Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

hTst prize, 9I ,0O0, was awarded to the Por-
ter Guards, of Memphis; the second, $500,
to the Branch Guards, of st. Louis, and the
Decorah Drum Corps was given $500.
A FREIGHT train on the Wabash, st.
Louis & Pacific Railway was wrecked by a
misplaced switch at Okolona, Ohio, Sept. 1.
John Conklin, engineer, and an unknown
tramp were seriously injured.
A GENTLEMAN in Bangor, Me-, pro-
fesses to have been informed by men per-
sonaily interested that the Bar Harbor high
way robbery was practical joke, and that
the denouement has just been reached. The
story as told is about as follows: The
Messrs. Howe, who We're robbed on Green
Mountain, employed celebrated detective
in New Yerk to ferret out the robber, and
the practical jokers, getting frightened,
cleared up the whole mystery. 1t is said
that two young lady friends of the Howe
brothers persuaded friend of all the par
ties to personate Claude Duval, of the des-
ert dale, with the intention, of course, of
ultimately returning the valuabIes. While
the guests of a certain hotel were assembled,
the other evening, the modern Duval en-
tered the room, wearing the same mask and
costume as OH the road, and with flourish
returned the stolen property to the aston
ished Messrs. Howe.
! ID. N. SHERWOOD, a postal clerk in
North Carolina, who had been riflng regis
tered letters for some ten years, was found
out and arrested at Goldsboro the other day.
He gave bail, and then took a fatal dose of
poison.
GEORGE TAYLOR was killed and d.
NJ. Wynn seriously injured by the fall of an
| elevator at Toledo, Ohio, Sept. 2.
COLLECTOR ROBERTSON, of New
| York, received from Washington the other
day an express package containing finely
mounted spy-glass, a gold pocket chronom-
eter, and sum Of money. The articles
were intended ''for the officers and crew Of
the American ship Caravan, for great serv-
ices rendered in midocean to the crew of the
German bark Lohengrin, as tribute of APP
probation from the imperial German Gov
ernment." The package was forwarded by
Count Beust. The spy-glass, it was ex-
| planned, was for Capt. Josiah Daggett, Of
New York, master of the Caravan ~ the
chronometer was for James Dovan, mate of
the Caravan, and the money was for distri-
button among Seamen John Fitzgerald, Ed
ward Williams, J. J. Ramsley, and Edward
| Watson.
j. d. WICKIsER and Charles Kline
were crushed to death under a frame
| school house which they were moving, near
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, Sept. /.
HENRY BROWN, of New Hampton,
Iowa, once prominent farmer, is in custo-
dy on charge Of arson, forgery. adultery
and conspiring to defraud the State Insur-
ance Company of Des Moines, for which he
was agent He made out policy on house
and contents in the name Of Miss Sanborn,
packed up the goods, shipped them to La
Crosse. burned the place and endeavored to
get the amount OF the policy on the house
and goods.
C. o. B. CowARDIN, of the Richmond
I (va.) Dispatch, charged with being about
to engage in duel with W. G. Elam, edi-
for of the JT1D,s has been arrested.
The United States grand jury at
.Parkersburg, W. Va, has indicted Inspec-
tor Young for manslaughter, for granting
the steamer Scioto a permit to carry more
passengers than authorized by law. Two
lpilots and the captain OF the Lomas are also
indicted.
A NUMBER of men were buried be-
meath a mass of rocks and earth in tunnel
near Pittsburgh, Pa, Sept. 2. Henry
Moire was killed and several others were
severely injured. s4E-
- DEWITT G. RUSH, City Treasurer of
South Bend, Ind. for six years, went to
Chicago not long since and failed to return.
On Sept. his wife received a alettersfrom
him, stating that he was a defaulter and
that she would never see him more.
4 The pottery firms at East Liverpool,
Ohio, have recognized the knights of Labor
and the workmen have accepted former
prices. The New York glass workers have
made satisfactory terms and operations will
be resumed at once.
MINERS in Manchester, England, de-
amand more pay and threaten general
strike throughout the kingdom unless they
get it.
THE steamer .Ardantham has arrived
at Boston, Mass, from Porto Rico, with five
cases of yellow fever on board.
JACOB CULLoP, aged "a, accidentally
killed himself while returning from hunt,
near Vincennes, Ind, the other night. The
hammer fell just as the muzzle OF the gun
pointed to his heart.
WABASH freight trains piled up q
wreck at Milmine, Piatt County, ILL.,, the
other night. j. B. Carter and r. FL. Per-
rine. firemen, and Edmund Taylor and
Engineer Sweet were severely hurt. Twenty
five cars were demolished and lot OF cattle
slaughtered.
EDWARD SCHwERTZMAN, q native OF
Switzerland, residing near Paris, Ark,
took his three young children from the sup
portable, the other evening. threw them in
to well sixteen feet deep, and then made
the fatal leap himself.
THE supposed assailants of Miss Bond
at Taylorvile, Ill.,, who SO narrowly es-
capped lynching, have been released on their
bonds. The unfortunate girl is somewhat
better.
SIX persons were injured by q boiler
explosion at Riverside, Ohio, Sept. A.
RI. HAYWARD, printer, commit
ted suicide at San Antonio, Texas, Sept. 2.
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