Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-01
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

nounces that the Apaches attacked Bado
Secs ranch, twenty-five miles southeast
of Magdalena, killed three men, two WON
en- and destroyed quantity of property
1T is reported that an American vessel
has been seized off Cape Breton for breach
of the fishery laws. She was in lake
less than six miles wide and, therefore, at
every point within the three mile limit.
NJ. De FREYCINET assures the Greek
Prime Minister of the sympathy of France,
and begs him to use his influence to pre-
serve peace.
ARCHBISHOP CROKE, speaking at Thurles,
Ireland, declared that Gladstone was Ire
lands greatest friend.
THE twenty months -old child of Mrs.
Habisreitinger died at Philadelphia on the
25th, from the effects of dose of spirits of
ammonia, administered by its mother in
mistake for medicine.
The Brooklyn police have concluded that
Mrs. Frederickson, who was found dead in
her apartments in that city, committed
suicide. The statement of VIM. Lohf, who
is said to have quarreled with Mrs.
Frederickson, that he had killed some
body, is not credited, as the man is of un-
sound mind.
CARR Bros, of GAINESVILLE, O., have
struck fine quality of light oil at depth
of 1900 feet at Irish Rock, Blue Rock
township, thirteen miles below Zanes-
vile, which flows at the rate of ten barrels
per day. They have twenty wells from
which lubricating oil has been struck at
less depths.
MRS. LENA DOUT, who was shot by her
husband at Philadelphia on the 23d, died
on the 25th from the effects of the wound.
The husband, George Dout, blew his own
brains out at the time he shot his wife.
THE first of the Lake Michigan grain
feet arrived at Buffalo on the 26th.
IT is officially announced that Greece,
yielding to the advice of France, will at
once disarm.
LIGHTNING wrecked the Western Union
Goth.
THE Italian Chamber of Deputies has
been dissolved and a general election or
dered for May 90.
AN incendiary fire destroyed the Union
school building and contents at Manistee.
Mich. Loss, $45, 600; insurance, S29, 800.
The town of Lisko in Galicia was re-
ported on fire on the 26th, three fourths of
it having already been destroyed.
SENATOR WHITTHoRNE, appointed by
Governor Bate of Tennessee in place of
Senator Jackson, resigned, took the oath
of office on the Goth and entered upon his
senatorial duties.
GERoNIMo's band of Apaches are cred
tied with having raided several ranches
near Imuris, Mexico, on the Sonora rail-
road, killing fifteen persons, all Mexicans.
A reign of terror prevails in the district
OF a company of Mexican soldiers sent
in pursuit of the band, two were killed.
MRS. THAcKARA, daughter of General
Sherman. will reside at Marietta. Pa, in
future, and it is thought her father will
spend the coming summer there.
THE Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific rail-
way and its belongings were sold at st.
Louis under foreclosure sale on the 26th,
and it was bid off, on behalf of the pur-
chasing committee, by Hon. James +. JOY
for $625, 900.
THE issue Of standard silver dollars
from the mints during the week ended
April a was $500 the issue during the
corresponding week last year was S162,-
900.
FRITZ MARTENS, a farmer living near
Davenport, Ia, committed suicide on the
26th by hanging.
THE present depression in the coal trade
of the Kanawha and New River districts,
largely attributable to Pittsburg's COM
petition and the use of natural gas, it is
thought will result in the failure of fully
half of the operators of those districts.
GENERAL MILES is preparing for Wig
orous warfare against the hostile Indians.
D. R. SMART, the defaulting New York
agent of the great pork packing firm of
Geo. Fowler & Co., was arrested at Mon
treal on the Goth.
ANNE GREEN PHILLIPS, widow OF the
late Wendell Phillips, died on the evening
of the 24th at Boston, after gradually fail
ing for a long period.
EDWARD SCHAUM was almost instantly
killed at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 26th by
an electric shock from an iron awning
frame which, by some means, had become
charged with a powerful current of cleo
tricty.
GEO E. WEBER, of Smithville, n. j., won
the fifty-mile bicycle race at Clarksville,
Mo-, on the 26th, in 8 h., :. min., So "a Sec,
beating the American record twenty four
minutes and forty two seconds.
THE combined fleet of the Powers which
had assembled to coerce Greece have de-
parted from Piraeus.
JAMES FORESTER, an Anchor Line en-
gineer, was fatally stabbed by an Italian
in New York street car on the 26th.
The claims of Greece, for which she pre-
pared to wage war with Turkey, will be
submitted to arbitration.
BIG BEAR, the great Indian chief, and
three of his head men, who have been in
prison for nearly year in the Canadian
Northwest for completely in the Riel re-
bellion, have been released.
GILBERT DYKEMAN, a flagman near
the tunnel at North Rhinebeck, on the
Hudson River railroad, was found dead
in his shanty on the It'll, with his brains
knocked out. Dykeman was undoubtedly
murdered for plunder, as his pockets were
rif1ed. A clew has been obtained to the
murderers.
The formation of supreme and per-