Huntsville gazette., 1888-03-31
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

! A SERIOUS affray occurred at OuShal,
Ireland, on the oath, as the result OF the
police attempting to disperse meeting
! being addressed by William O'Brien.
THREE inspectors were sent from Wash
! ington OF the oath to investigate the Chi
| cago POst-office.
A SEVERE snow storm ragged all day on
the 25th in Wisconsin, Minnesota and
Dakota.
LEAVE of absense for two months on
surgeons certificate of disability, has
been granted Lieutenant-C -Colonel Francis
H. Parker, ordnance department U. S. A.
| On the afternoon of the Goth, Fred and
Karl, sons Of j. Kuch, were playing at
''Indian scouts" in the parlor of the fam
! lily residence at Peru, Ind. Karl was
swapping "a revolver, supposed to
be unloaded, at his brother, when
the weapon was discharged, the ball strik-
ing Fred in the forehead, killing him in
stantly. The dead boy was twelve years
old and his brother is sixteen.
LEAVE Of absence for two months, to
take effect about April 10, has been
granted Major James p. Kimball, surgeon
United States army.
INvEsT1G ALTON into General Boulanger's
conduct began on the Goth in the court of
inquiry.
IT was stated on the 9th that there was
good prospect Of harmonious compro-
mise in the Manitoba difficulty with the
Dominion Government.
LORD SALISBURY is represented as hav-
ing become converted to Explorer Stan
ley's theory that it is better to subsldlze
than subjugate the Soudanese.
A QUARTERLY dividend of one-half per
cent was declared by the Missouri Pacific
Railroad Company on the Goth.
THE suit of General W. nj. Cutting to re-
strain the Union Club of New York from
expeling him has been withdrawn.
THE New York Produce Exchange voted
on the.26th-673 to 211-to close the Ex-
change on Good Friday.
Mrs. JAMES BROWN POTTER was too Ill
to appear at the Evansville Qnd.) Opera
house on the night of the 26th
FREIGHT rates were restored on the 26th
on all roads in the Northwest, West and
Southwest, except the Burlington and the
$500
THE employees of the Briar Hill Iron q
Coal Company, of Youngstown, o., struck
against a reduction on the 26th. The fur
naces were banked at once.
AT the Republican county convention
held at Gettysburg, Pa, on the 26th, Sen
ator j. D. Cameron was unanimously IN
dorsed as their choice for the presidency.
A MINUTE of the death OF eX-Governor
Hoffman of New York was, on the 18th,
entered upon the records OF the Court OF
General Sessions, and eulogies upon the
deceased were pronounced.
KING JOHN of Abyssinia, on the 10th,
ordered the three columns of Abyssinlans
confronting the Italians at Massowah, to
begin a simultaneous attack.
A MEETING of security holders Of the
Missouri. Kansas & Texas railroad was
held on the Doth, at which committee
was appointed to solicit proxies in favor
of electing an opposition ticket at the
annual election of directors in May.
THE Union compositors of the Erie (Pa.)
Uorninq Dispatch and the Erie Herald
struck on the 26th against the use OF
stereotype plates. Their places were filed
with non union men, and the papers We're
published as usual.
AN aged woman named Maricle, was
burned to death in her residence near
DRYDEN. N. Y, on the 26th. 1t is supposed
she overturned the stove and set the
bouse on fire while suffering from hts, 10
which she was subject.
A FRENCH iron-clad. firing its guns near
Villa Franco, on the 26th, struck an 1tal-
ian steamer, inficting considerable dam
ace. The French officers claim that the
Italian vessel was accidentally hit during
runninp practice. An inquiry Will DOUBT
less be instituted.
Tup Welch-N Villas libel suit was resumed
at Minneapolis, Mimi, on the 26th. Mr.;
Welch took the stand and was permitted
to testify as to the alleged conresslpo
made to him BY Mr.. Villas IN 1881