Huntsville gazette., 1882-03-18
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

SASey Va tuC AIIly VI luc tennessee nave
completed arrangements for the fifteenth
annual reunion, which is to be held in St.
Louis on May 10 and II.
Il. II. CORNWALL, trusted clerk in
the Fourth National Bank, New York City,
mas been stealing for the past three months,
but has at last been found out. He was at
his post in the bank when the discovery was
made, and as soon as he saw that he had
been detected he confessed the "embezzle-
ment'' Of some $50, 900. Cornwall is married
and has large family. He was prominent
member of a Methodist Episcopal Church
in Brooklyn, and for several years Superin-
tendent OF It's Sunday school.
5. II. CONDICT, director of the Me-
chanics' National Bank, of Newark, N. j.. :,
has been arrested on civil suit brought by
Receiver Frelinghuysen. bail being fixed at
1000. The charge is that Condict had
knowledge of the situation of the bank and
concealed it from the other directors, and
that the loss to the bank after his knowledge
was acquired was 500, 900, and that he per-
sonally profited by concealing such informa-
tion.
RICHARD S. FAY, a prominent and
wealthy Bostonian, committed suicide by
blowing out his brains with revolver, on
board the steamer Tennessee, while on a
trip South for the benefit OF his health.
Some years ago he was stabbed by the late
DR.. Aver, Of Lowell, Mass, but recovered
almost entirely from the effects of the
wound.
THE Beers and natives in South At
rica have been slaughtering each other.
ALFRED BELL, of Erie, Pa, recently
married Mary O'Conner, aged Is. They
were not happy, and the other night he
turned his child-wife out into the street.
Overwhelmed with grief she ended her ex-
istence by swallowing dose of arsenic.
MARCUS and jeff, two Indians, who
murdered John Hendry in December last,
were hanged at Lake Park, Cal. /, March 10.
SERGEANT MASON, who shot at Gui-
teau, has been sentenced to be dishonorably
discharged from the army and imprisoned
for eight years at hard labor.
AGENT ARMSTRONG has been in
structed by the Secretary of the Interior to
send the one hundred Indian children un-
der his care at the Crow agency, Montana,
to certain farmers in Ohio, to be educated
aud reared up to usefulness.
AT Bolivar, N. Y, the other dav, a
three-story building was dismantled by the
wind, and the whole structure collapsed,
burying four men. Frederick Kische is
reported dead. Brad Phelps can not live.
In October last two miners lost their
lives and several others were seriously in
jured at Mahanoy City (Pa.) Colliery, on
account of gangway not being properly
timbered. The Mine Inspector of that dis
trict brought suit under the mining laws
against George Gilgore, inside superin-
tendent, as responsible for the safety of in
side working. The case was given to the
jury on March II, and resulted in verdict
Of guilty, with recommendation to mercy.
A LITTLE daughter of j. d. Willis, of
East Atchison, Mo-, met a horrible fate the
other day. While playing near the track
with her twin sister and a little boy, the
child's clothing suddenly burst into flames.
The children screamed for assistance and
William Belcher, who was near, rushed to
the rescue; but before he could remove her
clothing, in doing which his hands were
badly singed, the child was lburned to
crisp. 1t is supposed that a spark from
passing locomotive set fire to the girls
clothing.
WIN. KARAMPE, Prussian employee
of the Cleveland (O.) Rolling Mill Company,
was killed while manipulating the electric
Hight machinery of that institution, March
10. Thisis the frstfatal accident in -Gleye-
land, and said to be the second in the United
States, with the electric light.
In the case of the Northern Transit
Company of Michigan against the Grand
Trunk Railway Company OF Canada, tried
in the United States Circuit Court at Mil
waukee, Wis, March II, the jury returned
a verdict for plaintiff in the sum OF $111,-
1876. 66. A motion for new trial was made
by defendants.
THE St. Louis Distilling Company
lost 500, 900 by fire, March 13.
The Golos declares that Russia wants
no war with Germany and prays for deliv-
erance from the Vaccinations of the Chauv-
inists.
A DISPATCH from Parkersburg, w.
Va, says that up tothe 18th eight deaths
had resulted from the explosion OF the
near haVehs"oou, naAneiy
Mrs. Little and grandson, Mrs. Mills and
child, of Belaire, Ohio; Frank Faulkner,
OF Pittsburgh; Mr.. Kain, of Charleston, w.
Va; Mrs. Stephens, and deck k-hand from
Middleport, O. Ten others were injured,
some of them dangerously.
THREE thousand laborers OF Omaha
marched in procession to Jefferson Square,
the other day, and INDUCED in denunciation
Of the Mayor for handing the reins OF gov
ernment to the military. In the evening the
troops were subjected to brickbatting, and
retaliated by bayonet charge, in which
named G. T. Armstrong was so
severely stabbed that he soon expired in the
guard house.
THE Sonora Railway, projected three
wears ago to run from Guaymas, on the Gulf
OF California, to connection with the
American lines, has been purchased by the
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Company. 1t
will be completed this year, at cost OF
So. 900. 900, and will give the Santa Fe a
through route from the Missouri to the
waters of the Pacific coast.
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