Huntsville gazette., 1883-09-22
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

gone from her moorings, and it was feared
she had foundered.
The Governor of New Mexico has
made an official report that with the ex-
ception of Judge McComas and wife, no
Territory since October, 1881.
The total number of pension claims
OF all kinds pending in the Pension Office
the 3Oth of June, 1888, was 244, sos; and of
this number 14S,S13 involved arrears.
NEGOTIATIONS between France and
China were said to be progressing favora-
bly,.
A BRIDGE fell into the canal at Utica,
N. Y, on the 14th, and navigation was tenn
porarily blockaded.
The United States Express Company
was robbed of $4,000 package at Muncie,
Ind, few nights ago.
The Brooklyn Felt Hat Works and
some other establishments burned out on
the morning of the 14th; loss $150, 900.
RECENT advices from Hayti were to
the effect that the towns of Bainet and
Maringot had been recovered from the in
surgents.
BARBARA MILLER was hanged at
Richmond, Va, on the 14th, for completely
in the murder of her husband last Feb
ruary.
A SERIOUS riot was reported at a coal
mine on the Upper Lehigh, near Reading,
Pa, on the 14th. One woman was killed
and several men wounded.
BURGLARS entered the Post-Office at
Junction City, o., the night of the 18th and
captured the entire stock of postal notes
with the official punch and office stamp.
NINE Germans and three Englishmen
made fight to protect their property against
the mob at Canton. One of the buildings
burned belonged to an American firm.
The city of Pensacola still remained
healthy. There were three new cases and
one death at the Navy Yard on the 14th.
Two children of a woman named
Giroux were burned todeath in their house
at East Templeton, Ont, on the 14th.
Four indictments were found against
ex-Treasurer J. NJ. Haven of the Rutland
Railroad Company, charging embezzlement
of moneys and overissues of stock.
JOHN Z TRAUTwINE, civil engineer,
who surveyed the Atrato and Napipi Xiv
ers, Panama, in connection with the inter
oceanic canal, died on the 14th, aged .sev
enty-four.
The pilots of Pensacola Bar recently
joined in publishing denial of the charge
that the Introduction of yellow fever to
Pensacola was due to their negligence.
THE dwelling of Frank Campo at
Milwaukee, Wis, burned the. night of the
18th and two of his children were fatally
burned.
The Merchants Union Barbed Wire
Works at Des Moines, Ia, burned the even
ing of the 14th.
IT is said that a company at Fort
Worth, Tex, has raised $4,000 to establish
a crematory there, with the object of hav-
ing the bodies of those who die from dis
eases that are contagious incinerated, and
say that if this is done they can eradicate
malarial fevers, cholera and smallpox.
AT the session of the Great Council of
Red Men at Atlantic City, N. j., on the 14th,
the revision of the constitution was made
the special order for the first day of next
years Great Council. Some changes We're
made in the beneficiary fund. The require
ments for the establishment of State Coun-
cils were modified considerably. Adjourned
to meet at Springfield, ILL.,, the second Tues
day in September, 1884.
FOUR new cases of yellow fever at
the Pensacola Navy Yard ON the 10th.
PLEURO-PNEUMONIA prevailed among
the cattle in several counties in Massachu-
setts.
A FREIGHT train was wrecked and a
brakeman killed on the Bee Line near Gal
ion, o., on the 18th.
GEORGE IRVINE and two sons died at
Erie, Pa, on the 10th, and were supposed to
have been poisoned.
In Nevada, To-, on the 10th, John
Miller became enraged at his wife and
burned up his house and barn.
THE electrical convention at Vienna
is said to be far superior to those held at
London, Paris and Munich.
MINNIE SMITH, prisoner at Black
well's Island, N. Y, killed herself by jump
ing from an upper floor to the court on the
10Th.
Two Mexicans, Vidal and Cantee, of
San Antonia, fought duel with daggers
on the 18th, the latter being fatally stabbed.
MORE than 1868, 900 immigrants landed
at New York in the year ended June 80.
RICHARD BROWN, wife and five chill
dren, were poisoned at Pittsburgh, Pa, on
the 10Th by eating cnaned beef.
THE total imports since January l
were $327, ,916, ,566, against 1885,, 2,36S,245 for
the same period last year.
FRANK FOSTER and Charles Pray
were drowned by the upsetting of boat at
Portsmouth, N. H., on the 18th.
Tony HALE and John w. Edmund
son have been arrested in Philadelphia,
charged with uttering spurious Brazilian
bonds.
A BosToN elevator fell on the 10th,
with three persons, two being fatally hurt,
but the elevator boy few through door
and escaped injury.
Two freight trains on the New York
e. New England Road collided near Will
lia1natic, Conn.,, on the 18th, wrecking two
engines and eleven cars of merchandise.
FRENCH reinforcements for General
Bonet in Tonquin were ordered on the 10th
to hasten their departure.
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