Huntsville gazette., 1882-09-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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Louisville, KY, on the 18th. They captured
the guard and took his keys.
The Mitchell & Rowland Lumber
Company, Toledo, Ohio, lost 1900, 900 by fire
on the 18th.
FOUR boys ran away from their homes
in Chicago, the other day, and boarded a
freight train on the Fort Wayne road, near
Plymouth, Ind. The train was wrecked,
and Robert Holmes, aged IS, was thrown
under the cars and instantly killed. William
Van Berger had one leg broken. The other
two boys got off with slight bruises.
NEAR Acworth, Cobb County, Ca,
the other day, Bob Edwards, a drunken
negro, assaulted his SON. in law with a ra-
zor, when the young man fired the contents
OF both barrels of a shotgun into the old
mans stomach, killing him instantly. The
court Of inquest said the son-in law acted in
self-defense, and he was discharged.
A HURRICANE destroyed ten houses
and five barns in Winsted, Conn, on the
14th. Some twenty persons were hurt.
Destructive storms swept over several coun-
ties in New York ON the same day.
FOUR men were seriously injured on
an express train near Mount Carbon, Pa,
the other day. A piece of timber projecting
from passing freight penetrated the car in
which they were seated. William Snyder,
of Philadelphia, can not recover.
VIM. MEIGs, an aged printer, was run
down by train near Atlanta, Ca, on the
14th. and fatally injured.
A SERIOUS break occurred in the Erie
Canal, near Camllus, n. Y, on the 18TH
One hundred feet of the Bernie bank was
carried away. Two boats were swept into
the break.
AT Fort Davis, Texas, on the 14th,
was shot and killed by ranger on whom he
went to serve writ.
r. BERNHARDT and M. McGowan
were killed by the explosion of boiler near
Norwalk, Ohio, the other day.
CHARLES DALE, engineer, and Charles
Millen, brakeman, were seriously injured by
| coliding trains on the Lackawanna &
| Bloomsbury Railroad, near Wilkesbarre,
Pa. on the 14th.
WHILE VIM. Spencer and Miss Sue
| Allen, of Leavenworth, Kans., were driving
home from the Fort, the other evening, the
horse ran away sud plunged from railway
bridge into ravine. Miss Allen sustained
| injuries which proved fatal soon after, and
Mr.. Spencer received two serious wounds
in the head.
ABRAM MCGLAssoN, farmer near
Williamstown, KY, fell dead on the 14th,
after drinking some whisky he had found in
bottle on his farm. The liquor had been
poisoned.
RICHARDs's shoe factory at Elmira,
n. Y, was destroyed by fire the other day.
Loss. 100000.
THREE fremen were seriously in
jured in Chicago the other night A hose
cart was overturned. Captain Murphy can
not recover.
Mrs. WALTON, on trial at Indianapo-
lis, Ind, for helping to murder her hus-
band, has been sentenced to the peniten-
tiary for life
A FATAL explosion occurred near
Point San Pedro, CAL, on the 10th. An
Italian named Dominic Macio while putting
in charge of giant powder carelessly used
an iron bar in tamping. The blast exploded,
blowing Macio thirty feet in the air, hor-
ribly mangling the body and killing him in
stantly. A fellow workman named Daniel
McKinna was also fatally injured.
FIVE burglars gained an entrance to
the residence of James p. Emswiller, Rich
mond, Ind, the o ther night, and blew open
safe in his sitting room. The thieves were
discovered, and Mr.. Emswiller gave the
alarm, but they hushed him up by shooting
at his head. His neXt-door neighbor, a
Methodist minister, came to the rescue and
was also driven back. Forty dollars in
money and $3.50 worth Of gold neck-chains
and watches were taken.
WHILE three boys were rowing on the
river near Reading, Pa, Sept. II, some one
threw lighted match in the water, which
was thickly covered with benzine from the
gas works The boys were quickly envel-
oped by flames and jumped overheard.
VIM. Speirs had his face and neck badly
burned and may lose his sight. Matthew
Buckley and Francis Culvin were also seri-
ously burned.
SEVERAL trainmen were severely hurt
and lot of cattle slaughtered by collision
on the Lake Shore road, near Berea, Ohio,
JOHN JAMES was knocked down and
robbed Of 5000 in his grocery at Des Moines,
| Iowa, the other afternoon, by thug named
Harris. Mr.. James's injuries were pro-
! nounced fatal Twelve or fifteen hundred
excited citizens searched the jail and arsenal
at night, but they couldn't find the man
| they wanted to lynch.
Two freight trains collided and piled
up wreck in tunnel near Kirkwood, Mo-,
on the 18th, and fire cleared most of it out
| of the way. Two or three persons were
slightly hurt.
THOMAS GREEN, a carpenter working
on mill at Constantine, Mich, the other
day, fell thirty feet and struck on an iron
strap. He lived few hours, with his body
| almost cut in two.
A LAUNDERING brakeman switched
| an Illinois & st. Louis passenger train into
a slimy ditch on the outskirts of East St.
Louis on the 10th. A dozen persons were
| slightly injured.
A SON of Bishop Wiley, of the Meth
| odist Church, was burned to death by the
explosion of barrel of oil, In Cincinnati,