Huntsville gazette., 1886-11-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

A DUBLIN lraueSinan explains that his
bankruptcy is due to his hein, boycotted
by the National League.
A New York jury on the 18Th after
seventeen minutes deliberation, found
Andrew j. Whitman. private detective,
guilty of blackmail and endeavoring to
extort $1,000 from Charles B. Seers, Of
Buffalo.
1 HE will of Mrs. Stewart was probated
in New York on the 13sh without any OBJ
lection having been made.
ID q 4. I'D 1ry Depsttinent has, Gems
hencsd TIE issd5 OF Tie new two-dollar
silver certificates.
ACCORDING to official figures the army
of the United States now consists of 2,1O2
officers ana 23,9i6 enlisted men.
Mrs. JANE WHEELER was brutally mur-
dered at Cleveland, O., on the morning of
the 18th. Benjamin Wheeler, her husl and,
has been arrested on suspicion of having
been concerned in the deed.
CONGRESSMAN w. 7. PRICE, of Wscon-
sin, is lying seriously i'll at his home in
Black River, and is not expected to re-
cover.
The American Secular Union, at its
meeting in New York on the 18th, elected
the following officers: President, Court
landt Palmer; secretary, Samuel P. Put
nam; treasurer, Eugene Mcdonald.
Colonel Robt. G. Ingersoll presided.
The Indianapolis, Peru & Chicago rail-
road was sold on the 18th under decree of
foreclosure for $l506,000. The bond
holders were the purchasers.
THE entertainment at San Francisco on
the night of the 18th for the benefit of the
Charleston sufferers netted about $500.
Mrs. MIRIAM PUTNAM, a daughter-in in
law of General Putnam of revolutionary
fame, celebrated her one hundred and Sec
ond birthday at Danvers, Mass, on the
14th.
A WELL-DREssED man entered the jew
elry store of Charles Upmyer at Milwau-
kee, Wis, on the evening Of the 18th
threw handful of red pepper into the
eyes of the proprietor, seized bundle of
watches and escaped.
REV. VIM. DELANEY, Catholic Bishop of
the diocese of Cork, Ireland, died on the
18th.
ACCORDING to off r." Ire e.urns the German
merchant fleet is composed of 4,135 ves-
sells, having registered tonnage of ,2S2,-
449 tons, and crews to the number OF 49,
931 men.
SIR HENRY DRUMMoND WOLFF, the
British Commissioner in Egypt, has been
summoned to London, though for what
purpose does not app ar
FIRE, resulting in a loss of nearly
| $4,000, occurred in the Staten island Dye
VI orks, ct Staten Island, N. Y, on the
18Th.
The steamer Yemasse, of the Charles
ton line, arrived in New Y ork on the 18th
with its chief officer, George w. Wills,
dead on heard, lis brains having Geen
dashed out by swinging jib-sail block.
PATTI arrived at New York on the 13th.
The tobacco tax collected by the Gov
ernment the past year was $s7,9o7, 1862.
LIZZIE DwYER, Ed. Ccrrigan's famous
mare, died of pneumonia at Lexington,
KY, on the 18th.
JOHN RYAN, a Hamilton 20. policeman,
killed a thief named Long on the 14th,
who was trying to escape.
A BILL for the conversion of the Belgian
national debt will be introduced in the
next parliament.
A LABOR convention is called to meet in
trades congress.
Two engines and fourteen freight cars
were demolished by collision on the Mis-
souri, Pacific railway at Denison, Tex, on
the 14th.
THE radical element had the upper hand
in the CHI i.ago Trades Assembly meeting
on the 4.h, and action was taken which
was virtually a snub to Mr.. Powderly.
BooDLEMAN McQUADE's trial opened in
New York on the 18th.
MICHAEL DAvITr was rendered recep-
tion at Pittsburgh, Pa, on the night OF
the 15th.
Prince BISMARCK has returned from
Berlin to Eredericksruhe.
THE WHEELER murder mystery at C!eve-
land, O., remains unsolyed.
DR.. SALMON says the cattle disease IN
Indiana is not pleurc- pneumonia.
NINE deaths resulted from railway
accident at Sisteron, France, on the 14th.
ACCORDING to the latest calculations the
Democratic majority in the incoming Con-
gress will be twenty-one.
PRINCETON College is ponting because
she thinks she was sighted at the Har-
ward celebration by DR.. Holmes.
Prince WALDEMAR, it is said, is per-
sonally wiling to accept the Bulgarian
throne, but daddy says he mustn't
VINCENT MEsTRE, member of the Span
ish legation, is under arrest at New. YORK
on charge of robbing woman.
A SECRET Socialist meeting was held at
Frankfort, Germany, OH the 18th, and
twenty-five persons were arrested.
AN extensive revolutionary scheme at
Philippopolis, which was fostered by the
Russian consulate, has been frustrated.
THE National Cattle-Growers' Assoeia-
tion has decided to unite with the Ma
tional Cattle and Horse-Growers' Associ-
alton.
CoUNT KALNoKY's 5 recent speech before
the Austro- Hungarian delegations has
created bad impression at st. Peters
burg.
AT Antelope, Ar:z., on the loth, =. >.
Stanton was killed in row with Mexl-
cans, one Of whom was also killed by
companion of Stanton.
many of the Chicago Union Stock
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