Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-02
PERSONAL ANc, GENERAL.

THE appeal of ex-Alderman Henry NJ.
Jaehne, the convicted boodler of New
York City, for a writ of habeas corpus,
set for argument on the 18th, was post
poned for q week.
SIR CHARLES TUPPER, Canadian High
Commissioner to England, sailed from
New York to Liverpool on the Goth.
THE Peak murder trial was resumed at
Mt. Holly, n j., on the 18th. Judge Gar
rison excluded the so-calied dying decla-
ration of Kate Anderson. This decision
is regarded as the turning point in the
trial, and it is not unlikely that Peak will
escape conviction.
ROBERT FERRIS and Henry d. Christie
were found guilty of murder in the first
degree and sentenced to life imprison-
ment, in Wheeling, w. Va, on the 26th,
for the killing of Police Officer Joseph
Glen, of that CITY, on January Is.
DR.. SAMUEL F. GIESY, rector of Epiph-
any Church, Washington, died, on the
27th, of pneumonia.
MEMORIAL services were held over the
tomb of General Winfield Scott Hancock,
in Montgomery Cemetery, at Norristown,
Pa. on the 9th.
THE village of Shane's Crossing, o., was
struck by cyclone, on the 9th, and many
buildings damaged.
REV. DR.. LYMAN ABBOTT accepted the
permanent pastorate of Plymouth Church,
Brooklyn, on the 9th.
THE steamship City of Richmond, from
Liverpool, landed 1,1S7 Immigrants at
Castle Garden, New York, on the 9th.
MARY GEIsER, daughter of Frederick,
Md, n-keeper, whose marriage was
set for the Goth, but whose lover died a
month previously, in Kentucky, COM
mitted suicide on the day that was to have
seen her bride.
JULIUS r. GRISwOLD, Baltimore (Md.)
drummer, ended protracted spree, on the
9th, by jumping into the river at Cam
bridge, Nd. A plank was thrown to him,
but he refused to be saved.
The Prince of Wales left Berlin for
London on the Goth.
A WATERS SPOUT struck near Chadron,
Neb., on the 26th, blowing up growing
crops, sweeping away grazing cattle and
doing incalculable damage.
THIRTEEN candidates for ordination
were accepted by the Lutheran Minis
terium, in session ct Lar caster, Pa, on
the 26th.
ADvICEs from st. Johnsbury, Vt, on
the 9th, stated that the village of Hazen's
Mills was threatened with destruction by
forest fire. Many families had been
driven from their dwellings, and all the
men of the place were, at last accounts,
out fighting the flames.
COLONEL JOHN BRUA, brOther-in-la law Of
Simon Cameron, died, on the 2Gth, at the
home of Senator Keefes, another brother
in-law, at Cressona Pa.
CHAs. HoUsER, aged seventy mine,
living with a married daughter in Lam
caster, Pa, fell down stairs, on the Goth,
and broke his neck.
A SNOW STORM visited Kirkwall, Scot
land. on the 2Sth.
THE California delegates to the Demo-
cratic National onvention left San
Francisco, on the 9th, en- route East
A BRAKEMAN named Howell was in
stantly killed, and an engineer, a fireman
and two brakemen were seriously injured
in a collision near Walnut Station, fifty
four miles east of Flagstaff, Ariz., on the
2Sth.
GENERAL MENA, Mexican Minister to
England, has resigned his mission on ac-
count of private business.
DOM PEDRO, the stricken Emperor of
Brazil, left Milan, Italy,Ifor Aix-lcs- Bains,
France, ON the 31st.
l.. BROCK, aged sixty-three, a we'll
known railroad man, fell down stairs at
his home in Milwaukee, Wis, on the 2Sth,
and was instantly killed.
THREE middle spans, each 140 feet long,
of the bridge over the Muskingum, at
Gavsport, O., were blown into the river
during a severe storm on the 2Sth. The
structure, which had just been completed,
cost 100000.
Two locomotives were wrecked, and the
passengers were badly shaken up by a
collision between passenger trains on
the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad,
eight miles south of the latter city, on the
2Sth.
JOHN BRIGHT, the great English COM
moner, was reported seriously i'll with
fever on the 2Sth.
CAPTAIN DAVID GRAY, Pittsburgh
millionaire, died at the Fifth Avenue Ho-
tel, New York, ON the 2Sth, after two
weeks illness.
The report of the Erie Railroad Com
pany for April shows an increase of S24,-
500 in net earnings over the correspond
ing month Of last year.