Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-09
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


the bill to prohibit railroad determinations.
DURING the absence of her husband
Mrs. Susan E. Douglas, of Cumberland
County, Pa, the other day cut the throats
OF her three children and then killed her
self. She was insane.
A GREAT rain storm visited Council
Bluffs, To-, and vicinity on the 1st. Indian
Creek, which runs through the heart of
that city. overfowed, causing a damage es-
timated at $2o0,OOO Seven iron bridges and
two stone culverts were swept away; also
several dwellings and barns. Several
losses of life were reported.
The official ceremonies of the OPEN
ing of the annual examination of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Nd, were observed
on the 1st with the usual eclat.
RICARDO MENOCAL, who fled from
Cuba seven years ago with 100000 of the
public funds, has been captured.
The single-scull race of three miles
between Hanlan and Kennedy, at Boston,
Mass, the other day, was won by the
former by twenty lengths; time, nineteen
minutes and four seconds.
BECAUSE the company refused to add
five dollars month to the wages of each
man three hundred and fifty workmen en-
ployed by the Tittabawasse Boom Com
panv at East Saginaw, Mich, quit their
situations few days ago.
The law against the importation of
American pork into France is not being
rigidly enforced, and shipments are being
made from New York to Marseilles.
Ex-VICE-PREsIDENT DAVIS and his
ton, ILL.,, few days ago. k
p THREE men were drowned the other
day in trying to cross the Muskegon River
in a canoe at HerseY, Mich.
THE late A. X. Henderson, of Erie,
Pa, has bequeated to the city of Cleveland,
O., property to the value of 100000, to be
applied toward the endowment of an indus
trial school.
AT Fremont, Nebr., few days ago, a
Deputy Sheriff was shot in the mouth by
one of two desperadoes whom he and the
Sheriff attempted to arrest. The Sheriff in
turn shot the man dead, and after a long
chase his companion was captured. The
Deputy Sheriff was dangerously hurt.
ALFRED WEIGEL, merchant, London,
Eng, has failed, with liabilities of FL ,000,-
900.
THOMAS CAFFREY.. the. fourth man
convicted of the Phenix Park murders,
was hanged at Kilmainham Jail, Dublin,on
the ID.
The German Reichstag has passed
the measures relating to copyright conven-
tion with France and commercial treaty
with Italy.
The Italian Chamber of Deputies
has voted to appoint a commission to re-
port plan for monument to Garibaldi
The anniversary of Garibaldi's death was
commemorated on the I'd throughout Italy.
AMONG the bequests named in the
will of the late Amasa Stone, of Cleveland,
O., were the following: One hundred
dollars to Adelbert College, $10,-
900 to the Home for Aged Women, and $10,-
600 to the Children's Aid Society.
THE Salvation Army has been noti-
fed to quit singing in the streets of New
Haven, Conn.
The Czar of Russia has granted new
privileges to dissenters from the Greek
Church.
MCGEoGH, EvERINGHAM & Co., of
Chicago, ILL.,, the other day claimed that
lard in that market.
The Board of Visitors of the Naval
Academy at Annapolis, Md, has organ
lied, Rear Admiral Howell being chosen
President. ... ...'....
THIRTY-NINE COWS and three horses
were burned to death in a barn near Nine
ola, Long Island, few days ago.
AT Winterset, To-, the other morning,
a mob of masked men broke into the Coun-
tv Jail with crowbars and sledges, being
refused the keys by the jailer, and taking
John Hammer, who was confined there on
the charge Of having murdered William
Newell over year ago, hung him to tree
in the jail yard.
j. HENRY LANGLEY, who for years
had been operating in the leading cities in
the East and West as the promoter of stock
jobbing corporations, organized on paper
for swindling purposes, and who was known
as s'King of the Peter Funks," has been ar
rested at Boston, Mass.
The other night two negro patients.
in the Lunatic Asylum at Austin, Tex, got
together and one beat the other to death.
THE teacher of parochial school at
Cleveland, O., who was arrested recently
on charge of crippling scholar by beat
ing, has been dismissed after trial, the
evidence not substantiating the charge. ~
DESPERATE attempts were made to
fire the city of Toronto, Cana, on the Sd,
fires being discovered in five different
places inside of forty minutes. At three
other points where it was intended to ap-
ply the torch the attempts were frustrated
The fire brigade was on hand in each case
and easily coped with the flames.
THE tin plate manufacturers Of the
United States have organized an associa-
tion.
AT Troy, N. Y, the other day, dur
ing the absence Of his parents Theo. Mar
tin, aged seven years, found a revolver.
He and his fourteen-year old brother were
examining the weapon when Theodore
pulled the trigger. The ball entered his
brothers. throat. The wound was probably
fatal.