Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-14
PERSONAL AND GENERAL.

| THE Detroit (Mich.) Light Infantry ar
mory was partially destroyed by fire on
| the evening of the Sth. Loss, $14. 900;
| fully covered by insurance. A large and
handsome collection of trophies won by
Detroit Commandery, No. l, knights
Templar, was also burned
THE Cross Pulp mills at Franklin Fails,
N. H., owned by the Winnipesogee Paper
Company, were burned on the morning of
the 7th. Loss, $4,000, not including loss
on stock of pulp.
Two elevators, owned by the Northern
Pacific and Christian & Co. respectively,
were burned at New Rockford, Oak, on
the night of the 9th, with 80 900 bushels
of wheat.
AT Berlin the opinion is gaining enter
tainers that Russia is using strategy in
peace professions to gain time to be thor
oughly prepared for war, which is looked
for next summer.
The snow fall in the Upper Michig gan
peninsula for the forty eight hours ended
the night of the 9th was unprecedented.
Up to that time two feet had fallen on a
level, and the storm still continued. All
trains were delayed, and general block
ade seemed probable.
WHILE laboring under temporary fit
of insanity on the 75h, G. M. D. Davis,
one of the leading real estate men of
Holdrege, Neb., shot himself thr ough the
heart with a shotgun. He had wife and
three children.
r. B. KENERFON, prominent merchant
of Boston, was robbed of large sum in
the Maverick National Bank on the 7th
by two professional eak-thieves-a man
and a woman-who played the drop
game" on him.
THREE men were killed in the Champion
mine, near Marquette, Mich, on the 7th,
by the accidental dumping of the skiff in
which they were riding to the surface,
Their names were John Casey, Carl john
son and w. P. Craddock. Two men es-
capped by jumping.
JACK DONOVAN, twenty-five years old,
leaped from Utica Street bridge at Oswe-
go, N Y, into Oswego river, seventy five
feet, on the 7oh, and was Immediately
carried under the ice and drowned. 1t is
thought he was insane. The body was
carried out into the lake.
GENERAL WASHINGTON SEAWELL (re-
tired) died at San Francisco on the 9th.
MEXICAN war veterans met at Chicago
on the 9th, and drafted a pension bill to
present to Congress for passage.
ST. PETERSBURG advices are to the effect
that the apparent promise of continued
peace is only conditional.
IT has been decided by the Interior De-
partment that survivors of "PowelPs Ore
gon battalion" are not entitled to pensions
as Mexican veterans.
ARCHBISHOP RYAN of Philadelphia was
an nounced to preach jubilee sermon al
Rome on the 18th.
The Cambria Iron Company of Johns
town, Pa, employing 1900 men, have de-
cided to make reduction in wages of ten
per cent. on February ! unless business
improves.
BATTERIES and TO- occupying the entire
north end of the rolling-mill, at Brazil,
Ind, exploded on the 9th with terrific
force, dem olishing two smoke stacks and
tearing down the north end of the mill,
piling the debris several feet deep. Sew
eral employees were killed OF inj jured.
The thirteenth annual convention Of
the Bricklayers' and Masons' Interna-
tionaI Union met in Boston on the 9th.
Two hundred delegates We're present from
all parts of the country. The convention
was welcomed By Mayor O'Brien, Presi-
dent Darragh, of st. Louis, responding.
THE remains of the Emperor Napoleon
III. and the Prince Imperial were, on the
9th deposited in the inausoleum at Farm
borough, England, erected by Empress
Eugenie.
THE inmates of a group of houses be-
longing to the Czerstochof monastery,
near the western frontier of Galicia, have
been ordered to vacate the buildings,
which are wanted for Russian troops,