Huntsville gazette., 1883-07-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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JOHN Cone was legally executed in
the Jail yard at Houston, Tex, on the 9Th
| for an assault on Mrs. Scott, in January.
/ 1882.
1T is charged that the Jews on trial
for numbering girl whose blood was to be
used in some of their religious ceremonies
at Nyireghyhaza, Hungary, have been
subjected to horrible tortures by the au-
! thorities WY -Z
LIGHTNING set a mill on fire at
| Amesbury, Mass, the other night and it
was burned to the ground, causing loss of
500, 900 and throwing two hundred opera
tives out of employment.
A DISASTROUS fire occurred at Evans
vile, Minn., the other day in which twenty-
six buildings were destroyed, the loss be-
ing about $15O,OOO.
By the capsizing of a pleasure boat
off Staten Island, N. Y, the other day
| three men were drowned.
NELSON HOWARD, negro, was
| lynched at Mound City, H., on the 9Th
| Howard had killed John Kane, bridge
builder, on Wabash train at Mound City
| ON the night of the Fourth
called out five companies Of militia on the
9th to suppress a labor riot at Ely. The
strikers had one hundred and fifty kegs Of
| powder with which they threatened to blow
up the town.
AT Berlin, Germany, q woman
stricken with hopeless poverty the other
day set fire to her house and cut the throat
of herself and two children.
| /. sGRIMSLEY, the aeronaut, who made
an ascension from Honesdale, Pa, July 4,
landed on the Catskill Mountains. in a
severe storm. 80
DIR. CHARLES f. FRENCH, in Jail at
Erie, Pa, under sentence of criminal mall
practice, was on the 9th discovered to have
been for years engaged in body-snatching.
Apparatus for grave-robbing had been
found in his house.
EDwARpO MARTININGO, Il bank clerk,
who embezzled 100000 lires in Turin, Italy,
has been arrested in New York.
SEVEN hundred barrels of alcohol
were consumed in warehouse, which was
struck by lightning, at Atlantic, To-, few
days ago.
In collision with British troops in
Assam, the other day, fifty natives were
killed. A@E
THE Postmaster-General has rendered
a decision excluding all lottery companies
from using the mails.
A SECTION of Coles circus met with a
railway disaster in Minnesota the other
day. Four cars were wrecked, and Assist
ant Manager Hart had two ribs broken.
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Des Moines, To-, hotel, became deranged the
other day, broke up the furniture in several
rooms, climbed out on the roof and shot
himself in the head.
! Two parties it is said will soon be
sent from Washington to make Topographic
cal and geological surveys of Yellowstone
Park. The President will visit the park
in August.
THE Bethlehem Iron Works, Allen
town, Pa, shut down on the 7th, throwing
over three thousand men out of employ
ment.
THE Vermont troops called QUIT. to
suppress the riot at Ely met with no resis-
tance. The condition of the unpaid work
ingmen was described as deplorable. Or
der was fully restored on the Sth and all
the militia were withdrawn.
TWELVE Bishops were absent from
the meeting of the Catholic hierarchy at
Dublin, Ireland, on the 7th, which adopted
resolutions denouncing State aided emigra-
ton.
STORMS carried away bridges on the
Mexican Central Railroad to the value of
100000 few days ago, and would delay
/ completion of a section of the road six
weeks.
The proceedings of masked crowd
about to hang a negro at Mt. Sterling, KY,
on the 1th were interfered with by the
| Town Marshall, who persuaded the mob to
give up the prisoner.
| WASHINGTON and Aaron Detwller,
two wealthy physicians of Reading, Pa,
were drowned the other night while bath
ing.
SEVERAL lives were lost the other day
by collision on the New York g. New
Haven Railroad, near Woonsocket, K. L.
/ The Press Associations of North and
South Carolina were holding a reunion at
/ White Sulphur Springs, Va, on the 7th.
A FEW days ago George Ayres, a
murderous maniac near Salem, o., set his
house and barn ON fire, killed his grandson,
committed suicide and was consumed in
! the barn.
/ THERE were nine cases of sunstroke
during the forenoon of the 7th in New
York and ten in Brooklyn.
Two ladies were drowned in the Pa
tapsco River, near Baltimore, Nd, the
other day, by the upsetting of boat.
AUGUST EHLERs and child were killed
by the fall of tree blown down by re-
cent tornado near Albany, N. Y.
4 MARSHAL HENsLEY and Deputy Ben
Bagley, of Greensburg, KY, were fatally
shot while attempting to arrest James Owen
few nights ago. Owen had gathered a
party of friends at his house, and when the
Marshal's posse arrived they opened fire on
them. About fifty shots were exchanged.
AT Plaquemine, La, Robert Duggan was
shot and killed by Tim Benton, negro fu,
gitive whom he was assisting an officer to
arrest. a g.- asg 80 /.
+ IT is reported that one hundred
i French Anarchists have pledged. them.
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