Huntsville gazette., 1882-10-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

dead as she sat at window in Marietta,
Mich, the other evening. Suspicion falls
on her fathers hired man, named Sullivan,
a lover, whose proposition she had refused
in the afternoon.
ALICE FIELD, pretty girl of fifteen,
was drugged and assaulted by James Car
penter and VIM. McMurry, at Hasling,
Mich, on the Goth, and died within few
hours.
K. 0. SToRRs & Co., manufacturers
of woolens at Dedham, Mass, have failed.
Liabilities, $430, 200; nominal assets, $225, :
600.
JOHN WINNING, aged Is, was fatally
injured by the accidental discharge OF his
gun while hunting near Newburg, W. Va,
ON the 10Th.
| A FREIGHT TRAIN on the Charlotte &
Augusta road, was thrown from the track
near Columbia, S. c., early the other morn
ing, obstructions having been placed in a
grayel-pit. The engine, tender and five
box cars were wrecked. The engineer was
badly scalded. The fireman was slightly
wounded, and brakeman named Tom
| Mitchell was killed by the tender rolling on
| him.
VIM. GIBSON, City Marshall of Hori-
con, Wis, was shot and seriously injured
the other night by drunken man whom he
tried to arrest.
The explosion of three-gallon can
of benzine demolished a brick house in
Frankford, Pa, the other day. Mrs. Heff
was badly injured.
A DESPERATE fight between Mexican
| Custom- house officers and fifteen snug
glers is said to have occurred on the road
between Lampasas and Milmos Mountains,
Mex. Four Of the smugglers were killed
outright and four more captured and taken
! prisoners to Monterey, seven escaping.
The goods found in possession of the snug
glers consisted Of American prints, and
were confscated.
A MEETING of Socialists in Brooklyn,
N. Y, on the 22d, was broken up by the
police
l.. B. CoRDER, F. A. Meade, J. G.
Cass, and j. F. Reades, cowboys with Maj
Falls, who is in charge Of lot Of cattle be-
longing to Supt. Strong and others, of the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, be-
ing on big spree, attacked the east
bound train at Lakn, Kans., the other
day. The raid was instituted by a dis
charged operator. The cars were perforated
in many places and the windows broken, but
no one was seriously injured. A posse Of
| ten men captured all the parties, one Of
them making desperate resistance. He
was fired at over twenty times, and his
horse killed. He was finally dislodged from
a dug.out.
HARRY and Estella Fancher, aged
about So and 45 years respectively, claiming
to be brother and sister, have been arrested
| in Detroit, Mich, for obtaining money un-
der false pretenses in Buffalo, N. Y. They
took rooms, advertised for young ladies
wanting employment at $50 per month, Sc
cured an advance OF s. from about $50 vic
| Tins and emigrated. They were preparing
| to victimize Michigan girls by similar en-
terprise.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY and Michael Dav-
lit declare from personal knowledge that
the statements published regarding deficit
| in the Land League funds are unfounded.
H. P. Keys, guest at the Valentine
House, Washington, D. c., blew out the
gas before going to sleep the other night.
He was nearly dead when discovered.
THREE men have been arrested in
New York for blackmailing Walter Malley,
one of the brothers charged with the mur-
| der of Jennie Cramer.
| JOHN DEvoY, editor of the Irish Ma
tion, has been arrested in New York on a
charge of lbeling August Belmont. The
paper accused the banker of retaining
Fenian funds deposited in 1865.
MRS. D. BROWN, of Salisbury, n. c.,
was fatally injured by a fractions COW the
other day.
A FREIGHT train on the Louisville &
Nashville road ran into some cattle near
Shepherdsville, KY, the other day, and
went into cornfield. George Minot, en-
gineer, was killed under the engine, and
! Charles Cameron, a brakeman, was fatally
| injured.
Two sons of D. S. Baird, of Fitzroy
Harbor, Ontario, were drowned on the 21st
by the capsizing Of a canoe.
THOMAS DoNoHoE, aged 90, was
killed by J. j. Caldon, his son-in-law, iu a
New York tenement the other night.
THE suit of Charles A. Strout against
seven students Of Bowdoin College, for haz-
ing. resulted in verdict Of $1,000 dam
| ages.
In railroad wreck near Southport,
Conn.,, on the 2ad, Thomas Martin. a brake
man, was killed and two other traiLmen
were badly injured.
The spinners at the Mechanics Mill,
Fall River, Mass, have struck for higher
wages.
JAMES RIGDON, respected farmer,
was murdered near his home in Freestone
| County, Texas, few days ago, and his
BODY was concealed in the carcass Of a COW.
Wolves aud buzzards had been feasting on
| the remains.
JOHN THoRP, an iron-molder, was
knocked down with a sand-bag by Daniel
Fisher. stableman, near the Union Depot
! in Kansas City. Mo-, the other night, and
died the next day. Fisher says he was
drunk at the time, but the police know him
to be a bad man and think it case OF high
way robbery.
| HENRY P. ROBERTS, who for fifteen
wears was clerk of the United States Circuit