Huntsville gazette., 1886-11-06
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

governors of the prison have asked that
he be sent to an insane asylum.
ROBERT EVAN SPRoULE, a citizen of the
United States, was hanged at Victoria, B.
T., on the 18th for the murder of Thomas
Hammil, in June, 1885, in the Kootenay
MINIS S. The condemned man assembled
the scaffold without tremor and made a
So ort mech prs' esssn.y his >. !. eence.
THE old Missouri, Iowa & Nebraska
railway has been reorganized under the
name of the Keokuk & Western.
The threatened lockout, which was set
for November by all of the textile mills
in Philadelphia, and which would have
affected nearly 100000 employees, has been
averted. AS the result Of a conference
with the manufacturers General Master
Workman Powderly on the 29th ordered
the strikers in Trotte's mill to resume
work pending arbitration.
DIR. HERR, a wealthy American resident
of Paris, challenged the editor of lie
Monde to fight a duel on account Of SLAM
derous article, and the latter made an
apology.
MICHAEL DAvITT has received cable
gram which earnestly requests his pres
ence in Ireland as soon as practicable. His
lecture tour will therefore close by the end
of November.
A swINDLER has been arrested at Bloom
ington, Ind, who has been working tina
State extensively as a special pension
agent.
DR.. Won HARTMANN, a slicitor of Han
over, has fed to America, having embez-
zled moneys and securities to the extent
of 200, 900 marks.
COLONEL FILoFF, commander at Rust
chuk, has been deprived of his command
and sentenced to two months imprison-
ment for obeying an order Of Kaulbars.
BURGLARS blew open the safe in the
post-office at Mount Vernon, O., on the
night of the 9Th, obtaining about $1,000 in
money, stamps, etc.
THE oleomargarine law went into effect
ON the 1st.
BOOTH, commander in chief Of the Sal
vation army, arrived at Chicago on the
Goth.
ST. JoHN's Military academy at Had
donfield, N. j., was destroyed by fire on
the 30th.
ACTIVE preparations are being made for
next years elections for members of the
German Reichstag.
Mr., PowDERLY went to Baltimore last
week, and made good impression on the
Catholic prelates there assembled.
! HENRY SCHMIDT was convicted of mur-
der at West Union, Ia, on the both. and
the penalty fixed at hanging.
| THE inspectors of German factories re-
| port much overwork, bad arrangement
| of hours and hideous sanitary conditions.
THE fatalities from the great Wisconsin
| railway disaster are now thought to num-
ber twenty two.
THE Bulgarian Government has ordered
that the German instead of the Russian
language shall be taught in the public
schools.
ATTORNEY GARLAND decides
that the three per cent. called bonds can
not be used as a basis for National bank
circul alton.
The Edinburgh exhibition has awarded
the silver medal of excellence to Dundas,
Dick & Co, of New York, for their
Menthal productions, mentholine and
men tholete.
HENRY WARD BEEoHER is at home
again.
The Standard mines at Mt. Pleasant,
Pa, are on fire and are to be flooded.
The President, by proclamation, has set
apart Thursday, November %, as Thanks
giving day.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND and Governor
Hill have each contributed $500 to the
campaign fund in New York.
TURKEY lends little encouragement to
nd
concerning Egypt.
THE Henry George Institute, of Glas-
gov, Scotland, sends greetings to those
who nominated George at New York.
A DISPUTE arose between two men
named Jas. Conlin and John Lambe at
Thirtv-fourth street and Tenth avenue,
New York, on the evening of the 3Oth.
Lambe stabbed Conlin in the groin, sever
ing the artery. The wounded man bled
to death in a few minutes. The murderer
was arrested.
COLONEL BEATTIE, surveyor 6 the port
of New York, was shot and badly wound
ed by Louis Bieral, discharged employe,
on the 1st.
The convention Of the International
brotherhood Of Locomotive Engineers
concluded its twelve days session in New
York on the 1st and adjourned.
GENERAL KAULBARS. the Russian agent
in Bulgaria, seems to be trying his utmost
to betray the Bulgarians into the commits
sion of some act which Russia can con-
strue into a causus belli.
JOHN Fl. M,DoNALD, reported among
the victims Of the Rio disaster in Wiscon-
sin. is alive and well at Detroit, Mich.
THE will of Mrs. Cornelia M. Stewart
was filed for probate with the Surrogate
of New Y York on the 1st. The immense
estate is mainly divided among her i'm
mediaterelatives
COLONEL g. DARToIS, once noted MI
busterer, and one of the earliest Califor-
mans to volunteer for service in the civil
war. committed suicide with strychnlne
in San Francisco lodging house on the
31st ult.
THE residence of Louis Leichlighter al
Steubenville, O., burned on the morning
of the 1st, and Mr.. Leichiighter was
caught beneath some falling timbers
while endeavoring to make his escape and
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