Huntsville gazette., 1883-01-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE British ship Wild Deer, from
Glasgow, Scotland, to New Zealand, with
2O passengers went ashore on the Irish
coast day or two since and it was said
would become 4 total wreck. The passen-
gers were saved.
WHILE crossing the track at Cohoes,
n. Y, in sleigh the other day three boys
were struck by locomotive and killed.
IT was said that Patrick Higgins con-
victed of the Huddy murders, in Ireland,
must hang. The Lord Lieutenant having
refused to interfere.
SToUGHTON, Wis, eighteen miles
from Madison, reported 800 900 fire few
days ago. The carriage works of F. G. Mann
were destroyed.
AT Fall River and Somerset, Mass,
| a general strike of IRON workers was threat
ened on the 10Th, when fifteen per cent.
reduction of wages would take effect.
FIRE destroyed one hundred and fifty
thousand dollars worth OF property in the
business heart Of Neenah, Wis. the other
day. Several business establishments, q
national bank and the Russell Hotel were
burned.
In the Planters House at st. Louis.
Mo-, on the morning of the 18th fire caused
tremendous excitement among the guests
and employees, and three of the latter-Carto
Ribali, Dennis Raponti and Henry Blaney-
lost their lives and Mary Kerns, laundress,
jumped from second STORY window and
broke her leg. The loss to the hotel was es-
timated at so, 900.
BY the burning of circus three hun
dred lives were lost a few days ago at Ber-
| dichev, town in Russian Poland.
| THE residence of Henry Pierce, near
Sioux City, Iowa, was destroyed by fire re-
Gently and two children aged five and two
years were burned to death. Mr.. Pierce
and his wife were both badly injured.
Two kegs Of gold coin were shipped
by the Treasury Department to pay the fleet
in the Pacific. At Panama the kegs were
stored in the Panama Railroad Company's
vault over night and in the morning one Of
them containing $50, 900 was missing. Sew
era arrests had been made.
The paper mill of j. & b. Crossley &
Co., with its contents, were destroyed by
fire at Bangor, Me-, the other day.
/ JOHN WELLEs HALLENBECK, of Pitts
burgh, Pa, recently presented Lafayette
College with second $50 900 to endow the
chair Of President.
MISS HERZLEBEN, a Brooklyn Jewess,
sued A. V. Dicks for breach Of promise re-
Gently, asking SO, 900 damages. As he was
not Hebrew, it was said he expressed his
willingness to marry her on condition that
they live separately from her family and ig-
more his religious views.
JOHN b. HOFFMAN,, q Cincinnati
1 tailor killed one son five years ago and re-
peated the crime q day or two since.
THIRTY persons were injured by a
railroad collision in the suburbs Of London,
Eng, on the 18th.
IT was reported that twenty-seven
passengers and 3S7 other persons were in
jured by railway accidents in Massachusetts
last year.
The police recently closed a Jesuit
Church at Lemberg, Germany.
The steamer France, on her recent
passage from New York to London, Eng,
lost overheard 2o2 oxen and 107 sheep.
DAVID J. O'LEARY, Pittsburgh,
Pa, letter. carrier, was the other day ar
Tested for robbing the mails for years.
Ir was believed that 100000 would
not cover the amount Of funds missing from
the City Bank Of Jersey City, n. j. All
that was left of the assets, it was said, was
cheap office furniture and 81, 200 accidental
" left in the cash drawer.
A BODY of snow nearly quarter mile
long, one hundred yards wide, and fifteen
feet deep swept down the side OF Mosquito
Mountain, near Leadville, Colo, a few days
ago, and carried away two miners.
FIVE men were seriously injured and
passenger train wrecked by collision on
the Syracuse, Geneva & Corning Railroad at
Firenbauch IS. N. Y, day or two ago.
SINCE the hatchery of the Cooke
family by Frederick Mann, in Canada,
Young girl died from Inflammation Of the
brain on seeing 4 stranger with an AK over
his shoulder, and several persons in the
Ottawa Valley have been prostrated by
nervousness.
JOSEPH G.. RUSHING, OF Pennsyl-
vania, the other day sued j. r. McPher-
son, Senator from New Jersey. for 100000,
alleged to be due for services in organizing
palace car stock company
THE works of the Chicago Smelling
and Refining Company were totally de-
stroyed by fire on the 18th. Loss, $110, 600;
insurance, $40, 900.
A LARGE building fell under the
weight Of snow at Allentown, Pa, on the
10Th, crushing some cars and damaging
much other railroad property.