Huntsville gazette., 1888-11-24
PERSONAL AND GENERAL


drowned as the vessel was en- ter;no ~ !
canal at Sault de Ste. Marie, Mich. on
the 10Th, and the engineer of the BARGE
was scalded to death on the down trip.
VIOLENT gales are reported along the
west coast of Great Britain, Numerous
wrecks have occurred, among them the
norwegian bark Hypatia, which went
ashore near Hoiyhead. No lives were
! lost
IHE severest gale Of the season was ex-
| perlenced at Sault Ste. Marie, Mich
on the night of the 18th The weather
was bitterly cold.
MR.. EDWARD HARRINGTON, M. P. for
west Kerry, ireland, has been sum-
| moned for inciting to boycotting. The
| trial is set down for the 25th of Novem.
| Der.
THE Gallays Rapids contracts, amount.
ing to $4,000, and the Sault Ste. Marie
canal contracts, 81 25o, 200, have been
awarded by the Dominion Government to
syndicate composed largely Of United
States contractors, much to the disap-
polntment OF Canadian contractors, who
| are prohibited from competing for Gov
ernment work in the united States.
A VESSEL which sailed from Clutch,
India, bound for Bombay, with 900 ma
tives on board, is 10 ng overdue, and it is
| supposed that she fo undered with all on
| board.
OF the 800 non-E Episcopal ministers in
Ireland, including Presbyterians, Bap.
lists, Methodists and Congre gationalists,
S64 signed the anti.Home- Rule address
| to Lords Salisbury and Harrington, pre-
sented on the 14th. OF the 125 COM
| posing the minority who refused to sign
the address, eight only were Home :.
Rulers.
THE Harvard football team notified
the Yale club, on the 18th, that they will
play nowhere but at Cambridge this year.
THE Dublin correspondent of the Lon
don Neaos says that nothing is known
| there OF the reported papal rescript on
the Irish question. The Archbishop has
| received nothing.
AS sequel to friendly wrestling
| match at Atlanta, Ga. on the 18th, be-
tween James Hunt, recently elected
member of the Georgia Legislature, and
h. 3. Moore, railw ay mail agent, the
latter drew a penknife and stabbed the
former in the stomach, causing death in
a few .nInhtes.
,, The spinners at the Robeson mills, at
| Fall River Mass, quit work, on the 18th,
| claiming that the agreement made last
winter to advance their wages has not
been fully carried out.
MISS FARwELL, daughter of Senator
FarweIl, Of Illinois, will be married in
Washington, in December, to Dudley
Winston, the son Of Hon. T. II. Winston,
formerly Minister to Persia
AT Dunmanway County Cork, Ireland,
on the 18th, the parish priest at each mass
took occas ion to denounce from the altar
the murderer Of Lynch, and at each out
burst of indignation urged the people to
become detectives in order to capture the
criminal.
THE mammoth new iron viaduct span
ming the fats at Cleveland, o., at an altl-
tude of seventy five feet, and connecting
the South and East sides OF the city, was
completed on the 18th.
THE police of Berlin have expelled MN.
La Tapieh and Ooriot French journalists
who have lately been engaged in inditing
correspondence to Partisan newspapers.
A BOILER exploded in the lumber yards
of George Crawford, at Cincinnati, on the
18th, due to an insuficiency of water,
probably fatally scalding William Noes
singer, engineer, and Peter Mcguire, fire.
man. who are said to have been intoxi-
Gated at the time.
RESIDENTS in Milford, Mass, and vicin-
ity felt a slight continuous earthquake,
on the 17th lasting from two to four
minutes. Dwellings were slightly shaken.
THE Princeton foot ball team defeated
Harvard by a score of IS to on the 18th.
THE sale of Lord Sackville's household
effects occurred in Washington on the
10th.
oh
says: president Cleveland may or may
not have made up his mind to leave
Washington after March 4. But he has
certainly not put coax View" upon the
market, either for sale or rent"
PRESIDENT HEwIT TIT of the Washington
Base Ball Club stated, on the 17th, that
negotiations were pending for the sale OF
the club to retired business men OF that
city with plenty of capital.
THE Connoton Valley railroad, from
Cleveland to Coshocton. O., distance
of 115 miles, completed the work OF
changing from narrow 10 stanuaru
gaug, on the 18th.
TIE British steamer Texan, which ar
rived at New Orleans on the 17th, brings
news from Port-au Prince, Havti. that
the United States steamer Boston had
arrived at that port and had made de-
mand for the release of the steamer
Haytien Republic, which was about TO pe
acceded to when the Texan left
THREE men, supposed to have been Bo-
hemians, were drowned by the capsizlng
of their boat at Bayswater, l.. J., on the
18TH
MAJOR HENRY FAnNswoRTH, Assistant
Inspector General died at Fortress Mon
roa Ua on the 19th.
TIE Alaska Commercial Com 0any, VINO
nav for the exclusive privilege OF taxing
seals in Behring sea, having male sew
eral Intellectual protests at was h1ngton
against allowing Canadian vessels to en-
croach upon their rights, threaten to re-
fuse TO renew their lease next year unless
better protected.
THE sides of sewer in process OF con-
struction in Pittsburgh, Pa, caved IN, on
the 10Th. instantly killing Joseph Sands
contractor, and Charles Baker. brlcA-
laver. Several other workmen were
canght by the fall, but escaped.
Mrs. THOMAS FITZPATRICK, OF Bridge
mort. Conn, attempted to light fi:e' on
The 10Th. when the head fell from the