Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-20
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.


ceneo in front of Cooper Union, New
York City, on the 14th, and escaped.
The steamers City OF Peking and Par
thia arrived at San Francisco, on the 14th,
with 243 Chinese on board.
THE Sioux Indians now in Washington
held a pow WOW, on the 14th, to agree on
programme for the council with Secre-
tary Villas, which took place on the ID th.
A MOTION for the impeachment of GEN.
eral Sir Charles Warren, for cons picuous
mismanagement resulting in the destruc-
ton of the esprit du corps of the metro
politan poll ce Of London, will be intro"
ddced at the next session of Parliament.
THE London Times published the entire
contents of DR.. Mackenzie's book, on the
18th, in advance of the appearance of the
book itself.
MRS. SACKETT, OF Santa Fe Springs,
Cal, was shot and seriously wounded, on
the 14th, by tramp to whom she had
refused work.
JAMES GORDON BENNETT arrived in New
York by the steamer Bourgogne on the
18TH
A VEHICLE containing Henry A. COwell
and wife and Howard M. Lowell and wife
was struck by train on the Old Colony
railroad near West Barnstable. Mass. on
the 14th. COwell was instantly killed,
and the others were fatally injured.
M. FERRY, in speech, on the I4th, said
that France did not desire revision of
the constitution.
JUDGE THURMAN left Columbus, O., on
the 14th, for brief campaigning tour of
Indiana.
THE Government Of Morocco persists
in its refusal to salute the Portuguese
flag. The dispute is becoming acute.
A GERMAN protectorate has been de-
clared over Pleasant Island in the South
Pacific.
A STATUE of the poet Shakespeare was
unvailed at Paris, On the 14th, with inn
posing ceremonies.
TWELVE hundred and ninety-nine i'm
migrants were landed at Castle Garden,
N. Y, on the 18th.
A 100000 FIRE occurred in Glasgow,
Scotland, on the night OF the 14th.
THE French painter Feyn-Perrin died
in Paris on the 14th.
M. DoNNET, Republican, was elected
Senator for Haute Winnie, France, on the
14th.
NEGOTIATIONS looking to a cessation OF
hostiIities between the German repre-
are pending.
MARY ANDERSON will sail from queens
town for New York on the 2Sth.
THE Farmers and Mechanics Bank OF
Pitts sburgh, Pa, closed its doors and
went into the hands Of assignees on the
18Th.
A GAS explosion occurred at the Dar-
rance shaft, near Wilkes barre, Pa, on the
18th, by which Benjamin Markey, boy,
was fatally burned, and two others were
seriously scorched.
GENERAL MASTER WORKMAN PoWDERLY
published letter, on the 10th, IN which
he accuses Messrs. Barry and Lichtman
of having joined the Knights of Labor
with sordid motives.
IT is said the Pope will hold consisto-
rv shortly, at winch he will deliver an
ailocution on the subject Of Emperor
williams visit to the Vatican.
A CONSPIRACY against the Dutch resi-
dents at Madison, on the Island OF Java,
has been discovered, and forty OF the
r;no. leaders arrested. Eleven of the
consnirators, who would not surrender,
were shot ~, e
WARRANT was issued, on the 10Th, for
tho arrest of Mr. Pierce Mathony, MEM
her of Parliament for North Meath, Ire
land. for melting tenants not to pay rent
HON. A. A. THOMPSON, at one time Judge
~ tba Marine Court in New York C1ty,
died suddenly at Rochester, NJ x, on lhe
15th. He was sixty-eight years OF age.
RoBeRr DANDIN, of New York City, was
,,,iesed from the Anchor Line steamer
Etbiopia. on the 10th, and is supposed 10
have committed suicide by jumping
overheard.