Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-17
Personal AND GENERAL.

THE cornerstone of a new Masonic
Temple was laid at Des Moines, Ia, on the
7th with imposing ceremonies.
THE Directors of the Cincinnati Board
Of Trade on the 7th adopted resolution
declaring the trade dollar nuisance.
WHILE intoxicated, on the 9TH, Henry
Kissling rode Mexican pony wildly
through the streets of Delphi, Ind, collided
with horse and buggy, and was thrown
and killed.
JOSEPH FIRMAN, conductor of 8
freight train on the Chesapeake & Ohio
Railroad was killed on the 7th, being
crushed by the cars, which went through &
forty-foot trestle.
KIRKLAND NJ FITCH, defaulting cash
ier of the Warren (O.) Second National
Bank, pleaded guilty ON the 7th to embez
zling $4,000, and was sentenced to five
years in the Penitentiary,
ELEVEN deaths have resulted from
the recent tornado at Springfield, Mo-, and
vicinity.
In September last a Chinaman was
murdered in Park City, Utah, under mys,
terious circumstances. On the 7th an Off
Ger passed through Salt Lake City with one
Hank Clemens, arrested in Tintic for the
crime.
BRITISH imports and exports for Oc-
tober both show an increase as compared
with that month in 1882.
HALLETT KILBOURN got verdict for
$50 900 in Washington, on the 1th
A CHICAGO, Rock Island & Pacific
train, from st. Paul, collided with freight
train the night of the 7th just outside Chi
cago. Both trains were badly wrecked.
Baggageman George Berry received proba.
blv fatal injuries, and several others were
slightly hurt.
THE city authorities. of Boston, Mass,
gave a farewell banquet on the 7th in honor
of Southern and Western exhibitors at the
American Exposition.
AT South Falls, Iowa, the CONNER
cial Hotel, Western House, three stores and
livery stable, with thirty horses, were
destroyed by fire on the 7th.
AN explosion occurred in the Moore
field colliery, Lancashire, Eng, where 40
men were at work. Sixty-three were killed.
The visible supply of wheat is 30,-
672 900 bushels.
CHOLERA in Egypt is now said to be
confined to Europeans.
THE French will begin offensive op-
erations in Tonquin on the 21st
THE Crown Prince of Germany is
soon to visit King Alfonso.
THE Servian troops recently captured
the insurgent stronghold with 100 prison
ers.
AT Logansport, Ind, on the Sth,
George West fatally shot Editor Williams
of the Adrertiser.
CINCINNATI, O., and Covington and
Newport, KY, manufactured $4,000 lar
rels of malt liquor last year.
THERE have been numerous arrests
recently in Russia for Communistic demon
strations.
GENERAL SHERMAN was the guest of
General Hancock in New York, on the Sth.
Moses, husband of the fat woman,
who died recently, in Baltimore, sold her
body to a physician the day Of her death.
The bullion receipts at Salt Lake City
for the week ending the sth were $176,46).
TRICOU, the French Ambassador to
China, lays the blame of his Ii Hung Chang
dispatch on the plug operator.
RUIZ GORILLA is said to have made q
fortune speculating on the Bourse during
the late Spanish outbreak.
NnD-FaN- conx-ar+c n thn nr1ro hor- Of
35S, who arrived in New York on the Sth.
form the last company of the season.
THE Northern Pacific Syndicate has
secured more than the required amount Of
stock to ratify the new loan.
A STEAM thresher exploded in Tusca-
rawas County, o., on the 6th, badly injur-
ing several persons and destroying barn.
NEAR Newark, o., collision occur
red on the Sth between Panhandle and
a B. & O., train, in which four men were
fatally injured.
THERE appears to be no doubt that
the Constitution was carried in Dakota.
LoRD.DERBY has assured West In
dian delegation that the Government con.
templates an entirely new departure in ia
maica.
In the impeachment trial of the Nor
wegian Minister of State the prosecution
demanded that he be forever disqualified
from holding Office.
An attempt was made by an incendi-
ary on the Sth to burn the house Of NJ. S
Sturgeon. Davenport Qa.) lawyer.
THE Illinois Central Railroad will not
adopt the new time standard.
VIM. NEwMEISTER, the Dubuque Ga.
butcher who cut his throat in his owr
slaughter-house few days ago, died OF
the Sth.
CHRISTIAN OETTLE, who killed Ed
ward kamp in quarrel over debt, wa
convicted of manslaughter on the Sth, a
Cleveland, 0.
In duel with swords at Chapultepec
Mex, on the sth Olivier, French mer
chant, was killed by Degheest, Mexican
banker, who was himself badly wounded.
WHILE picking up chips, on the Sth
about building, which workmen wer,
tearing down, Mrs. Eliza Simpson, of In
dianapolis, had her neck broken by fall
ing beam.
THE examination of witnesses in tn,
Greedy relief investigation began on tn
18th.