Huntsville gazette., 1883-04-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

masterGeneral Gresham.
WHILE Nicholas Sheron, of Milan.
O., was putting on a tin roof at Chicago
junction the other day he was blown off
the building by the wind, the fall breaking
his neck.
In the trial of Scheller on the charge
of setting fire to the Newhall House in Mil
waukee, Wis, the chief engineer testified
that Scheller's attorney tried to get him to
swear that the fire started from gas-jet
1HE wages question involved in the
Cincinnati, (O.) cigar-makers' strike had
been settled on the 13th but other demands
of the men had not been conceded, and
work was still interrupted.
THE Union Trust Company of St.
Louis, Mo-, has been blacklisted by the
Post-office Department.
AT Lake City, Colo, Alfred g. Packer
has been convicted of numbering five men
in San Juan County in 1872.
THE jury in the case of ex-Mayor
Debevois, Long Island City, N. Y, who
was tried for the wrongful conversion Of
city bonds, has found a verdict against de-
fendant for $100,700 A motion for a new
trial was denied, as was also a motion for
stay of proceedings.
ROBERT MASSEY was executed in Fort
Smith, Ark, on the 18th for the murder of
Edwin P. Clark in the Chickasaw Nation,
December IA, 1881. At Carrollton, Miss,
ON the same day, James E. Robinson was
hanged for the murder of William Y.
Adair.
CHARLES SMITH, living near Earl
vile, Iowa, killed his wife and two sons a
few days ago and then committed suicide.
BRADsTREET's Commercial Agency.
the Remington Arms Company and the
Hall Safe and Lock Company were burned
out in New York on the 18th. Loss, $780,
600.
IT is reported from Dublin, Ireland,
that only seven of the eleven men indicted
for the Poenix Park murders will be tried
on capital charges.
The London (Eng.) police were re-
ported to be watching for a cargo Of dyna
mite from Antwerp on the 18th.
The Indians were reported raiding in
West Texas on the 18th and the Rangers
were preparing to take the field
A FIRE at Plymouth, Ind, the other
morning destroyed the best business block
in the town, containing ten stores and other
! buildings.
| A LAiss..1 II amber of syiete3 .rishsS en-
ants arrived in Boston and Philadelphia on
the 18th. They had been furnished passage
by the British Government.
The mother of lyman, the man whom
informer Carey testified was 'sNo. j." was
! reported to have said recently that she be-
Heved he was an officer of the Irish Invinci-
bles.
THE crew of wrecked Norwegian
vessel were picked up off the North Caro-
lima coast few days ago. Three had
broken legs and the Captain had several
ribs broken.
OLNEY BURGESS, Rhode Island des-
perado, after killing two men at Killingly,
Conn, has committed suicide in jail.
A CAvE-IN occurred at the Courtright
Mines at Plainsville, Pa, the other day.
The surface settled five feet, extending
across the main roadway.
IT is said the Pope has decided that
no priest who has participated in the Irish
agitation shall become Bishop.
Two THOUSAND arrests were said to
have been made in Moscow, Russia, to a
late date on suspicion Of conspiracy against
the Cars life.
ALL the roads in the DeadwOod por-
ton of the Black Hills were reported on the
18th to be blocked by heavy snow-storm.
SECRETARY FoLGER has appointed
committee to investage charges of official
misconduct recently filed against James 6.
Hill, Supervising Architect of the Treas
ury.
A NEGRO, who at Windsor, n. g.,
grossly assaulted a daughter of James
Freeman recently, was captured there and
taken from jail by mob and hanged.
CHARLES E. ENDICOTT has instituted
proceedings against Representative An
drew j. Browne, of Boston, Mass, for an
alleged malicious attack in the Legislature.
ATRE, starting in an alley at Chris
field, Md, the other morning, burned six
teen Buildings, including the Express Office
and the Leader office. The total loss was
estimated at 100000; insurance $4,000.
TIE issue of standard silver dollars
from the Mints for the week ended
April IA was +$l57 ,4sO. The issue the CORES
ponding period last year was $4,000.
THE seven men arrested for the theft
of $50 900 from the Panama Express Com
pany have been set free, there being 20
evidence against them.
The signal office in the new Custom
house at ST. Louis, Mo-, it is said will be
the finest in the United States.
MICHAEL NAUGHTON was arrested at
Jersey City, n. j., the other night on fhe
charge of having crushed his wife's skull
with small shovel
THREE British gunboats were crnis-
ing off Cork harbor on the 10Th to intercept
cargo of Internal machines said to bo on
the way from America.
TIMOTHY MALLOY, the murderer Of
the late William Nesbit, a farmer at Tongue
Point, Cana, was hanged on the 16tf at
Montreal.
On the 10th the Birmingham (Eng.)
police were investigating the business Of
Whitehead's nitro-glycerine factory, re-
l11,