Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ARTHUR SCHOLFIELD, an aged and
wealthy bachelor residing in a New York
hotel, invented machine to raise or lower
the gas without leaving his bed, and evil
dently perished from its defective operation,
as his room was found filed with the illum-
mating material the other day.
AT Richfeld Springs, New York,
Harvey Taylor killed his wife and mother
ln-law and then committed suicide few
days ago. He was insane. He had regu-
larly laid out the corpses of his victims.
MICHAEL BARRON shot himself in
Baltimore, Md, the other daytin the pres
ence of his sweetheart.
A NUMBER of cotton mills at Atlanta.
Ca, stopped the other day on account of
high water. After reaching thirty feet six
inches the river was falling slowly, and the
danger from an overflow had passed.
THE Giant Powder Works at Berkeley
Station, CAL. blew up few days ago. On
the 22d the bodies Of twenty one Cinnamon
and one Write man had been recovered from
the ruins. Officers of the works placed the
killed at forty. There were five distinct
explosions, which were heard as far as San
Francisco, fourteen miles away. The finan-
cial loss was said to be over 500, 900.
THE largest gasometer in Glasgow,
Scotland, exploded the other night, injuring
eight persons. AS this was followed by the
blowing up Of a railway shed, the citizens
were enjoying Fenian scare.
By premature blast at the mines of
the Harrisburg Copper Mining Company,
Adams County, Pa, recently, four men were
injured. two probably fatally.
THE boilers at the Ledger Paper Mills,
Elkton, Md, exploded with terrific force
on the 22d, wrecking half the immense
building. Patrick Mccormick was killed
and John Garrett was missing.
THE bail of M. T. Polk, the alleged
defaulting Treasurer of Tennessee, has been
| fixed at 100000.
MASKED men robbed a store at Gold
Mountain, New, few days ago, killing the
proprietor and two clerks.
THOMAS WILSON, of Philadelp hia,
Pa, jumped into the Niagara River the
other day and was carried over the falls.
| FRIGHTENED citizens of Bath, Me-,
made run on the Peoples Bank few days
ago and forced it to suspend. The bank
examiner since reported that the institution
| was solvent.
GEORGE c. FOSTER, of Milwaukee,
Wis, was instantly killed lately by the fall
of an icice, which crushed his skull.
The police of Berlin the other day
confiscated immoral q pamphlet giving
alleged incidents in the private life Of ex-
! Empress Eugene.
! A FIRE the other morning destroyed
the frame residence and stables in Avon
dale, o., owned and occupied by Samuel
Pogue. The inmates barely escaped with
their lives and in their night clothes.
THE dye house and cloth-room of the
Boston Duck Company at Bondsville, Mass,
was burned the other day, causing loss OF
about $50, 900. Insured. 1t was said the
burned buildings would be rebuilt at once
and the mill would remain idle but a few
days.
THE Coroner's jury investigating the
railroad accident on the Southern Pacific
Railroad near Tehachepai, CAL, found
verdict on the 22d that the victims came to
their death by neglect of Conductor Reed
anu BfakeIndH Ialien. 1uS FeIulCt WAS
not yet approved by the Coroner.
IT was reported from Weeksville,
Montana, few days ago that vigilantes
had taken two desperadoes nicknamed
"Dick, the Barber' and "Ohio Dan," from
Sandy Point to within two miles of that
place and hung them on separate trees.
Both made confessions, it was said, stating
that they were guilty and had committed
enough depredations to have warranted
hanging them long ago.
A STOCK train reached Elkhart, Ind,
the other evening, on which were twenty
one cattle which had been frozen to death
on the was.
A PAINTER named Joseph FL. Biener,
while at work in the dome Of the rotunda Of
the new Court house at Marysville, Ohio,
recently, fell distance of forty five feet to
the marble floor He had been working in
the building over year, and in half an hour
would have finally completed his job.
BY an explosion in the oil-works of
Some & Fleming at Newton Creek, n. Y,
the other day, Patrick Farley was literally
cut in twain by a cap of one OF the great
stills, and the two parts fell into tank OF
boiling oil. The body of Thomas PARCEL,
who was also killed, had not been recov.
cred.
SEVEN masked men undertook to rob
train on the Central Pacific Railroad at
water tank near the east line Of Dakota the
other day. They captured the train men
and assailed the express car, but the messen-
ger opened a fusilade and they were scared