Huntsville gazette., 1883-02-03
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

people who disturbed the meetings OF the
Salvation Army.
THE steamer Agnes Jack, from Sar-
dinia, loaded with lead, was reported
wrecked near Swansea, Eng, the other day.
and all hands were lost.
AT Boston, Mass, the other night,
Henry Fasshauer visited his wife, from
whom he had been separated, and got into
a quarrel with her little brother. While he
was abusing him fourteen-year-ol sister
OF the latter shot Fasshauer dead.
In Chicago, Ill.,, servant girl was
killed by an explosion OF the hot water ap-
paratus OF a kitchen stove few DAYS ago.
Ii had frozen during the night and ex-
ploded when the fire was built in the morn
ing.
DURING fire at Vincennes, Ind, the
other day, a fire damp explosion occurred
in cistern from which new Ahrens en-
CINE was drawing water. The top Of the
cistern blew out and the engine fell through
and was ruined.
GEORGE MUNRO, the publisher, re-
Gently endowed three tutorships in Dali
housie College, Halifax, N. S.
| DIR. GEORGE M. BEARD, of New
York, who testified as an expert in the
day.
AT Newport, r. l., Kate Judd, who
had already served five years in prison for
arson, was the other day arrested on charge
Of burning the Weaver villa. She was sus-
pected Of other incendiares.
ISAAC KOPP was pardoned out of the
Ohio Penitentiary October 10. He was ar
rested at Fremonta few days ago and taken
back to prison, it having been discovered
that he ate soap, causing an abscess which
led to his pardon ON the ground that he
would die.
ANOTHER murderous organization
was reported on the 25th to have been dis
covered in the West Of Ireland.
IT was reported lately that the inhab-
itants OF Innismurray Island. Ireland, were
starving. On the 25th the Government sent
gunboat with provisions for their relief.
The Bank of England, at London,
has reduced its discount from five to four
per cent.
THE unrecognized dead taken from
the ruins of the Newhall House at Milwau-
kee, Wis, were buried on the 25th.
AT Washington, d. c., the other day
,Janson, the resurrectonist who exhumed
the body Of Charles Shaw, who killed his
sister, was sentenced to Imprisonment for
eleven months and twenty nine days.
." phil" dnlnhia Pa. lawyer Thomas
Mahr, Jr., Isaac L. Street and Joseph My.
ers, all election officers, were the other day
convicted of making false returns.
The postal authorities have lately is
sued an order requiring railway postal
clerks to wear the regulation badges while
on duty.
THE death of Colonel Irish, Chief OF
the Bureau OF Engraving and Printing, was
announced at Washington, d. c., the other
day.
SEVERAL carloads of dressed beef
and dressed sheep were shipped from Miles
City, Mont, the other day in refrigerating
cars. A stock company had been organized
| there which would in the spring go into the
business on a large scale. 1t was claimed
that this way Of shipping meat was more
| profitable to stock men than shipping on the
hoof.
| THE German bark Prinz Adelbert
! went ashore Oh the EnAiiSH COdot tHo OlHCi
day, and six of her crew were drowned.
CHIEF ENGINEER G. w. MELVILLE,
| u. S. N, has been ordered to duty in
charge of stores at the Navy Yard at League
Island, Pa. r@.
HENRY T. MORGAN, the well-known
New York banker and broker, died the 9TH
er afternoon in his carriage while returning
| from Wall street to his home.
GEORGE w. HARM, proprietor OF the
Grand Central Hotel, the largest at Read
ing, Pa, has failed. ,
THE death of Bernard Doran, at the
extraordinary age of one hundred and ten
wears, occurred in New York City few
days ago. 1t was said his father lived to be
one hundred and four years old.
A PLACARD was posted in St. Peters
burg, Russia, the other day warning every
body 10 avoid places frequented by royalty
| rfear of accidents.
WILLIAM S. PEARL, one of the alleged
murderers of John c. Downing, was taken
from the Jail in Lincoln, N. NJ, the other
day and lynched by mob.
WHILE train was standing In
Browns Canyon, on the Leadville Branch
Of the Rio Grande Railroad, the other day,
sixty ton mass of rock rolled down the
mountain and mashed the locomotive into
splinters. The engineer and fireman saved
themselves by being at the other end OF the
train. ....-eEssacs- s.sassL =.
THE trouble in British Columbia,
which tie United States revenue cutter
oliver Walcott recently went to settle, was
| adjusted amcaby.
HAzLEToN Bros piano factory In
New York City was burned the other morn
ing, causing loss of $l1O,C00, and that OF
Behr Bros. & Co. was scorched about SO,
600 worth.
PHILIP MOORE, q wealthy farmer OF
Dubuque County. Iowa, pulled bis gun
from under the bed the other day with the
4 usual result, the contents entering his body
and killing him instantly.
AMONG the heavy business failures
announced January 29th were Robert ID.
Nav & Co.. carriages, harness and leather