Huntsville gazette., 1883-08-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Fears were entertained for the solvency OF
the other banks there on the 9th, as thew
mad labored under heavy runs in conse
quence OF the panic among depositors.
AT Fulton, N. Y, the other day, in
presence of five thousand persons, Hanlan
Hosmer and Lee rowed three-mile race
coming in one second apart, Hanlan win
ming.
ZEN business buildings were de-
stroyed by fire at Lincoln, Neb., on the 29th.
The loss was estimated at $250,000
ABOUT thirty thousand persons at
tended the Grand Army reunion at Column
bus, O. The principal feature on the 9th,
the closing day, was the grand parade,
which was participated in by repre-
sentatives of the wars of 1776, 1872, Semi
mole, Mexican and rebellion.
BY an explosion in a mine at Caltani-
setta, Sicily, on the Doth thirty-five miners
out of seventy were killed.
| SENIOR Don FRANCISCO BARCA, Span
ish Minister to the United States, killed
himself at the Albemarle Hotel in New
! FORK on the 29th. His debts caused it. He
leaves wife and one daughter who were
with him in New York, and one daughter
in Europe.
The death of ex-Congressman w. E.
Lansing, of New York, occurred in that
city on the 29th of heart disease.
DURING frightful storm box-car
was blown from the siding onto the main
track of the Rome, Watertown & Ogdens-
burg Railroad at Carlyon, N. Y, on the
morning of the 2Sth. A few hours after
ward an express train loaded with passen-
gers dashed into the freight-car, and a
| frightful wreck was the consequence, some
twenty persons being killed and about
thirty injured.
THE body of Captain Webb, the IA
nous swimmer who lost his life in an at
tempt to breast the Rapids of the Niagara
River, has been recovered.
A BOTTLE picked up in the Gulf of
Mexico few days ago contained note sig
nifying that the ship Cape of Good Hope
was a helpless wreck near the coast of
Cuba.
AN earthquake completely destroyed
the Italian town of Casamicciola, near
Naples, on the night of the 2Sth. The num-
ber of people killed was estimated at three
thousand. Two other towns, Forio and
Lacceameno, were also terribly shaken up.
NELSON w. FULLER, a veteran jour
nalist, who established the first anti-slavery
paper in Wisconsin, died at Sturgeon Bay,
in that State, few days ago.
| The reputation by Mexico of debts
due to Spanish subjects was said to have
brought about the recent recall of the Span
ish Minister, ,and serious commercial trouble
was expected to result
A DESPERATE attempt was made to
rob bank cashier of $4,000 on a street
| car at Hoboken, N. Y, the other day by
| three villains who struck him over the
head with lead pipe, but the attempt was
frustrated and the rascals captured.
THERE were forty-eight deaths from
yellow fever at Havana, Cuba, during the
seven days ended on the 2Sth.
A CADET has been summarily dis
missed from the Naval Academy at Annap-
| oils for hazing.
THOMAS WEAVER. charged with horse
stealing, but out on bail, was shot to death
| by mob in the western part of Coryell
| County, Tex, the other night.
ONE man was killed and two others
| were seriously injured by boiler explo-
sion which occurred in a saw-mill near Rus
sellville, Ark, few days ago.
A MAN named Terry safely crossed
the English Channel the other day on a
floating trycicle.
THREE desperadoes entered store
near Hudson, Wis, the other day and or
dered Charles Crandall, the clerk, who was
| 81. of To hnl I1n
hands. Instead of complying Crandall re-
piled with his revolver and one OF the
scoundrels dropped to the floor with a
bullet in his heart and the other two made
| off.
FIRE destroyed half of one OF the
| finest blocks of business buildings in Min
neapolis, Minn., the other evening, causing
loss of 100000
EIGHT men dug under the walls OF
the Jail at Berrien Springs, Mich, the other
night and rejoined the world. Five of
| them were recaptured.
SOCIALIST workmen unfurled the red
flag in Geneva, Switzerland, the other day
and seven of them were arrested.
ONE hundred and eighty houses
| were destroyed by recent fire which oc-
Cured in the Russian town of Semenov.
GEORGE SHEPARD and wife were
found dead in bed the other morning in
New York, both being shot through the
head. 1t was supposed to be murder and
suicide.
II was reported on the SOth that
James Carey, the informer in the Phoenix
Park murder cases at Dublin. Ireland, had
been murdered on the steam mship Melrose
between Cape Town and Port Elizabeth by
fellow-passenger named O'Donnell, who
surrendered himself to the authorities.
CHARLES w. COPELAND & Co., shoe
manufacturers of Boston, Mass, have
failed for $500 Stedman & Co.. of New
York, also suspended.
! ANOTHER Vera Cruz steamer unload
| ed lot of yellow-fever patients at Havana,
Cuba, on the 30th.
THE roof of the Minneapolis (Minn.)
| CITY Hall was burned off few days ago,
and the Telegraph Company's office In the
building was damaged by water TO sucn an
| bod fn ha SnSnended,