Huntsville gazette., 1883-11-24
NEWS AND NOTES.
1 Summary OF Important Events.

Summary OF Important Events.
rur United States consular service
;ts own way and turns over small
Fr -,rnlns to the Treasury.
TUE United States Supreme Court
decides that the Alabama and Florida Rail
rosd Is subject to taxation.
THE Canadians are having consider
.,lo +ro,ble to take care of destitute immi-
%r rants arriving from Ireland. sA
gan
Nm SrOCKER made another attempt
..7ocnre in London, on the 18th but was
booteidown by Socialist mob.
GnoyEL A. K MCCLURE, of the
pa,delphia Times, has been arrested on
,.borre Of criminal libel at the instance of
George Smith.
BrsIyEsS failures for the seven days
ending the 10Th in the United States and
Canada aggregated 235, against 2l5 for the
previous week.
MARQUIS TsENG said on the 18th that
during the preceding few days the situa-
ton between France and China had become
t1reedingly critical.
TaE Austrian Minister promises to
tv and secure the electrical display ofsthe
Efx-,Oc3tiO,, Fl, Nav nrrao
Exhibition next year.
4 ARECEPTION was given Monsignor
Capel on the 10th by the Catholics of Phil
adelphia, Pa. His leave OF absence has
been extended six months.
JUDGE CHARLES A. WINsLOw, one of
the Commissioners of the Missouri Supreme
Court, died i'll Jefferson City on the 18th,
Of consumption, aged forty-six years.
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DR.. ALBERT GEHoN, of Washington,
D. C., has been elected President of the
Public Health Association. The next an
E8l meeting is to be held in St. Louis, Mo.
EDWARD GIBSON, member of Parlia-
rnt for Dublin University, is proposed as
andidate for the Rectorship of st. An
hyws' University in opposition to Minis
ter James Russell Lowell.
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JACOB NELLING, the murderer OF
Ada Atkinson, at Atkinson, Ind, Septem
Ind, bv a party of masked men on the
night Of the 18th and hanged.
The Spanish Minister of War insists
on constitutional revision securing uni
versal suffrage, and refused the Sagasta
compromise, to which the other Cabinet
| officers are willing to accede.
The British steamship Condor foun-
jered during violent storm on the 18th off
the coast Of Holland. While she was sink
lg the boilers exploded. Eighteen lives
we're lost. The steamer Hymethus also
vent down in the same storm.
STRIKING miners at Norway, Mich,
are reported behaving in riotous manner.
1.-THE 18th they attacked the Superintend-
eat OF one of the mines and beat him out
aseously. 1t was thought the militia would
laye to be called out to settle the trouble.
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IHE Rickert family-father mother
and ten-year-old boy, are in the clutches of
ne law at st. Louis, Mo-, charged with
punterfeiting. Detectives visited their
residence on the 18th and found consider
'oe quantity Of counterfeit coin, and ma
Hlal and tools for making it.
HE Secretary of War in his esti-
udIeS' which have been submitted to the
treasury Department, recommends the ap-
G0Pnation of $s,00O,000 to be expended on
'Nel and harbor improvements during the
y0lIng fiscal year. This is only $2S ,000, 900
.''s .nah the engineers estimates of what
.Yuu De proftably spent during the year
y 'uV works now in progress.
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'1lRErARY TELLER has rendered an
A. a'pCI'aht VI decision in reply to question of
commissioner of Pensions asking for a
5 riYp9l and uniform construction of the Re-
9 statutes concerning pensions to de-
.-0el1 mothers. The Secretary maintains
sr.,.i II son was a minor the father was
, r,.,'eu % his services, or if not living the
n.n1 ,'1VF was so entitled, and therefore de-
apension. - "'-' y ~
ooANANDER WILDEs, of the Yantic
bs r,eu Io' before the Court of Inquiry on
/. I'm that aside from the wooden sheath
voysas sae antlc was equipped for polar
for 'ne same as she would have been
IN. iP 10 the West Indies. The failure
The fon eAl,sdltion witness thought due to
tt7s wing NY, causes: Manning the Pro-
Dta.aL -'l an inefficient captain and crew of
negloa. ouiloers" and "long shoremenv and
iition VI Vhose by whose orders the expe-
viii y Vas fitted out to acquaint themselves
in, i I