Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-05
NEWS AND NOTES.

NEWS AND NOTES.
Summary of Important Events.
rur death of Rear Admiral Edward
,cddleton. retired, occurred on the 2Sth al
washington, D. G. 4....
rx consequence OF threats the Guild
IN at London, Eng, was placed under
long police guard on the 10Th: -.
SECRETARY FoLGER has appointed a
,ommittee to investigate the alleged fraud
.Iant importation of Hawaiian sugar.
ADMIRAL BALDWIN, Of the
sr,tod States Navy, has been ordered with
.as .n-.s 10 attend the Russian Cars cor.
onatiOn.
Tup issue Of standard silver dollars
. +be Mints for the week ended April %
0s slesO0O: for the corresponding period
last year, Sl6l,OOO. k3 F gsfG
SEVERAL more arrests were reported
j Ireland on the 2Sth in connection with
murder conspiracies and number of sus-
meets had fed the country.
SECRET negotiations were reported to
he proceeding between the British and
American Governments on the 3Oth with a
view to the extradition of seventeen Irish
suspects.
THE forthcoming volume of diplo-
matte correspondence shows that the invi-
tation of the United States to the proposed
Peace Congress was promptly accepted by
nearly every nation to which it was sent. 3,
THE New York Central Labor Union
on the 10Th discussed the relation of the
labor question to the revolutionary move
ment in Europe. There was said to be con-
siderable feeling in favor of the use of
dynamite.
GREEN B. RAUM, United States In
ternal Revenue Commissioner, has resign
ed. and his resignation has been accepted
by the President. The explanation was
that he could do better for himself in pri-
yate business.
ESTIMATES on the 25th from the towns
in Mississippi over which the recent tor
nado swept placed the number of the killed
at 1873 and of the wounded at 36S The
property loss was said to exceed half a
million dollars.
AN important arrest OF counterfeiters
is reported to have been made at New York
few days ago, eight of a gang who had
been operating in Pennsylvania, New Jer-
ser, Kentucky, Virginia, Maryland and New
York having been captured.
THE Lord Lieutenant of Ireland wit
messed the departure of a ship-load of emi.
grants for America the other day, helping
children into the boats and encouraging the
older ones. His sympathy was reported to
have 'created a profound impression"
CHARLES F. KRING, who had been
tried six times for the murder of Dora
Broemser in st. Louis, Mo-, and thrice SEN
fenced to death, has been released on $1,000
bail, having recently been granted new
trial by the United States Supreme Court.
THERE were 1872 business failures
throughout the United States and Canada
during the seven days ended on the 9th,
as compared with 2O5 the week previous.
The New England States had 90; Middle
States, %; Western, SO; Southern, 33; Pa
cltic States and Territories, Is; New York
City, II, and Canada, 49,
EIGHT officers, including Colonel,
were arrested at st. Petersburg, Russia, on
'he Soth, on suspicion of being connected
with the Nihilists. Sixteen officers were
arrested at Smolensk. It was stated a
widespread military conspiracy had been
discovered Documents were found at
nh'oiensk showing the coronation of the
OA'f would be undisturbed, but something
,eiy serious would happen Immediately
thereafter - ~ s =,
LIE trlal Of Fitzharris, known as
okln'the-Goat," one Of the alleged prin-
cipalS Ill the murder of Cavendish and
nuiAe, was begun at Dublin, Ireland, on
sue "'n ult. The prisoner pleaded not
s".'S, counsel for the prosecution argued
aS s,as al'fough Fitzharris did not personally
snS he' yet he was cognizant Of the act
"ss the implement of murder, as he
'oh The assassins red-handed. The de-
.lse would endeavor fo prove that Fitz-
aalIS merely drove the murderers in the
d;5 1'Se OF his vocation as a cab-driver and
was ~ u '"o '"o'
M threatened cigar-makers' strike
IL a advance of wages at Albany NY,
9gl'eo IN the discharge of all the strikers
= ' oo'h ult., the manufacturers refusing
Y. e'an' The increase. At Wheeling, W.
m 49, 'ne manufacturers acceded to the de-
III '',s ! q the men. At Chicago, H., nearly
H., ."e manufacturers advanced wages.
1--WE manufacturers at Philadelphia
gr.nti the advance. One factory
panl peu va an advance in New York. At st.
nan. hilln., the men got an advance. A
H. " u hungarians abandoned the Read
er1,I 1 ia' Iron. Works, where they had BEEN
eo some time at low wages. -
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po- nh seven prisoners, DR.. Gallagher,
An-t aLard Gallagher, Whitehead, Dalton
cbarnaIsn sn' Wilson and Curtin, who were