Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-29
HUNTSVILLE, ALABAMA SATURDAY, MARCH 30 1884.

sufferers and found wild rye contain
ing twenty times more ergot than was ever
before known in feed. 1t was claimed that
the feet Of the cattle froze because the
ergot contracted the blood-vessels and re
tarded the circulation.
THE slaughter r-houses in Jersey City and
Hoboken, employing about two hundred
butchers, have been forced to close on ac-
count of the competition of dressed beef
from Chicago. The workmen were on the
22d organizing for concerted movement
against their Western rivals.
j. B. JOHNSON, who robbed drug house
in st. Joseph, No., of a large amount Of
goods, killed himself with a revolver near
Denver on the 22d, while on his way to
make restitution to the firm.
FORTY masked citizens of Marysville,
Kan, on The ed forced the jaileg to deliv-
er to them Samuel Prayer, who had been
convicted of the murder Of John Penning-
ton and wife. The offender was taken to
the wagon bridge and hanged, after he had
made full confession of his crime.
FIRE was still raging on the 22d in the
Pocahontas coal mine in West Virginia,
where one hundred and fifty three men re-
Gently lost their lives by an explosion.
Engineers had been sent there to locate
fire chambers, when corps of oil-well
drillers would be set at work to penetrate
the mountain from the top, in order to
food the mine through the borings.
THE steamer Thetis, purchased at Dun
dee, Scotland, by the United States Gov.
eminent for the Greely relief expedition,
arrived at New York on the 23d.
A SLIGHT fire at the capitol in Washing
ington on the ODD created great excitement,
but it was extinguished before much dam
age was done.
A TRAIN of thirty-one cars of corn, given
to the Ohio River sufferers by the people
of Sedgwick County, Kan, arrived in Gin
cinnati on the 22d, and would be sold at
auction.
FIRE in the Newcastle coal mine, in
Washington Territory, has been raging for
eighteen months. The fact that it obtained
mastery over the management had been
concealed upto the 22d.
ATBaltimore on the ODD fire destroyed
the Flamingo guano works and the chem
ical works of P. S. Chappell & Sons. The
total loss was estimated at 100000.
In collision between an emigrant and
passenger train, near Red Wing, Minn., on
the 22d fifteen persons were injured 1.-TWO
fatality and two coaches and a locomotive
were wrecked.
AFTER short run on the 22d the State
National Bank at Boulder, Col, suspended.
The concern owed depositors about $780,
000
A COWBOY shot an Indian at the Tongue
River Agency, Montana, on the 22d, and
the red men retaliated by burning ranch
and threatening further trouble.
THE factory of the Electric Candle Com
pany, at the foot of West Fourteenth
street, New York, valued at 100000, was
destroyed by fire on the 22d.
IL a banking-h house at Augusta, Ca, two
men engrossed the attention Of mes
senger on the 22d and took s., 700 from his
sachel without his knowledge.
The ship Bombay, from Philadelphia to
New Orleans, was on the 22d supposed to
have foundered. There were nineteen per-
sons on board.
THREE men were seriously burned the
other day by an explosion in the fireworks
establishment of Diehl & Co., at Cincin-
natl, and the roof fell upon them and held
them until help arrived.