Huntsville gazette., 1882-12-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

AAAc'sed tbC Ui AMERICAN DDrk.
Mrs. MOSES WELLS made her bed
too near the fire and was fatally burned at
the residence of her son, near Jake's Run,
w. Va, the other night.
REV. r. II. WOODRUFF, of Baltimore,
Nd, who pleaded guilty TO opening letter
with the intent Of abstracting correspond
ence and secreting and embezzling the
same, has been sentenced to pay fine Of
$3.50.
SOME union laster5 in shoe factory
at Montreal, Canada, struck because men
outside their organization were given work
The ManufacturerS Associates them re-
solved to dismiss all lasters unless the strill-
ers returned to labor, an act which seems
likely to precipitate a general walk -out by
ten thousand operatives.
LOUIS ALTHOFF, teamster charged
with completely in grain thefts at St. Louis,
Mo-, committed suicide by shooting.
W. D. HoYT, telegraph operator at
the glucose works in Leavenworth, Kans.,
and train dispatcher named Bailey, at
Lawrence, had dispute over the wires the
other day. Bailey insulted Hoyt, and re.
fused to apologize, whereupon the operator
went to Lawrence and mortally wounded
the train dispatcher by shooting him in the
chest.
VIM. FIELDS, his son, and another
young man named Dean, were fatally in
jured while driving across the track at
Union, Pa, Nov. %. A train knocked the
wagon into splinters.
The French steamer Aubartique has
been wrecked off the coast of South Amer
lea.
THE explosion of an oil tank in Devoe's
works at Brooklyn, N. Y, Nov. 26, caused
the loss Of two lives and aquarter OF a million
dollars worth Of property.
AN engine dashed into Pullman car,
near Newcastle, Canada, Nov, 25. No pas
sengers were hurt. The engine.driver, fire.
man and brakeman were badly scalded.
One died, and the other two were not ex-
pected TO live.
A MINER na1nai EQrsythe put some
sticks OF dynamite in the oven, at Belle
view. Pa, the other day, to thaw. He was
not there when the explosion occurred, but
when he hurried TO the scene he found his
house wrecked, little son dead, two other
children bruised and cut, and his wife dy-
ing.
In trial for damages against the
town of Springfield, Me-, for the death of 3
young lady by defective highway, one doc
tor testified that the collar bone was broken,
which two others contradicted. The first,
to head off post-mortem, went to the
opn mat n nyhnp,a 10 hp1v an1 al
good his testimony by breaking the collar.
bone. He was discovered in the act by
person who was at first bribed, but who has
since told she whole story.
FIVE Gvps we're lost by the wreck of
the schooner CoIliGgwood, in Lake Michi-
gan, during the recent storm.
j. III. WILMOTT was shot three times
and fatally wounded in room at tie ST,
Marc Hotel, Washington, D. c., the other
night. j. P. Angney, brother in law,
and pension clerk named Turnbull have
been arrested, but declined to say anything
about the affair.
THE remains of Taylor Dunbar were
found in the woods near Darlington. Ind, j,
the other day, the body full of buckshot, an
empty gun close by, and the pockets Of his
clothing rifled. Buck Stout, a young man
of questionable character, was arrested in
Indianapolis, and confessed the crime.
JACOB BOXER, the bread-winner for
a family of five, was fatally injured by fall
ing from scaffold in the railway shops at
Delaware, Ohio, Nov. &c.
THE ssfaith-cure' establishment at
Buffalo, N. Y, has closed for want Of
funds.
The Pacific express on the Erie Rail-
way was derailed near Hornellsville. N. Y,
Nov. 26. The first cars, including an extra
coach and smoker, were badly wrecked,
and several passengers were hurt. The
fireman, Wm. Andrus, was instantly killed.
The accident was caused by the breaking Of
a wheel.
L. STEWART, aged 25, took a fatal
dose Of morphine at hotel in Atlanta, Ca,
the other night. He left a letter for his
wife, in which he said he had tried as hard
as any one to make living, but that it was
no use to fight fate any longer. w. w.
Venable, an old and highly esteemed resi-
dent of Galena, ILL.,, committed suicide on
the same day by hanging himself in his
barn. He had not been well for some time.
Rev. T. w. ToRRENCE, Secretary of
the PENNSYLVANIA Bible Society, his nephew,
aged eight, and four men in his employ,
while driving near Danyille, the other even
ing were precipitated down an embankment
by shyiug horse, and all were badly in
iured. Torrence's injuries are serious.
MORRIS BERwALD, aged 1o, was
killed by highwayman in the streets OF
New York the other morning.
d. II. ROCHE and F. c. Case were
seriously injured by an explosion OF gas in
railway office at Springfield, Ohio. Nov. 26.
Every pane OF glass in the vicinity was
broken.
H. SHEPHERD, Of Manchester, Va,
shot himself on train near Canon City,
Colo, the other morning. He had been suf-
fering from brain fever and was on his way
East for treatment.
AT Clarksburg, Harrison County, w.
Va, the other day, w. b. Stout and j.
Carpenter quarreled over the settlement OF
an account The lie was passed, when Car
penter picked up rock and struck Stout on
the left eve. cracking the skull, and making