Huntsville gazette., 1882-06-17
Personal AND GENERAL.


forty men and lynched. McHare was from
East Saginaw, Mich.
(. CHARLES BOOTH, aged II, was
drowned while bathing near Topeka, Kans.,
June 10.
Mrs. MAGGIE LANGo, of Chicago,
fell from q third-story window to the side
walk, a distance of forty feet, June 10,
striking on her head and shoulders, and she
died on the way to the hospital.
AGILDTUs Hook, German, drew a
razor from his pocket and cut his throat
from ear to ear in ST. Mary's Catholic
Church, Buffalo, N. Y, June II, and then
rushed for the street, where he hacked him
self again, and fell into the gutter and ex-
pired. The worshipers were transfixed with
horror, women screamed and tainted, and
great confusion prevailed.
f. THE Linn County Bank, at Brook
field, Mo-, was entered on the afternoon of
the 7th and robbed of nearly $1,000.
Five men entered the bank, and while
Cashier John Ford turned to make change
presented drawn revolvers. The sixth man
detained lady at the front door while the
robbery was going on. Cashier Ford and
the bank when the robbers entered. The
thieves went out the back door, and left
Brookfeld in a northerly direction. Imme-
diately after the robbery a posse Of men,
headed by the Marshal Of Brookfed, gave
hot pursuit, and after an exciting chase,
during which shots were freely exchanged,
the robbers were run into log house, sur
rounded, and compelled to surrender. They
gave their names as Winfield Allen, Frank
Mason, Fred Mason, and Burt Ward.
THERE was triple lynching at Law
renee, Kans., June 10. George Robertson,
King, and Peter Vinagar, the negroes
who murdered David Bausman, were taken
from jail by masked men and hurried to the
bridge, where ropes were placed about
their necks and they were dropped off.
THE envelope factory at Rockville,
Conn, owned d by White, Corbin & Co., was
damaged by fire and water, June 10, to the
extent Of 800, 600.
A POWDER magazine at Davenport,
Iowa, was struck by lightning the other
night. Stones were hurled in every direc-
ton, one weighing so pounds quarter Of a
mile. A horse was killed at a distance by
house, striking bed where two children
slept. Windows were broken mile away.
A BOAT containing four persons went
over dam on Fox River, June II, and
Mr.. and Mrs. Priest, of Neenah, Wis, were
drowned.
A BOILER exploded at the Edgar
| Thompson steel works, Braddock, Pa,
June IL. Assistant Superintendent Adair
was fatally injured and three workmen were
hurt.
MRS. j. w. BARRETT, of Washington,
D. c., was killed on the steamer Star of the
East, at Bath, Me-, June 10, by collision
with schooner. Several other passengers
were seriously injured. The steamer was
greatly damaged.
JAMES FREEMAN, % years of age, of
Acton, Mass, shot himself through the
heart, June II.
MARY CoNNORs, residing in New
York, has been placed in the Tombs on
charge Of deliberately starving small boy.
Two unknown tramps were cremated
in barn at gainesville, Ohio, June 10. The
fire is attributed to careless smoking.
AT Maiden, England, the other day.
Sir Claude de Crespigny made an ascension
with an aeronaut named Simmonds, intend
ing to cross the Channel. The car struck
house, and De Crespigny fell out and
broke his leg. Simmonds was swept on
ward, and was seen over Calais in the after
noon.
JOHN JOHNSON, a negro who as
saulted a little white girl, was taken from
Jail at Rock Hill, S. c., June u, and hanged
to a tree.
J. II. HARTMAN, aged Is, rushed out
of his fathers house, near Davenport, Iowa,
the other night, and ended his career by
plunging into the river. Hismind had heeE
affected for some time, presumably by bath
ing while too warm.
AN obstinate COW threw Baltimore
& Ohio train from the track, near Martins
burg, w. Va, June II, causing general
wreck. Several passengers and newsboy
were iDjured-none seriously.
PUGILIsTs of Providence, named
James Murray and Benjamin Green, went to
Coney Island to contend for $500 and the
| light weight championship of Rhode Island.
Three rounds had been fought in hotel
| when the metropolitan police captured Muir
ray and his second, the others escaping.
THE United States Commissioner at
Buffalo, n. Y, held r. Porter Lee and Her.
man j. Hall for trial in the federal court at
Canandaigua for embezzling the funds OF
the First National Bank. Lees bail was
fixed at $15O,OOO, and he will lie in jail. Hall
will be released on giving $4,000 security
| for his appearance.
A BILL has been introduced in the
House Of Representatives to grant permis-
sion to Fenton Sherwood, George Tenyock
| and William Lewis to dig in the Government
grounds of West Point for the treasure said
| to have been buried there by Capt. Kidd.
These men claim that they are able to locate
the buried wealth, and only want the assur-
| ance that when 1t is found it will be theirs.
They had written to the Secretary OF War,
but were told that, in the absence of legisla-
ton, if they succeeded in unearthing the
treasure it would belong to the Government.
Under the bill it will belong to them, pro-
| vided they find it. Some years ago COM