Huntsville gazette., 1884-03-01

300 the previous week. The distribution was
| as follows: New England States, 26; Mid
die, 40; Western, 80; Southern, 81; Pacific
States and Territories, 10; Canada and
the Provinces, &c.
1t was announced on the 22d that about
nine hundsed Cree Indians were in revolt
in the Northwest Territory. They had
captured the Government supply of pro-
visions.
JOHN HEITH, sentenced to life-imprison-
| ment for the Bisbee murders at Tomb
stone, A. T., was taken from Jail on the
22d by mob and hanged to a telegraph
pole.
BY the recent wreck of the bark Ada
Barton, of s.. John, N. B., nine sailors
were drowned.
In dispute on the 22d at Birmingham.
Ala, over some bills presented for collec-
ton, a dentist named Rose drew lis pocket
knife and cut the throat of Henry Harral-
son from ear to ear. The victim was a
popular lawyer, and his friends were or
ganizing for vengeance.
NEIL MCKAIGUE, a young butcher at
Winnetka, ILL.,, was on the 90 Il indicted by
the Grand Jury and placed in Jail for the
murder of James l.. Wilson and his wife.
The fatal buttons found in the room where
the murder was committed were fitted to
the butchers vest in the presence of the
grand jurors, and this, with other circum-
stantial evidence, caused the Indictment.
McKaigue is the son of a wealthy and re-
spectacle citizen of Thoroid, Ont.
A LOSS of $125,000 was incurred at St.
Paul, Minn., ON the 24th by the burning of
large agricultural implement warehouse.
AT Cincinnati on the 23d Allen Ingalls,
and Ben Johnson (negroes) confessed to
numbering the Taylor family (three in
number) at Avondale recently and imme-
diately delivering the corpses to the Ohio
Medical College. Ingalls, also stated that
he was professional resurrectionist.
A PASSENGER train on the Hannibal &
st. Joseph Road broke through bridge
near New Cambria, Mo-, on the 23d, and one
child was killed and thirty-th adults
were injured, five mortally.
IT was ascertained on the 23d that Alb
bott, the absconding cashier of the Union
Market National Bank of Watertown,
Mass, abstraced $4,000 instead of $4,000
as first reported.
1HE JcWSliJ olOiC VI 4hAth ho ~ '1Ohs az
Troy, N. Y, was robted of property val
ued at 900 on the night of the 23d
| THREE coaches of train on the Colo
RADIO Central Road were blown from the
track by hurricane near Georgetown on
the 23d. Two ladies were badly burned
and many other travellers were injured.
W. B. CASH, of Cheraw, S. c., son of
| the famous duelist, OH the 23d killed
| Marshal Richards and mortally wounded
James Coward, and was being pursued by
posse of citizens.
THE steamer Sansalito, valued at $780,
600, was destroyed by fire at San Quetin,
CAL, few evenings ago.
MRS. A. B. E. HAIGHT was convicted of
the murder of her husband at De Ruyter,
N. Y, the other night, after trial of two
weeks. 1t was alleged that Mrs. Haight
had killed two other husbands and her
father.
THE Central Hotel, Shields newspaper
office and five of the principal business
| houses in Henrietta, Tex, were destroyed
| by fire few nights ago.
THE State Department at Washington
| was on the 23l officially advised that
| Greece had removed the embargo on
| American pork.
| A NATIONAL Convention of wool-grow-
ers has been called to meet at Chicago on
| the 7th of May.