Huntsville gazette., 1886-05-15
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

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SEVERAL European papers are of the
opinion that Russia will secretly support
Greece.
PERIKo FERNANDEZ, a rich Cuban, and
head of the firm of Fernandez & Calvo,
New York, was shot and killed at Haw-
thorne, N. j., during the night of the Sth
| by his wife, who then blew her own brains
out.
A MOB attacked Salvation army meet
ing at Zurich, Switzerland, on the 9th, and
injured several persons.
The London Daily Ne,os says no Ameri-
can author, though all are welcome, will
be so welcomed as Holmes, the patriarch
of literature.
AT at public meeting at Athens on the
9th warlike speeches were made and a res
olution favoring war with Turkey was
carried amid wild excitement.
| JOHN WYMER and his four-year- old
daughter were instantly killed, and his
wife and a three-ye old daughter fatal
ly injured by being struck on crossing at
Inwood, Ind, on the 9th by a Fort Wayne
railroad train.
BARLEY CAMPBELL, the dramatist and
manager, is said to be going the way of
John Mccullough.
KING CHARLES OF WURTEMBURG is lying
dangerously i'll of spinal complaint at
Nice.
| FRANK CLEMENT, q member of the
Modjeska dramatic company, committed
suicide on the Sth at Newark, N. j., by
throwing himself in front of a moving
| train.
| THE President left Washington on the
Sth on Mr.. VIM. Woodward's steam yacht
Wanda for trip to Representative w. L.
| Scott's stock farm on the shore of Chesa-
peake Bay. He expected to return to the
capital on the 10th.
| THE total imports of merchandise at the
port of New York for the week ended the
Sth were valued at $6,315, ,29S, exclusive Of
dry goods.
| PETER GOSsET, manager of the Jersey
| (England) Bank, which failed under sus
picious circumstances, has been sentenced
to five years penal servitude for embezzle-
ment of $lS5 700.
| PETER KNICHREHN, a German, who had
previously rendered himself conspicuous
as an Anarchist agitator, was arrested at
| Davenport, Ia, on the night of the Sth,
| while addressing an Anarchist meeting.
! THE Hambletonian stallion, half-brother
to Maxey Cobb, owned by Mr.. Halliday,
and valued at $4,000, died at Lincoln,
Neb., on the Sth.
THE total exports of specie from the port
were s., ,423, $50, sos, 900 of which was sill
yer.
GUsTAvE WOLFE was struck and killed
by lightning at Burlington, Ia, on the
10th.
THE United States Supreme Court has
adjourned until October next
IT is believed at Dublin that the Govern
ment intends to disarm the Ulster 10y
alists.
IT is now positively denied that Land
Commissioner Sparks is to resign.
Mr.. GLADSTONE moved the second read
ing of the Home-Rule bill in the House of
Commons on the 10th.
TEN children were poisoned at Brook
vile, Pa, on the 10th, by eating akerroot;
| all but one will recover.
| THE Delyannis ministry have resigned,
and NJ. Rikakis has been commissioned by
King George of Greece to form a new min
istry.
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sued requisition on the 10th for George
johnson, Missouri horse-thief, Temporal
rily detained at Leon, la.
| A RESOLUTION was introduced in the
Methodist Episcopal General Conference
at Richmond, Va, on the 10th, by DR.. NJ.
B. Chapman, Of Missouri, looking to the
union of the M. Z. Church South and
the NJ. E. Church North.
BEFORE resigning, Premier Delyannis
sent note to the foreign powers in which
he said he considered the action of the
Powers in blockading Greek ports entire
| ly unjustifable.
SECRETARY WHITNEY emphatically de-
nies that he has any interest in the Nd
tiondl Republican newspaper.
TITUS B. LATIMER, Brooklyn IN. "
petroleum broker, committed suicide on
the 9th by shooting himself in the head.
Pecuniary embarrassment is supposed to
have been the cause of the act.
EDWIN STEWART, son of General Edwin
r. Stewart, Of New York, was thrown
from his horse at Pueblo, Col, on the 9th,
and was fatally injured. His father was
at once informed of the accident.
AGNES CARROLL, step-daughter of Gem
eral Lee, has been betrothed to Count
| Antony Hussenstamm at Vienna.
| A TORNADO passed through Wayne
County, Ind, on the night of the 9th, de-
stroying every thing in its path. One
woman and two men, names unknown, are
reported killed.
THE combined feet of the Powers, which
was ordered to blockade the Greek ports,
has been compelled to return to Suda Bay,
owing to the severity of the weather.
NORMAN LAUNsBERRY, aged seventy
eight years, farmer living near Oswego,
N. Y, in fit of jealousy on the 10th shot
his young wife, aged fifteen years, and
her relative, Horace Payson, aged thirty
five years. He then shot himself before
officers arrived to arrest him. They all
are dead.
THE town OF Laurel, Ind, was again Wis
tied by fire on the 10th, having been nearly
destroyed short time ago. This time the
loss is about 600; insurance, $1,000. j..
Geyer, dry goods, Is the principal loser