Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-17
) PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

ruary term OF the Dayiess County Circuit
Court, in 1882.
In endeavoring to make their escape
from fire in the Cambridge Flats in New
York City the other day Mrs. Abram Wake-
man and her daughter were suffocated. A
number Of other persons had narrow es-
capes. el,fs,Ts e
The bodies Of three victims Of the re-
cent fire at Nashville, Tenn, were recovered
on the Sth. They had been crushed to death
by falling walls while rescuing property.
from the adjoining building. +omwgz
JUDGE LILLEY, of Washington, was
confined to his bed on the s: h in consequence
OF injuries received in personal encounter
with S. w. Dorsey, who charged him with
persuading Rerdell to testify for the Gov
ernment in the star route cases.
Two murderers were executed in New
York City on the 9th, Michael McGioin for
the murder of Louis Hanier, and Pasquele
Malone for killing his thirteen-year- old wife.
Bob Cochran, colored, was hanged at Clay
ton. Ala, on the same day, for the murder
of M. l.. Drew.
THE Mayor of Xerez, Spain, received
aletter recently cont aiming a threat to poison
the drinking water il the prosecution Of the
"Black Hand'' Society was continued.
JOSEPH II. LOOMS was executed at
Springfield, Mass, on the Sth for the mur-
der OF his friend David Levitt, in Agawam,
in December, 1SSl.--- --s-'A- go - 49, -----
THERE were 252 business failures in
the United States and Canada for the seven
days ended on the 9th, against 272 for the
previous seven days.
The steamer Navarro, bound from
Copenhagen to Leith, foundered during a
gale on the Sth. and of the eighty persons
on board fully fifty-fiye perished.
SEVEN laborers were drowned on the
9th by the sinking Of scow in New York
harbor.
THREE men, supposed to be the Ar
kansas train robbers, were arrested near
Russelivlle, Ark, on the 9th
One man was killed and three Sc
vereIy hurt on the 9th by an explosion Of
giant powder at McKeesport, Pa.
The Commercial Iron Works Com
pany, Shoreditch, Eng, has failed for ESQ,
000
THE Reading Pa.) Hardware Com
pany has increased moiders' wages ten per
cent.
ONE of the desperadoes who killed
Conductor Cain in an attempt to rob train
near Van Buren, Ark, was captured on the
Sth. 1t seems he was wounded in the melee
on the train and being unable to travel had
to stop at a farm house near the scene OF the
murder, where he gave himself up, having
been deserted by his companions.
(, HEAVY rains in the Kaladgi District,
India, recently, destroyed $50 houses.
Two hundred girls started from Linn
erick, Ireland, the olher day for New Hamp-
shire, where they will be employed in
various factories.
A. Z. KENT, of San Francisco, Cal,
of the class OF '53, has given Yale College
$50, 900 to be used in erecting chemical
laboratory. 1
d WILLIAM LYON, of Cleveland, O., shot
his divorced wife through the cheek the
other. day, and, supposing that he had
killed her, shot himself through the brain,
dying Instantly. Uncontrollable Jealousy.
\ LADY FLORENCE DIXIE, in a recent
letter to the London Times, charged Biggar
and Parnell, as trustees OF the Land League
fund, with not accounting for f125, 900.
In Chicago, ILL.,. the jury in the case
OF Eugene Dougherty for the murder of the
Greek waiter, Nicholas Johns, the other
evening brought in a verdict Of guilty, with
life sentence.
M. T. RAY, assistant cashier of the
Merchants and Planters Bank, Montgom-
cry, Ala, killed himself the other day, and
an examination of the books showed his
cash to be S 600 short.
THE Secretary of the Treasury has
approved the rules and regulations and
amendments to the same adopted at re-
cent meeting of the Supervisors and In
spectors OF Steam Vessels.
MRS. LUCINDA FoRMAN and her
daughter were found murdered with an ak
on a farm near Indianapolis, Ind, on the
10th.
THE Chicago 0ll.) Cremation Socie-
ty has proposed to organize with capital
Of 100000
THE Dublin Greland) Invincibles
were reported recently as finding no diffi-
Guilty in obtaining recruits.
MEETINGS of the Amalgamated Asso-
citation OF Iron and Steel Workers were held
in the various districts on the 10th to agree
on rate cards to be submitted in the National
convention at Pittsburgh.
Ii was announced at Washington on
the 10th that Judge Liley would prosecute
S. w. Dorsey for the assault committed on
him some days ago. He was still laid up BY
his injuries.
ELEVEN men were burned to death
in q lodging house at a wood camp near
Deadwood, OAK, the other night.
Two ladies, the last descendants OF
Amerigo vespueci, have asked the restora-
tion OF a small pension granted their family
by the Florentines in l690.
THE commander of the French squad
ron on the Madagascar coast has been or
dered to seize the ports, but not to send
troops into the interior.
THE Socialists attempted to hold
another meeting in Paris, France, on the
10th, but they were prevented. The cavalry
were compelled to charge the mob twice,