Huntsville gazette., 1888-07-07
PERSONAL AND GENERAL,

GooDENOUGH & WEIGELOM, book pub
fishers and dealers in Sunday y-school sup
plies at No. 122 Nassau street, New York
City, made general assignment for the
benefit of creditors on the 28th.
ALBERT E. KRANE, cashier for Hirsch
& Co., importers OF buttons at Nos. 427
and 429 Broadway, New York city, disap-
peared few weeks ago. Investigation of
his accounts revealed that he had appro
priated $1,000 of the firms money. De-
tectives were put on his track, and he was
traced to Montreal, where he is now
under arrest awaiting eXtraditiOn.
MRS. J. j. GRIFFITH and Mrs. DR..
Walker, of Jennertown, Pa, started in
buggy, on the 2Sth, to visit relatives in
the country. Each lady was accompanied
by little daughter. While descending
steep hill the horse ran away. The Grit
fifth child was killed by being thrown
from the buggy, and both ladies We're
probably fatally injured.
LILLIAN WARREN HAMMERSLY was mar
ried at half-past one O'Clock, on the 29th,
to tho Duke Of Marlborough by May or
Hewitt Of New York, at the City Hall.
Rev. CHARLES WHEELER and wife were
instantly killed near Winchendon,
Mass, on the 1st, by passing freight
trdlU, WHICH SLrucA tIlelT UuSBy. Lie
horses escaped uninjured.
GENERAL SHERIDAN embarked for his
trip on the Swatara on the 30th.
EMPEROR WILLIAM will probably ap-
point his brother, Prince Henry Imperial
Minister of Marine, to succeed General
Won Caprini.
E. L. LUMwALT, a lumber broker, of st.
Paul. Mimi, was forced to assign on the
29th, by an attachment for 5000, issued by
Ashland (Wis.) creditors. Liabilities,
$25, 900; assets, $1,000.
A SPECIAL from Aspen Junction, Col,
says Charles Whitehead shot and in
stantly killed Minnie Hill, on the Goth,
and then blew out his own brains. No
cause for the act was assigned.
THE Berlin Ercug ZeituRg, OF the 1st,
asserts that Prince Bismarck has induced d
Russia to abandon the idea of an alliance
with France.
JAMES JORDAN, q young colored man
who was at work on the fourth floor az
Hamilton's casket factory in Pitts burgh
Pa, fell through a skylight, on the 3oth, to
the ground, distance of sixty feet. He
| was terribly mangled and will die.
WILLIAM PARKINSON, a longshoreman
of New York City, took rough on rats. on
the ISL, WIFI l6tdl RESULTS DSS
and poverty were the causes which led to
the deed. He leaves a wife and one
child.
GENERAL JOHN B. MCINTOSH U. S. A,
retired, died of heart disease at his resi-
dence in New Brunswick, N. j., on the
29th.
JOSEPH AUTENBACH, a Reading (Pa. }
ice cream dealer, hanged himself in his
cellar, on the 39th, because his ice cream
had turned sour.
THE scale of the Amalgamated Associa-
ton Of Iron and Steel-workers, was
signed by Oliver Bros, g. Phillips, OF
Pittsburgh, Pa, on the night Of the 30th.
WIN. GRAINEY, while umpiring game
of ball in Brooklyn, on the 30th, was
| hit on the neck by the pitched ball and
died shortly after.
JAMES KENT, twenty five years of age,
was overcome by Illuminating gas at the
corner of Ninety fourth street and Sec
ond avenue, New York City, on the 30tb, and
was taken to the Presbyterian Hospital,
where he died on the 1st.
FOREST fires are raging in the vicinity
of Charlevoix, Mich.
J. =. BREEN, aged seventeen years, an
employe of Dobson's Carpet Mills at the
falls of the Schuylkill, near Philadelphia,
| was caught in the machinery and crushed
| TO death on the %.