Huntsville gazette., 1888-10-13

VOLUME TX.
NEWS IN BRIEF.
c.uptIcA from varieas Sources.
pn,xcr HENRY of Battenberg has been
,rnoiuted honorary commander in the
Austrian navy.
THE majority and minority reports on
,be senate Tariff bill were submitted to
that body on the 4th.
TIE Vermont Legislature was or
ganized. on the 4th, and Governor Dilling-
ham inaugurated.
MAYOR HEWITT Of New York, on the
c.b occonted the nomination of the Citi-
zens and County Democracy for re-elec-
ton.
TIT annointment of John H. Oberly, of
Illinois TO be Commissioner of Indian
Affairs. was con Emed by the Senate on
the Sth.
the reelection of Mayor Hewitt on the
pround of his attitude toward foreign
citizens.
FERNANDrNA, FLA. has a Howard AS
sociation, formed of members who went
through the yellow fever epidemic in that
town in 1877.
THE reception of Mr.. Blaine at Adrain,
I:ah h. hA,, f1,- 81,
pickpockets, and robberies ranging as
high as 500 were reported.
SIR CHARLES WARREN, Chief Commits
sioner of the London police, has decided
to employ bloodhounds in the search for
the Whitechapel murderer.
OF the 100000 foreigners in France,
only 100000 are naturalized. and only
one-fourth of the citizens Of foreign
extraction were born in France.
~
The damage by the late frost to the
tobacco crop in the South Side section of
Virginia is very great, and more than
one fourth of the crop has been COM
pletely ruined.
THE One Hundred and Twenty fifth and
One Hundred and Twenty sixth New
L
Gated at Gettysburg, on the 81, with i'm =
posing services.
A RUMoR was afioat in Chicago, on the
4th that large quantity of dynamite had
been found secreted in a North Side base
ment. Search by Captain Setback failed
to discover the explosive.
OSCAR FALLEUR, the alleged Belgian
convict glass blower, who had been de-
tanned by the custom house officers in
Castle Garden, New York. for three
weeks, was released on the 4th.
THE North German Gazette, Of the 5th,
positively asserts that the statement that
Prince Bismarck threatened to resign
unless Prof. Geffieken was prosecuted, is
an impudent, lying invention.
M. CHAUvIERE, the Socialist member
Of the Paris Municipal Council, who ar
rived in Belgium on the 7th, was exp eled
from the country, despite the vigorous
protests of the Socialist workmen.
SOUTH GERMAN papers, OF the Sd, report
that the police received warning of an
Anarchist plot to kill Emperor William
during his journey from Munich to Vien-
ma, the route to which was chan ged.
FRANK H. DODGE was acquitted at Bel
lows Falls, Vt, on the Sd, of the murder
of Postmistress Knapp at Dummerston.
1t appeared that Miss Knapp died Of con-
sumption, complicated with heart disease.
THE police Of Moscow Russia on the
Sth, discovered in a cellar a complete
mauufactory of dynamite shells, and ar
rested the proprietor, q Nihilist recently
returned from penal servitude in ST.
beria.
THE story published in a London jour-
nal Of gossip to the effect that Mrs. Gen.
eral Sheridan was to be married to
titled Englishman, was denied, on the
Sth, and pronounced absurd by the lady's
friends.
On the Sd His Excellency Hady
Hossien Koulin Kahn, accompanied by
Secretary Bayard and his secretary and
interpreter Mr.. Tonnence, paid his re-
spects to the President and presented his
credentials.
Hon. A. S. HEWITT, mayor Of New
York City, was nominated for re- elec ton
by mass meeting in Cooper Union on
the 4th. The meeting was remarkable
for the high representative character OF
those participating.
PURSUANT to order issued by President
Havemeyer of the Sugar Trust, the two
large sugar refneries of the firm of De
Castro & Donner, Of Brooklyn, n. T.,
were closed down, on the Sd, and 1,O0o
men were thrown out of work.
The simultaneous absence of both the
French and Russian Ambassadors from
areception given by Emperor William to
the leading diplomats accredited to Aus
tria, at Vienna, on the 4th, is considered
significant in political circles.
The general sentiment in Ithe City OF
Mexico is adverse to tho proposed settle
ment of Mormons in that country, and
The report of large purchases OF land IN
lne State Of Chihuahua was, on the oth.
denied by the Mormon agent there.
N
AT the session of the Americanist Con-
greSS in Berlin on the Sd. papers were