Huntsville gazette., 1883-05-19
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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straw goods, New York, with liabilities of
Sl5OOOO; assets, 100000.
DURING severe storm at La Crosse,
Wis, the other afternoon lightning struck
the house of. James Eagan, severely if not
fatally injuring Mrs. Egan, and in less
degree her daughter, aged thirteen. At
New York on the same day the sash and
blind factory of Bradley & Currier was
struck and fired, the loss being $4,000.
Two lives were lost by the burning of
a dwelling in West Madison street. Balti
more, Md, the other morning, John F. Ad-
ans, aged eighty-three, and colored cook
being suffocated and burned while in bed.
A colored chambermaid leaped from third
story window, broke one of her ribs and
received other internal injuries. 2
Mrs. JESSE R. GRANT, mother of ex-
President Grant, died at Jersey City, MI,
on the 11th, aged eighty-five years.
SECRETARY TELLER has recommended
that suit be begun against the Union Pacific
Railroad, to determine the true meaning
of the net earnings clause of the Thurman
act.
MATTHIAS BRADY has been arrested
for threatening the foreman of the jury
which convicted his brother in Dublin, Ire
land.
ANDREW j. SMITH, President of the
Manhattan Insurance Company, New
York, has been arrested on a charge of
perjury. avs
A BREWER and an undertaken fought
a duel with broadswords near Chicago, ILL.,,
the other day, the former being wounded.
EDWARD O'BRIEN and Thomas Doyle
pleaded guilty to charges Of murder and
conspiracy in Dublin, Ireland, on the 11th
FOUR murderers paid the penalty of
their crimes on the 11th. Sylvester K.
Makinson was hanged at Cambridge, ILL.,,
for the murder of Mrs. Copeland near Ke-
vance on the 26th day of last August; An
gelo Cornetti, the Italian murderer of Dan
iel Cash, fellow-convict at Sing Sing, N.
Y, December 81, 1881, was hanged in the
prison yard; Jerry Blalock was hanged at
Newport, Ark, for numbering Thomas
Brandenburg in cotton field in 1880, and
John w. Jackson, at jackson, Ohio, for the
murder of Samuel L. Hull.
A LOCKOUT occurred at w. S. Kimball
& Co.'s cigarette factory, at Rochester, N.
Y, few days ago, seven hundred female
employees being refused work. The firm
had thrice refused to advance the twenty
per cent. demanded, and fearing strike
refused to give the employees work when
they arrived at the factory.
THE Standard oil-works at Com
N. j., were struck by lightning
on the 10th inst. and set on fire. The
flames communicating with the oil tanks, ,one
explosion followed another, and at last the
storehouse where the barreled oil was kept
was attacked, which succumbed. Six fire.
men were overtaken by flood of blazing
oil and perished. The loss was estimated
at 81 800 900, the property destroyed includ-
ing twelve large tanks, eighteen cars, six
barges, dredge, three docks and five brick
buildings.
MCDONALD, the last Of the four men
who robbed Little Rock & Fort Smith
train, killed the conductor and disabled a
brakeman for life, has been convicted of
murder in the first degree at Clarksville,
Ark.
PAUL STRoBACH, United States Mar
shal for the Southern District of Alabama,
has been indicted at Montgomery for pre-
senting fraudulent accounts.
AMAsA STONE, the millionaire railway
and iron magnate, committed suicide at
Cleveland, o., on the 18th by shooting him
self through the heart with revolver
while suffering from temporary insanity.
By boiler explosion near Napanee,
Ind, the other afternoon two men were
killed and three others fatally Injured
RECENT disturbances in Wu Chang,
China, have been repressed. Thirty-five
insurgents were beheaded.
THE Canadian Parliament was pro-
rogued on the 18th after a session of one
hundred and seven days.
DURING the week ended on the 18th
there were fourteen deaths from yellow
fever at Havana, Cuba
ABoMB was exploded on a street in
Moscow, Russia, the other day and several
persons were wounded. The police version
was that it was only railway signal, but
the public was not satisfied and had become
alarmed. .ss~e ~@
A HARD case named ID. c. Hutchins,
who killed young man named VIII H.
Lvon in Bossier Parish, near Shreveport,
La, few days, before, was taken from five
officers by mob of one hundred men on
the 18th and hanged to a tree in swamp.
In quarrel on train taking pic
mic home a general shooting and cutting
affray occurred near Cincinnati, o., the
other afternoon and five men were seri-,
ously wounded. /et< ~ =
NINE eulprits were whipped at the
post at Newcastle, Del, the other morning
for various offenses.
The Houston & Texas Central Rail-
road has defaulted in payment of interest
due the State for loans on the Washington
County branch
The assistant secretary, Of the royal
library at Berlin, Germany, has been i'm
prisoned for distributing seditious writ
ings. iFso g
In the first four months of 1888 Cana
da received 22,255 immigrants. 9-
A FURNACE was destroyed BY FIRE at
Fayette, Mich, on the 18th, causing loss
of $500, 900, and ten houses were burned at
Cassville, W. Va, the night before. = Z
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