Huntsville gazette., 1886-03-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


sional committee.
The Cunsrd line steamer Oregon came
h. aoflisian with schooner off Fire Islapd
-, sne morning orr 14th, and suusx
in twelve sathoms of vv~oer. The passen-
gers were all rescued by the Bremen
steamer Fulda and carried to New York.
| The schooner sank with all on board. Thus
the Cunard record is broken.
THE London Observer says Gladstone's
home rule measures were unfavorably re-
ceived by the cabinet at its meeting on the
13th and if persisted in, will lead to the
disruption of the cabinet
LEWIS, the Wisconsin "strangler," won
the catch as catch can wrestling match
with Edwin Bibby in st. Louis on the 14th,
winning three out of five falls. He did not
have walk-over, however.
| THE Dempsey LeBlanche fight came off
| at Larchmont, N. Y, on the 14th and re-
suited in victory for Jack Dempsey after
thirteen well contested rounds. Only
about twenty persons witnessed the mill,
which is said to have been one of the gam
est on record.
MRS. DELLA PARNELL is better and no
serious results are apprehended from her
recent illness.
SWEDEN refuses to levy tax on foreign
wheat.
THE furniture workers. strike at Evans
vile, Ind. resulted in a victory for the
workmen.
THE House of Refuge at Toledo, o., was
fred by an incendiary on the 18th, and
was totally deStoyed.
FRANCE will issue a new loan Of thou
sand million francs.
TIE Irish are very much pleased with
their new Viceroy, Lord Aberdeen.
Two HUNDRED laborers at the Atlantic
tic Iron works at Sharon, Pa, have been
granted an advance of ten per cent. in
wages.
THE Michigan railroad wreck near Mar
shall on the 18th was worse than first re-
ported, several persons being probably ia
tally injured.
A DAUGHTER of member of the British
House of Commons has eloped with her
groom. E
THE wife of Representative Woodburn,
of Nevada died in Washington on the 18Th,
after an illness lasting several weeks.
AN English commission has been ap
pointed to visit Pasteur at Paris and de-
eide as to the genuineness Of his method of
curing hydrophobia.
| GEORGE CROCKER, retired Boston busi-
| ness man, father of Captain Crocker, of
the yacht Puritan, was found on the 18th
| hanging dead from his bed post suspended
by two handkerchiefs tied together with a
| Slip moose at each end.
Ex-Governor WILLIAM IRWIN of Cali
fornia is dead.
THE ice in the river at Keokuk, Ia,
broke on the 18th. No damage was re-
ported
| LOUISE MICHEL announces that she in
| tends making an American tour.
THE mills of the Toledo Linssed Oil Com
pany were destroyed by fire on the 18th.
NINETEEN wolf-bitten Russians arrived
at Paris ON the 18th to be treated by Pas
teur.
HENRY GADBERr, one of the early set
tiers of Scott County, Ia, committed sui
eide on the 10th by hanging.
THE Birmingham tEng.) police fear that.
the Fenians Of that place have pun chased
a large number of bayonets.
j. H. BELLINaToN & Co.'s bobbin manu-
factory was destroyed by fire at Philadel-,
phia on the 18th, involving loss on stock,
machinery and building Of $4,000. Jones
& Bros picture frame factory adjoining
was damaged $1,000.
THE st. Louis, Keokuk & Northwestern
bridge over Clear creek. near Louisiana,
Mo-, was destroyed by fire on the 18th.
| RICHARD BELT, the sculptor, was found
guilty at London on the 10th OF obtaining
| money under false pretenses and was
ant fo for ~
hard labor.
LUCINDA PAINE, fourteen years of age,
was burned to death while trying to save
property from her fathers burning resi-
dence in Otter township, Indiana, on the
18th.
SENATOR GoRMAN's (Md.) mother died
at his residence in Washington on the
night of the 10Th. She was seventy eight
years old.
Two men suspected of being principals
in the Rock Island express robbery, were
arrested near Joliet, ILL.,, on the 10Th.
The body of Andrew Sheriff, who .nys
teriously disappeared from Chicago last
fall, was found in the river, near Mil
waukee, Wis, on the 10th.
WILLIAM g. JAMSON, auditor Of Wash
ington County Ind, has been absent from
his home (Salem, Ind.) for several days.
His official relations are reported correct.
ExPREsIDENT ARTHUR, who had been
within doors several days, was reported
much improved on the 15th but not vet
able to leave his room. -
THE remains Of John Mccullough and
those of his son, w. F. Mccullough, were
placed in the receiving vault at Mount Mo-
riah cemetery, Philadelphia, on the 10th,
pending the selection of suitable plot for
the final interment.
REPRESENTATIVE MICHAEL HAHN, OF
Louisiana, died suddenly in his room at
VIII ards Hotel, Washington, on the morn
ing of the 18th, of hemorrhage of the
lungs, induced by violent fit of coughing.
THE city of Grenada and other portions
of the province of Andalusia, Spain, ex-
experienced a violent shock of earthquake
on the 18th. Much damage was done to
property, but no loss of life was reported.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended March 13
was SAIL ,7S0. The issue during the CORE
:od IF los 81 WAS x1DS Q4-