Huntsville gazette., 1883-06-02
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

lT is reported that the British Gov
ernment has expressed disapproval of
French action in Madagascar.
A PAPER steamboat is being built at
LansinSbRrgh, NY. for Pittsburgh parties.
A NUMBER of officeholders in Dakota
have been indicted for attempting to cor
ruptly influence the action of the Capital
Commission in the selection of new To-
cation, as much as $4,000, it is alleged,
having been offered for one vote.
APPLICATION has been made at To-
ronto, Cana, to probate the will of the late
William E. Dodge, of New York He had
"a personal estate in Ontorio amounting to
100000.
UNUSUALLY heavy rains washed away
four bridges of the Mexican Central Rail-
road between Leon and Lagos a few days
ago. A train ran into the washout and the
engineer was killed.
AN extensive fire occurred at Vars, in
the department of the Upper Alps, in
France, the other day, and fifty houses were
destroyed. Several persons perished in
the flames.
AN attack was made on the jail at Mt
Sterling, KY, the other night by body of
armed vigilantes for the purpose of hang
ing the Barnett gang, but the mob met with
a warm reception from the officers, and the
leader, the Sheriff of an adjoining county,
was probably fatally wounded.
JOE Young was executed at Rich
mond, Little River County, Ark, on the
25th for an outrageous assault on Mrs.
Schism; Landa Coleman suffered the same
fate at Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La, for
the murder Of John Gay, and Jack Taylor
was hanged at Clarendon, Ark, for the
murder of Mr.. Ingram.
ONLY one agrarian outrage involving
personal violence was reported in Ireland
during April.
GOVERNOR PATTIsoN, of Pennsyl-
vania, has vetoed bill giving pensions to
Mexican veterans.
FIFTEEN lives were reported to have
been lost on the 25th, in consequence of a
steamboat explosion near Lakeville, Cal.
c.. STEUBLING & Co, wholesale i'm
porters of German goods, Berlin, Ont, have
failed, with liabilities of S120,000; assets
estimated at SS0,OOo.
A LARGE lumber mill and schooner
were destroyed by fire at Muskegon, Mich,
the other day, causing loss of $4,000.
THE National Board of Health at
Washington has been informed of twenty
two deaths from yellow fever at Havana,
Cuba, for the week ended May Is. The dis
ease had made its appearance among the
shipping at that port.
AT Rostoff Russia, the other day, a
Russian was killed by Jew. Subsequently
a mob attacked several houses and shops
occupied by Jews, which they robbed and
demolished. 1t was feared there would be
further outbreaks against the Jews.
BAXTER COUNTY, Ark, has been Wis
tied by tornado. Great damage to prop
erty was reported, but no lives lost.
AT Montgomery, Ala, additional in
dictments have been found against United
States Marshall Strobach, two deputy mar
shals and Thomas Jefferson Scott, Register
of the United States Land Office.
HENRY Is. DERRICK, a negro, was
riddled with bullets by mob at Mariana,
Ark, the other day for burning a livery
stable and its contents.
MILTON G.. FOREMAN, of Colfax, Ind,
son and brother of the two Foreman women
murdered near Traders Point, March 8,
was arrested the other morning, charged
with the murder.
The French forces in Tonquin lost
two captains and fourteen men killed in
recent sortie from Hanoi. aT
THEY have had two fatal duels in Ber
lin, Germany, within a few days.
THE English training-ship Mars at
Dundee was badly damaged by fire the
other day, supposed to be of incendiary
origin.
THREE passengers were killed on the
steamship Strasburg by a fall Of rigging
in gale during her recent trip from Bre-
men to Baltimore, Nd.
A PLOT to murder the King of Rou-
mania has been discovered.
THE English competitions for selec-
ton of an international rife team have be-
gun.
ARGENT special from Dallas, Tex,
announced the explosion of a scheme to get
co. A Southern syndicate had arranged
the matter with some Mexican politicians,
but disagreement occurred and the plan
fell through.
THOMAS WEIGH, of Pittsburgh, Pa,
who had been drinking, the other day struck
his wife, when she grabbed up red-hot
bayonet and stabbed him, the bayonet pass
ing through the left breast and coming out
at the back. There was no hope of his re-
acovery.
DURING a pitched battle between
Italians and Irish at New York recently
Maria Norma was probably fatally injured
and many others less seriously hurt. Sticks,
stones, skillets and revolvers were freely
used.
AT Steubenville, O., John Bird,
young Englishman, was shot and almost in
stantly killed the other morning by Alex
ander Wyatt, former husband of the wo-
man to whom Bird was recently married.
Jealousy was the cause.
LEGAL proceedings instituted against
the Rochester & Pittsburgh Railroad by the