Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-21
HUNTSVILLE, ALA. SATURDAY, JAN 81 1888.

w. K. VANDERBILT has chartered the
steamer Prince Abbas for q trip tie
Nile. The trip usually occupies about
three weeks
SEVErAL Italian staff officers are at Ber-
lin consulting with the German military
author ties. 1t is reported tiIst their mis-
sion is in connection with Itely's under
taking to send 15), 90 troops to Galicia in
the event of war.
In Joint caucus of Democratic menu
ber5 of the Iowa Leg $ ature. on tie 10Th.
it was decided to give the nom nation for
United States Senator to Captain I. j.
Anderson, of Knt xvlle, late Democratic
cand date for Governor.
A FRIGHTFUL accident happened on the
evening of the 1G h to a arty of boys
who were coasting on Peeker's hill in
Haverhill, Mass, on a doubie-ripper. The
s'ed ran into a wagon, and thireeen boys
We're thrown off, seven of whom were Sc
we're y injured.
ABOUT four o'clock on the morning of
the 16 a fire occurred in the boiler and
conduit works at Philadelphia owned by
Henry Warders, causing a loss on the
contents of from $50 coo to $4,000, and on
the building $40 ,000 fully insured.
A YOUNG German named Frank Grau-
Der, wo king on the tower of the ice
pa ace at st. Paul, Mimi, slipped and fell
to the ground, over a hundred feet, on the
16sh. He had b,en dancing on the wall.
II was cautioned, but paid no attention
to the warning. He is so badly injured
| intern ally that his recovery is considered
| impossible.
The Minneapolis (Minn.) Epening Jour
ndPs revised list of the b zzard fat al :
| ties shows ninety-seven dead in Dakota,
! eighteen in Minnesota, six in Iowa. seven
teen in Nebraska and two in Montana; :;
total, 135, besides fifty five repo ted miss
ing. In addition to these the fatalities in
Kansas have been terrible, but figures are
not yet to hand.
| SPEAKER CARLISLE has not been we'll
for several days. On the evening of the
! 10th, while at dinner at the RIGGS House. he
was taken suddenly and seriously ill and
reached his room with the utmost diff
! atty. DR.. Sewers was callel in, who
| Ironounced the attack chill OF the con-
| gestiye order and administered the prop
er medicine, and advised the Speaker to
| keep quiet for several days.
| THE nominations of L. Q. c. Lamar as
| Associate Justice of the Supre ne Court of
the United States: Don. NJ. Dickinson as
1
| Secretary of the Interior were confirmed
| by the Senate on the l6 h.
REPRESENTATIVE O'DoNNELL, Of Michi-
gan, has p. epared for Introduction in the
| House bill providing that, after July J.,
the postage Oh city letters, where the
| system of free delivery is establis he'd,
shall be fixed at one cent per ounce or
| fraction thereof.
AMONG the petitions presented in the
| Senate, on the 10TH, was one asking for a
| change in the postal laws so that "paper-
| back novels, blood and thunder stories''
shall not be sent through the mails as
second-class matter, paying one cent per
pound, while school, law, scientific and
religious books have to pay eight cents
| per pound.
| THE Porte has advices from ST. Peters
burg denying the rumor of an actual or
| intended Russian disarmament in connec-
tion with the Bulgarian question. Rus
| sa will not subordinate her military ar
rangements to those of other nations.