fire.
auently asked his wife to let him have
the house and run saloon, but as Weber,
the man who was murdered, had lease
on the house, she could not do it.
Lenhart is an ignorant fellow, and be-
lieved himself aggrieved by Wieber's
possession of the house. Frequently he
quarreed with him, and threatened to kill
him several times. There Ware tracks lead
ing away from the house, made by man
with but one shoe, and a sock on the other
foot. Lenhart has sore upon the instep OF
the left foot, and has walked without a
shoe for some days in consequences. His
tracks correspond with tbpse found. He
denies the commission Of the crime.
Charles w. Carter and Philip Voll were ar
rested about ten miles from the city. Car
ter was searched, and had in pocket
razor covered with blood and handker-
chief spotted. Voll is but boy, who
had been looking for work and was going
back to Mount Carmel. If the purpose OF
the murder was robbery it failed signally,
for they got not cent or a valuable. though
several hundred dollars were concealed be-
hind drawer in the bureau.
NELLIE and Mamie Meekhan, Z and
years old respectively, were asphyxiated
at Pullman, ILL.,, on the 18th. The children
were left alone all night, Mr.. Meekham hav-
ing missed the last train from Chicago, and
not knowing how to shut off the gas they
blew it out.
THOMAS ELDER, a saloon-keeper, was
killed by an unknown man near Louisville,