Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-28
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| WILLIAM OBRIEN advocates the adOp-
| tion of Parnel's advice by Irish members
of Parliament.
THE east wing of the Holyoke Envelope
Company's mill at Holyoke, Mass, was
burned on the 22d. Loss, 1925, 600. The
Envelope company will lose about $780, 900;
insured half.
The two thousand men employed by
the Albany & Rensselaer, Steel and Iron
Company at Troy, N. Y, are resisting a
reduction of ten per cent. in their wages.
The blast furnace will be closed Febru-
ary J.
WALTER NJ GIBSON, ex-Prime Minister
of the Hawaiian isl ands, died at San
Francisco on the 22d.
Mr.. DANIEL WILSON has abandoned all
hope of avoiding prosecution for his con-
nection with the sale Of French decora-
tions.
LETITIA MCCULLOUGH, widow of the
tragedian, John Mccullough, died on the
22d at her residence in Philadelphia, after
an illness Of three weeks.
MRS. WINNIE FORBES, wife of DR.. Forbes,
of New York, took Rough on Rats" with
suicidal intent. on the evening of the 22d,
and died at midnight.
AN attempt was made to serenade Mr..
Wilfred Blunt, confined in the prison at
Galway, Ireland on the 2fst, but the police
ordered the musicians away.
IT is said at Berlin that Germany has
informed Austria that Germany will not
take the initiative in European war I'M
der present conditions.
VIM. MURDOCH, an old and well-known
citizen of Pittsburgh, Pa, was victimized
by bunko men on the 21st out of $40, 900.
A ig,, in do
has reached the point of burning build
ings and fighting.
THE Matamoras (Mexico) CroRistd re-
ports that the Western Union Telegraph
Company proposes to purchase the na-
tional system of telegraph lines in Mexico.
WHILE coasting on Park avenue, Gin
cinnati, a party OF five persons seated on
a big sled collided with a buggy with
terrific force. Warren Matters, John
Koverman, Maggie Tul and Rachael
Davis were all seriously injured.
FRENCH friends of DeLesseps are in
dignant at the governments refusal to
permit the issuance of Panama canal
lottery bonds.
JUDGE EDWARDS, at Hudson, N. Y, on
the 21st, resenten ced Oscar F. Beckwith,
the Austerltz murderer, to be hanged on
CI i, bSbNCOii SAO iiOoA -
/ and p. m. The prisoner received the
sixth death sentence with the same de-
fiance that he has the five previous.
DIR. CARL DANIEL ADOLF DoNAL, editor
of the New York Totks Zeitunq, died on
the 21st, aged sixty-nine years. He was
one of the bestknown socialistic writers,
ranking with CARL Marx, Lasselle and
Frederick Engle.
HnnAN Of at thnw Ho-
gan, a resident of Path Beach, l.. l., shot
and instantly killed his sister Maggie, on
the 21st, while playing with a revolver
which he did not know was loaded. The
boy was thirteen years old, and his sister
was fifteen.
AT Tower, Mimi. on the night of the
21st. the boarding house and saloon of
Nelson Burnaby was burned. 1t was a
ricketv structure and burned 50 rapidly
that it was with d f1ieulty that any one
escaped. Many of the inmates jumped
from the upper stories, aud ten perished
in the flames.
On the morning of the 21st gang of
burglars visited the jswelry store of Ben
F. Phillips, at North Jackson, o. They
bored off the lock, drilled two holes in the
safe and blew itopen VITA dynamite, COM
pletely wrecking il, and securing gold
watches, diamonds AMI jewelry amount
ing to So 00G-
On the 23l Dan Drscol was hanged in
the Tombs prison. New York. lie was
known as the ''Whyo Chief" and killed
Beezie Garrity.
On the night OF the 23d the operating
room of the Postal Telegraph Company at
Philadelphia was gutted by fire. Loss on
building and to the company $4,000.