Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-08
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

The deficit in the revenue of the Prus-
sian railways for the past fiscal year is
600 marks under the estim ates.
AN order has been issued by Secretary
Lamar which, it is thought, will prevent
running cattle into the Indian Territory to
avoid liability for debt.
SEVENTY men who had been induced by
labor brokers of Kansas City to go to
Hutchinson, Kas., on false representations,
captured Santa Fe train on the I'd and
went to Topeka, whence they were fur
nished transportation to Kansas City.
s. B. MOORE, a prominent citizen Of
Des Moines, Ia, died on the 1st of injuries
received from sandsbagg.ss.
THE British Parliament reopened on the
Sd.
The coroner's jury at Nebraska City,
Neb., on the 1st rendered a verdict that
Maggie Shellenberger came to her death
at the hands of her father and step-mother,
and there seemed to be probabilities of a
lynching in consequence.
BERNARD ASCHBERG, of Montreal, Can,
committed suicide at the Continental
Hotel, Philadelphia, on the I'd. No cause
is known.
MRS. JAMES A. GARFIELD and Miss Mol
lie Garfield are visiting Harry Garfield at
Concord, Mass.
The strike on the Southwestern Railway
system is ended. The General Executive
Board of the Knights of Labor, on the
night of the 3D., issued the order closing
the strike and instructing the Knights of
Labor to make application to the railway
MI
took formal effect on the morning of the
4th, having been sent to the local assem-
blies of District assemblies 101, 81 and II
on the evening of the Sd by Chairman Nc
Keon's joint executive board.
Mr.. AND MRS. SHELLINBERGER, who
were under arrest at Omaha, Neb., for
child murder, have been sent to the peni-
tentiary at Lincoln for safe-keeping.
NJ. ROCHE, the French Anarchist who
was released from prison to contest a seat
in the Chamber of Deputies, was defeated
Two brothers named Johnson, charged
with robbery, were pursued by officers
from Arkansas to the Indian Territory
One was killed and the other severely
wounded and captured.
THE French newspapers have changed
their tone on tbs Greek question and now
censure Greece for failing to keep her
promise to France.
MOB of several thousand Socialists at
tackled the Mccormick Reaper works at
Chicago on the Sd, and were only re-
pulsed by a free use of firearms in the
hands of the police. A large number were
wounded.
g.. 80 Al l..
year keeps pace with that of last though
there is a falling off in the April showing.
MExICANs raided Presidio County, Tex,
on the Sd and drove off go head of cattle.
REPORTS of labor troubles throughout
Germany continue to arrive.
THE congressional labor Investigating
committee expected to be in Fort Worth,
Tex, on the 9TH
NUMEROUS speeches were made through
out England on the Sd for and against
home rule.
the Union Pacific railroad have struck
against new schedule of wages.
SIR CHARLES dixie says he will deny on
oath the charges made against him in the
Crawford divorce case.
NATHAN w. HORTON, one of the best
known mining engineers in the country,
was killed by the cars at Tarry town, N.
Y, on the Sd.
ENGLAND and Germany have agreed up
on line of demarcation to separate their
South Pacific possessions.
The ,timated extra military expenses
of Turkey in consequence of the prepara-
tions made necessary by Greece's threat
ened attack will amount to $20,000,O00.
THE Baltimore & Ohio extension to New
York is to be ready for through freight by
May 10.
Four prisoners escaped from the Hamil-
ton County (O.) jail on the morning of
the Sd by cutting one of the bars of their
cell with a saw made from knife blade.
RANoDYN SHADD, aged seventy three
years, one of the pioneers of Calhoun
County, Mich, killed his wife with an axe
at their home, near TekOnsha, some time
during the night of the I'd, and then ended
his own career with razor
Mr.. GLADSTONE issued a stirring mani
festo to his Midlothian constituents on the
morning of the Sd. He recommends ref
erence to the lessons of history in dealing
with present questions.
THE nitro -glycerine house of the Cali
fornia Powder Works, located short dis
tance from Pineola, CAL, was blown to
atoms on the 3D. by the explosion of l, 800
pounds of nitro -glycerine which it con-
tanned. Three Chinese and Andrew An
derson (white) were killed.
The issue of standard silver dollars from
the mints during the week ended May l
was 1881 1856; the issue during the corre-
spending period of last year was $1S3,999.
The shipments of fractional silver coin
durin g the month of April aggregated
$780,, ,S57.
RUMoRS are in circulation that Glad
stone will disso olive Parlia ment immedi-
ately after the division in the House on
the second reading of the Home Rule bill
whatever the result of the vote.
THE United States steamer Quinnebaug
is under orders to be at Lisbon, Portugal.
in time to participate in the ceremonies
attendant on the approaching M arriage of
the Crown Prince of Portugal.
MRS THOMAS A. HENDRICKS returned