Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-30
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

the 23d. on cnargo OF arson, she having
made deliberate attempt to burn the
house of her employer, with two young
children, because she could not go to
party.
u JONES and T. Treneder, Mormo MS,
have been held in $4,000 and 5000 bonds
respectively at Salt Lake City for at
tempting to br!be United States officers.
Hon. DonMAN B. EATON, Civil-Service
Commissioner, sent his resignation to the
President on the Esd, to take effect March
3next.
| The trial ut East Saginaw, Mich, of
| State Representative Barry for conspiracy
in leading the strikers at the time of the
mill mems strike in the Saginaw Valley
| last summer, ended On the 23d with ver-
| dict of not guilty.
GEORGE F. LANGBEIN, JR., shot himself
dead in New York on tho night of the
| 23d because Mrs. Jennie Noll, a divorced
woman, of whom he was enamored, en-
| couraged other admirers.
By the explosion of locomotive boiler
| in the roundhouse at the Chicago, Mill
waukee G. st. Paul depot at Madison,
Wis.,, Peter Burk was instantly killed and
nine others were badly injured, some it is
feared fatally.
A FIRE in the West Shore ferry house at
New York on the oath caused loss of $75,-
900.
ABOUT sixty feet Of the road-bed of the
Philadelphia & Reading Railroad caved
in near Shenandoah, Pa, on the 23d, leav-
ing hole over seventy feet in diameter.
1t dropped into the mine below. A pas
two in hcd tt,ct caI tla
followed by coal train. The latter had
narrow escape.
SENATOR COcKRELL broke his right
thumb by fall on a slippery sidewalk at
Washington on the 18th.
A DEMONSTRATION was held at Athens on
the Oath to protest against the attitude Of
England on Eastern affairs.
THE county poor-house near Jackson,
Mich, burned on the morning OF the oath,
and five aged and insane inmates perished
in the flames.
A SCHEME is on foot to have the Erie
canal broadened and deepened at govern
ment expense.
THE Greek Premier says Greece will not
diserm. The Greek feet have sailed un-
der sealed orders.
Rev. JOSEPH G.. WILSON, of the Fort
Madison la.) Plaindealer and former
United States Consul to Jerusalem, is
dead.
AN advance of ten per cent. in wages
has been demanded by tho Pennsylvania
railroad coal miners at Irwin, Pa.
PARNELL has instructed the Nationalist
electors of Armagh to vote for the Liberal
candidates in the coming election.
REPRESENTATIVE JOSEPH RANKIN, of
Manitowac, Wis, died at Washington on
the 24th Of Bright's disease of the kidneys.
| THE bulgarian envoy, who is empowered
to negotiate with the Porte for the union
of Bulgaria and Roumelia, has arrived a5
Constantinople.
HERR BERG, vice. president of the Danish
Folkething, sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment for disturbing political meet
ing, has been committed to prison.
KEENE, the actor, is improving and viii
take the road again soon.
VIOLENCE has ceased, but the strike
goes on in the Pennsylvania coke region.
THE peace proposals of the Servian cab
met have been submitted to King Milan.
FCLMER's school-slate factory at Allen
town. Pa, was destroyed by fire on the
25th.
A NUMBER of Austrian villages have
been submerged by floods from the River
Szamos.
HENRY L. WILKINS, the Omaha man who
became violently insane at Boston few
days since, died on the 18th.
GREEK, Turkish and Egyptian securities
each fell one per cont. on the London Stock
exchange owing to the Eastern outlook.
COLLISION on the Grand Trunk rail-
way, near Toronto, Ont, on the 2Jth Grip
pied one han and caused a large loss
otherwise.
The North German Gazette says the atti
tude of England in regard to Greece must
be vigorously supported.
ARCHBISHOP WALSH and Lord Mayor
Sullivan of Dublin declined to attend the
farewell dinner to Lord Carnarvon.
EXTRAORDINARY preparations are being
made in Turkey to expedite the dispatch
of troops and munitions Of war to the
Greek frontier.
In the House of Commons on the Goth
Sir Michael Hicks Beach said the Govern
ment had no intention Of abandoning the
Irish constabulary.
THE winter in Scotland is said to be the
most severe experienced in twenty years.
Miss MARY ANDERSON began Wash
ington engagement at Walbaugh's opera
house on the evening of the 25th, present
ing "Pygmalion and Galatea," and "Com-
edy and Tragedy" The house was crowd
ed with a brilliant and enthusiastic audi
ence.
A FARMER named Edwin Coule living
eight miles from Evansville, Ind, while
feeding his team on the 18th in his wagon
yard, was kicked by mule in the breast
and side, sustaining fracture of several
ribs and severe internal injuries, which it
was thought would prove fatal.
THE Court Of Claims announced it's de.
cision in the Choctaw case on the 25th,
rendering decision in favor of the In
dams to the amount of about $40, 900.
JOHN KELLY, the noted Gotham politi-
clan, had another relapse on the Esd, and
has been much worse since then. He was
just beginning to improve somewhat when
the sudd en- change came and he lost very
rapidly. On the 25th he was restless and