Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-23
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


beyond doubt she is lost with all hands,
seventeen in number, on board.
PATTTsoN, late City Treasurer of Indi-
annapolis, Ind, is short in his accounts
over 100000.
Two hundred colored people were rem
dered homeless by fire at Washington,
d. c., on the 10th.
AT a convention of Irish societies Of Bos-
ton, held on the 18th. it was voted to have
no parade on St. Patrick's Day but instead
to have lecture in the evening.
THE cabin at the Ruby Trust mine on
Mount Sneffies, Col, was carried away on
the 18th by snowslide, burying six men.
A call was made on Ouray for help, but
before the relief party arrived, the seven
men who were fortunate enough to es-
cape had uncovered those who were
buried. Martin Pearson and Andy Pear
son were killed outright, and the cook for
the party, name unknown, was badly in
jured.
CAPTAIN HAYWARD of the United States
steamer Quinnebong, who only recently
Joined that vessel in the Mediterranean, is
dead.
AT Jersey City, N. j., on the 10th, Geo.
H. Desque, a wife-murderer, was sem
fenced to be hanged March 26th.
A MOB went to the jail at Vincennes,
Ind, on the night of the 18th and took out
Epps, the negro murderer, and hanged him
to a tree.
A DYNAMITE explosion at the Croton On.
" aqueduct on the 10Th caused consider
| able damage to property, but fortunately
only one person was injured.
| DIR. THOMAS w. KEENE, a member of the
| Virginia House of Delegates, fell dead on
| the floor of the House just after closing a
! speech on the 10Th.
ANDREA DE PoLIDo, an Italian, killed
his wife at New York on the 18th. The
| crime was the result of unfaithfulness on
the part of the woman.
THE standard silver dollars issued dur
ing the week ended the 10Th amounted to
| $199, ,499.
| LONDON dogs are to be muzzled for fur
ther term of sixty days.
| AT Danville, Ind, on the 18th, Stephen
| Campbell was convicted of numbering his
| wife.
| IT is said the British Government will
| introduce bill in Parliament making boy
cotting felony.
THE Bank Of DEVILS Lake, OAK, at the
place of that name, has suspended.
THOMAS CAMPsIE, SR., and his wife were
suffocated by coal gas at Adrian, Mich,
on the 18th. Mrs. Campsie died and Mr..
Campsie's life was despaired of.
A DYNAMITE cartridge was exploded at
the door of police magistrates residence
at Orangeville, Ontario, on the 18th, caus-
ing great damage to the building. but for
tunately injuring no one.
COMPTROLLER CANNON will shortly re-
sign to accept position in New York
bank.
EDITOR STEAD was released from prison
at London on the 18th, and addressed a
meeting of friends and sympathizers in
the evening.
STEERAaE rates from Europe to America
have been raised to twenty dollars, an ad-
vance of five dollars.
IT has been discovered that girl named
Collins, supposed to have died recently at
Woodstock, Ontario, was buried alive.
The community was greatly excited over
the discovery.
A RENDERING tank exploded at Creston,
verely scalding four others.
PRINCE ALEXANDER insists that Servia
has no right to select the place for con-
Quoting negotiations for peace between
Servia and Bulgaria.
A woMAN's rights convention is to be
held at Washington, D. c., on the 18th and
18th of February.
THREE HUNDRED men are thrown out of
employment by a CAVERN at the Tunnel
colliery at Ashland, Pa.
CHARLES DAVIS, colored, was arrested
at Chicago on the 18th and taken to In
dianapolis, where he is wanted for murder.
A SENSATION has been created in London
by the publication Of Bismarck's letter to
the Pope acknowledging the receipt of the
decoration of the Order of Christ.
BENJAMIN CooKsoN, while trying to res
cue his children from his burning resi-
dence at Greenbush, Me-, on the 18th, was
burned to death.
PILOT JOE DAVIS was killed, and the
fireman and others seriously injured by the
explosion of the boiler of the tugboat
Modoc at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 18th.
GEORGE HAsLEL, the Englishman
thought to have been murdered at Pitts
burgh, Pa, has turned up, after having
been robbed of $4,000 by his abductors.
A LITTLE boy of Seward Applegate,
farmer living near Spotswood, N. j., who
was bitten by dog day before Christmas,
died on the 18th with every symptom Of
hydrophobia.
EBERsBERG, the noted Austrian play
wright, who has been confined for two
years past in the insane asplum at Dob
ling, near Vienna, died there on the 18th.
FIVE members Of the Hausmeyer family,
at Tarentum, Pa, have died of trichinosis.
The fifth, George, aged thirty, died on the
18th. The lives of the remaining members
Of the family are despaired of.
TIE Senate Committee on Public Lands
has authorized Senator Plumb to report
back favorably the bill introduced by SEN
ator Wilson, Of Iowa, to quiet the titles of
settler ON the Des Moines River lands in
tfe State of Iowa.
AT meeting in Exeter Hall, London, on
the evening of the 18th, Mr.. Stead, editor
of the Pail Mall Gazette, was presented
with a purse of $565, which had been sub