Huntsville gazette., 1886-08-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The American Bar Association met at
Saratoga on the 20th and elected the fol-
lowing officers for the ensuin year: Pres
ident, Thomas j.. Semmes, of Louisiana !:
secretary, Edward Otis Hinckley, of Mary
land; treasurer, Francis Rawle, of Phila-
delphia. Executive committee, Luke P
Poland, of Vermont; G. C. Bonne, of Chi
cago, and Simon E. Baldwin, of New Ha-
ven.
SCOTLAND was shaken up by an earth
quake on the 2lst.
The Crown Princess of Germany and her
daughter are travelling in Upper Italy.
The Treasury Department is in receipt
Of urgent demands from all directions for
small silver coins.
THE German Minister to Japan has been
decorated with the first order of the Rising
Sun.
INDIAN COMMISSIONER ATKINSON is go
ing on an inspecting tour in the Indian
country.
BRITISH Liberal Unionists remain
ominously silent in debate on the proposed
Irish policy.
Mr.. THOMAS E. BENEDICT, of Albany, N.
Y, has been offered the position of Gov
ernment Printer.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has had the vault
cont2ining the remains of Frederick the
Great opened and the interior decorated.
THOMAS HOBBS, wanted for murder in
Indiana, has just been captured in Oregon
County, No.
JOHN A. HANLEY, the absconding I'm
tied Lines manager, of Toledo, o., was
loa ut {ha -
A. NUGUE was drowned in the river at
Indianapolis, Ind, on the 22d.
THE Cleveland Anarchists proposed to
hold an indignation meeting on the night
of the 23d. ~ sssss.AeT aksszk,F
THE Porte has asked thes powers for
their views on the Bulgarian situation.
AT Detroit, Mich, on the. ed Otto Lehre
shot and mortally wounded Albert Tied
ball. s aga
I THE damage by the recent storm at Gal
weston is placed at $500 ,000.@ k8GR k
THE Girard furnace at Youngstown, O.,
melted on the 22d and caved in. Loss,
$4,000. h a
ARNOLD FoRsTER, son Of "Buckshot'
Forster, writessa letter making savage
attack on the Land League.
B. T. .EvERMAN,ga a merchant, was nlur-
dered in his store near Salisbury, Nd, on
the 22d. E A
WASHINGTON CITY is exercised over a
wedding where the groom married a
totally unexpected girl.
A LADY who lost $4,000 at Monte Carlo
comm tilted suicide on the 22d, making the
seventy sixth case of the kind this season
IDA GRANwRIGHT, the st. Louis girl
who recently ran away, taking s4Oo of
her fathers money, was arrested at In
dianapolis on the 22d, and $327 of the
stolen money was recovered.
BY the capsizing of small boat on Lake
Minnetonka on the 22I Robert ThaIbert,
w. B. Jackson, Jr., and danother man We're
drowned.
A FARIBAULT (Minn.) special to the ST.
Paul Pioneer Press announ ces the drown
ing of two daughters of Thomas Lemarx,
q bow named Jamaut and d young girl
named Goulet, while trying to cross Ce-
dar lake in row boat during thunder
strom on the 22d. }4
PROF. G. e. STOWE, formerly of Andover
Theological Seminary, and the husband
of Harriet Beecher Stowe, died at Hart
ford, Conn, on the 22d, aged eighty -four.
He had been i'll many months.
~ MORE Anarchist prosecutions are ex-
pected at New Y ork. City .sgss 3
| A FIVE days con res scf trades unions
is IN session in Y avis this weok. b
ANoTHERtie- up on the broadway street
car line at New Y ork began on the'23d.
SOFIA, the Bulgarian capital, has been
declared in q state of siege.
AUGUST PETERSON, blacksmith, living
near Cedar. Rapids Ia, was burned to
death in his shop on the 23d.f H
A. K. CUTTING was released by order OF
the Chihuahua Supreme Court on the 23I.
THERE is great excitement in Rouma MIA
over the Bulgarian revolution.
-Four persons were badly injured by an
accident on the Fort Pitt Inclined plane at
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 23d.
SIR MICHAEL HICKS BEACH is reported
as being far from sanguine Of success ID
Ireland. taRky
J.B. MURPHY, Master Workman OF Dis
trict Assembly "a, K. of L., dropped dead
at mis- home in Milwaukee, Wis, on the
23d.
THE deposition of Alexander of Bulga-
ria seems to have surprised the whole
world.
FELIX A. REEVE, of Tennessee, has been
appointed assistant Solicitor of the Treas
| ury, vice Robinson, resigned.
CHINESE troops are to be stationed at
Lazareff as a precautionary measure
against Russia. 80 - ~
DANIEL KERR, of Grundy County, Iowa,
| was nominated for Congress by the Cedar
Rapids Republican convention on the .3i.
THE London D1ay Ne,os says the situa-
lion in BuIg aria presents grave interna-
| tional difficulty.
MRS. CLEvELAND, in the Adirondack
mountains, by touching button set in
motion the machinery of the Minneapolis
Exposition on the 23d.
CoNvICTs on French vessel en- route 70
Martinique revolted, and two cannon load
ed with grape were turned on them.
| converting the vessel into a slaughter
pen.
| RIoTING was renewed on the hight of The
23d at Belfast. The police were routed by
the mob, and the police barracks were
completely lyswrecked. The military finally
restored quiet. So ss& as #
In speech in the Br itish House of Com
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