Huntsville gazette., 1886-09-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

d. hARRlS IOGERS mas nled his answer
to Mr.. Garland's cross bill in the PAN
Electric litigation.
On his return home to Madison, Wis,
from San Francisco, on the 9th, where he
was made commander in chief of the
Grand Army of the Republic, General
Fairchild was given a hearty reception
by delegates from posts of the city.
SIX Grecian villages, among them
Pyrgo and Philistra, were engulfed by an
earthquake on the 2Sth, and over six hum
dred lives were lost and nearly thousand
people injured. Se< <sral I-alian citias wsxa
badly shaken up and shocks were felt in
Egypt and elsewhere.
ZANKoFF and Grueof and the Metro
politan Clement, principals in forcing the
abdication of Prince Alexander, have
been convicted by court martial, the two
former being sentenced to death and the
latter to life imprisonment.
THE Commits sioner of Internal Revenue
has decided to place fine engraving of
the treasury building upon the special $500
oleomargarine stamp.
REARADMIRAL JOHN FL. RUSSELL has
been placed upon the retired list of the
navy, thus creating vacancy for the pro-
motion of Commodore Queen.
THIEVES and thugs are said to have es-
tablished reign of terror in Belfast, es
pecially in the Shank Hill district, which
has been practically deserted by the po-
lice.
GENERAL NEWTON was sworn in as Com
missioner Of Public Works of New York
on the 2Sth, and has assumed the duties of
the office.
FIVE persons, summer boarders, are ly-
ing i'll at Maiden, Mass, having been poi
soned with "Rodgh on Rats" administered
by colored servant girl through the tea
pot.
LARRY DONOVAN, a pressman in the
New York Police Gazette Office, jumped
from the center of the Brooklyn bridge in
to the East river on the 2Sth and was pick
ed up by friends in boat and found to be
uninjured. He was arrested upon land
ing, and later in the day was fined ten
dollars by Judge Duffy in the Tombs po-
lice court. Donovan won a wager of
$500.
JOHN MURPHY, aged eleven years,
youngest son of Thomas Murphy, ex-col-
lector Of the port of New York, was
drowned in the surf at Long Branch on
the 2Sth.
SURROGATE ROLLINS of New York
handed down his decision in the famous
Hoyt will case on the 2Sth. The will is
sustained.
THE lockout of the cigar makers in
Reading, Pa, which lasted sixteen weeks,
has been declared off, and benefits have
stopped. The union men have lost the
fight.
A SLIGHT shock Of earthquake was felt
at Wilmington, N. c., on the morning of
the 2Sth. Charleston, S. c., and Augusta,
Ga, also experienced slight shocks.
THE English cricketers arrived in New
Y ork on the 29th. ...-.
SPEAKER CARLIsLE's address on the
tariff question win, it is understood, soon
be sent to the country.
MISS CLARA LOUISE KELLOGG arrived
at New Y York from England on the steam
er Aurania ON the 29th.
IT is rumored in Washington that John
G. Myers, the absconding paymaster's
clerk, has been murdered in South Amer
lea.
THE new letter sheet envelope is issued
under the patent of L. H. Rogers, of New
York, and not of Leo Ehrlich, of st. Louis,
as was enormously stated.
The eclipse of the sun came off on the
29th, according to appointment, but the
pleasures of the occasion were somewhat
m AIRED in theWest by the inclemency of
the weather.
WILLIAM WANDsoR, of Vermont, a
notorious counterfeiter,s was captured in
Michigan on the 50th.
PRINCE ALExANDER's entry into Sis
tova on the 30th was one continuous
triumph.
FIVE men were killed and two injured
by an explosion on the 3Jth In the FAR
Lawn colliery at Scranton, Pa
The Bulgarian Cabinet has been remod-
eled, and is now strongly anti-Russian.
DANIEL MAGoNE, the new collector OF
the port of New York, has assumed the
duties of his Office. 1895
The fourteenth International Corn and
Seed market was opened at Vienna on the
30th.
THREE trackmen on the Pennsylvania
were struck by an engine near
Summer Hill, Pa, on the 3Oth, and were
torn to shreds.
A FARMER named Brosnan was shot by
in Castle Island, County
Kerry, Ireland, on the 30th.
JAMES MARSH was shot and killed by
Thomas Councilman, farmer, near Per-
ry, Ia, while raiding the latter's melon
patch on the night of tho 30th., Ssm
SEVEN persons were killed and twenty
two wounded in a railway collision, near
Vienna, Austria, on the. 3Oth. Fl
IT is reported that President Cleveland
has offered the position of Secretary Of the
Treasury to Senator John r.. Mcpherson,
of New Jersey.
KING MILAN telegraphed Prince Alex
ander on the 30th congratulating him
upon his return to Bulgaria.
JUDGE DoNoHuE in the New York Su-
preme Court, special term, has decided
a gainst the American Opera Company,
upon a claim of 5000 alleged 10 be due
under a contract with Charles E. Locke !.
manager Of the opera company.
THE bribery case against WIS. Cappel-
lar, at Columbus, o., was dismissed on the
Both, no one appearing to prosecute. Allen