Huntsville gazette., 1886-07-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

THE Dubuque Ua.) oatmeal mills were
destroyed by fire the evening of the 10Th.
Loss estimated at 500, 600; insurance, S40,-
600.
THE paper mill at Rockton, ILL.,, owned
by Bradner, Smith & Co., of Chicago, and
operated by w. T. Randall, of Beloit, Wis,
burned the evening of the 10th. Lost esti-
mated at $50, 1000; well insured
ONE of the boilers in the Port Austin
(Mich.) Manufacturing Company's salt
block exploded with terrific force on the
10th, shattering the engine room, injuring
| two men and killing boy.
BERNARD JUssELL and Martin Benker,
of Akron, O., while attending a church
picnic at Cleveland on the 10th, got into
boat for a row. The boat capsized and
both were drowned. Their bodies were
| not recovered.
| FOREPAUGH'S circus train was wrecked
on the Maine Central railroad at Vassal-
boro, on the 18th, four cars plunging down
a fifty foot embankment. Twenty five
valuable trick horses were killed and a
number of others badly injured. num-
Der of the employees were caught in the
wreck and injured.
The contemplated clerical changes in
the Treasury Department, which were to
have taken place on the 18th instant, will
be make as soon as the Legislative bill
becomes law. The list is now being pre-
pared, and while it will not be as large a
at first supposed, the axe will be swung
with considerable effect.
THE Knapp & Stout lumber yards at
| ;c br,r
of ground being burned over. The loss is
estimated at over a half million of dol
lars, with an aggregate of $4,000 insur-
| ance.
| A MEETING of London Socialists on the
18th refused to disperse when requested to
do SO by the police, and they were not dis
turbed.
THE Shoshone Indians, who for twenty
years have been friendly with the Gov
ernment, are said to be threatening re-
volt, being on the verge of starvation.
| PAYMAsTER CHARLES p. THOMPSON and
several other officers of the United States
war ship Lancaster are to be court-mar-
| tailed for alleged crookedness in purchas
ing supplies at Cape Town.
THE duel between General Boulanger
and Baron de Lareinty came off near
Mendon on the 18th. The latter's shot
went wide, the Generals pistol hung fire,
and honor was satisfied. General Bou-
hanger gained little cheap notoriety by
the spread of story that he had fired in
the air after facing Lareinty's fire.
MARIE VAN ZANDT, the American prima
donna, is suffering from paralysis at
Vichy, and no hopes are entertained of
her recovery.
At an early hour on the morning of the
18th Benz. Ramage, merchant at Union
coal works, eleven miles down the river
from Wheeling on the Ohio side,w killed
and his store blown to atoms by dynamite
deposited beneath it. Henry Campbell,
former partner of Ramage, was arrested
on suspicion.
JAMES JOHNSON, Burlington & Mis-
souri, railroad bridgemen, fell off the Platt
river bridge near Ashland, Neb., on the
18th, and was drowned.
A COMMERCIAL treaty has been consum-
mated between France and Corea.
SAMUEL K. GAY, chief clerk in the Pitts
burgh Pa.) pension Office, has joined the
United States contingent in Canada, tax
| ing with him $20, 600, which he secured by
IOISeTy anu eHUeZZloUeut, Will WHICH, "
make himself solid with the gang.
AN unused house near the city of Cork,
Ireland, was blown up on the 18th, and the
bodies of two men, supposed to have been
making dynamite, were found in the
wreck.
A DAMPFR was thrown on Albany's
bi centennial celebra ton on the 18th by
terrible thunderstorm accompanied by
heavy rain and high wind. Some of
the outdoor decorations were ruined.
THE Union Pacific railroad will star at
limited express from Omaha to San Fran
cisco on August 1.
THE British Parliament will probably
meet OF August B.
THE walls of an old building located on
South and Roosevelt streets, New York,
and containing a stock of about 1900 bar
rels of -four belonging to NJ. T. Sweezey q
Co., gave way on the 18th. Three persons
were seriously hurt.
MATTE BICKw ELL, aged thirteen, was
accidentally shot and killed at Bangor,
| Me-, on the 10Th by her fifteen-year old
| brother
HENRY SEARCH, aged seventy-si and
his wife, aged sixty-fve, were murdered
for their money on their farm near James,
vile, Wis, on the 18TH
FOURTEEN men of the British war ship
Goshawk were drowned on the 10Th while
| trying to reach their ship during storm
/ SEVERAL persons had narrow escape
! from being burned to death during fire
in tenement-house in New York on the
| 10Th.
THE steamer Gate City, of the Boston
and Savannah Steamship line, ran
aground on the island of Nanshaw in
vineya ard Sound, on the 10Th. No casual
| ties reported.
| The Pope has created Gideon Ouimet,
Of Canada, commander Of the Order of
| st. Gregory.