Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-24
HUNTSVILLE ALABAMA SATURDAY, JUNE "a, 1882
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
AFTER a preliminary shot at Police
man Schriver's eye, June 10, Mr.. Schu-
macker, saloon-keeper at Jackson, Mich.
killed his wife and then fatally shot himself
Schriver may recover. g&k
A PASSENGER train on the Western
Atlantic Railway dashed into some freight
cars at Kingston, Ga, June IT. Andrew
West, engineer, was killed and George
Bass, the fireman, was fatally injured. A
number Of persons were badly hurt in the
coaches.
EIGHT men were seriously injured by
the latest explosion in the mines near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, June IT.
Two burglars raided the residence of
Revenue Collector Bickel, at St. Paul, Mimi,
June II, but were baf1ed, and escaped to
the woods. Officer Daniel O'Connell fol-
lowed them, and was not again seen alive.
His body was subsequently, found with a
bullet-hole in the temple. The fatal shot
had been fired at such close range that his
head was powder-burnt
JOHN HARRIS, Marshal of Cedarville,
Ohio, is held in $4,000 bail on charge OF
blowing up Con. Sweeney's saloon.
Two hostlers and thirteen horses were
cremated in stabbe at Cambridge, Mass. !,
June II.
TWENTY fremen were injured by fall
/ ing walls in Boston, Mass, June II.
POLICE made raid ON stable in
Clerkenwell, London, June II, and seized
100, 900 pounds OF ammunition packed in
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hundred rifles, with bayonets, and twenty
five boxes of revolvers were also captured.
THREE little sons of Duncan Taylor,
Of Brussels, Ontario, were suffocated on the
18th. The boys were playing about barn,
and got into an oat-bin, the lid of-which
fell and fastened them in.
f. G.. INGERsoLL, counsel for plain
tiff in the Christiancy divorce case, has been
pronounced insane and taken to an asylum.
4 SIX boys were drowned near New
Orleans on the 18th. A pleasure boat cap
sized.
Fl A PRETTY girl of IL years, residing at
Dedham, Mass, has been practicing burg
: larry as a profession. She was recently
caught in the sleeping-room Of a neighbor-
) ing family.
A MOB at Rico, Colo, the other day
took from Jail two murderers named Thoma:
4 Wall and Trinidad Charlie, and hanged
S them In small cabin.
Miss EMMA GROVER, member of the
senior class in the high school at Holyoke,
| Mass. eIoped with colored coachman
some weeks ago. Nothing has been heard
from the girl, but the negro writes that the
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specified sum of money.
DIR. JULES CREvAUx and a party Of
seventeen men, who were engaged in ex-
ploring the northern tributaries of the River
Plate, were killed by the Obah Indians in
Bolivia.
MoRRIsoN's paper mill, at Tyrone,
Pa, burned on the 18th. Loss, $225, 1000;
insurance. $4,000.
j. n. BROWN, Justice of the Peace at
Dallas. Oreg., took a fatal dose of chloro-
form ON the 10Th. He had been suffering
from asthma.
HARRY FINLEY, son of ex-Congress-
man Finley, committed suicide at Bucyrus,
Ohio, June IS. He had just resigned his
position Of midshipman on the steamer Ten
nessee, and the cause is supposed to be
something connected with recent examina-
tion.
HENRY HUDDLEsToN, a negro, was
lynched at Winchester, Tenn. June 49,
for assaulting woman.
JARVIS GAY, an old veterinary sur.
geon, Of Norwood, Mass, asked G.. W. Ed
mund to direct him on his way at an early
hour on the 10Th. Edmund mistook him
for a burglar and fatally shot him.
THE schooner Massasoit was sunk BY
an iceberg off St. John, Newfoundland, June
10. Four Of the crew perished.
FIVE laborers were drowned at Pas
pebiac, Quebec, June IS boat sinking.
The rising tide at Isle Aux Grues drowned
two children, named Lapointo and Harvey,
covering the islet upon which they were at
play.
THE freight-handlers of the Central
Road in New York struck for an increase to
20 cents per hour, the other day, and party
OF seventy marched along the piers and
compelled all 'longshoremen to quit work.
The ship Freeman Clark, just arrived
at New York from Calcutta, reports that
the captain, James Dwight, Of Springfield,
Mass, was attacked in his berth by the
Chinese steward and cook, and literally
hacked to pieces. The crew came to the
captains assistance and killed both China
men, tlinging their bodies overheard.
THE wrecked Merchants National
Bank of Newark having secured receipts in
full from all creditors by paying rs per cent.
subscription books are to be opened for the
re- establishment of the institution with
$500, 900 capital.
FORTY.SEYENTH CONGRESS-.