Huntsville gazette., 1883-03-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


Huddersfield (Eng.) District struck re-
Gently, owing to a disagreement with the
masters regarding wages.
GENERAL CROOK has reported fifteen
Indians sick with smallpox near the At
lantic & Pacific Railroad in Arizona.
TaE Garfield Memorial Hospital fund
has received $3.50, through United States
Consul Denny, from Shanghai.
AN engineer was killed and several
persons were wounded by collision ninety
miles east Of Knoxville, Tenn, q few days
ago.
CUsHMAN, the forger who swindled
the philosophers of the Concord, Mass
school last summer, has been sent to prison
for five years.
JUDGE WILSON G. HOOVER, Associ-
ate Justice of the Supreme Court of Ari-
zona, has been suspended under charges of
bribery.
SPONTANEOUS combustion caused the
destruction of the Wabasha, MIMI, eleva-
tor warehouse and eight thousand bushels
of wheat tho other night.
The question of successor to Treas
urer Giltiian has been settled by the pro-
motion Of Assistant Treasurer A. w. Wv.
man.
PATRICK EGAN was the recipient of
marked attentions from Irish sympathizers
in New York City on the 10Th.
IT was said lately that foreigners con-
victed of implication in the recent riots were
to be expelled from France.
JAMES MULLETT, the informer, has
given Information duplicating Patrick Egan
and others in the Dublin Ureland) murder
conspiracy.
LOUISVILLE (Ky.) cigar-makers
wages were increased one dollar per thou
sand.
THE explosion of lamp the other
night caused the burning OF the Swedesford
Bridge, by which the Reading Railroad
crosses the Schuylkill River at Norristow n,
Pa.
THE wholesale liquor firm Of Pfir-
mann & Pfau, Cincinnati, o., have placed
their affairs in the hands of trustees and
asked an extension of time. The liabilities
were estimated at $425, 900, sixty per cent.
of which was secured by whisky stock.
AN increase of wages was lately
granted the molders by the Pennsylvania
Hardware Company OF Reading, Pa. The
keystone Rolling mill would start again
soon.
BASS KAvANAUGH, notorious des-
perado, wanted for murder, has been cap
tured in Texas by couple of Deputy United
States Marshals, who shot him through the
leg.
IT is rumored that the Wabash sys-
tenn of railroads will be leased to the Mis-
souri, Pacific or Iron Mountain in April.
A RECENT strike for an advance in
the wages of the helpers Of the Pottstown,
Pa.) Iron Company threw 250 men out Of
employment.
The Director of the Russian Postal
service has been suspended from office for
attempting suicide.
MORE than $1,000 was found in the
lodgings OF a wretChed old woman who died
the other day after having sold newspapers
for half century in New York.
DR.. FORBES, of the Jefferson Medical
College, Philadelphia, Pa, has been ac-
quilted of the charge Of completely with
body snatchers. l
THE late Judge Taylor, of Newburg,
n. Y, did heavy business in investing for
clients and his accounts the other day
showed a deficit estimated at $3.50, 900,
caused by depreciation Of real estate.
SAMUEL RUTH, defaulting cashier of
the Washington (Pa.) Savings Bank. has
been found guilty OF larceny.
THOMAS HoDGsoN, heavy produce
dealer, is charged with obtaining large ad-
yances from the Bank of Montreal, Cana,
under false pretenses.
ATan Italian christening in New York
nearly cut off with a razor and two other
guests were desperately stabbed.
AT Bloomington, Ind, an alleged in
cendiary fire occurred the other day and four
men ard boy were crushed by falling
wall.
A WOMAN and child were fatally
burned at Venice, o., recently by fire which
Il
port, Conn, woman was burned TO death
while at prayers.
A MAN named A. S. Hill went to Salt
Lake, Utah, some time ago and married
widow. The other day the officers were
looking for him and $40, 900 of his wife's
money.
THE Marion Trust Company OF In
dianapois, Ind, was placed in the hands OF
Receiver recently, its affairs having re-
suited disastrousy to about 5000 victims.
A DALLAS (Tex.) physician, who
was fined for whipping the Postmaster, re-
fused to pay few days ago and was sent to
the rock pile to work out his fine with the
gang.
PATRICK MCKINLEY, a Baltimore d
Ohio conductor. was killed pear Saenville,
O.. recently, by being struck by a mail
catcher while leaning from car.
ALFRED G.. PACKER, who murdered
five companions in the San Juan Mountains
during the winter of 1878 and then lived OIL
of their flesh, was taken to Denver, Colo,
few days ago and made full confession OF
his horrible crime.
A GAS explosion in Appleton street,