Huntsville gazette., 1888-08-04
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News Of the Day Condensed for the
Hnsty Perus0P.

News Of the Day Condensed for the
HAsty Peruser.
There is an epidemic Of typhoid fever at
Marietta, 0.
Twentv-one houses were struck by light
ming during storm at st. Cloud. MINI.
Ano farmer named Henry Long was
bunkoed out of $50 by q crook at Hubbard,
Ohio.
H. E. Pennypacker, aged forty five years,
has been arrested in Pittsburg on a charge
OF forging oil leases.
Jess Ringle and two young ladies were
thrown from u buggy by a runaway horse,
at Attica, O.. and SCI iously injured
Judge Alfred Hand, Of Scranton, has been
appointed to the vacancy on the state su-
preme bench, caused by the death Of Justice
Turnkey.
Crops in the eastern half of Kansas are in
a very satisfactory condition, but rain u
needed in the northwest and southwest por-
tions of the state
The New York state insurance department
has shut up the New York Safety Reserve
Fund association. The liabilities are $43.-
l6l. q. and total assets $l223.
Otto Hupkemyer. who was formerly an
on the wharf at Memphis. Tenn He was
murdered for the purpose Of robbery.
Two boys named Wilmer and Barkley
started out for a hunt at Wooster, 0. Be-
fore they had gone very far Barkley was ia
tally wounded by the discharge Of gun.
Capt. Tremper. Of the steamboat Baldwin,
reports that meteor crashed through the
pilot house of his craft on Tuesday night, of
Manhattanvilie N. Y Nobody was hurt
Robert Blythe. marshal Of Mt Vernon,
o., was attacked by man named Lee, who
sprang upon him and cut horrible cash in
his neck and face with a razor, severing sew
eral small art teries.
So far as be learned the Southern Ute
Indians are favorably impressed with the
proposition of the government to purchase
their reservation in Colorado, and remove
them across the line
At White Bead Hill, Chickasaw nation,
James Powers and E. NJ Weaver, farmers
and cousins, had difficulty, during which
Powers shot Weaver dead with Winchester
rifle. The murderer escaped.
The rotten timbers of the Baltimore &
Ohio railroad bridge over the Youghiough-
eny river, near Connellsville, Pa, gave way,
precipitating shifting engine and one car
into the river Nobody injured
A couple Of boys named Golden, aged ten
and twelve years, living i'll East Des Moines,
went out on the Rock Island track about
seven miles, and tried to wreck train.
Section hands discovered the obstruction
Strenuous efforts are being made to secure
communication in the case Of Mrs. Pyle under
sentence Of death at Walla Walla, w. I.
Governor Hemple has received twenty eight
petitions, signed by over two thousand per-
sons
The Illinois live stock commissioners have
received information of the probable exist
snce of Texas fever at Brighton, Effingham,
Mallon and Neoga. The Brighton case has
been investigated and found to be Texas
fever
At Smthon, Ark, Shelby Sledge at
tempted to cut his wife's throat Henry
Brown interfered and was cut several times.
Brown then procured shotgun and emptied
both barrels into Sedge's side. Brown sur
rendered.
A mob invaded the general Office Of the
North Side cable road at Chicago, demand
ing the return of fares and threatening to
assault the president OF the road, Charles T.
Yerkes. The demonstration occurred when
for the second time within twenty four
hours the new cable collapsed The gather
ing finally dispersed without doing any
damage to person or property.