Huntsville gazette., 1886-03-27
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| ties.
EDWARD JOHNSON, known also as Allen
! Wright, committed murder near Oak
| land, Neb., on the Goth and to escape pur-
| suit killed three more men. At last ac-I
| counts he was forti6eds in q barn aud was
keeping mob at bay.
THE Monarch Line steamer Persian Mon
arch, Captain Watson, which left London
March II for New York by the way of
Havre. went ashore on the Goth, near Tor
QUAY, Devonshire, in a dense fog. Tugs
succeeded in floating her, and she proceed
| ed to Plymouth, where she will be over
hauled.
| THE breaking away Of the Menomonie
| Falls. several miles west of Milwaukee,
Wis.,, on the Goth, caused a flood in the
| Mepomonie valley and necessitated tenn
| porary suspension of work at the West
| Milwaukee railway shops, where 1000 men
are employed.
LOUISE MICHEL is said to keep herself
poor by her benefactions, even giving
away her clothes.
DURING the year 1885 the number of Ger
mans who emigrated to the United States
was S4,6SO; to Canada, 6,492; to Brazil,
1000; to the Argentine Republic, 726; to
Chill, 6S2, and to Africa, 294.
JOSEPH H. O'DoNNELL, who was bonds
man for Alderman Jaehne, of New York,
withdrew his bond and surrendered the
alderman for custody on the 21st. O'Don-
nell had his suspicious aroused that
Jaehne was about to take trip to Cam
ada. Jaehne was locked up at police head
quarters.
NINE. HEILBRoN, the prima donna,
died at Nice on the 2lst. She leaves
daughter thirteen years of age and for
tune of 100000.
EARLY on the morning Of the Goth light
ming struck house at Watertown, Conn,
occupied by VIM. MEG affey and Clarence
Cook. Two. daughters of Mr.. McGaffey
were killed.
GENERAL THOMAS SWORDS, United
States army, died in New York on the
Goth. He fought against the Cherokees In
1880, was assistant quartermaster of the
Army of the West in the Mexican war and
chief quartermaster in various depart
ments during the war of the rebellion.
Four notorious Mexican horse thieves,
with seven stolen horses in their posses
sion, We're overtaken by the same number
of Americans near Lordsburg. N. NJ, on
the Goth, and in the fight which ensued
three of the Mexicans were killed. The
other escaped. Six stolen horses were re-
covered.
JUDGE BAsKIN, of Salt Lake City, has
gone to Washington as the bearer Of Gov
ernor Murray's resignation.
The Nebraska desperate who did such
deadly work in Burt County was finally
killed by the mob.
OFFICIAL dispatches say that cholera
has completely disappeared from Tom
quin.
Two men were killed and others severe
ly injured by fall of rock in a railway
tunnel near Pittsburgh, Pa, on the 22d.
AS result of the melting ice and snow
in Bohemia, the city of Prague and town
of Rakonitz were flooded. Several houses
were swept away. lns.
ANDREW SHUTTERS, cistern builder, sui
cided at Evansville, Ind, on the 22d, by
morphine. He was thirty mine years old
and leaves wife and four children. Do
mestic trouble was the cause.
The American Baseball Associa tion
has deposed President Mcknight, charg-
ing him with neglect of duty and partisan
ship.
A FURIOUS snow storm ragged all over
the upper peninsula OF Michigan on the
21st, and two feet of snow fell. All the
railroads were blockaded.
THE contract for furnishing 900 900
pounds of beef to the Indians at the Crow
agency in Montana was awarded to Wal
Of of GO T-10
hundred pounds. George T. Newman, Of
Missouri, bid $4.3S, and Hall Mccormick,
of Illinois, S4.37 1-2. - ,- .a.
AS result Of the loss of the Oregon the
Cunard Company have, for the present, at
least, abandoned the project of running
fast weekly steamers between Boston and
Liverpool.
A CYCLONE passed through northern In
diana on the night of the 2lst, visiting the
village of Williamsport with the greatest
effect. The Methodist Church and the
nited Brethren church were destroyed.
Many dwellings were damaged and every
barn in the village was overturned. A
number of cattle were killed
DR.. JOHN K. KANE, who participated
with his brother, DIR. E. Kent Kane, in his
North Pole expedition, died at Summit, N.
j., on the 22d. l,E --5s,f s.st,s 4
In the United States Supreme Court it
has been decided that Mackin and Gala
CHER, of Chicago, being charged with in
famous offenses, must be tried only on in
dictments, which remands the case to the
lower courts again.
GENERAL PRENDERGAsT, in commend of
the British expedition to relieve Yem-
ethen, in Burmah, telegraphs that he has
met and dispersed large body of in
surgents at that town. He adds that the
Woons in the vicinity are friendly.
The exodus Of Jews from Russian Po-
land has attained extraordinary figures.
The statistics show that during the year
1885 no less than 90, $50 left the country for
America, to say nothing of those who en-
igrated elsewhere.
THE Emperor Williams restoration to
health is ascribed to the warm weather
now prevailing. The 22d was the eighty
ninth anniversary Of his birthday. The
newspapers improved the occasion to pay
him the most fervid tribute.
BELGIAN, Dutch and French brewers
have become alarmed at the great increase