Huntsville gazette., 1885-09-12
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

Mr.. E. L. WAKEMAN, former proprietor
OF the Chicago Current who disappeared
some time since, has been found in a
monastery in Wisconsin.
LIEUTENANT WEIssMAN, the German
| explorer, has discovered that the River
Kassai, heretofore believed to join the
Congo above the equator, curves and falls
into Lake Leopold II.
| ALEX. MCLEOD, Anthony Ginness and
Michael Ginness were fatally burned by
an explosion OF gas at No. 8 colliery,
| operated by the Lehigh Valley Coal Com
pany, near Shenandoah Ia, on the I'd.
At No. colliery of the same company
Henry Lord was instantly killed by fall
| of coal.
The imports of merchandise at New
York for the seven days ended the 5th
aggregated S. 265, ,s66
LORD RANDOLPH CHURCHILL, in an ad-
dress at Sheffield on the Sd, announced
that the Afghan frontier question had
been settled, Russia having largely modi-
fed her cl aims, and also stated that he
saw no reason to regret the absence Of
| coercion in Ireland.
| Ex-CONGRESsMAN JAS. G. FREEMAN, of
Atlanta, Ca, who appointed the cele-
brated negro "Flipper" to West Point,
died in that city on the 3D. aged sixty.
He was a wealthy citizen and one of the
leading business men of Atlanta.
THE London Times, commenting on the
speech of Minister Phelps at Rugby,
congratulates the speaker on his power of
oratory and avoidance of offense to either
political party.
WESTERN Iowa cattle are suffering
from Texas fever.
A CONSIDERABLE increase of the British
army in India is being urged.
THE pickle factory Of Hudson & Co., at
Huntington, L. L., was destroyed by fire
on the 9TH.
RICHARD BOARD, a robber of the mails,
has been jailed at Las Cruces, N. M.
TIE coal miners strike in the Massillon
district, Tuscarawas Valley, O., is ended.
GERMANY is fitting out four Arctic ex-
ploring expeditions.
BICYcLIsrS are employed as scouts at
the Austrian military maneuvers.
A WILD man who has been prowling in
the mountains in Pennsylvania, has been
captured.
AMENDE, the Hoboken IN. J.) druggist,
has been arrested on complaint of the
father of the poisoned girls to whom he
sold morphine in mistake for quinine.
A GREAT fete in honor of the Prince of
Wales was given at Stockholm, the
| Swedish capital, on the 9TH
CHRISTINE NILSSON is to begin a pro-
fessional tour of Germany next month.
Mr.. F. J. TABOR, husband Of the Mrs.
Tabor, of Parson Downs notoriety, has
been expelled from the Bowdoin Square
Baptist Church, Boston.
NEWSPAPERS of Germany are warning
poor people against emigrating to En-
gland, the latter country having more
poor than she can provide for already.
THE Presidents mail averages about 800
letters day.
DEADwooD, OAK, was visited by a
snow storm on the 5th.
Mr.. PARNELL's advice to his followers
to abstain from agrarian outrages is bear
ing fruit.
THEY are talking Of 10000 majority for
Hoadly in Ohio.
MICHAEL DAvITT has handed over to ex-
Head Centre Stephens $3.50, the proceeds
OF Davitt's recent lecture for the benefit
Of Stephens.
IT is now said Blaine wants to b, Gov
ernor of Maine.
PRUSSIA has sanctioned the plan for a
ship canal from Kiel, on the Baltic, to a
point on the lower Ebe, near Cuxhaven,
on the German Ocean.
| MISS CLEVELAND will not return to
Washington before the first of October.
SIXTEEN ringleaders of the anti Chi
nese riot at Rock Springs, Wyo., have
been arrested on charges of murder and
arson.
NEARLY 200 persons have been arrested
| in connec. ion with the anti German riots
in Madrid on the 9th.
| CLINGsroNE and Harry Wilkes will trot
at Detroit September Goth, and Phallas
and Harry Wilkes at Cleveland at q date
not named.
THE Mayor of Council Bluffs. Ia, has
issued an order permanently closing all
saloons, gambling houses and houses OF
] ill-repute.
THE thirteenth annual convention of the
German Roman Catholic Central Society
of the United States was begun at New
York on the 9th.
| CHARGES of gross immortality and black
mail are made against the ''police spies"
of Washington by the Citizens and Liquor
Dealers Association.
| MARY BURG shot herself in Central
| Park, New York, on the 9th, and after
| waiting We hours for death was discov-
cred by policeman and removed to the
hospital
Two companies of infantry are sta
toned at Rock Springs, Wy. T., and two
companies and a gatling gun have been
sent to Evanston, where the Cinnamon
| have concentrated.
TIE President of the United States is
| on duty again.
ATERR1FIc hail-storm occurred at Port
| Tobacco, Md, on the 7th.
TEN THOUSAND jute mill hands are on
| strike in Dundee, Scotland
| ALL the coal-mners in the Tuscarawas
| Valley have r resumed work.
THERE are now 2, 7l2 National banks in
operation in the United States.
FIRE destroyed the oil refinery of L. D.
| Mix at Cleveland, O., on the 7th; loss,
| $4,000. The loss by the fire on the 7th
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