Huntsville gazette., 1888-07-28
HUNTSVILLE ALA, SATURDAY, JULY 2s, 1888.
OFFICERS arrived at San Diego. Cal. on

OFFICERS arrived at San Diego, Cal, on
the 22d, from Yuma, Ariz, having in
charge Pedro Yames, the ffteen-year -old
boy who murdered Station Agent Steven
son at Glamis, Col, some time ago.
FREIGHT train and a work train came
in collision on the Norfolk g. Western
railroad eight miles west of Lynchburg,
Va, on the 22d. Both engineers, one fire.
man and five train hands, and two other
men were killed, and both engines were
wrecked.
PRESIDENT CARNoT left Valence, on the
23d, for Paris. His departure was made
amid enthusiastic plaudits.
PETITION is in circulation among New
York City workingmen asking the Pres
1dent to rem owe Postmaster Pearson for
defying the Eight Hour law and other al
| legged offenses.
AT meeting of the British Cabinet, on
the 23d, it was decided to hold an autumn
| session of Parliament. The two houses
Will adjourn in the second week of Au-
gust, and will reassemble in October.
JAKE GAUDAUR, the oarsman, on the
23d, refused to row William O'Connor, of
Toronto, Ont, on the ground of the lat
ter's want of eputation.
The striking engineers and fremen of
NJ cCook, Neb., voted unanimously, ON the
23d, to continue the strike against the Chi
| cago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Com
pany.
MANAGER GooDING of the Minneapolis
Baseball Club decided, on the 23d, to
| remain in the Western Association.
| THE health Of Governor Ames of Mas
| sachusetts had so far improved, on the
| 23d, that he was able to sit up part of
| the day.
THE Senate committee to which was re-
ferred the reports of the Pacific Railroad
Commissioners had short meeting on
the 23d, but did nothing except order the
| printing of certain papers.
| GENERAL WIN. G. WICKHAM receiver of
the Newport News & Mississippi Valley
road, died in his Office at Richmond, Va,
| on the 23d. The doctors attribute his
| death to heart disease.
MRS. MARY SHOEMAKER and her five
| year old grandson, James Barrian (col-
| ored), were instantly killed and horribly
| mutilated by passing train, in Sing Sing,
| n. Y, on the 23d.
| GOVERNOR HILL, of New York, when
| questioned, onthe 23d, concerning the re-
| port that he had decided to commute the
death sentence of Mrs. Chiara Cignarale,
| said it was news to him. He has taken no
action in the case.
| ACCORDING to the June census, just
completed, in Baltimore, Nd, there are
| 10, 731 school children in that city.
| A. B. EDISON, a prominent farmer of
| the Chickasaw Nation, while cleaning out
| his well, on the 23d, was overcome by foul
air, and while being drawn up, fell from
| the top and broke his neck.
| AN east bound freight on the Baltimore
& Ohio railroad, consisting Of thirty five
| cars, jumped the track near Belmont, O.,
on the 22d, completely demolishing six
teen cars. A brakeman, whose home is in
Newark, N. j., was fatally hurt. Loss
| unknown.
THE Union Pacific Railway Company,
on the 23d, announced a cut in freight
rates at points in Utah between Yampa
and Lehi Junction, of thirty cents on
first class freight, twenty cents on
second, third and fourth classes, fifteen
cents on fifth class, twenty cents on A
and eight cents on B, c, D and E.