Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


A FIRE which originated in lumber
yard at Union City, Ind, on the 4th, sup
posed to have been ignited by spark from
passing locomotive, destroyed territory
OF several acres, including number of
business houses and residences, occasion
ing loss of fully 100000.
FRITZ ANDRES, cotton merchants.
Liverpool, Eng, Manchester, Alexandria
and other cities, has failed, with liabilities
of f150,000.
HERE was an explosion of gas in the
Terrence shaft of the Lehigh (Pa.) Coal
Company on the 4th, while a number of
men were working in the shaft, and Ed
Rinker and Henry Baker were almost
roasted alive.
ONE OF the most extensive machine
shops in Northwestern Pennsylvania, be-
longing to Foster & Mckay, manufacture
ers of boilers and engines, Titusville, has
been closed by the Sheriff, the liabilities
being estimated at from $200,0 to $3.50 ,000
FIVE Socialists were sentenced at
Hamburg, Germany, the other day, to i'm
prisonment from one to three months for
circulating pamphlets slandering Bis
marck.
AT Terre Haute, Ind, some sacrile-
glous thieves tore the cornerstone out of a
colored church the other night and stole
the coins deposited therein.
THERE was terrific rain and hail
storm, accompanied by thunder and light
ming, throughout the Scranton, Pa, section
on the 4th, and an immense amount of prop
erty was damaged. The Wyoming House
and other large buildings and factories
were struck by lightning and telegraph
wires were Frustrated.
The bakers strike in Vienna, Aus
cades. ~
THE Massachusetts, Supreme Court
has refused to admit to bail Charles l. Free
man, the religious fanatic who killed his
child at Pocassett in 1879. The application
was made on the ground that he is now
sane.
AN earthquake was reported on the
and caused the death of large number
of people in the vicinity of Tabreez,
Persia.
The recent gas explosion in the coal
mine at Wilkesbarre, Pa, by which several
men were killed. was caused by stroke Of
lightning, which passed down the bell-rope
in the shaft.
SIX persons were killed the other day
by an explosion of powder used in filing
shells at the Portsmouth Navy yard, Eng
land.
The Vice-President of the New York
Coffee Exchange has been expelled for vio-
lating the rules.
THE Philadelphia and Reading Pa.)
Rolling mill has shut down temporarily.
PROF. H. E. PARKER, of Dartmouth
College, Hanover, N. H., had his skull frac-
tured the other day by fall from ladder
while assisting to extinguish a fire.
Two children burned to death the
other morning in fire which destroyed five
dwellings in Rondout, N. Y.
WILLIAM III. VANDERBILT sailed for
Europe on the 9TH in the steamer Britannia.
The burning of the steamboat Crap
pier on Puget Sound was a worse affair
than first reported. Later news shows sew
enty Cinnamon lost their lives.
PHIPPs, the ex-Almshouse Superin-
tendent of Philadelphia, Pa, has been con-
victed of forgery.
AT Millbury, Mass, few days ago,
Frank Mann killed Mrs. Mary E. Moore
and then committed suicide. .s..-
Two Americans, supposed to be w.
H. Sinclair and S. B. Halliday, clerks who
robbed their employers, Lang, Robinson &
Co., flour merchants, New York, were ar
rested at Havana, Cuba, the other day.
They would be sent to New York.
The japanese Ambassadors were pre-
sented at the White House on the 9TH inst.
A QUARREL about fifty cents resulted
in a murder at Cincinnati, O., on the 9TH
Aaron Scott, colored, stabbed William
Crotty, white, to death.
WILLIAM BOUNDY and Thomas Dre
CARTON were killed at the Champion Mine,
west of Kalamazoo, Mich, on the NJ, T. q
0. Railway, the other night by being
knocked from skips into pit by falling ice.
Harry Barrett, fireman at the Mitchell
Mine, in the same neighborhood, was buried
by run and it would take three days to
recover him.
SIX buildings in the business part OF
Tarport, Pa, were burned the other morn
ing, and George O'Neil, sleeping in a saloon
where the fire originated, was burned to
death.
ROBERT BUTLER, colored, suffered the
extreme penalty of the law at Columbia,
Caldwell Parish, La, on the 4th for the
murder of George Burris.
The amount of the recent defalcation
of Kerr, the clerk of Preston, Kean & Co.,
Chicago, ILL.,, was about $4,000 instead OF
S15O,OOO as published at the time.
Two colored children burned to death
in dwelling at the corner of Eighteenth
and Clark streets, Chicago, Ill.,, few days
ago.
THERESA FAIR has filed suit against
Senator Fair, the Nevada millionaire, for
divorce.
A REGULAR epidemic of horse-steal-
ing is reported to have broken out in the
city of Dallas, Tex, and adjoining coun-
try, upward of score of animals having
been stolen within one week recently.
In Winchester, Mass, the other day,