Huntsville gazette., 1882-02-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
THE Hannibal s. St. Joe Railway
Company must pay Missouri 500, 900 or be

lie SlOf0-plsttc lOuuuTlcS O1 L IlUUS-
burgh, Pa, have been closed in conse-
quence of strike, the proprietors refusing
to advance wages 10per cent.
FIVE members of the Yeager family,
OF Fort Wayne, Ind, were recently pois-
oned by raw ham. 1t was not thought pos
sible for the children to recover.
Two young men recently entered the
works OF the Chicago Car wheel Company
and asked some information from Walter
Todd, the cashier. Almost instantly they
threw red pepper in his eyes, pushed him
into closet, locked the door, and secured
500 in cash.
CLARENCE 0. PERRY, boy of 16,
was recently left in charge of house in
Ashland, Mass, during the absence of the
family. He set fire to three beds in differ
ent parts of the house, but the neighbors
smeled smoke and extinguished the flames.
The fellow was arrested and committed in
$1,000 to await the Grand Jury's action.
Perry is a monomaniac on the subject of in
cendiarism and confesses to at least three
attempts.
WILLIAM LEDERE, of Syracuse, N.
forced entrance to her residence the other
day with the avowed purpose of killing her.
The proprieiress OF the house tried to pre-
vent this, and he shot both. He then went
home and killed himself by emptying his
revolver into his head. Jealousy.
LAKE RANSOM, an employee of the
D. NJ. Osborne Reaper Company for eight
cen years and manager of the Chicago office
for the last nine years, was found dead in
the suburb of Hinsdale, Feb. 11th, half
way between his house and the depot. Near
him was a revolver with two chambers
empty, and there was pistol wound in the
back of the head from which the brains
oozed. There were evidences Of a struggle,
but no traces of the murderer. The clothes
and wallet had been ri6ed of their contents
He leaves family in moderate circum-
stances.
PARIS advices say the Marquis de Jo-
cas-, q large shareholder in the Union Gen.
erale, has committed suicide. He had in
vested 600, 900 francs in shares of the Union
Generate. 1t was he who introduced Amer
lean vines In the south of France.
Two freight trains came together
near Atchison, Kans., Feb. 18th. One fiat
car flew into the air and came down on a To-
comotive, and a. general wreck piled up in
an instant. Pat. Mackey, fireman, was
firightfully mangled; Engineers Craft and
Burgen and James Rilly, fireman, were
badly hurt. The accident is regarded by the
officers as the greatest piece of carelessness
ever known in that section, as both engi-
neers saw The danger, but neither would
back up, as each expected the other to do
so.
THE piano-case factory of Dielmann
& Co., in Twenty first street, New York,
was destroyed by fire on the 18th, causing a
Stardenger was fatally injured by falling
walls.
JOHN HUDSON, of Piqua, o., attempt
ed to leap from train before it stopped, at
Urbana, on the 18th, and fell between two
trucks. He was crushed to death instantly.
THREE outlaws in New Mexico have
or some time been robbing and wounding
travellers at a point 1856 miles west of AL
buqurque, known as Cranes. A deputy
sheriff led party of citizens to the cabin OF
the robbers a few days ago, and bloody en-
counter followed. The Williams were shot
dead, but one of the attacking party was
killed and two others so seriously wounded
that they were sent to Fort Wingate by
special train for surgical treatment.
ALBERT WILDE, an architect, once
wealthy citizen of Cleveland, o., recently
imprisoned as vagrant at Kansas City, Mo-,
hanged himself in his cell.
Two coaches attached to an express
train on the Wheeling & Lake Erie Railroad
rolled into Huron River, about four miles
from Huron, O., the other day. The train
was going around a sharp bend on which
the lower rail had probably been under
mined by the recent high water. Thirteen
persons were injured.
FIVE trackmen were killed in tun-
mel on the Potomac Railroad, near the
Union depot in Baltimore, Feb. Is, by To-
connective on the Western Maryland Rail-
road. The men were named David Grier,
Timothy kennedy, Edward Birmingham,
James Irwin and Patrick McGoff. They
stepped from one track to get out OF the way
Of passing train and walked directly in
front Of a locomotive on the opposite track.
SPARKS from locomotive set fire to
some pools of oil in the low ground near
Olean. New York, Feb. II. In few min
utes the flames communicated to three iron
tanks, containing in ali 10000 barrels OF oil.
A large force of men left Bradford by spec
ial train with picks, shovels, cannon and
chemical fire extinguishers.
NEWPORT, Washington County, Ohio,
has been startled by cold-blooded murder.
Elmer Harman, twenty years Of age, be-
came enraged at his uncle. John Hartman,
nearly eighty years old, and picking up a
club began most brutal assault on him.
The old man, being totally blind and help
less. could not escape his nephew, who dealt
his victim blow after blow with the heavy
weapon. and left him for dead after cuttiug
horrible gashes in his face and crushing his
skull. The young murderer fled, and it was
thought he would be lynched should he be
found.
MRS. CATHERINE DOTY and Mrs.
Julia Sennett were killed while walking on
the Bee Line track, near indianapolis, on
the 18th. They failed to notice the approach
of a train, and when the engine whistled
+bo o<bor track without no.