Huntsville gazette., 1886-07-17
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

FIRE broke out in Scoville's confection.
cry and fire. works store in Tonawanda, N.
Y, on the 9th. Six buildings were de.
stroyed. Loss, $4,000; partially insured.
A REPORT is circulating in London that
Cyrus w. Field and Jay Gould have pur-
chased controlling interest in the stock
company which controls the Financial
Neaos.
CAPTAIN BENJAMIN PAGE, of Harlem, N :.
Y, has disappeared, leaving heavy liabil-
tiles.
AWARDS aggregating $670, 900 have been
made by the Dominion commission ap-
pointed to adjust the damages sustained
by private citizens by the Northwest
rebellion.
GEORGE W. CHATTERDoN was shot at his
home in Grand Rapids, Mich, on the 10th,
by his wife and was instantly killed.
THE health of Emperor William is said
to be very much improved as the result of
his sojourn at Ems.
The cholera record of Italy for the 10th
shows PAT new cases and eighty EIGHT
deaths.
A PORTION of an east-bound express
train on the Canadian Pacific railway
was burned in the Rocky mountains near
Donald few nights ago. The baggage
and express matter was consumed and
the passengers escaped with difficulty.
THE Lindell mills at Fort Collins, Col,
burned on the 10th. Loss, $50, 1000; insur-
ance, $2S, 900.
SARA BERNHARDT con cluded very
successful engagement at Rio de Janeiro
on the 10th, and has gone to Buenos
Ayres.
THE President and Mrs. Cleveland sent
box of flowers to Postmaster General
Villas on the 10th in recognition of that
gen ntIeman's birthday.
THE Portland (Me.) schooner City Point,
recently seized at Shelburne, N. s., has
been ordered released by the Dominion
ing deposited the amount of the fine ($400)
with the collector of customs.
ANOTHER strike seems imminent in the
Pennsylvania coke region.
LORD SALISBURY and Lord Harrington
are planning coalition cabinet.
RUSSIA has just received $250,000 from
Turkey on account of war indemnity.
THE funeral of the late Congressman
Cole took place at Baltimore on the 11th.
AN open switch caused disastrous rail-
road wreck near Youngstown, O., on the
11th.
RUSSIAN torpedo boats, on the way to
Odessa, are allowed free passage of the
Dardanelles.
CONGRESSMAN SPRINGER, of Illinois, has
purchased homestead in Washington.
PRINCE ALEXANDER is abused by the
Bulgarian press as being responsible for
all that nations ills.
SECRETARY BAYARD, it is said, has been
promised a seat on the Supreme bench
should a vacancy occur during the present
administration.
MRS. CRAWFORD has been subpe ned
a witness in the Dixie Crawford scandal
case before the Queens proctor.
Ir is intimated that Lord Randolph
Churchill will give Lord Salisbury tilt
for the English leadership.
CHIEF ARTHUR of the Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers addressed a union
meeting at Kansas City, Mo-, on the 11th.
The police are raiding the gamblers at
Long Branch.
THE celebration of the Battle OF the
Boyne at Belfast, on the 18th, caused
riot.
j. DERIvERA & Co., sugar merchants,
New Y ork, have failed.
A RIOT followed an address by Paul de
18th.
SEVERAL Lake Shore trains were de-
rallied on the 18th at Chicago by men who
turned the switches.
HERR KRUFP has contracted to supply
China with 1000 tons of steel rails.
T. B. IsAACs, head of a counterfeiting
gang, was arrested at Ottawa, Ont, on
the 10Th.
The French Government has ordered
10000 repeating rifles distributed among
the troops before August.
BY mine explosion at Buchtel, o., on
the 18th, one man was instantly killed and
two others fatally injured.
Rev. w. w. Downs gave bail at Bos-
ton on the 18th to answer a charge of lille
gal parentage preferred against him by
Miss Watson.
THOMAS Brown was committed for trial
at Coburg, Ont, on the 18th, charged
with counterfeiting United States twenty
dollar notes.
R.PoRTER LEE, confined in the peniten-
tiary at Buffalo, N. Y, for embezzlement,
has been pardoned by the President.
JOHN STONE, who killed his niece, Miss
Hodge, at Beamville, Ont, is at Baltimore,
Nd, and the Canadian authorities are try
ing to get him.
JOSEPH Brown, alias Charles Hall, was
arrested on the 18th at Greencastle, Ind,
for murder he committed in Lane Coun-
ty, KY, three years ago. He was taken
back to Kentucky.
ADRIAN CRucY, merchant, doing bus
mess at No. IS Beaver street, New York,
and his sister Lucy, committed suicide in
their apartments at No. go Lexington ave
nue. on the morning of the 18th.
BILLY" PORTER, the notorious cracks
man, who was in jail at Troy, N. Y, watt
ing trial on charge of robbing in connec-
tion with s'Sheeny" Mike Curtz. E. Marks
& Son of $4,000 worth of diamonds, was
released on bail on the 18th in the sum Of
$50, 900.
The Turkish Government has issued or