Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-10
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

New York, New Haven & Hartford road.
chartered TO carry campaign clubs from
new haven to Boston, on the night of the
ou, ran upon an open switch while enter
ing bridgeport and the ties were torn
up and the cars badly damaged.
WooDcoCK and Henry, the American
favor1tes of the King of Wurtemburg,
suddenly departed from Nice, on the 81.
The King had located them in q pretty
villa opposite his own hotel, paying ;all
| their expenses.
| The condition Of Cardinal Newman, of
London, was reported somewhat better,
| though still grave, on the 1st.
| JAMES HAYES, Henry Gormley and VIM
| Sellan were drowned in Rochester Bav
near Boston, on the 4th, their sail boat
| having capsized. Charles Cogan, who
was with the party, was rescued.
| CHARLIE MITCHELL, the gentleman
pugilist," arrived in New York from En-
| gland, on the 4th, on the steamer Umbria
He says his visit is for recreation, but he
will accept any suitable business Offer
| Hon. MAHLoN D. SPAULDING, of Boston
one of the Californians Of 1S49, widely
known for his unostentatious charities,
died, on the night of the Sd, aged sixty
| one.
| Mr.. AND Mrs. j. g. BLAINE took lunch
con with Whitelaw Reid, at the latter's
Madison avenue residence in New York
on the 4th, and left for Augusta, Me-, via
Boston, on the 9th.
! THERE were ten new cases of yellow
| fever and two deaths at Fernandina,
Fla, on the 4th. Two OF the cases were
whites. One was Mead Hunt, acting
agent of the Florida Navigation Com
pany.
THE London Times, of the 4th, says:
"There is not the slightest reason to re-
tort by dismissing Mr.. Phelps, but we
would advise the government to show de-
| liber alton in choosing Lord Sackville's
successor
DIR. FRANK L. WYMAN was awarded
damages in the sum of $4,000 from the
Union Horse Railroad Company of Oh
neyville, r. l., on the Sd, for injuries re-
ceived by being thrown from the plat
| form of horse car.
| CRED Nose MIKE" the English speak
ing Italian, charged with the murder of
Paymas ter Mcclure and his guard near
Wilkesbarre, Pa, recently, was dis
charged from custody, on the Sd, for want
| of evidence.
JAMES w. VAIL, a banker, who is want
| ed at Point Washington, Wis, was To-
Gated, on the 4th, at Winnipeg, Man.
FRANK MARTIN, colored, Of Cincinnati,
fired upon two officers who were taking
his drunken wife to jail on the night of
the 81. The officers returned the fire, and
Martin was killed.
THE Y ale team defeated the University
of Pennsylvania at foot ball, IS to 0, on
the 81.
MRS. FRA NIX A. DEGRooT, of Milbury.
Mass, on the ID, gave birth to four girl
babies. Mother and children are all do
ing nicely, but the father is badly broken
up.
THE repairs of the White House in
Washington which have taken a great
deal of time lately, are nearly concluded.
The upper corridor has been thoroughly
strengt thened by new girders, and new
flooring has been laid there and on the
landings of both east and west stairways.
AS A special trainwaS returning to Chi
cago from Indianapolis. on the afternoon
of the 4th, crazy man jumped in front
of the engine at Radno Ind, and was in
stantly killed. His name was Sanford
Franklin. He had threatened suicide in
this way for months
The London Chronicles correspondent
at Rome, says: ''The Pope refused to
COIuDly Will COlilI IIOl OCA = N =
request to use his influence in behalf of
the government candidates in the elec :
tions for the Landtag. Hence the cool
ness between Germany and the Vatican.
Mgr. Jacobini will be made a Cardinal at
the next consistory."
On the evening of the 4th Young lady
on the South Side of Des Moines, Ia,
named Thompson. was found dead in her
room. supposed to have shot herself. She
had lust received q call from young
man who was waiting upon her, and after
he left shot was heard, and her friends
rushed in and found her dead.
A DISPATCH to the London Times, from
Zanzibar, says: ''The Germans have
burned all the dhows and boats in Whlnd
harbor. Lieutenant Fitzherbert, OF the
Algerine, in the face OF heavy ARAB
fire, chased dhow with go slaves of the
coast Of Madagascar until the dnoW
grounded. Sakalvas carried oil all the
slaves except twenty seven, which Lieu
tenant FitZherb bert captured with the
dhow.
THE military court of inquiry to inves-
tioate the lining OF the Washington tun-
mel aoueduct, resumed it's sittlngs on the
5th. Several witnesses testified as 10
the improper character of the packing.
AT College Point 4. Y, on the night
Of the 9Th, a respectable market gardener
named Joseph Kroeger was wantonly run
down in the street, trampled and killed
bv half dozen drunken fellows mounted
on mustangs, who were II ding recklessly
through the town. The men were traced
To a riding school in Brooklyn, but their
identify was not established.
MISS FLORENCE TooLE, the only re-
manning child of the famous comedian,
Jobn L. Toole, died in London on the
5th. Her father was prostrated with grief
at his loss.
A TERRIFIC explosion of nitro glycerlne
was caused on the 9TH, at the Delaware
Torpedo Company's warehouse at SAan-
nopiu. Pa, by tramp trying to force an
entrance to the magazine. The tramp
was blown to atoms.
THE four powder mills of the Oriental
Powder Company at Gambo, Me-, were
blown to pieces. on the 5th, and two men,
who were their only occupants at the
time, we're fatally hurt.
PRESIDENT CLEv LAND did not vote.
PuNoN SWtGER was arrested at lndlah
,1~ w Va on the ) l. for defrauQ1nS