Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-07
PERSONAL AMI GENERAL.

| Tor the forfeiture of the charter of the
| Fifth National Bank of st. Louis.
| GUS EDMoNSoN was hanged at Decatur,
Ala, on the Both, for the murder of his
wife in May, 1887.
JOSEPH ZEIGLEo, an Evansville (Ind.)
policeman on the night of the 3)th, by
mistake, killed Abraham Smock, com
rade, who was out on clark"
WILLIAM FINCHUM was hanged on the
Both at Harrisonburg, Va, for the murder
of his brother.
THE Pope has conferred the grand cross
of the. order of Plus TX upon all the
special envoys sent TO congratulate His
Holiness upon his jubilee.
SITTING BULL is reported as being not
/ opposed to Senator Dawes bill for the
opening of the Sioux reservation.
ACCORDING to Dun's Trade ReUiear the
circulating medium of the country has
been increased by S13O, 900 since July
/, 1885,
On the voyage from New York of the
White Star Line steamer Adriatic, which
arrived at Queenstown on the Both, one of
the cabin passengers, named Chitty, com
mitted suicide.
THE remains of Governor Marmadulle
Of Missouri rested in state all day on the
30th, and were viewed by thousands of
citizens. The funeral took place on the
afternoon of the 3lst
ALBERT PETERS was legally executed at
Mariana, Ark, on the 30th, for the mur-
der, in April, 1885, of William Johnson
near Trenton.
DR.. MARY WALKER is a candidate for
the position of special examiner in the
Pension Bureau The salary and per diem
allowance amounts to about s., 800 year.
, notices on the 30th ordering a reduction in
!, wages of u 1-2 per cent. to take effect
January 1. About 1000 men propose to
resist the reduction.
Don CARLOS still claims to be the legiti-
mate ruler of France, but advises his sup
porters to trust in Providence and take
no part in revolutions.'' He'll "get left"
but be perfectly safe on that policy.
The following named banks have been
added to the list of banks authorized to
, receive deposits in excess of $1,000,00
The Third National Bank of Cincinnati,
/ the Citizens National Bank of Cincinnati.
/ The number of these repositories has near
ly doubled since Secretary Fairchild in
augurated his present policy of dealing
with the surplus.
THE Memorial Dipzomdhque, published
at Brussels, asserts that England has
|
Germany and Austria in regard to the
proposal than Belgium join the triple alli-
ance, and requiring guarantees for the
execution of the treaties securing the
neutrality of Belgium.
JOHN T. FULLEN, mechanic, attempted
, to walk out from Chicago to his home in
Lake View on the night of the Goth, dur
ing the blizzard: he was frozen stiff.
THE Russian Government refuses to al
low Jews to remain in that country.
DURING the performance in the theater
at Carthagena, SPAIN on the evening of
the 30th, a broker occupying one of the
stalls committed suicide by exploding
Misunderstanding The concussion ex-
tinguished all the lights in the house, and
the audience, becoming panic-s tricken,
fled from the building. During the ex
citement over one hundred per sons were
more or less injured.
A YOUNG man, handsomely dressed, and
of prepossessing appearance, shot himself
in the right temple while being driven
across the Brooklyn Bridge in a cab on the
30th. The wound is mortal. There is no
clue to his identity except a letter which
was found in his pocket addressed to "E.
C. Baldwin, No. 170 Clinton street."
GEORGE SCoTT, of Shenandoah, Pa,
|
30th. Two weeks before he buried his
Youngest. Two children were also sick,
while his wife was lying at deaths door.
All are victims Of diphtheria.
THE President gave his annual New
Years reception at the White House on
the ID. 1t was brilliant affair.
THE sixty-eighth General Assembly of
Ohio convened at Columbus on the ID.
THE King of Portugal opened the
Cortez, on the ID with speech.
THE first train crossed on the interna-
tional bridge at Saut Ste. Marie on the
I'd.
AN earthquake shock was felt at the
City of Mexico on the morning of the ad.
THE Austrian reserves have been
called out to get accust toned to handling
repeating rifles.
THERE is suspicion at st. Petersburg
that Lord Randolph Churchill's visit is
really to secure a friendly understanding
between England and Russia.
IT looks as though there would be no
international yacht race for the Americas
cup this year, no challenge having been
received within the time prescribed by the
conditions under which such races are to
be sailed
! Ex-Governor JOEL PARKER of New
| AiOA
died in Philadelphia, on the morning of
the 1st from the effects of paralytic
stroke.
EMPEROR WILLIAM IF Germany OBJ
served New Years day by giving a recep-
ton to his ministers, members of the
diploma tic corps, generals of the army
and the colonels of the Life Guards
JAMES HENDRICKS, brother of the late
Vice President Hendricks, died at Shelby
vile, Ind, ON the 1st, of lung fever. He
was the last of the family and was fifty
three years of age.
THE London Times, on the I'd, cele-
bra ted the one hundredth anniversary Of
its foundation.
LOUIS BUTLER and Louis Sclicht, both
hotel keepers at Wausaw, Wis, got into
an altercation on the night of the 1st,
during which Butler was shot and killed
by Sclicht. The latter Immediately went
to the jail and surrendered, and by so do
ing escaped lynching.
FIRE on the night of the 31st destroyed