Huntsville gazette., 1888-04-21
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

WRESTLING match between Dennis
Gallagher, of Buffalo, and Leonard, of
Belfast, N. Y, on the 14th, was won by
Leonard in two straight falls.
RICHARD SLEE. a jealous barber Of
Washington, accused q fellows -shopman of
flirting with his wife. A fight ensued, in
which Slee lost an ear, part of which, it
was said, his antagonist swallowed.
ONE man was killed and several others
slightly injured by an explosion of pow
der in a freight car in the yard of the
Louisville & Nashville railroad, at Mont
gomery, Ala, on the 1itb<r
MRS. Taft, the aged mother of DIR. J..
Taft, of Riverside, o., wa, run over and
killed by freight train in Cincinnati on
the 14th.
GEORGE CLARK was found guilty of
murder in the first degree, at Waynes-
vile, Pa, on the 14th.
w. A. ROWE, the American bicyclist,
was defeated at Leister, England, on the
14th, in the first of series of three races
for f200 and the championship of the
world, by Richard Howell, the English
champion.
THE Queenstown Qreland) branch of
Gillig's American Exchange dishonored
all drafts presented at its counter on the
14th.
DR.. Cox was found guilty of the murder
of Jennie Osborne by the jury in his case
at Easton, Pa, on the 10Th.
AN unmarried man named Doyle was
shot dead in the street, at Beaver Falls,
Pa, on the 10Th, in front of a brothel to
which he had just made an unavailing at
tempt to gain admittance.
AN accident by which one man was
killed and several others were injured,
was caused ON the st. Louis & San Fran
cisco railroad, at Tucsohoma, l. T., on the
10Th, by loaded freight car, which had
been left standing on the main track.
JOHN j. KNoDEL, becoming angry with
the fourteen-year- ar-oid son of Officer
James, of the New York police, tore both
his ears from his head, leaving his victim
in serious condition.
THE brewery of Fresenius & Son, at
New Haven, Conn.,, was burned on the
10Th, entailing loss of $150.000.
WIN. MERRITT, formerly superintendent
Of the Boston & Maine railroad, died on
the 10Th, at Maiden, Mass.
MEYER STREIFFER, aged fifteen, the
chief support of a widowed mother with
eight children, was killed by coming in
contact with broken electric-Hght wire
in New York. on the 14th.
THIRTY THREE Cinnamon were captured
in New York opium joint, on the night
of the 14th and fined ten dollars apiece.
JULES FERRY, i'll a speech on the 10th,
denounced General Boulanger as mu-
tinous soldier, and declared that direct
suffrage was not infalllble.
AT a mass-meeting of Republicans OF
Fairfield township (including the City of
Lafayette, Ind,) on the 18th, Gresham
delegates to the State convention were
chosen by overwhelming majorities.
THE motion to advance the cases OF the
Pacific National Bank Boston, made in he
Supreme Court OF the United States on
the 10th, was denied.
A RESOLUTION was adopted by the Har-
risburg lPa.) City Republican conven-
ton. on the 10th, in favor Of the nomlna-
ton of Senator Cameron for the Presl-
dency.
NEWS from Bucharest, on the 10th, was
to the effect that the rising of the Rou-
manian peasantry was extending, and
that large bands were assembling at var1-
GUS points with the avowed intention OF
attacking bucharest.
THE conference of foreign representa-
tives to arbitrate the American and other
disputes in Morocco, will begin in Mad
rid, Spain, May l.
AT the Republican county convention
held at Altoona, Pa, on the 10Th, Hon. }.
A. Lemon, of Hollidaysburg, was nom
mated for State Senator; Hon. Edward
Scuu for Congress, and VIM. j. Ham,
mond. of Altoona, was elected delegate to
the National convention.
THE Boston Baseball Club has offered
Radbourne the alternative Of s., 600 salary
and 800 for each game he wins, or abso-
lutte idleness during the season of 1888.
MATTHEW ARNOLD, the English poet,
while walking with his wife in Liverpool,
on the 18th, suddenly fell forward, end
without speaking a word, expired.
Ex-MAYoR GRACE of New YORK, who IS
in London, paid long visit to the Foreign
Office on the 10th, whore he was received
with marked attention by the officials.
THE uneasiaess caused in England by
the success of General Boulanger, on the
18th, was very much increased by the IN
favorable reports from Berlin OF the con-
dition of the Emperor
THE President vetoed three private pen
sion bills on the 10th.