Huntsville gazette., 1886-03-13
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| belong to Geronimo's band, near Nocosari,
Mexico.
SENATOR EDMUNDs has not vet made a
declaration of his intentions toward the
| Presidents message to the Senate con-
cerning suspensions.
Rev. J. R. w. SLOANE, d. D., Professor
of Theology at the Reformed Presbyterian
Theological Seminary at Allegheny City,
Pa, was found dead in his bed on the
morning of the 9th, supposedly from heart
disease.
JOHNSON, the negro, was convicted of
murder in the first degree at Chester, Pa,
on the 9th, for the murder of the old man
Sharpless.
FIFTY Sioux Indian girls have recently
entered the Wabash Qnd.) school.
MARQUIS TsENG has left the Chinese di-
plomatic service and has become the chief
of the Chinese Admiralty.
JEM SMITH, the champion pugilist of En-
gland, whom Sullivan is aching [notl to
meet, was given benefit at st. James
Hall, London. on the night of the 9th, at
which he was presented with q champion
ship belt worth $4,000.
| THERE was a slight run on the First Ma
tional Bank of Bradford, Pa, on the 9th,
which was promptly met.
A FIRE at Akron, O., on the 9th, which
started in Fred. Schumacher's oatmeal
mills, caused a loss, before being subdued
estimated at 81 100000.
| The French Senate ON the 9th adopted
the Miagascar treaty.
Mr.. GLADSTONE was reported on the Sth
| as suffering from severe cold.
FEARS are felt for the safety of number
of schooners overdue at New Haven, Conn.
CHARLES RUSSELL, Attorney General,
and Horace Dayey Fox, who engineered
the Mersey tunnel in England, were kni ght-
ed on the Sth.
GEORGE FoUsT was held for trial at Ce-
dar Rapids, Ia, on the Sbh, on the charge
| of numbering his brother John.
Mr.. PHELPS, United States Minister, and
wife; M. Waddington, French Ambassa-
dor, and the Roths childs, of London, dined
on the evening of the Sth at Windsor castle
with the Queen.
SAMUEL E. WREATLEY has been ap-
pointed Commissioner of the District of
Columbia.
THE boiler on the tug Eifieman ex-
ploded in Cardiff (Wales) harbor on the
| Sth, killing seven persons.
| A RESOLUTION denouncing home rule
was adopted by the grand jury at Ar
magh, Ireland on the Sth.
| MARY BLEECKER SEYMOUR, relict of ex-
| Governor Horatio Seymour, died at the
residence of Mrs. Roscoe Conkling. u tica,
| N. Y, on the Sth.
BISHOP BOWMAN, of st. Louis, offered
prayer in the National Senate on the Sth.
SENATOR MILLER, of California, died in
Washington OH the Sth. He had not been
in the Senate during the present session.
Mr.. MALCOLM WooD, chief constable of
| Manchester, will succeed Sir Edmund Hen
| derson as chief commi ssioner of the metro
| politan police force of London.
A FIRE in Jersey City, N. j., on the Sth
destroyed the Monarch steamship line
docks and the Erie depot together with a
number of cars. The steamship Lydian
Monarch was badly damaged and her
cargo ruined.
MISS KATE MEDLAR, domestic in the
service of Mrs. Amanda Ladd at Reading,
Pa, was fatally burned on the Sth by her
clothing taking fire from lamp which
she had carried with her into the cellar.
Mrs. Ladd and her daughter were badly
burned in attempting to extinguish the
flames.
MAJOR WILLIAM LUDLOW has been ap-
pointed Engineer Commissioner of the
District of Columbia.
ALL the powers have given their assent
to the Roanelian agreement as modified
by Russia.
Two men We're killed, four fatally and
light seriously wounded by an explosion
in the Uniondale mine at Dunbar, Pa, on
the Sth.
THE steamer Acton, from Baltimore to
Queenstown lost two men overheard and
was badly damaged by storms.
SOUBRIE, the organizer of the IRON
workers. strike at Decazeville, France,
has been sentenced to four months i'm
prisonment.
j. M. COLEMAN and Wilbur Patton, of
Seattle, W. T., disappeared recently and
their bodies have been found in Lake
Washington, with indications of murder
THE district attorney at Boston has
caused the case against Rev. w. w.
Downs, charged with adultery with Annie
J. Taber, to be placed in the list of cases
for the March term of the Superior Grim
inal Court, and it will probably be reached
about the last of the month.
SENATOR LOGAN is to write a series OF
war papers for the National Tribune of
Washington
KING MILAN of Servia, though nominal
ly at peace with Bulgaria, is still actively
preparing for renewal Of the struggle
upon the slightest pretext.
THE issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints dur ing the week ended March 6
was 1856 320. The issue during the COR
responding period of last year was 1921 ,49s.
LORD RosEBERRY has officially notified
the Turkish Government that England is
unable to accept the report of Mouktar Pa
sha on the reorganization Of the Egyptian
army.
C.B. MEEKER, for many years general
passenger agent of the New York Central
g. Hudson River railroad, died on the
morning of the sth from paraly sis, at his
home in Schenectady, N. Y. Mr.. Meeker
had been ill for over two years
The agent of the Cincinnati Law and
| Order League swore out a warrant on the