Huntsville gazette., 1886-10-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

the safe and got away.
| SCHRIEDT & MILLER's foundry, at Mans
field, o., burned on the 22d. Loss about
$4,000; insurance, $4,000.
The biennial convention of the Phi
Delta college fraternity, which closed it's
session in New York on the 22d, has de-
cided upon Bloomington, ILL.,, as the place
| OF holding the next convention. The gen.
eral council will fix the day
JAMES CRAFT and Mrs. Elna Brass were
arrested late in July near Cadillac, Mich.
| for the murder of the woman's husband,
who disappeared June 10 last. They con-
| fessed the murder, and on the 22d plead
ed guilty and were sentenced to State
prison for life.
The loss by the fire at Pennington, Me-,
on the night of the 22d, is estimated at
$500, 900.
A FRIGHTFUL accident happened near
Kenton, KY, on the 22d. A steam mill
being operated by Handy & Moss Hoft-
man blew up, killing Handy instantly
and scalding Hoffman so there is 1ittl 9
hope of his recovery. Both were married
and had large families.
A SPECIAL from New Iberia, La, of the
22d says: Information was received here
| to-day that during the storm Of the 18th
| over a thousand head of cattle were
| drowned and two fishing smacks wer 9
driven ashore on the Islands of Cheniere
an Tigre and Cheniere a la Croix. No
| lives were lost.
WASHINGTON'S National drill is now as
| sured beyond any chance of accident. The
sum of 800 has been actually sub
scribed and $4,000 more is reported as in
sight. At a meeting of the committee
| $4,000 was fixed as the amount to be dis
tributed in prizes.
THE Londonderry (Ireland) contested
election case has been decided in favor of
Justin McCar thy.
FIRE destroy ed the Chicago Glass Man
| ufacturing works at Chicago on the 22d.
PRINCE ALEXANDER has requested the
| Sobranje to ignore him as candidate for
| the throne of Bulgaria.
Hon. s. S. Cox, United States Minister
to Turkey, has formally resigned.
TURKEY has contracted with a German
firm for twelve torpedo boats, to cost
| 81, 100000.
Two Germans who were making plans
of French forts and routes have been ar
rested, charged with being spies.
A TRoTTING race at Denver, between
Harry Wilkes, Arab and Charlie Hilton,
on the 23d, was won by Wilkes in three
| straight heats.
ROBERT W. ALsToN, of Atlanta, Ca, a
clerk in the Sixth Auditors office, Wash
ington, committed suicide on the 23d by
shooting himself through the head.
THE Canadian Court of Appeals has de-
cided that beating drum on the Sabbath
for calling people to worship is not un.
| lawful.
! KAULBARs again demands that the
meeting of the Sobranje be postponed and
| the Bulgarian government refuses to ac-
| cede thereto.
MRS. GEORGE GEIss died of small -pox
| at Detroit, Mich, on the oath.
| THE Sultan of Turkey has commanded
the admiralty to expend 81, 100000 on men
! of-war.
THE steam barge Rudolph caught fire on
| Lake ST. Clair on the oath and was totally
| destroyed
| HENRY WILLARD, ex-president of the
Northern Pacific railroad, arrived at New
| York on the oath.
| THE Earl of Iddesleigh and Right Hon.
Sir Lyon Playfair have been nominated
for the rectorship of Edinburgh Univer-
| sity.
| MORE and better work is said to be now
done in the public printing Office at Wash
| in gton than before the force was reduced.
A DEpUTATIoN is to be sent to the Czar
| by the chiefs of the Sobranje asking him
Io<D e1r tHn p,11rr ar.to N
| throne.
A STRIKE of Peoria, (llL,) street-car
drivers against an order prohibiting the
use of stools on the front platform resulted
in victory for the drivers.
HON. MASON w. TAPPAN, Attorney
General of New Hampshire, died on the
| 25th as the result of an apoplectc stroke.
Two freight trains on the Chicago, Mil
| waukee & st. Paul road collided at
| Franksville, Wis, on the 25tb, demolish-
| in both engines, and about dozen cars
| took fire and burned; loss, $4,000.
MRS. CoRNELIA STEWART, relict of the
late millionaire dry goods merchant, died
suddenly at her residence in New York on
| the 25th.
ROSIE DARNBRECK, a two and a half
year OLD CDllO, was klIIeu do OlcNoioAu,
| O., on the 25th, and partially devoured by
| a tame black bear which was kept in rear
| of saloon, and with which the child at
| tempted to play.
| THE issue of standard silver dollars
from the mints for the week ended the
23d numbered 1,OOS,S21.
The steamship La Bretagne, having on
board the French delegates to the dedica-
ton of the Bartholdi statue of Liberty,
arrived at New York on the evening OF
the oath, but her passengers did not land
until the next morning.
THE Treasury Department has received
the estimates Of the State and Agricultural
departments and the civil establishments
of the War and Navy departments for
| the next fiscal year.
s. M. DAVIS, of Brattleboro, Vt, who
was shortly to have Eeen married, was
instantly killed at West Randolph on the
25th by his insane cousin, Cassius Morse
who split Davis head open with an axe.
THE National Line steamer queen ar
rived at her dock in Liverpool on the 24th
| with fire in her cargo. She had to be