Huntsville gazette., 1888-06-09
PERSONAL ANC) GENERAL.

THE body of Miss Adele Menard, of
Minneapolis, Mimi, who committed sui
eide, on the 2Sth, because her father
had whipped her, was found floating in
the Mississippi river on the 31st.
GENERAL HENRY BIERGE died of apo
plexy in New York on the 1st.
AN explosion from an unknown cause
occurred in the Eureka Iron works, at
Wyandotte, Mich, on the 1st, by which
three employees lost their lives.
MINISTER PHELPS will sail from New
York for England on the 18th.
The House passed the Senate bill to re-
vive the rank of General of the Army on
the 1st. 1t was soon after signed by the
President, who Immediately sent the nom
ination of Philip Henry Sheridan for the
position to the Senate. The Senate con-
firmed the appointment and notified the
President of it's action. During the after
noon Senators Hawley and Manderson
called and placed the Generals commits
sion in the hands of his wife.
PROF. ANDERSON, principal OF the Spen-
Ger Und.) High School, and Misses Clara
and Tillie Homaday, were drowned by the
capsizing of their boat on the 81. An
eleven-year- lad, who accompanied
them, swan ashore and saved his life.
THE report of Jay Gould's serious ILL
ness is not credited at his office in the
Western Union building in New York
City.
THE Democratic members of the COM
mittee on ways and means are consider
ably discouraged over the dlatOry man
ner in which the Tariff bill is being con-
sidered.
REPORTS from Milan, on the Sd, stated
that Dom Pedro was improving.
THE French Chamber of Deputies, on
the ID, rejected the Boulangist proposal
to institute pass portrules counter to those
of Germany.
THE Irish Bishops reply to the Pope's
rescript reached Rome on the Cd.
JAMES PHILLIPS, a worthless fellow of
Logan, O., murdered his wife with a
pocket knife, on the ID, and then cut his
own throat.
ALLEN STURGIs, who had been locked
up in Jail at Thompson, Ga, for robbery
and incendiarism, was taken out about
one O'Clock on the morning of the ID by
a gang of masked men and lynched.
THE office of the Winnipeg (Man.)
Morning CAL was entirely destroyed by
an incendiary fire on the 81. Loss,
$40, 900.
UPWARDS of 5000 immigrants arrived
on board the steamers coming into New
York on the 3D..
CHARLES ScHREEvEs, hardware mer-
chant of Creston, la, killed Lou Mars, a
farmer, on the 81, in a quarrel which
grew out of Mars objection to Schreeves
paying attentions to his sister.
THE New York school-ship st. Mary
arrived at Southampton, England, on the
4th.
A. C. BARNHILL, alias Alf Anderson, for
whose arrest reward of $500 was offered,
was captured at Littleton, Col. on the
Sd. Barnhill is charged with the murder
of John Lane, of Kansas, at Eureka
Springs, Ark, on June 8, 1887.
QUEEN VICTORIA sent message of SYM
pathy to John Bright, whose condition is
SLOWLY improving, on the 4th
M. CHARLES IGNACE PLYCHoN, a promi-
nent French politician and member of
the Chamber of Deputies, died on the 4th.
GENERAL BoULANGER, on the 4th,
moved. in the Chamber of Deputies, for
revision of the Constitution and the dis
solution of the Chamber, and demanded
urgency upon his motion.
THE Irish exposition, for the display of
Irish products, opened at Olympia, Ken
sington, on the 4th.
a FIRE. which broke out in ,.le Hotel
Roma. at Panama, on the Sd, gutted ten
LARGE houses. 1t is estimated that $780,
ono worth of property was destroyed.
RoBERr GUIDE and William Gunter, aged
twelve and thirteen, were drowned in the
river at Williamsport, Pa, on the 3D.