Huntsville gazette., 1886-01-16
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

persons are among the repressive meas.
ures.
GENERAL SHERIDAN has succeeded in
keeping General Crook in the saddle.
MORE complaints are made Of extensive
smuggling along the Mexican border
The Philippine islanders have subscribed
100000 fer torpedoes to protect their
waters.
GREAT loss and much suffering on the
cattle ranges have been caused by the re-
cent blizzard.
THE ice broke on London pond on the
10th, and more than 100 skaters got cold
bath,
Four soldiers were killed by the explo-
sion of a powder magazine in the arsenal
at Kief, Russia, on the 10th.
THE Baltimore & Ohio Railroad on the
18th began cutting rates from New York to
the West.
SIR EDWARD THORNTON, British Am
bassador to Turkey, has arrived at Con-
stantinople.
CHAs. H. VEo, the Harvard student who
is under arrest at Clinton, Mass, for COM
plicity in robbing the bank there, has made
full confession.
THE Inauguration of Hon. j. B. Foraker
as Governor of Ohio took place at Column
bus on the 18th.
JACOB HENRY, of Schenectady, N. Y,
committed suicide on the 11th.
GERMANY has seized the Samoan Islands.
Having got left on the Carolines, she
thought she'd look after some more.
A STATE convention of Ohio miners is to
be held at Columbus in The near future.
A CHILD of John Gunderson, of Baldwin,
Wis, was burned to death on the 11th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM has signed the spirits
monopoly bill.
THE Indiana State Democratic Editorial
Convention is called for February 22d at
Indianapolis.
SPAIN has fatty refused England the
privilege of a coaling station on the Caro-
line Islands.
HON. ALLAN G.. THURMAN was nominat-
ed for Senator by the Ohio Democratic
caucus on the 18th.
JOHN MCKANE, Loyalist member of the
British Parliament from Armagh, Ireland,
is dead.
SPELLMAN's cigar factory and portion
of the Northwestern Hotel at Cedar Rap
ids. Ia brrnad IN the 11th
CHARLES BRADLAUGH will be permitted
to take his seat as member of the British
Parliament from Northampton.
A COLLISION occurred on the Baltimore
& Ohio Railroad, just south of Pittsburgh,
Pa, on the 18th, bruising and injuring a
number of persons.
LoYALIsT meetings for the purpose of
continuing the agitation against home
rule are to be held weekly at Dublin.
AT a Parnellite conference at Dublin, on
the 11th, it was resolved to continue with
unabating determination the struggle to
secure the rights of Ireland.
THE steamer Katahdin put in at Ports
mouth, N. H., ON the 18th in helpless
condition, being disabled by storms at sea.
THE Anarchists at Paris are greatly en-
ragged at the nonappearance of a procla =
nation of amnesty to Anarchist offenders.
CAPTAIN CHRISTIAN OLSEN was picked
up on Calf Island, Boston harbor, on the
11th, the only survivor Of the crew of the
schooner Millie Trim, lost in the recent
storm.
JACOB HENRY, a well-known and much
respected elderly Hebrew, of Schenectady,
N. Y, committed suicide on the 18th by
shooting.
A YOUNG man known as John Mullen,
alias John Mcdonald, who says he comes
from Chicago, has been arrested at Jamai-
ca Plains, Mass, on suspicion of being
counterfeiter. He had in his possession
some excellent plaster of-paris moulds for
silver dollars.
FRED MYERS, an aged German, was
found dead south of Seymour, Ind, on the
18th, lying in ditch, having become in
toxicated and lain out all night. Three
teamsters from Clear Spring left Seymour
for that place and at Ewing, eleven miles
west, one of them, Chock Ranny, was
found dead in his wagon, frozen. John
vosbrink, lamp-lighter at Seymour, was
picked up on the street insensible from the
cold.
THE British steamer Hylton Castle, Cap
tain Colvin, from New York, January 9th,
for Rouen, France, foundered fifteen miles
south of Fire Island Light on the 11th.
One boat, in charge of the first mate, with
a crew of nine men, effected landing,
The second boat, with crew of ten men,
under command of the Captain, left the
steamer at the same time. When last seen
all but three of the oars had been broken.
THE Orange Growers Protective Union
of Southern California has completed an
organization. M. Betner, of Riverside,
and DIR. Club, of Los Angeles, have left
to establish agencies in the East.
ALL Chinese workmen employed by the
Pioneer, Sacramento and Phoenix -four
mills, the Capital Woolen Mills and the
American Laundry at Sacramento, CAL,
were discharged on the 11th. Three hun
dred white men will be employed in their
places.
THE prices Of imported goods are being
advanced by the merchants of Mexico in
consequence of the continued depreciation
of silver. Refined petroleum from the
United States has advanced nearly four
teen per cent.
ENGLAND proposes that Turkey also
shall demobilixe her army. 1t is stated
that the Austrian army will not expend
much money on repeating rifles for the
army unless other countries decide to
adopt that kind Of arms. The London
Telegraph says that the powers demand
that Greece, Servia and Bulgaria demobil :
ire their armies.