Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-29
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

M. ALEXANDER, asserting mail clerk
in the Louisville (Ky.) post t-office, was ar
rested on the 22d, charged with robbing
the mails.
A BILLIARD match has been arranged be-
tween Slosson and Schaefer, one game to
be played at st. Louis, the other at Chi
cago.
THE celebrated German historian Leo
pold Won Ranke is dead.
LOUIS BRAUN, New York cigar maker,
cut his throat because he had no work and
his family were starving. y. He was a
veteran soldier, and was one of the An
Jacksonville prisoners. He leaves a wife
and four children.
n A CALLER on President Cleveland is said
to have received an unequivocal admission
that the reports that he is to be married
soon are correct.
CLAUDIUs B. PATTEN, for nineteen years
cashier of the State National Bank at Bos-
ton, threw himself in front of an express
train on the Old Colony road on the 22d,
near Savin Hill station, and was instantly
killed.
The jubilee exhibition of the Berlin
Academy of Arts opened on the 22d.
The Acting Secretary of the Treasury
has issued a call for $4 100000 three per
cent. bonds, loan Of 1882, which will be
paid with accrued interest July 1, on
which day interest will cease.
ANTON PALM and Herman Lampe, two
members of the Anarchist faction in Mil
waukee, were arrested or the 22d for incit-
ing riot and bloodshed. Arms and ammu-
milton were found on their premises. Sew
eral other arrests are expected.
In the Maxwell murder case at ST. Louis
on the 24th John F. Mccullough, detect
i've, gave testimony of sensational char
acter, embodying a confession made by
the accused to witness while the latter
was locked up ostensibly on a charge of
forgery, detailing the manner of Preller's
death and plans for escaping punishment.
JUSTICE MILLER's daughter was mar
ried at Washington on the 24th to Mr.. A.
E. Touzalin.
BALIGRoD, a town in Austrian Galicia,
was destroyed by fire on the 24th.
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, it is thought
will spend the summer in the Adirondacks.
JAMES G. BLAINE denies the published
interview with him on the fisheries ques-
ton.
THE Greek troops repulsed the Turks at
Critzovo, many of the latter being killed
Two daughters of James Dawson, near
Rushville, Ind, were burned to death in
their room on the oath.
New YORK Orangemen are preparing to
give the Obstetrics substantial evidence of
their sympathy.
DANIEL WILEs, of Boone County, Ind,
died on the oath from eating wild hemlock,
and his wife is very low from a similar
cause.
Two children of Michael Feehan were
burned to death near Mount Pleasant, Pa,
ON the 24th, and third is not expected to
recover.
FREDERICK KYLIUs, a drug store pro-
prietor, was shot and killed on the oath by
VIM. Bode at st. Bernard, village ad-
joining Cincinnati.
SIX hat finishers on strike at Reading,
Pa, were arrested on the oath, charged
with setting fire to a hat factory, which
was burned down.
The farm house of James Dawson, near
Rushville, Ind, burned down ON the night
of the 23d, and his two daughters, aged
IOuT anu lOuTUGGU, WeIo Dul Iicb W dOith'
PROSPECTS are good for the Merchants
Exchange bridge at st. Louis through a
combination with Baltimore people, who
want the Arthur Kill bridge.
WILLIAM NoRISH, recently of Moline,
ILL.,, and brother of the proprietor of the
Moline stove works, shot himself through
the head at indianapolis on the night of
the 24th.
SECRETARY MANNING continues to i'm
prove slowly. 1t is thought that he will
not resume his official duties at the Treas
ury Department until at least next au-
tumn. Assistant Secretary Fairchild has
arranged to continue the performance OF
his duties as acting Secretary OF the Treas
ury during the entire summer.
The House committee on elections has
vet one more contested election-that of
Steele VS.. Kidd, of Indiana-to dispose of,
but it appears to be in no hurry to bring
the question before the House.
ALL the American ministers in Europe
and many other foreign representatives
sent messages of sympathy to Minister
Pendleton.
AN agreement for an armistice has been
arranged between the Greek and Turkish
commanders, and orders have been issued
to the Greek commanders to withdraw
their forces into the interior.
THE House committee on Territories at
Washington have agreed to report ad-
versely to the admission Of Southern Da-
kota as State.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended May %
was 81, ,435, ,556. The issue during the COR
responding period of last year was S262,-
49S.
SENATOR SEwELL hopes early in June to
get the Senate to take up the Fitz-John
Porter bill and pass it without much de-
bate on the part of the friends of the
measure, the ground having been fully
covered in the last debate by General Por
ter's friends.
GENERAL STEVENSON, First Assistant
Postmaster General, returned to Wash
ington on the oath from his home in ILL.,
nos. He has almost entirely recovered
from the vertigo with which he was Wis
ited..
THE Senate Indian affairs committee