Huntsville gazette., 1882-11-11
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

no nio " the foOrnOuSe Darn at Lancaster
fa., has made confession duplicating eight
members OF a regularly organized band of
| incendiares.
A WHITE MAN was badly beaten by
some negroes in Setauket, Long Island, the
other night, and in retaliation the whites set
upon every black man they found on the
| streets The fight became general; stones
and clubs were freely used, and several
participants were seriously injured. The
negro quarters were then attacked, windows
and doors broken, and the torch applied ::
but hre arms were brought into uso and the
assailants were driven off.
The Arlington Variety Theater in
Baltimore, Md, burned on the Sd. John
Pearson, a young man, perished in The
flames. Miss George Supple, one of the
company, was seriously injured in jumping
from the roof. Several others were badly
burned or hurt in making their escape.
j. w. WALKER, ranchman, has
been arrested at Denver, Colo, for killing
Sam Yaw, a Chinese laundrymen. Walker
had been put out Of the laundry for attempt
ing to take clothes for which he had no
ticket, and he used his pistol on the first
heather at hand, who happened to be an in
nocent bystander.
MARY MUELLER, aged 70, was run
down and killed by a train near San An
tonic, Texas, the other night.
SHREVEPORT, La, lost $4,000 by
fire on the 9Th. A fine block in Red
Bank, N. j., including the First National
Bank and Methodist church, went up in
| smoke on the same day.
A BOY named Robinson was decapi-
morning.
CHAPMAN's cartridge factory, Suf-
field, Conn.,, was DESTROYED by an explo-
sion of chemicals the other day. James
Saunders was fatally injured, Charles Brew
ster and James Lyons were badly burned,
and four others were slightly hurt.
FIVE trainmen were seriously injured
in a collision near Pomfret, Conn.,, caused
by violating orders. Two engines and
twelve cars were wrecked.
Mrs. DANIEL GLAssETT, wife of a
miner, wandered off into the mountains
near Virginia, Ney., the other day, taking
with her an infant and two other children.
Having spent the night in a furious snow
storm, she returned without the babe, eX
planning that it had annoyed her by crying
and she had cut its head off with hatchet.
search for the body verified her story, and
she was arrested. or course she is insane.
JOHN RADFoRD, Of Beheview, Lilo,
has been arrested for the murder of his
wife, who had applied for divorce. She
left him because Of his intimacy with an
other woman. He followed her to her
fathers house, broke down two doors,
dragged her into the yard, and shot her
twice, in the presence Of her children, her
mother and sister.
PRESIDENT ARTHUR declines to inter-
fere in the case Of Brave Bear, sentenced to
death in Dakota for murder.
WASHINGTON butchers, dismaved at
the success Of the competition Of Chicago
dealers, have instituted legal measures to
test the right of the latter to sell meat in the
markets Of the national capital.
THREE German Socialist editors have
| just gone to prison for improper use Of the
press in critcsing the Government.
THE remains of Luke McCray, farm er
and politician, were found strewn along the
railroad track near his home in the suburbs
of Indianapolis, Ind, the other day. Foul
play is suspected.
A. C. SOTELDO has been acquitted of
the murder uf his brother, A. NJ. Soteldo, in
the editorial rooms of the Republican, Wash
| ington, d. G.
| COUNTERFEIT $40 treasury notes of
1875 have been set afloat in considerable
numbers in New York.
| u-~,ru DErCnc onI EropE M nulo
Of Cincinnati, were warm friends until the
other day, when they met on the street and
the former playfully crushed Dulles hat.
Frank knocked Henry down, whereupon the
latter drew pistol and fired three shots,
| two of which took effect, one infiicting
mortal wound. Dule was taken to the hos
pital and the other to Jail.
NEW YORK detectives, after eighteen
months search, have arrested Jennie Rig
ney, young servant girl, who has within
that time stolen $40, 900 worth Of property
from various residences. Her usual prac-
| tice was to enter upon her work as do
nestle in the afternoon, do it so well as to
secure the confidence Of her mistress, learn
where the valuables were kept, and depart
with them at an early hour in the morning.
EVA WOODS, a young woman who
had been shabbily treated by farmer named
Wentworth Day, went to his place near
Brantford, Ontario, the other day, and de-
manded some money. This was refused,
whereupon she shot him twice, inf1cting
mortal wounds. She was arrested.
VIM. GIBBS was killed by Lake
Shore express train near Cleveland, Ohio,
| on the 9TH.
A BOY named Frank Groves was
mortally wounded by the accidental dis
charge of revolver in the hands OF his
brother William, at Martins Ferry, Ohio,
the other day.
CARRIE GoLDsCHMIDT, little girl,
was burned to death in tenement fire at
Newark, N. j., on the 5th.
WHILE James Mccormick was on
his way home from the theater in Cincin-
natl, the other night. stranger stepped on
his foot. Mccormick demonstrated, and
was knocked down by fist blow, which
proved fatal few hours afterward.
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