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Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09
MISCELLANEOUS.

A RAID was made by sixty policemen
on cockpit at Philadelphia, Pa, the night
of the 1st. and ninety-fve spectators and
seventy-two chickens were captured.
IT is reported that Post-of1ice In
speetor Lanier, recently dismissed the
service, las fled to South America. He is
charged with swindling large number of
Postmasters out of considerable sums by
calling on them for funds to aid in the ar
rest of criminals.
In the United States Court, in San
Francisco, Judge Hoffman in long ex-
planatory decision on the ist on the Chi
nese habeas corpus cases, concluded that in
accordance with articles of the treaty, Chi
nese who were in the United States at the
date of the treaty, November II. 1880, and
who left the United States before the pas
sage of the restriction act May is, 1882, are
entitled to land.
LAST year the Marquis de Moores
shipped 1900 sheep from Wisconsin aud
Iowa to ranges in Montana. He now re-
ports that fifty-fve per cent. have died.
The animals swell up and bleed at the nose
before death. Post-mortem examination
disclosed extravasation of blood in the in
testines. 1t is an incurable disease hereto
fore unknown.
WITHIN the past three years one hun
dred and thirty five companies have been
incorporated under the telegraph compa-
nies' act,n in New York. The total capital
represented by these organizations is $685.
0OO,OlO. In no other line of incorporation do
the records of the Secretary of State show
such competition.
GOVERNOR CRITTENDEN Of Missouri
was asked to pardon Dick Liddle, that he
might be used as witness in the coming
trial of Frank James. The pardon was re-
fused.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09
A CONSOLIDATION has been effet te /

of the Iowa and Minnesota Telephone Coni-
pany, with headquarters at Dubuque, Ia,
and the Iowa Union Company, of Daven-
port. Committees were appointed for the
extension and improvement of the line.
On the Sd Adolph Hersch, wanted for
swindling in Texas, was arrested in New
York.
SEVERAL Nationalist meetings were
held in Ireland on the Sd. At Baliymote,
Sligo, there was riot in which several
Orangemen and Nationalists were wound,
d.
A GRAND Imperial ball was held at
the Winter Palace IN ST. PeUerSbu. < on
tho I'd at which the Caar ana Czari,1a cir
culated freely among the seven hundred
and twenty guests. No Nihilists were in
vited.
The arrangements for the Winter
Carnival at Montreal, Can, are completed.
A CONTINGENT of sixty-two new pu-
pills recently arrived at the Carlisle (fa)
Indian training scho |.
For January the coinage in the
United States mints was S4,2-i 900 of which
2,350,0o0 was in standard dollars.
THE police of Vienna have made out
a list of foreigners WAC are TO be expelled
from the country.
II is expected the Mexican Central
Railroad will be completed to the Rio
Grande by the mid lie of March.
ACCORDING to the report Of diver
employed by the Boston Underwrite 5ne
steerage Of the wrecked steamer City Of
Columbus is full of corpses.
SUIT has been brought by the Pitts
burgh (Pa.) Exposition Society against
twenty-one insurance companies to recover
F23, 900 on TIE burned building.
THE Public Lands Committee of the
House OF Representatives will recommend
forfeiture of the grants of the Oregon and
California Railroad and the California and
Oregon, covering 5000, 800 acres.
ALL hope of the recovery of Selah
Sprague, the victim of the Long Island
fiend, Rugg, has been abandone' Mrs.
Townsend will also die, and Rugg will
have four murders to answer for.
ALL the special examiners in the De-
partment of Justice have been placed at
the service of the House committee which
is investigating charges of irregularities
on the part OF officials.
THE Woman's Christian Temperance
Union was TO have held a meeting in the
Orr Block at Alliance, o., at just the hour
when the building was blown to atoms by
the explosion of gasoline on the 1st. Some
trifling matter had caused the meeting to
be postponed.
TIE proposal to ask the Reiehsteg to
vote seven million marks TO maintain IRON
clads, construct torpedoes and increase the
number of sailors is occupying the atten-
ton of the German Admiralty.
On the Sd about eighty members Of
the Illinois Press Association, many of
them accompanied by their wives, arrived
in Washington on their annual excursion.
They were met some miles outside the city
by S. P. Rounds, public printer, and wife !;
Cadet Taylor, Senator and Mrs. Logan and
other members of the Illinois Association.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09
ANOTHER PRISON FIRE.
Fire in the Missouri Penitentiary-PromPt
Action and Ready Appliances Confine the
Damage Within Narrow Limits.

Damage Within Narrow Limits.
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo-, Feb. 8.
This morning about 1915 O'Clock a fire
broke out in the drying-room of the laun-
dry at the Penitentiary. When it was dis
covered it was blazing up through the floor
of the room above, which is occupied by w.
c. Boon's chair factory. An alarm was
Immediately sounded, to which the city fire
department promptly responded. In the
meantime the hose at the prison was at
tached to the stand pi pes and two streams
of wa er from the large tanks on the top OF
the Gem ennial Building were turned on the
fire, which was now under control.
The building in which tie fire originated
is substantial stone structure, formerly
used as the Prison Hospital. The laundry
is in the ba ement story, the floor above
being used by the kitchen and Mr.. Boon's
rustic chair factory. In the upper stories
are the Prison Library and tailor shop.
The total damage from fire and water
amounts to about 81 900. At the time the
fire was discovered Warden Willis was in
the barber'S chair half shaved. He instant
ly jumped up, put on his coat and went
with one side of his face covered with lath-
er, prepared to combat the enemy which
has heretofore given him so much trouble.
He was considerably relieved to find it was
not one of the large workshops and by
timely discovery, with prompt action, the
fire was so easily controlled.
Occurring, as it did, in the building occu
pied by the kitchen, it interfered somewhat
with the arrangements for dinner, but
everything was soon put in order and
working as usual. 1t being Sunday the
convicts were mostly in their cells. A num-
Der of TRUSTEES, however, worked well and
faithfully in extinguishing the flames and
removing property in the building to a
place of safety.
There was little or no excitement among
the convicts, but as soon as the news
spread over the city that there was another
fire at the prison a great crowd of people
hurried in that direction, their interest and
excitement being considerably increased
by seeing Mr.. Jesse Tobin and several con-
victs on mules dashing wildly down Main
street after the city engine.
The arrangements for fighting fire at the
prison are much better now than they have
ever been. Two tanks, with a capacity of
10000 gallons each. on top of the Centen-
nial Building, which are supplied by
large double action pump, provide an
abundance of water for any emergency.
Stand-pipes. within the prison inclosure
are so arranged that hose can be attached
and several streams of water turned on
arg building that may be on fire. There is
liberal supply of hose ready for immedi
ate use. In add tion to those, the new fire
engine purchased by the Inspectors of the
Ahrens Manufacturing Company, Cincin-
natl, has been shipped and will be deliv-
cred to the State this week. The man sent
by the manufacturers to turn it over is al
ready here. The engine was expected yes
terday, but seems to have been delayed in
transit. 1t is named "H. Clay Sexton"
after the veteran Chief of the st. Louis
Fire Department.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09
LYNCH LAW In OHIO.
The Little Town of Randville, o., Agitated
Over a Cowardly Murder and the Summa-
ry Action of Judge Lynch.

CORNING, o., Feb. 3.
One of the most cold-blooded murders
that ever was known in this part of the
country took place at Randville, one mile
north of this place, last night, Peter Cliff
ford being shot through the heart and in
stantly killed. He had just retired for the
night when he was called by two persons
to come to the door quickly, and as he
opened it one of them shot him. 1t seems
that the trouble ending in the murder sup
posedly arose out Of Clifford's brother mar
ryng step-daughter of man named
Hickey short time ago, which marriage
Clifford had strongly opposed, and since
that time they have annoyed Clifford in
every possible way. Five of the Hickey
family, including men and women, were
put under arrest and a strong guard placed
around them to keep the citizens from tax
ing the law in their own hands. This pre-
caution was not entirely successful, for at
$3.50 O'Clock this evening crowd Of $40, of
which about fifty were masked, surrounded
the house which con aimed the prisoners.
Tney took Hickey and his brother-in-law to
a grove near by. They first hung Hickey
and were then stringing up his brother-in-
law when tle rope broke, letting him fall.
His pitiful pleadings for mercy and earnest
protesta ions of innocence finally caused
the mob to rtprieve him. Hickey would
not say wheth r he was guilty or innocent,
bu said he would die like a man. The
Hickey family and associates are of the
most degraded set in Southern Ohio, and
the country surely receives great blessing
by ge ting rid OF them. The town is wild
with excitement.
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09
PERSONAL AND POLITICAL.

OK the 30th G. Norvin Green, Thomas
T. Eckert, j. Gould, Augustus Scnell,
John VanHorne, Harrison Durkee, Geo.
J. Gould, Chas. A. Tinker, Roswell H.
Rochester and w. Fl. Abel were elected
directors of the American Teregraph Com
pany at meetin held in New York.
An old resident of Marion County,
Ind, named VIM. GLADDEN., died the night
Of the 29th, aged eighty-eight. The morn
ing al the 9th his wife, ten years younger,
also di d, supposedly from grief. They had
been married sixty years, and.fo half
century had lived on the farm where they
died
A COMPLAINT is made by Attorney
GENERAL Brewster that his clerical force is
100 small to supply the papers called for
by Congress.
IHE Senate Postal Committee was
addressed by DR.. Norvin Gre n on the 31st
IN opposition to Government control of tele-
graph lines.
1t has been all but proved that Rugg,
'ne Long Island mulatto now IN custody, is
'ue assassin of the Maybees and the assail-
euV OF the Townsends as well as the
Spragues.
EDWARD II. FUNSTON was nominated
w Inc Republicans of the Second Kansas
Us rlct on the 31st to succeed Dudley C.
nasKell, deceased, as Representative in
Congress.
fRiNoE JEROME NAPOLEON says the
"4'' mas come for Bona agita ion.
LONG pending suit against the heirs
VI =, Ex-Governor Alva. ado o. California for
s-'OV0' ~ worth of land has been decided in
'ayor Of the defendants.
'oNE three months ago Mrs. Clag-
p.r. el,Oi tne salvation Army, was tined in the
orsO ,l0v court at Wheeling, w. Va, for dis
conduct in playing the tamborine
a street parade. The higher court has
''.erSed the judgment.
NILE seeking the origin Of the enor-
VS. iOr'une left by NJ 81. Dl Cesare, who
'a'eiy assassinated, the Italian police
- ~ discovered that he was a pay master
sent II aeapolIian solliers and brigands
Tai.i = le6O and 1861 into the Kingdom of
n, mug FRANCIS of Naples.
NJ. hNDELL PHILIPS died on the I'd at
80 nome in Boston.
p.rar ~ noted actress, Josephine Gall
n u'ed on the Sd in Vienna.
RonL eminent French statesman. NJ.
Of ftba ., uied at nine cock the morning
on - 4rLAlNT 1 is made by VIM. Meagle,
trials of 8. "i'iieSses IN tne Phoenix Park
tiitv froal nequent assaults and general hos
tie assas s,Oui the Dublin sympa .hizers with
has bes:S oSs'ef ,, Bay L. l., Joe Appleford
Rugs Osen u, arrested al the instance OF Charles
an sccon. cnarges Appleford with being
Laug Iuphce Is.aal in the recent tragedies on
Huntsville gazette., 1884-02-09

On the Cd the remains of De Long
through Berlin.
In it's issue of the Sd the London Ddi-
Ia Neacs sald: ''Wendell Phillips was an
orator of an impassioned movement which
stirred the public mind to its profoundest
depths, and Americans have reason to be
glad such men have been among them"
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
AFTER the BATTLE.
Interesting Events Among the Local
Politicians.
recognizing the Jefferson Club on a Per-
marent Basis---Paying Humorous
Bets---Further Efforts in
the Line of CeIe-
bratiOnS.

A we'll attended meeting OF Democrats
Vas held, YESTERDAY evening, at the club
house. TO discuss and then act upon q plan
10 place the Jefferson Club on . permanent
basis. The rooms were crowded with en-
thusiastic Democrats and the l~iveliesl in
terest was taken in the proceedings. PreSi
dent Simpson and Secretary Haase occu-
pied their respective positions and the work
was conducted in formal style, by mean Of
a general and informal discussion.
When the club was formed last spring the
constitution provided for a permanent Or
g~anization, but lacked the necessary by
laws to put it into operation. A sufficient
fund was collected to run the club through
the campaign, but NJ provision was made
for the financial oiling Of the machinery
when the campaign was ovGT, Wheeler u
provide for regular dues o. 70 5,enend on
subscriptions was discussed thoroughly and
hnaily a eom@l'''~ WAS appointed 10 re
Poft Tue yuan IS in the constitution neceS
saEy ale new regime and another TO pro
lose new rules and regulations tor tn;
Government of the club and It's members
4 regular meeting will be held on Thurs
day night, at which time the committee,
will report.
There is no doubt the club will be per
manently organized in an entirely s~atistac
tory shape. 1t should be. 1t will be OF IN
| estimable value in organizing the county
and will afford a pleasant resort for city
Democrats through the winter and in the
years TO come.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
cue -
INT EnIfET
-" Il Cases FOR This Term. and
ken They VIII be Tried.

i"e INN Il Cases for This Term. and
ken They VIII be Tried.
le''' .rday tie work OF calling the docket
was completed in part :, Judge Fleming
presiding. The cases continued from last
Term were first taken up and assigned.
y are as follows;
State VS.. Geo. II. Boe;tner, charge of
murder; set FOR December I'd.
Sta'e VS.. Ed. Uthman. charge of grand
larceny: set for 2jth inst.
Stale VS.. Leon Van Walt. charge o.
forgery, -FOUR indictments; sci for 18Th inst.
STATE VS.. Richard Forsythe, grand lar.
ccny; sci for December Sth, and also the
Two new indictments preferred at this grand
Jury, will be tried on that date.
State VS.. Gunther Schnelle, charge o.
murder; set for December 9TH. He was
convicted, but the supreme court set aside
The verdict and granted him a new trial.
The new cases were set as follows:
STATE VS.. Ed. Myers, charged with felony;
SCI for November -.
Stale vs.. ". D. Dr@m;cr. alias RoJerY
amer, Fe'it larceny; set for November %,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
A Il BET.
The Payment Creates an Excitement ETua
tothe Election.

The Payment Creates an Excitement Equal
TO the Election.
The affair took place on Main street, yes
terday afternoon, that created more interest
and excitement than an~'H;"~ that has &c
Cured, in q local was, for some time. Be
fore the election, Richard Henry, q cutter
at Charlie Seabrig hts, agreed with DAVID
Kurner, the painter, that in the event Of
C~levelaud's election, he would wheel him
in u barrow, from the bridge a.'rn-
or, on Tenth street to BOnen.
bergers saloon, on Main below Twenty-sec
oud. lie kept bis word, Yesterday.
manners band was engaged and at 2
o'clock The interested parties met at Louie
Schwalb's saloon. The affair seemed to be
well known, for an immense crowd gathered
and kept increasing until the street was
fairle damned. a little delay occurred,
during which, people came from every d.
r~ection. extending the crowd down Main
street, until it covered the entire ten blocks
OF the route.
Finally the fun began and the party filed
out in the street and began the march.
First came the band, footing away for all
that was out. Commodore Seabright and
Col. Jake Kemple headed a squad oftour,
which followed. Then came a huge and
fancifully made pretzel, built at Capt. Dow
ener's expense. on a bet he had with 10,
Schaffer, the Island baker. 1t was appro-
p%riately labelled, showing that Cleveland
took the pretzel.' Then came q large flag,
the tail Of which was c~arfully carried by
Hugo l.oos, on a bet. The wheel5arrow
brought up the rear. 1t vas padded and
handsomely decorated. Kurner reclined
on the cushions, while the wheeling was
done by Henry, who had been decorated
with a red Democratic hat.
The procession had to fairly fight its way
through the dense crowd, most of which fol
lowed after and was augmented BY the arrl,
walls at every corner. \ part Of the agree
ment was to stop at every saloon, and it was
faithfully carried out. The crowd grew
funny and uproarlous, and by the time the
end of the Journey was reached everyone
had enioyed it to his hearts content.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
Another Forfeit.

Henry Leasure, a huckstcr, bet Lawrence
Heller of Fulton, twelve ROSTERS to 50 that
Blaine would be elected. Leasurc loses and
now has to fulfil another part of his con
tract. On next Saturday he must drive the
ROSTERS from the market house over the
hill and deliver them at Heller's. The chick,
ems will be lively Democratic birds, and
Leasure will be something of a picnic before
he gets through. Heller will set EN- up'
when he completes the task.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
Young Men. KeaA This.

The Yoltaic Belt Co., Marshall, Mich.
offer to send their celebrated Electro.Na al
taic Belt and other Electric Appliances on
trial Tor thirty days, to men (young and
old) afflicted with nervous debility. loss OF
~vs,ality and manhood. and kindred trou-
hes, Also for rheumatism. neuralgia, par
a~lvsis, and many other diseases. Complete
restoration TO health. viEor and manhood
ru~srar;eed. No risk isircurred, as thirty
DAYS tr:sl is allowed Write them a: once
Tor illustrated yamplia;sEye~.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
II is Eeing Done on the Ohio
River.

What is Eeing Done on the Ohio
River.
The Telegram left in her trade as usual,
yesterday,
The Chesapeake is the Parkersburg
packet to-day.
The Elaine passed up en- route for Pitts
burg, yesterday.
The Diurnal was compelled to go to the
bank Yesterday on account of the low water.
The river was falling at dark, last night,
with 2 feet, II inches of water in the char
mel.
Captain VIM. Ray, of %Ironton, has been
tSt, Louis, negotiating fol the propeller
W.: Of Alton.
Ih>U NJ. Townsend undertook to pass
the par the head Of the Island yesterday,
but had to.urn back.
The Chancellor left Cincinnati for Pitts
burg Monday, ut owing the extreme low
stage Of water sh, will not go any further
north than this city.
The Emma Graham, in frst.class condi-
ton, is Mt Cincinnati ready for b]usinnSs as
SCOW as IuPEt ~ halcT, winch Is not lin ely W
be much longer delayed.
Captain Marsh Hays writes to us that it
was the Iron King that removed the sunken
coal barge from the channel at the foot of
kanawha Bar, and not the Kwasind. Capt.
b. says he steered the Iron King over the
break, drawing two feet, with only eighteen
Inches on the marks, and that she never
touched. Capt Hays void like the Gin
ciruati papers to make the above correc-
ton
GREENSBORO, November ls.-River 10
feet C'uches and stationary. Showing.
PARElES, November lS.-River | foot 1
inches and stationary, Clear and cool.
BROWNSVILLE. November l3.-River {
feet inch md stationary. Srowing. Their.
mOmetcr "G'.
Lock No. 4, November lS.-Riycr ) feet
! inch and stationary. Showing. Their,
mometer ~.
RlCE'S LANDING, November ls.-River 3
feet , inches and stationary. Showing. Their,
mGmetcr ~.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
on for Evansville.

Claysville is the home OF Democracy IN
western Pennsylvania. 1t always was, IS
now and ever will he Democratic and It
nroposes to celebrate a Democratic National
victory tonight, in loyal, royal, Democratic
style. The jefferson club has accepted an
invitation TO be present and will &C Jul, oy
the Hempfeld at $50 o'clock this evening
: Jefferson drum corps will 60 end every
Inc at is expected to join in. The
I'VE H ' me no,. 6 he round trip.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19

The most lively Democratic celebration
that has taken place in this sectiono of coun'
try, will be the grand barbecue next Thurs
day, Sept. 20. at Stillwelrs, one mile back
Of bridgeport. This promises to be a big
affair and crowds of Wheeling Democrats
w;l be on hand. Agenuine barbecue is
somewhat of ararity in this section, but
thew will be more frequent under good old
Democratic rule. Information concerning
this affair will be gained BY reading the
bridgeport correspondence in another
Mace. Let as many Wheeling Democrats
rs can, 90 over and swell the crowd,
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
1,nenvood Mayor Was Right.

For fear some Of our people might infer
from the statement contained in Monday :
issue with reference to Saturday nights pa
,ose TIA, the Mayor of our city had pro,
S him the firing of salutes on SATURDAY
n;cEt Ibrongb, r~6iitical motives. Our ben,
wood correspOudendent C' ~ ;r,sIest Of
his action was entirely in the cal
some very sick patients, and then he
requested the firing to cease; he did not
command it peremptorily. Your reporter
at the time thought his action was com
mendable and thinks so yet, and certainly
had no intentian Of causing any reflection
u2on his official conduct. This will be sat
isfnrtnry 10 all CONCERNED.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19

Showing What You and Your Friends are
Doing.

showing What You and Your Friends are
Doing.
Judge Boyd, who is attending the celebra'
ton Of his parents golden wedding in South
ern Virginia, will arrive home next FRIDAY
Judge Fleming and wife leave for their
home at Fairmont this morning. Inc
Judge has made many warm friends during
his %soiourn here.
Information has been received by SOM
of the members of the English Lutheran
church, in this city, of the death Of james
Earni,z Kennedy, of York, Pa, a nephew
of Rev. S b. Barnit1, formerly pastor o.
the Church here. Mr.. Kennedy was q
,oung man of genius, aged % years, beins
one Of two sons of a widowed mother, who
deeply deplores his death. He spent three
months in this city with his uncle in the
spring of 1877, and will be kindly remem
bered BY many members of the Church snC
Sunday School.
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
ouderful Discovery.

Consumptiy.s and all who suffer from any
sFscr;nr of the Throat and Lungs AN find
a certain cure in l?r. Kings New Discovery
tor Consumption. Thousands of permanent
cures verify the truth of this statement;
wonderful cures. Thousands OF once hope
less sufferers now gratefully proclaim they
their lives @ this New Discovery. 1t
viii cost Won nS,hing to give it a tr'a
Frpe trial bottles s.; Logan X Cos.
sore. Large size. s..
Wheeling register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1878-1935, 1884-11-19
Another of tho same Kind.

A somewhat similar affair occurred on
Market street, nearly 1t the same time.
Jacob T. Dillon, of the Columbia House,
agreed to wheel Freeman Babout from the
Columbia to Kenney's saloon, corner Mar
ket and Seventh, if Cleveland should be
elected. He wheeled him, at the time men
toned and as the bet contained the same
saloon provision, both payer and payee test
ed their capacity before the end was reached
However the agreement was carried out IN
all faith and the bettors parted entirely sat
isied.