Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31


1nri1 on a two months leave of absence.
Tur constables who arrested the whole
ale liouor dealers at Des Moines, Ia, and
DION released them, have been indicted
for receiving bribes.
THoyAs B. MCGUIRE. of Assembly No. 40,
Knigbts of Labor, gives it as his opinion
tbet the Knights favor Judge Gresham for
President.
GENERAL tie-up Of freight business
was exDerienced on the 24th ON the Bur-
rncton system as a result of the switch
mems strike.
Mr.. MCKINLEY, of the House committee
ON wavs and means, ,hasbeen authorized by
the minority to prepare tariff bill III op-
position to the Mills bill.
FPEyEZER STANYARD, twice convicted of
tbe murder of Alice Hancox, was, on the
92d. sentenced by Judge Johnston, at
Youngstown, O., to be hanged on July 13.
The success of the British debt-refunding
scheme proposed by Mr.. Goschen appears
TO be contingent upon the recovery of the
health Of Emperor Frederick of Germany.
THE city of Leipsic has bought Leibach's
celebrated portraits of Kaiser Wilhelm
and Bismarck for $4,000. The former
picture was painted in 1856 and the latter
in 1881.
NJ NETIEvITCH, Bulgarian Minister of
Finance, says the government has no in
tention to proclaim the independence OF
Bulgaria. The country will remain loyal
10 Europe.
The switchmen in the Erie-railroad
yard at Hornellsville, n. Y, went on a
strike on the 23d. 1t is reported that
the grievances are low wages and an OBJ
jectionable yardmaster.
EAGLE HEAD, we'll known Indian scout,
and John Warden, a white hunter, were
drowned under the ice while crossing the
Missouri river a few miles below Bis
marck, Oak, on the 2lst.
ALL the countries represented at the re-
cent Sugar Bounties Conference, with the
ssxcepuon OF France, have sent replies to
the British Government favorable to the
abolition of sugar bounties.
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THE great discussion between the Home
Market Club and Tariff Reform League of
Boston was commenced on the oath. Ben.
ButterwOrth, of Ohio, and Everitt Z.
Wheeler, OF Boston, were the speakers.
RINGGoLD COOPER, the American forger
whose swindling operations cost the Lon
don and Westminster Bank many thou
sand pounds, was convicted and sentenced
to fiteen years penal servitudc on the
9th.
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luton on the 92d to investigate reports to
the effect that three members had solicited
bribes to oppose the passage Of bill to
prevent the importation into tho State Of
foreign beef
COLONEL L. Z. faulkner and Leonard
Kuhn, director and cashier respectively of
the defunct First National Bank of Dams
vile, \. Z, were arrested on the 21st, upon
requlSition Of the United States Court, and
taken to Buffalo
IT Is stated, and generally believed, that
tbe police Of London have recovered from
the woodruff sisters, Harriet and Alice,
Slo'U0 Of the securities obtained by those
notorious women from Mr. Gill, of New
York, five years ago.
GOVERNOR BEAVER of Pennsylvania, on
the 23d, issued proclamation containing
stringent regulations designed to prevent
the spread of pleuro- pneumonia, which
was known to exist within a radius Of
eight miles OF Philadelphia.
The water in the Mohawk river rose
seven feet in three hours at Amsterdam,
n. Y, on the 22d, owing to an ice gorge.
Inc tracks Of the New York Central were
covered with water, and the town of Port
jackson was completely inundated.
JOHN I. HOWARD, one of the founders
OF Plymouth Church, father of several
welI-known journalists, father-in-law of
GENERAL Horatio King, and one Of the
fadlng citizens of Brooklyn, die
ol olapoplexy on the ed. He was eighty
years old.
NEW recruiting bill has been prepared
IN France which subjects all citizens to
service for twenty five years, with partial
exemptions in the case of students and
Others, with equivalent in taxes, which it
Is estimated will result in revenue of
1''VO0,OOOf. yearly.
MRS MINNIE LEBKNECHANER, of New
,AN' polSOneQ n2r three Boys because
slle was TO poor to feed them and feared to
nave them taken from her. When dis
covered by the police two of the little
fellows We're dead and the third and
Youngest was dying.
o,D DECISIONS on the appeals of Mr.. Patrick
Drlen, Luke P. Hayden and Garrett M.
p!rne, members of Parliament, from their
Senlences Of imprisonment, were rendered
at A'hlone, Ireland, on the 23d. The
sentences were confirmed, and Messrs.
- brlen and Hayden will have to serve
;nTee months and Mr.. Byrne four months
In Jail.
HE local branch of the National League
- 'ne Mansion House ward of Dublin has
EE"ssed q resolution condemning Mayor
.lr%lIt of New York for refusing to allow
tI,i Il'e iflsh fiag to be hoisted on the City
80 tlall on st, Patrick's Day, and declaring
NJ -. saeh refusal was an insult to the Irish
'"'s throughout the world.