Huntsville gazette., 1888-02-04
PERSONAL AND GENERAL

| A MORTGAGE drawn by the Pitts burgh,
Youngs town & Ashtabula Railroad Com
pany. in favor of the Farmers l. oan and
Trust Company of New York for $4 .000,-
| 900, has been placed on record at New
| castle, Pa.
| WILLIAM DURRE, a prom inent farme
| who resided south of Wisner. Neb. for
the past eighteen years, committed sui
eide on the morning of the 29th, by cut
ting the arteries of both wrists with his
pocket-knife. He was insane.
Hon. HOWARD DOUGLASS, Supreme
Chancellor of the Supreme Lodge of
Knights of Pythias of the world, has is
sued his edict of suspension in the case
of the Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania.
WILLIAM HUGHES, aged twentv-two,
was arrested in New York on the 2Sth for
the murder of James Howard in Milwau-
kee, Wis, last autumn. He will be sent
West as soon as extradition papers are re-
ceived.
SECRETARY WHITNEY is again complain
ing of illness. He was at the Navy De-
pattment on the 2Sth for short while,
but was unable to remain at his desk, and
therefore re turned home The secretary
and Mrs. Whitney held the third of their
card receptions on the evening of the 2Sth.
The Empress of Germany is about to
present the Red Cross Society with 5000
marks, three gold and six silver medals,
which the society will devote to tri al
of competitive skill for the manufacture
of the best portable hospital.
GEORGE GREEN, the self confessed rail-
road robber at Pantano, Ariz., last April,
has been sentenced to five years, and Doe
Smart to life Imprisonment. An appeal
was taken in Smart's case. The latter at
tempted to commit suicide on the night of
the 9th, in Jail at Tucson, by shooting G
himself three times in the head.
RIGHT Hon. III. c. RAIKEs, the British
Postmaster General, replying to depu-
tation that called on him on the 2Sth, said
that the telephone system of Great Britain
would shortly be absorbed under govern
ment control on the same footing as the
telegraph system.
The United States Consul at Guaymas,
Mexico, has informed the State Depart
ment that four American pros pectors in
the district of Montezuma, in the Sierra
Madre noun tainS, were attacked on or
about the 25th ult. by band of Apache
Indians, and that two of the Americans
j. Offer and S. W. Jacobs were killed.
The other two escaped without injury.
ALFRED GERTNER, civil engineer of
Vienna, Austria, and son of a German
baron, and Miss Felictas Kempf, Of the
ROYAL Opera of Vienna, now playing in
the Metropolitan Opera House, New Y ork,
were united in marriage at Newark n. j.,
on the 2Sth, by Justice Otto. Gertner's
family objected to the marriage in the old
country, and he followed the girl to
America.
THE Corean Minister at Washing ton re-
ceived a cablegram from Saoul which
cost $407.60. He returned an answer at
an expense of $500. The rate between
Saoul and Washington is .43 in gold per
word. These figures will serve to bring
to mind the enormous cable tolls which
were paid by the st. Louis police depart
ment in connection with the capture of
Hugh NJ. Brooks, the murderer of c. Ar
thur Preller.
A CABooSE, drawn by two engines, on
the Housatonic road, jumped the track at
Housatonic, VT, on the 2Sth, and upset.
Forty-two men were on loard, fifteen of
w hom were injur ed, though none fatally.
FRANK T. HARTLEY, a well-known
music teacher, was found frozen to death
in an orchard at Southboro, Mass, on the
28th.
The heating apparatus in the directors
car on tae Delaware & Hudson railroad
exploded on the 2Sth at Troy, N. Y, and
seriously lyinjured the colored porter. The
interior of the car was completely wrecked.
A FIRE in New York, on the Both, de-
stroyed the business houses $40 to 559
Broadway, entailing a loss of nearly
S2,0O0,0Oo. One fireman lost his life and
several were injured by falling walls.