Huntsville gazette., 1888-01-07
NEWS IN BRIEF.
oo,o,,,ed from Various SoareeA

NEWS LIN BRlEE.
con,i,ed from Various Soaree6
A COMMITTEE Of Ministers has reported
b tbe Car justifying the Russian uni
varsity students for their recent rioungs.
, Massachusetts Tariff Reform
,aar,re held its annual meeting at Boston
II th4 29th. The banquet was brilliant
affair.
rt,r rcsirnation Of the Servian Ministry
has baen accepted bv King Milan. The
ratirement ot NJ. Ristics is considered q
check to Russia
THE Cleveland (O) Iron Trade Reoieao
rIaces the losses by fire to the iron.works
Of the country during tho vcar at Sf,5Sl,-
900 against So, ,4l7.5O0 il 1886
THE wear 1887 has added $4,000 miles OF
new main line tracks TO the railway sys-
tenn of the country-the greatest single
wears record in the history of the United
States.
Tur Rnlcarian Sobranje has passed
hills autho" ng the government to con
clude treaties of commerce with all coun
tries aud 10 issue a loan Of $40, 900, 900 fol
railway construction.
THE Prince Of Wales has presented Johr
I. Sullivan with a most astounding walk
inc stick Of maacca, with huge twisted
snake for a head, in massive silver, and
with its scales carefully carved.
CAPTAIN PAYNTER and Mate Fischer OF
the bark Enbleton are in prison at Sun
derand. England, under charge of mur
derous cruelty to members of their crew
during recent trip from San Francisco
A CONCESSION has been granted by the
Mexican Government to a steamship com
panv for a line between Now Y ork, Now
Orleans and Vera Cruz, the vessels t.
touch at all Mex lean ports on the Gulf o.
Mexico AMI to carry mails.
Most of the German rivers are frozel
over. Several of the Baltic ports, includ
Ing Konigsburg, are closed. The southern
and western rivers are covered with drift
ing ice, and it has been found necessar.
to remove the pontoon bridges. Railwa..
traffic is greatly interrupted.
JOHN CROSBY, president of the Millers
National Association, and a member 0
the great -four milling firm of Washburl
Crosby & Co.. Minneapolis. Minn., died @
the morning of the 29th of a complication
Of diseases. The immediate cause of hi
death was paralysis of the heart.
THE steamer Roman, which arrived a
Boston on tile % l. brought stowaway, 6
Scotch boy Of eighteen, aud permitted
him to land aud escape. The Commits
soner of Emigration has fined the com
pany 1000 and the vessel is detained il
port until the boy is returned or the fin
paid.
ANDREW SIMLER disappeared a weel
ago from his home near Canton, o. Or
the 9th he was found in hay NOW will
both legs frozen up to the knees. Simlel
declares that he crawled into the the hay
NOV with the intention Of lying there IN.
til lie froze 10 death. Tho chances are
he will die.
RICHARD II. HARRINGER, a popula,
Young man who has just died at Troy, N.
Y, was constant smoker of cigarettes
He became troubled with an affection of
the heart, which was followed by dropsy.
Several physicians attended him, and
they all agreed that his system had been
shattered by nicotine poisoning.
-o
TIE Pope, in receiving sixty delegates
from the former pontifical army. headed
by Generals Kansler and Charette, ex
pressed sorrow at being deprived of his
army, but this affliction. he said, wa;
soitened by the hope that the day wa:
near When he would again be enabled tx
nave his devoted soldiers around him.
ADTcFs from Auckland, New Zeland
say that the French have annexed Ralatea
ohA of the Society islands. The native
chiefs refusing to submit, the gunboat
scorpion bombarded the villages, and 8
proclamation was.issued stating that the
natives would be punished and fined I'M
less they submitted to French authority.
THE New York municipal council of the
irish National League intend soon to pre-
sent to Mrs Henry Ward Beecher a set of
resolutions expressing the sympathy and
regret OF the society at the death of hel
husband and its respect for his memory
lheSe resolutions are drawn up on heavy
pafchment fastened in the form of a ban
ner upon a stick of carved wood.
MRS. EUNIcE BOSwORTH TAYLOR, wife
oil Congressman E. B. Taylor, of Ohio
died on the 10Th ofapoplexy at Providence
hospital, Washington. where she had
been removed on being found unconsciou:
~ the street. There were no persons al
nor bedside when she died save the hos
pltal attendants and her identity was un
known for several hours after her demise
MRS. BUCK" GRANT, nee Miss Fannie
thatfoe, has filed petition in the County
court at Denver, Col, asking for settle
ment cf the vast estate left her by hel
Iataer, Hon. jerome B. Chaffee, formerly
United States Senator from Colorado. In
AS viii Mr. Chaffee left his daughter
fanne 500, 900 worth of securities, EN-
oracing Government bonds, mining and
railroad shares.
LIE Lathrop Memorial, home for chi
ufeh whose mothers are compelled to
WORK Il id nursery combined, was dedi-
Gated at Albany, N. Y, on the 2Sth. 1t
was built by Mrs. Leland Stanford, in
niehlofy OF her mother. on the site of the
oio Lathrop homestead, where Mrs. Stan
aTaNn