Huntsville gazette., 1883-02-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Will OhUCE anu MOSES OtTOyor, Two
boys, while skating south OF Franklin, O..
the other evening, broke through the ice
and were drowned before assistance arrived
The inquest on the victims of the
Newhal House at Milwaukee, Wis, was
closed on the I'd, but the jury had no,
agresE upon verdict.
HE Union Steel and Iron Works at
Chicago. H., closed down on the Cd, owing
to financial trouble, and about two hundred
men were thrown out of employment.
A STRIKE was threatened in the Pitts
burg Pa.) bottle factories on the Sd, on
account OF a ten per cent. reduction in
wages.
EIGHT men were arraigned at Dub.
lin, Ireland, on the 3D., charged with the
late Phoenix Park murders. Several OF
them were identified as having been about
the park just previous to the assassination
and one as the driver of the car in which the
assassins escaped.
THE steamship James Gray foundered
off the English coast few days ago and the
officers and crew were lost.
EMANUEL OJELA was arrested with
his wife and son at Jersey City, N. j., the
other day, charged with making and passing
counterfeit money.
A DESPERATE fight was reported to
have occurred near Salinas, Mexico, the
other day, between Custom house officers
and smugglers. The latter were said to
have carried off the contraband goods and
killed four officers.
MRS. WILLARD ORDwAY was shot
and instantly killed at London, N. H., the
other day by her step-son, aged twelve
years. He didn't know it was loaded.
THE Receiver of the defunct First
National Bank Of Buffalo, N. Y. the other
day obtained Judgment for $14S,957 against
Herman j. Hall, on bail as an accessory OF
President Lee, now in the Penitentiary
charged with disposing of the funds Of the
bank.
AT Hamburg, Iowa, fire in the High
School building the other day caused panic
and the six hundred children in the build.
ing were rescued with the greatest difficulty
THE Coroner's Jury in the Newhal
| House inquest at Milwaukee, Wis, returned
a verdict on the 9TH holding the proprietor:
of the hotel guilty Of cupable negligence.
FOUR persons were hanged at Alex
| andria, Egypt. on the 5th for murders com.
mitted at the time of the riots last year.
A UTAH silver mine was said to have
wrecked the house OF Ferry e. Bro, Of
Grand Haven, Mich, in which Senator
Ferry was partner.
THE Kansas Rolling mills, in the sub
urbs of Rosedale, Kans., closed down few
days ago on account of financial difficulties.
The mills were said to be among the largest
west of the Mississippi River, and had been
in operation since 1874. They employed SOC
men.
INSANITY caused by too much alcohol
impelled George Mahon, in the Bellevue
Hospital of New York, the other day to
brain Michael Kellaher with a stool and Sc
riously wound James Conners, an attend
ant, with spittoon.
THE rolling mill of the Reading Iron
Works at Reading, Pa, employing 60C
hands, resumed operations few days age
after six weeks idleness.
EX-SENATOR THOMAS j. CREAMER, q
New York lawyer, who was ten years ago
worth half million, was arrested a few
days ago for breaking hack window, and,
paying for that, he was few hours later
arrested in an intoxicated condition. He
passed the night in u police station.
SEVEN convicts from the Atlanta, Ca,
pen had desDerate fight with their two
guards while returning from work in camp
about mile distant, the other day, but
were finally overpowered after the leader
had been ridaled with bullets. @
AN ex-Roman Catholic priest named
John O'Connor was egged and stoned off the
lecture platform in Hamilton, O., the other
night, and the police arrested him to prevent
q riot.
NINE men were arrested in New York
City, the other day, who had for months
past amused themselves by sending false
alarms OF fire. In the confusion that ensued
they would commit various robberies and
thefts. Several of the prisoners confessed.
A PASSENGER train on the Buffalo,
New York & Philadelphia Road plunged
into creek near Hinsdale, N. Y, on the
9Th and several passengers were said to have
been killed. A passenger and freight train
on the D. & NJ. Road collided near Kirk
wood, O., on the same day and four men
were killed. The collision was said to have
been caused by a misunderstanding Of or.
ders.