Huntsville gazette., 1884-11-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

w omen, In session at balClmOle, 0u.,
elected Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, President.
FRANK BOWMAN, founder Of the Mem
delssohn Glee Club, died in New York on
the 30th.
DoMINIcK McCAFFRxY wants to fight
John L. Sullivan for 5000, and has de-
posted $500 forfeit with his def.
BEN HEFFNER, a farmer living near Lima,
o., killed his wife on the 31st, and then
tried to kill his son and daughter-in-law.
FIFTY pounds of dynamite were stolen
from factory at Kindberg, Styria, on the
31st The people were uneasy over the
probable outcome.
II is estimated that the decrease Of
the public debt for October was s., go 900.
In the Youngstown mine disaster inves-
tigation the Coroner's jury returned q
verdict that the men came to their death
from an explosion of fre-damp, together
with effects Of after damp.
DAVID JONES, Sanford Hastings and
Charles Higgins broke out of the Sandusky
(O.) Jail ON the 31st and escaped.
WHILE George K. Raposky, John Mollen-
witz and John Unglovitch, Hungarians,
were cutting coal in a mine breach, near Cen
tralia, Pa, on the 31st huge rock fell,
killing them.
GEORGE SMITH, on trial for the murder of
Henry Struck at Lancaster, Pa, on the
31st, pleaded guilty to murder in the Sec
ond degree. Winfield Smith, indicted with
his brother George for the same crime, was
acquitted.
THE coinage In the United States mint
at Philadelphia for October was s., All 900,
which includes 81 100000 in silver dollars
and SOL sos in dimes.
REV. CALEB A. STEVENS, a Methodist
minister of Troy, N. Y, dropped dead on
the 1st.
DURING political quarrel at Allegheny
City, Pa, on the 1st, William Case, white,
fatally stabbed Albert Johnston, colored.
A PASSENGER train on the Baltimore &
Ohio Road near Mansfield, O., was wrecked
on the 1st. No one killed, but quite a num-
Der were seriously injured.
THE International Meridian Conference
held its final meeting at Washington, D.
c., oM the 1st. An official copy Of the pro-
ceedings will be delivered to the Govern
ment.
MARY ANDERSON appeared as Juliet at
tho Lyceum Theater, London, Eng, on the
LIST, scoring great success.
Two hundred students at Toronto, Ont,
paraded the streets at a late hour on the
1st, and in a conflict with the police many
OF them were roughly handled.
DURING performance in the Star Thea
ter in Glasgow, Scotland, on the 1st, some
one yelled Sire" A panic ensued, which
resulted in the death of sixteen persons;
twelve were fatally injured, and a number
seriously hurt.
THE Queen has received kilograms from
the Khedive confirming the report Of the
capture of General Gordon, who was sent
to Ell Mahdi's camp the 9th Of October,
where he was at latest accounts.
PLANS are perfected for the departure on
the 10th inst. of the commission appointed
by Congress to visit Mexico, Central and
South America in the interest of commerce
with the United States.
COLONEL MAPLEsoN and Nine. Patti have
arrived in New York.
GEORGE HAYNE, white, killed William
Brooks, colored, at Logansport, Ind, on
the I'd.
DLRECToR-GENERAL BURKE'S report on
the progress of preparations for the New
Orleans Exposition shows everything in
satisfactory condition.
IT is said the Marquis de Caux will be
granted q divorce from Nine. Patti on
November 1th.
On the morning of the 1st the Willow
Spring Distillery at Omaha, Neb., was
damaged by fire to the extent of nearly
$4,000. The fire nearly destroyed the ele-
vator building and till-house, but the fire
department succeeded in preventing the
destruction of the extensive establishment
TURKEY has demanded to be represented
at the Congo conference.
FREDERICK J. ALLEN, Vice-President
of the Young Ireland Society, has been
arrested in Dublin, charged with treason
felony.
DURING the progress of a church fair at
Greencastle, Ind, on the 1st, ,Thos. Richards,
twelve-year- boy, was fatally shot.
Among other attractions of the fair was a
shooting gallery, and while Flobert gun
was being loaded the weapon was acci-
dentally discharged, the ball striking young
Richards Immediately over the right eye
and penetrating the brain.
SHORTLY after one O'Clock the morning
of the I'd Michael Condor, an Indianapolis,
Bloomington & Western employe, was met
by footpad near Indianapolis, Ind, and
upon refusal to surrender his money was
shot three times, once in the shoulder and
twice in the back, one ball passing clear
through his body. His recovery was pro-
nounced improbable.
KING LEOPOLD of Belgium is seriously
indisposed.
THE Canadian Pacific Road will make a
magnificent exhibit at the New Orleans
Worlds Exposition.
THE funeral of Mrs. Virginia Loyal Far
ragut, widow of the late Admiral Farra-
Gut, took place in New York on the Sd.
SEVERAL deaths from cholera are re-
ported in new localities in France.
STILL another cut on passenger rates
was announced by the West Shore Road
on the Sd. The fight becomes more inter-
esting daily.
A PREMATURE explosion of gunpowder at
Kingston, Ont, on the Sd, caused the death
of John McCrimman and seriously injured
Alpheus Brown.
THE Baltimore & Ohio will put on limited
express trains between Washington and
the West. which will make faster time